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.
Sports
1945 Year Book of the Jockey's Community Fund & Guild Inc.
Jockey"s Community Fund & Guild 1945. 1st edition small 4to; brown and silver cloth covered boards; 160 pages; black & white photographic illustrations of the horses and the jockeys.
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 copy.
Golfing Ephemera
London: Chapmans, 1991. 12mo., 64 pages., color illustrations on almost every page, a fine, clean, tight copy.
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.
“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.
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.
The Mathematics of Horse Racing A Guide to Better Handicapping
Deerfield Beach, FL: Liberty Publishing Company, 1990. 8vo; color pictorial stiff covers; softcover; 133 pages; black and white illustrations; inscribed by the author: to xxxx, Good luck at the track; no errata sheet ; a very good clean tight copy with no apparent flaws.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Gallops II
NY: Derrydale Press, 1929. First edition; volume 2, # 83/750; of the Hitchcock Edition; 8vo. red cloth covered boards with gilt image and lettering and top edge gilt, hardcover; 163 pages; second in series of three; lightly soiled covers else a very good, clean, tight copy.
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.
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 glilt on the cover.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Modern Tennis
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1933. Stated 1st edition; 8vo., 220 pages; blue cloth with gilt racquet and lettering; b/w photographic illustrations; faded spine and sunned pages else very good/o.
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...
A Teacher's Guide To GroupTennis Instruction
Englewood: Scholastic Coach Book Services (1969). small 4to.; 96 pages; black and white Illustrations; light edgewear else very good.
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.
34 Ways to Cast a Fly
South Brunswick & NY: A. S. Barnes and Company (1969). 8vol cloth covered boards, hardcover;144 pages; black & white diagrams; a very good, clean, tight, unmarked copy in a lightly sunned dustjacket.