World Tennis - The World's Largest Tennis Magazine; Volume II, No.6, November, 1963 by Ashe, Arthur (Magazine Cover) - 1963

London: Chapman and Hall. Very Good. 1864. First Edition. Hardcover. Rebacked with the original slightly age darkened spine over embossed red cloth. Pictorial frontispiece. Engraved illustrations. Interior of text is tight, clean & intact. (xvi) 334pp +16 page list of publishers ads. Western Europe; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 334 pages .

London: John Mitchell, Sporting Review Office. Very Good. 1841. First Edition. Hardcover. Half brown leather spine & corners over brown silk boards. 4 bands with lightly faded gilt lettering & decoration on spine. Marbled endpapers. VOLUME #5: [1 (title) , 483, 1]; engraved title, 6 engraved plates, 6 maps and several partial page engravings and drawings. VOLUME #6: [1 (title) , 484]; engraved title, 11 engraved plates (one hand-colored) ; 4 maps; 2 drawings of trophy cups and several partial page engravings and drawings. Text tight, clean & intact with tissue guarded plates, hinges just starting: covers firm. Light shelf wear. Both volumes have two prior owner's ink stamps on front endpaper: one belonging to industrialist "William K. Dick" of Islip, Long Island, NY. Sports, Hunting, Horses. ; B/W Engravings; 8vo; 967 pages .

"NEWCASTLE FISHERS' GARLANDS" - A Collection of Right Merrie Garlands for North Country Anglers, edited by Joseph Crawhall. 1864; George Rutland; Newcastle-on-Tyne, United Kingdom. The book is a compilation of content from past publications of "The Fisher's Garland" from 1820 to 1864. At the back of the book is a Memorial to Izaak Walton, best know as the author of "The Compleat Angler.""Dedicated to the Members of the Coquet-Dale Angling Club, with an earnest hope that the lines herein cast may perchance rise some stray Roxby or Doubleday of that honourable body, and induce an attempt to resume and continue the Newcastle Fishers' Garlands, so charmingly set forth by the spirits of a former generation."Condition:Some areas of bubbling under the cloth on the front cover; sharp corners; bright gilt lettering on the spine; light soiling to front and back covers. Tight binding. No cracks. No loose pages. Occasional foxing to a handful of random pages...otherwise, the pages are clean and white with no… Read More

New York, Total Sports, 1998, large format hardcover (9" x 11"), xiii-210 pp, Edition not stated, No previous printings noted, Association Copy, Signed by the author and inscribed to the American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science Stephen Jay Gould with a bookplate to the front pastedown identifying the book as 'From the Library of...', Fine in Fine dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, slightest spine-end and corner bumps. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, in protective glassine sleeve. The sports historian and author of The Glory of Their Times, often called 'the greatest book about baseball ever written', presents a cultural history of New York City in the first half of the twentieth century with sports, those who participated in them, and the many legendary venues that housed them at the center. Profusely illustrated throughout with both black-&-white and color photographs, many from the author's personal collection. Appended:… Read More

Eckville AB, Spur of the Moment, 2002, oblong paperback (8.5" x 11"), 80 pp, One of 100 Signed, Numbered, Limited Edition copies in original slipcase, Fine condition, slight corner touches, in Very Near Fine brown, textured slipcase with gold spur decoration and gold spine lettering. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings. Slipcase untouched except for slightest of wear to corners. A compilation of hilarious, detailed, and vividly colorful cartoons of country life from the world renowned western artist and musician. Text by Phil Callaway, Forward by Boots Reynolds. ISBN 9780969530053

New York: American Lawn Tennis 1922, 2nd edition. (Hardcover) 399pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Gilt decorated green cloth. Top edge gilt, frontispiece with facsimile signatures of William T. Tilden, 2nd and Wm.W. Johnston, numerous illustrations and plates. The head and foot of the spine and corners are lightly worn. With Opinions on Disputed Points of Technique from Many Expert Players. Edited by S. Wallis Merrihew. (Sports, Lawn Tennis, Tennis).

Printed for F. Style. London.,1739. FIRST, AND ONLY, EDITION. 8vo. Front wrapper, ii,28pp. Lacking the half title but with the rare printed front wrapper (showing the price of Six Pence) laid down and bound in. Text complete. Top edge of pages have been cut and gilded, the others are untrimmed. Pages a bit marked and rubbed but overall a very good example. The original front wrapper has some small areas of loss to the edges and corners and has been professionally laid down. Bound in modern half red crushed morocco by C. Walters. Spine with raised bands, ruled in blind. Compartments lettered in gilt. Boards with dark red cloth. Burgundy endpapers. Previous owners bookplate (Douglas Peter Crossman, Earl Stonham) on front pastedown endpaper. Overall a very good copy of this uncommon political satire, mocking the supporters of George II and Prince James Stuart, the Old pretender. Not in Halkett & Laing.:

Australia, 1952. Card Menu (4 sides). Farewell Dinner to Members of the Rowing Section of the Australian Rowing Team at The Hermitage Sydney, Friday May 30, 1952. Given by Members of earlier Crews to have rowed at Henley on Thames. 27 handwritten signatures on Menu, including those of previous Australian Rowing crews. Menu also contains the signatures of 13 members of the Australian Olympic Rowing Team for the Helsinki Games. Notable signatures include Mervyn Wood, who was the flagbearer for Australia at the Games and who also won a Silver medal in the Mens Single Skulls Event. Also, signatures of David Anderson, Philip Cayzer, Ernest Chapman, Thomas Chessel, Mervyn Finlay, Robert Tinning and Geoffrey Williamson who were part of the Bronze medal winning Australian eights. Front of menu features handwritten name of W. J. Dixon (Bill) who was one of the hosts, having competed for Australia at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition. Card. Very… Read More

MACMILLAN NY, 1926. HBDJ, March 1926, 1st edition, 3rd printing. FAIR/VG , Initials front of corner DJ, Book Condition: FAIR. Jacket VG 12mo tall. Slanted spine, boards heavily rubbed with edgewear, spine titles not legible, boards have a few faint spots. Fingerprints and a few spots on FEP, some spotting in text, most pages have light crease at bottom corner. Front inside hinge is cracked but not separated, , otherwise pages and binding holding tight, ILLUSTRATED BLUE BOARDS RUBBED, 290 PGS ,whose well-to-do father Decrees that he shall go to the near-by public school instead of the Aristocractic private institution on which the boy?s heart had been set. Hardly less appealing as a character is Isadore Smolensky of the East Side, whose 1st encounter with the boy is of pugilistic nature, but who ultimaely becomes his warm friend, schoolboy Life of NYC. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/Very Good. Illus. by Edward C. Caswell, .

Birmingham, AL: New Life Art. 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. 9780967596303 . Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Edgewear; Signed and inscribed by Chris Fowler and Payne Stewart ; Color Illustrations; 200 pages .