New York: McClure, Phillips & Co, 1907. First Edition. 16mo. . 76 pages, color frontispiece, pastedown cover shows two bare knuckled boxers (note: in the short story, Doyle has them fighting with boxing gloves and following the Queensbury rules] . It was made into a 1921 silence film where a...... More
San Francisco; (1945): Serra Pub. Co. Octavo. [1-5-]6-146 pages. Photographs By C.C. Putney. Joe Cronin, Manager of the Boston Red Sox writes an introduction entitled: The Dugout. Inscribed by the author to Lee "Flame" Delhi who he writes: "one of the greatest pictures of poetry in motion I ever saw."..... More
(MN, 2006): Nodin Press;. First Edition. Octavo. Inscribed by the author John Egan and signed on the half-title by Vern Mikkelsen/HOF '95. Mikkelsen was drafted by the Minneapolis Lakers in the 1949 BAA draft (territorial selection). He played Forward-Center from 1950 until 1959 for the Minneapolis Lakers and was inducted..... More
New York: Carnival Magazine Corporation, 1957. First Edition. Stapled Wrap. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 130pp. A suite of photographs of Ernest Hemingway duck hunting. Also profusely illustrated of models and starlets scantily clad. In illustrated paper wraps. More
Norwalk, Connecticut: O'Brien Suburban Press, 1944. Octavo. 592 pages. The longtime editor of Ring Magazine, he had seen virtually every fighter of the 20th century to his death in 1972. He paid great tribute to black prize fighters in an era where many in the news business hoped for their..... More
New York; (1969): Harper & Row. First American Edition. Octavo. Winner of the Edgar Award, First printing, 247pp., bound in pictorial orange paper covered boards depicting horses racing backed in lime green cloth, spine lettering black, near fine in lightly rubbed, unclipped pictorial dust jacket lettered in orange and black..... More
Likley, England: Scholar Press, 1978. Thick Small Quarto. Limited to 2800 copies. The present copy is #1171. In facsimile. Editio novissima, aucta, emendata, & figuris authenticis Christophori Coriolani exornata. Latin text. Book 4 preliminary leaves, 387, [43] pages, 7 unnumbered leaves of plates, some folding : illustrations. Jeremy Norman notes..... More
New York: International Magazine Company, 1934. Magazine. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. p. 16-19, 70-72. Nice article with five photographs of the author with his catch of Thresher Shark and Mako Shark. More
New York/London: Harper & Brothers, 1927. First Edition. Quarto. Frontispiece, 203pp. illustrated throughout with photographs by the author, drawings by Frank E. Phares, previous library copy with stamp to verso of title page, bound in dark blue buckram with original dark blue gilt lettered cloth mounted to both boards, spine..... More
London: W. Foulsham & Co., Ltd., 1959. Peter Johnson. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 8vo., 141, (2)pp. The true first edition (in dust jacket) of an early title of the "First Wave" of karate books in the U.S. Bound in black cloth boards, with illustrated..... More
New York; (1936): Derrydale Press. First Edition. Quarto. Limited to 225 copies. The present copy is number 586. no pagination. Profusely illustrated with Hunt's fine drawings of game in color and in black and white. An ex-library copy bound in brown cloth centrally stamped in gilt depicting a turkey, letter..... More
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1892. Small Octavo. Second edition. 248pp, (24)pp. catalog. illustrated by John Charlton. A deffinitive work on hunting red deer with dogs in Great Britain. Intermitten spots of scattered fosing, bound in maroon cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in silver depicting a red dear., spine letterig..... More
New York: The Macmillan Co., 1924. First Edition. Octavo. 205pp., illustrated. The author writes in an informal and popular way of the haunts and habits of the different varieties of black bass, of lures, casting, playing from the reel, and many other fine points of bass-craft. Bound in blue pictorial..... More
Boston; (1902): Dana Estes & Co. First Edition. Octavo. 407pp. This is a very nice copy of the first state of the first appearance of this immortal baseball poem although the publisher bound some copies in a different style cover. This second state cover is more pleasing in artistic sense..... More
Carmel, Indiana, U.S.A. Brown & Benchmark Pub, 1992. Hard Cover. Ocatvo. volume # 5. includes; Tables, charts, and graphs.Foreward, preface, early studies, diet, summary bibliography, discussion and index. 475 p. More
Toronto: , 1974. Buckram. As New Limited. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 156 pp. Photo end-papers. Extensively photographed, reproductions of original documents, etc. More
Estelle Lawson was known as the "Golf Queen" of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and a noted amateur golfer. When the Stock Market Crash came in 1929, the construction of Chapel Hill's first golf course came to an abrupt end. Her father who had starred in both baseball and football stepped..... More
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1888. Octavo. . Frontispiece, viii, 387 pages, illustrated with 75 illustrations from sketches and photographs by the authors, 1 folding color map at rear. A fine book on angling and hunting but also one of the best early travels of the region. It includes their..... More
Cleveland, Ohio; (1966): World Publishing. First Edition. Octavo. 487 pages. Inscribed to Shelley Berman "Many thanks for helping to kick off "Three Yards" hoping you enjoy reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it. Best of Luck. Bill Levy, 9/22/66. A great history of the early years of Ohio..... More
London: Seeley, Service & Co. Ltd, 1929. Cloth. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 234p. Ex-library copy; illustrations throughout including life-size illustrations of most of the game tracks; The last generation of great African hunters when without restrictions hunters tracked their game with determination. More
Privately Printed (1923). First Edition. Octavo. . Limited edition of only 300 copies. ...A Review and Analysis of the Games of the Marshall-Lasker Championship Match, and the Thirteen Games Played by Marshall at the Ninth American Chess Congress at Lake Hopatcong, N.Y., 1923. This copy, inscribed by the author to..... More
London: Effingham Wilson, 1833. First Edition. Thick Octavo. half-title, engraved frontispiece, vignette title page, viii + 616 with textual illustrations. set up much like a dictionary; double columns and alphabetical, much related to birds, fish and other sport animals along with the tools needed for such sport; fishing poles, gun..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co., Inc., 1964. Franklyn Modell (jacket illustration). First Edition. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 185pp. The extremely fictional story of the year the Russians inherited a major league baseball team. Bound in in red and black cloth boards; Illustrated dust jacket (lightly..... More
London: B.T. Batsford, LTD, 1931. Cloth. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 235 p. Index 330 illustrations with four colored illustrations on frontice piece. Signed by author on title page. Original paste down Morocco label very faded. More
