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Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co.; 1915. First Edition. Red cloth with gilt lettering. xvii, 249 pp. Illustrated by Arthur William Brown and George Wright. Introduction by Connie Mack. Very Good. Binding has some smudges. Scarce. In 1906 Henry Beach Needham (a friend of Theodore Roosevelt) traveled with the Philadelphia A's to learn the finer points of the National Game in order to write some magazine articles. He continued to write about baseball and even moved near Philadelphia so that he could see all of the Athletics' home games. He put his insider's knowledge of the game to use when he wrote the stories in this collection. £105.43
Celtic Footbal Club, 2001 Soft Cover. Good+. Signed. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 144 pages. Lubo's signature upon title page. "One of the most gifted footballers I have ever seen or worked with." - Celtic Manager Martin O'Neill. Gift greetings atop title page. Moderate wear. Binding sound. £217.13
Stunning autobiography of the Manchester United and Scotland football legend. In the 1960s, Denis Law was the King of Old Trafford. When it came to scoring goals, Law was the master, a mercurial genius. Loved by the fans because he always gave his all on the pitch, this fierce Scotsman fought for everything and was afraid of nothing. Having played for Huddersfield and Torino, Law joined United for a new British record transfer fee of £115,000 in August 1962. He scored two goals in his debut game and many more were to follow -160 of them in only 222 games over his first five seasons. £24.00
Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1893 Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. First Edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Points rubbed. Bottom front cover bumped. Contents clean, tight and solid. No inscriptions. Royal blue cloth with gilt lettering and a gilted football player on the front cover, Many diagrams of football plays. £375.77
Modern Base Ball Science National Base Ball Registration Bureau (Indianapolis), 1915 Trade paperback orig.; 1st ed. 1st ed.; wraps; good+ (light cover/usage wear incl. chip to top spine; interior vg). Instructions, rules etc. Numerous bw photos, many of contemporary players. According to Shatzkin's "The Ballplayers", Rankin is "said to have been the first official scorer" who "had a bitter running argument with... Chadwick over who deserved the title "Father of Baseball". Rankin claimed he began writing about baseball while Chadwick was still covering cricket...". £175.00 |
Herbert Jenkins. London 1922 first edition second issue green illustrated pebbled boards vg+/vg. The book has minimal wear. The wrapper shows the price of 3/6 on the spine where a label was removed. This is a composite of two first wrappers. The first had the front panel and spine tipped in ,the spine section was used as a bookmark and the top section must have been exposed and ended up with sunning. The second wrapper had soiling to the front panel and was missing the top of the spine. It is almost impossible to find a first without soiling on the front panel and this may be the only way to achieve a clean copy. £1,367.32
First edition, first printing. This large, coffee table size book has been signed by 161 players from the negro baseball league actually there are 163 signatures, as both Ray Dandridge and Sam Jethroe signed twice. This would certainly be a high-spot for any baseball collector and worthy of inclusion in collections at the Baseball Hall of Fame, The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, or any American History Museum. The signatures were collected soon after the 1992 publication date of this book. Of course by then, many of the earliest players were no longer living. Most of the players who signed this book were getting on in years, and many of the signatures belong to players who have passed away during the last 10 years. Many of the players that signed this book also played in the major leagues, there are quite a few Hall of Fame signatures, and most of the players are featured in the book. £621.78
London, Longmans, Green & Co., 1886-1907 Edited by His Grace the Duke of Beaufort, assisted by Alfred E. T. Watson. Comprising: Archery; Athletics; Big Game Shooting I; Big Game Shooting II; Billiards; Coursing and Falconry; Cricket; Cycling; Dancing; Driving; Fencing, Boxing, Wrestling; Fishing (Pike etc.); Fishing (Salmon and Trout); Football; Golf; Hunting; Motors and Motor-Driving; Mountaineering; Racing and; Steeple-Chasing; Riding and Polo; Rowing and Punting; Sea Fishing; Shooting (Field and Covert); Shooting (Moor and Marsh); Skating; Swimming; Tennis etc.; Yachting; Yachting II; The Poetry of Sport. 30 volumes, 8vo. Recently bound in full brown morocco, single line rule to boards gilt, double ruled panels and centre tool to spines gilt, twin green labels to spines, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Illustrated throughout. Light foxing in places, library stamps to the versos of the front blanks in two volumes, otherwise a beautifully bound set in very good condition. £6,500.00
1887 Liebenroth. Commercial scrapbook containing one of the first series of color lithographs depicting baseball. All six baseball color lithographs present and in very good condition (title page depicting the players and coach, "Wild Pitch," "Fly Ball," "Caught Between Bases," "Foul Ball," and "Home Run"). Dated inscription, 1890, to a six year old girl who has filled the blank pages of the scrapbook with colorful and whimsical period clippings that have been pasted down (children, animals, ads for soap and thread, etc.). Original gold stamped red cloth, spine separated, shaken, with loose pages. £621.78
The Fly Fisher's Entomology London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1836. 1st. ed. HBK Demy 8vo, brown leather spine, vertical strip on FC and BC by spine, and corner tips. Rest of FC and BC red marbled boards. Five raised bands on spine, title in gilt "Ronalds's Fly Fisher's Entomology" between first and second bands from the top. Gilt emblems above top band, below bottom band, and in between second, third, fourth and fifth bands (five emblems in all). Date 1836 in gilt foot spine. EPs marbled dark red. viii + Index 115pp. + 19 copper plates in colour (Plate XIX is the frontispiece). Apart from the inevitable slight foxing and browning, in remarkably good condition. £815.00 |
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