Lawn Tennis: Its Founders & Its Early Days.
Lynn, Massachusetts: H.O. Zimman (1974). 1st edition; hardcover; cloth covered pictorial boards; b&w illustrations; lightly rubbed and edgeworn else very good. More
Sports
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Nimrod’s Hunting Tours Interspersed with Characteristic Anecdotes Sayings and Doings of Sporting Men
London: John Land The Bodley Head Limited (1926). Small 4to; cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine and deckle edged uncut pages; hardcover; 294 pages; color and black and white illustrations; one fold out map; introducion by W. Shaw Sparrow; heavily sunned covers, internally a very good clean tight..... More
Golfing Ephemera
London: Chapmans, 1991. 12mo., 64 pages., color illustrations on almost every page, a fine, clean, tight copy. More
Byron Nelson the Story of Golf's Finest Gentleman and the Greatest Winning Streak in History
NY: The American Golfer (1997). 1st edition with 1 in the numberline; 4to., cloth covered boards with gilt lettering, hardcover; a fine, clean, tight, unmarked copy in a fine dustjacket. More
“It’s a Very Simple Game” The Life & Times of Charley Eckman
Baltimore, MD: Borderlands Press, 1995. Small 4to; cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine; hardcover; 229 pages; black and white illustrations; inscribed by author: 6-1-96 “To XXX, Thanks for the memories-Enjoy! “ Fred Neil; a fine clean tight copy in a fine dust jacket. More
Sturbridge Fair Horse Show Class List and Entry Blank September 1 and 2, 1934
Sturbridge Fair Horse Show, 1934. 8vo. wraps, softcover; one sheet folded in two; four pages;entry blank laid in; lightly sunned and creased. More
Florida Fish and Fishing
NY: The Macmillan Co., 1958. Stated 2nd printing; 8vo.; blue cloth covered boards, hardcover; x, 230 pages; black and white photographic illustrations; boards are sunned else a very good clean tight copy in an edgeworn and rubbed dust jacket with a 1/2 inch closed tear. More
Basket Ball For Women How to Coach and Play the Game
NY: A. S. Barnes & Co. (1928). Small 8vo.; cloth covered boards, hardcover; xxv, 260 pages; black and white photographic illustrations; a very good clean tight copy in lightly soiled else very good boards. More
How to Handle and Educate Vicious Horses. Together with Hints on the Training and Health of Dogs
NY: Orange Judd Company, 1912. 12mo; cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine; hardcover; 205 pages; black and white illustrations; water stained covers with sunned and foxed pages throughout else a very good clean tight copy. More
American Ski Annual - Official Yearbook of the National Ski Association 1937 - 38
Brattleboro, Vermont: Stephen Daye Press, 1937. 8vo. stiff pictorial wraps, softcover; 220 pages plus ads; black and white illustrations; light edgewear else a very good clean tight copy. More
American Ski Annual - Official Yearbook of the National Ski Association 1938 - 39
Brattleboro, Vermont: Stephen Daye Press, 1938. 8vo. stiff pictorial wraps, softcover; 230 pages plus ads and a full page map of every ski area in the United States; black and white illustrations; edgeworn and scuffed covers with bumped corners; penciled page edges else a very good clean, tight copy. More
The Shortstop
NY: Grosset & Dunlap (1937). later edition of a 1909 title. 12 mo., red cloth covered boards with black lettering;, hardcover; 310 pages; toned pages else a very good, clean, tight, unmarked copy in an edgechipped dustjacket. More
Eighteen Holes In My Head
NY: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc (1959). Stated First edition; cloth backed boards, hardcover; 148 pages; black and white illustrations; Foreword by Jimmie Demaret; a very good clean tight copy in an edgeworn and torn dust jacket. More
Spalding's Official Lawn Tennis Annual 1928
NY:American Sports Publishing, 1928. 12mo. stiff pictorial wraps, softcover; 71 pages plus ads; black & white illustrations; a very good, clean, tight copy; this has been rebound as a hardcover with a title slip pasted on the spine and the name J. T. Doyle in gilt on the cover... More
Horse Racing's Holy Grail: The Epic Quest for the Kentucky Derby
Eclipse Press, Lexington, Kentucky: Eclipse Press (2002). 8vo, blue boards, hardcover; 222 pages; a very good clean tight copy with no apparent flaws in a lightly edgeworn dustjacket. More
Bred to Run The Making of a Thoroughbred
NY: Henry Holt & Co, (1993). Stated First edition with 1 in number line; 8vo, cloth backed boards, hardcover; 242 pages; black and white photographic illustrations; a fine clean tight copy in a fine dustjacket. More
The Golf Quotation Book A Clubhouse Companion
NY: Barnes & Noble (1992). 1st edition; 12mo.,cloth covered boards, hardcover 96 pages; hardcover; black & white photographic illustrations a fine, clean, tight copy in a fine dust jacket. More
Improving Your Tennis
London; Faber and Faber Ltd. (1947). stated 2nd impression; 8vo.; cloth covered boards; b/w photographic illustrations; in poor edgeworn/chipped/sunned dust jacket else good. More
Tennis and the Meaning of Life A Literary Anthology of the Game
NY: Breakaway Books, 1995. st edition; 8vo. cloth backed boards, hardcover; 335 pages; foreword by George Vecsey; from the dustjacket: “A collection of the best fiction and poetry penned on this extraordinary sport and obsession;” a fine, clean, tight, unmarked copy in a price clipped else very good dustjacket in..... More
Lawn Tennis Lessons for Beginners Lawn Tennis Library Vol I
NY: American Lawn Tennis, Inc. 1926. 2nd edition; 8vo. brown cloth with gilt lettering and decorative tennis racquets covered boards, 174 pages; black & white photographic illustrations; a fine, clean, tight, unmarked copy. More
IAAF Mobil Grand Prix Guide Inside Track To Seoul Athletics
London: Mobil Corp., 1988. Oblong 8vo.; glossy pictorial boards, 63 pages; hardcover; color photographic illustrations; a very good clean tight copy. More
Dumb Dan
New York, NY: Tedson Publishing Co., (1953). small 8vo.; cloth backed boards, hardcover; 160 pages; black and white photographic illustrations; introduction by Frank Graham and foreword by Dan Parker; former owner’s bookplate on front free endpaper and his name on front pastedown and title page else a very good, clean..... More
The Wrong Horse An Odyssey Through the American Racing Scene
NY: Simon & Schuster (1992). First Edition; 8vo; cloth backed boards with gilt lettering on spine and deckle edged pages; hardcover; 224 pages; a very good clean tight copy in a very good pictorial dust jacket. More
Bird Chatter January 1947, Vol. 6 No. 2
no place: American Badminton Association, 1947. Small 4to., stiff pictorial wraps; 26 pages; cover picture of a young man anda young woman on badminton bird and announcements of the Junior Championships in Baltimore and the National Championships in Los Angeles; lightly soiled cover with rusted staples else very good... More
Bird Chatter March 1947, Vol. 6 No. 3
no place: American Badminton Association, 1947. Small 4to., stiff pictorial wraps; 26 pages; cover picture of Carl Loveday and Dave Freeman; disbound and lightly soiled cover with rusted staples else very good. More