1933. This special half-price ticket was produced in cooperation with the Curtiss Candy Company that produced the Baby Ruth Candy bar. The verso of the card shows the Baby Ruth advertisement with the logo of the American Medical Association which announces Accepted. Although the company once said the name was..... More
Keigley: Burrough Printing, 1897. Original Paper Wrps. 48mo - over 3" - 4" tall. p. 4-12 numbered pages, opening page (unnumbered) is the Programme for the Opening Ceremony, addressed to men announcing the opening of the New Club Premises on Cavendish Street and the men are encouraged to invite a...... More
1948. Stapled Wraps. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Contains; official lineups, rules, pictures and layout of AK-SAR-Ben Coliseum. Advetising - Car (Kaizer, Frazer) , Wine, Appliances, Authur Murray Dance Studio, Falstaff & Metz Beer to name a few. {Photo of the Seven-Up girls hockey team. More
Washington, D.C. Robert L. Johnson, 1948. Quarto. 64 pages. It was Washington, D.C. 1948, as the capitol is prospering with post-war boom. Here is an interview with Henry Fonda and how he wanted the role of Mister Roberts and enjoyed playing it on the stage. A full page photograph of..... More
1905. Color baseball card of the leading players of the 1905 New York Giants who won the World Series 4-1 against the Philadelphia Athletics. Here was the pitching staff of Christy Mathewson, Iron Man McGinnity, Red Amers and Luther "Dummy" Taylor. Fred Bowerman was the catcher and Fred Mertes who..... More
London; [1884]: Office of Ruff's Guide. 12mo. 424p. It was this expanded new edition that created an extensive index along with ways to access records of previous winners. Consequently, this is the first major record book on racing up to that time in England. Thousands of races, purses and winnings..... More
Willow Springs, Illinois; [1963]: Santa Fe Enterprises. Quarto. 28 unnumbered pages with hundreds of photos of the drivers, the records from 1959 to 1962, and the banquet of champions. When the Santa Fe Speedway opened in 1953, it famous stock car racers of the day wanted to compete there. They..... More
Quaker Oates, 1947. Orginal Wraps. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 20p. A rare baseball item. 72 pictures of baseball technique by Ethan Allen who after a long career in both leagues ending with a lifetime .300 average, went on to coach baseball at Yale and designed two important..... More
Phoenix: Phoenix Suns, 1992. First Edition. Cloth. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 225p. List of roster in back, goes through each season all the way to the 1992-1993 season. Signed by the following Suns: Jeff Cook, Jim Fox, Connie Hawkins, Nate Hawthorne, Curtis Perry, Alvin Scott, Dick Snyder..... More
Stillwater, OK: Self Published, 1982. Spiral Binding. 128p. (over 100 black and white drawings of techniques) text and illustrations on recto [versos are left blank for notes]. uncommon. More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1906. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 82 pp. Covers soiled, moderate wear along extremities, gilt cover titles. Ex-library copy (John Crerar Chicago). Seventeen photogravures in text. More
[Bemjo Martial Arts Library, Greenville, NC; 1983]. First Edition. Octavo. 75pp. Inscribed to another martial artist. Address label laid in signed by the author. Arguably the first scholarly treatise on the history of 'American' styles, training, bound in black pictorial paper wraps lettered in white and depicting a man in..... More
Neshkoro, Wisconsin; (1998): Angel Press of WI. First Edition. Octavo. Inscribed by Beebe to Packer coach Mike Holmgrem, Foreword by Reggie White, Introduction by Brett Favre and Extra Point by Marv Levy. Beebe was former American football wide receiver who played in the National Football League for nine seasons. Bound..... More
New York: Frederick H. Hitchcock/The Grafton Press, 1926. First Edition. Octavo. 322pp., photo-illustrated. A true story of a trip around the world and the author's big game hunting in Africa and India. Bound in dark blue pictorial cloth lettered in gilt, photograph of author standing on a giraffe mounted to..... More
(Long Beach, CA: 2001): Safari Press. First Edition. Octavo. 140p. Dalton Carr was a black bear hunter for forty-one years. He was a predator controller on the Yakima Indian Reservation, a marshal of Red River in Colorado where he killed "bad bears" but of special interest is the way in..... More
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1919. First Edition. Octavo. 157pp. Signed/inscribed by Roland Jost, Canadian skier. Library pencil numbers on title page only. Corners are worn through. Bound in green cloth. More
London: Chatto & Windus/Putnams, 1896. First Edition. Octavo. xii, 370 pages, (1) p. publisher's ad, illustrations, and diagrams. Hastings 1895 was arguably the strongest tournament in history at the time it occurred. All the top players of the generation competed. It was one of the first times such a "super-tournament"..... More
1976. Cloth. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 522p. index (1976) 419p. index (1982) both volumes first editions with original dust jackets. The two volumes have over 1,000 photographs, figures, etc. "the first general treatment of the subject in English"--Chong soo Hong, Vice-President (Korean Central Gymnasium); "Your book speaks..... More
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1904. First Edition. Large Octavo. 94p. illustrated with 70 full page color illustrations by A.D. McCormack, bound in a blue-gray pictorial cloth depicting the mountain side with snow and flowers in colors of white, orange and green, lettering gilt, pictorial spine, some browning to preliminary..... More
St. Cloud, Minnesota; (1999): Land's Edge Press. Limited Edition. Octavo. Limited edition 1 of 750 copies signed by the author. Additionally, the present copy is inscribed: "to a fellow wanderer down the literary big game trails of Africa--good reading and hunting." 181p. , index. Essential for not only listing the..... More
Eugene Delmar and his wife Vina wrote many plays, screenplays and novels usually together from their home in Beverly Hills. Eugene was also a skeet sportsman and, in this letter, writes his friend Jimmy Robinson who was editor of Sports Afield. He apologizes for writing this letter on his son's..... More
New York: Putnams, 1901. First Edition. Octavo. 99p. A fascinating account of his early history moving from mathematics to chess where he was among the great chess geniuses winning every match until his match in the late 1890's with Lasker where he won some games but lost both matches. Bound..... More
New York; (1884): Dick & Fitzgerald. Small Octavo. A new edition, revised and enlarged containing sixty-four games, illustrated with fifty explanatory tableaux. 154 pp.Bound in brown pictorial gilt cloth depicting a jester with cards, spine gilt, spine and rear board faded, some minor edge wear. More
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