Paris: Alexandre Cadot, 1856. First Edition. Small octavo (16cm.); contemporary brown calf-backed marbled boards, gilt spine, marbled endpapers; 320pp. Boards a bit scuffed at extremities with some exposure, chiefly at corners, contemporary bookseller ticket to front pastedown and slightly latter rubber-stamps to title page a few internal leaves, stock uniformly..... More
![From Ghetto to Glory: The Story of Bob Gibson [Signed]. Bob Gibson, Phil Pepe](/pictures/thumb/10129.jpg?v=1626189850)
Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1968. Second Printing. Signed by Gibson "To Fred" on front free endpaper. Octavo; [vi], 200pp. Photos throughout. Photo-illustrated dust jacket with $5.95 price intact; book in orange cloth with black lettering. Jacket lightly shelfworn with a couple shallow chips at spine ends, but no tears or marks..... More
![Pieces of Eight [Nos. 1-10]. Boy Scouts of America - Troop 8](/pictures/thumb/7268.jpg?v=1600458386)
Worcester, MA?: Boy Scouts of America Troop 8, 1949. Ten volumes; small 12mo (18cm.); each issue comprised of a single sheet folded into 4-paneled brochure; text and illus. printed mimeograph. A hint of wear, else a Very Good or better collection. Possibly unrecorded newsletter issued by the Boy Scouts..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. First Edition, with Scribner's A and seal to copyright. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth in silver pictorial dust jacket; [6],287pp. Possibly ex-library, jacket flaps having been previously pasted to front endpapers and jacket extremities reinforced with some subsequent darkening of stock; despite crude early reinforcement..... More
Hardcover. [Rahway, NJ]: Privately Printed, 1924. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on front free endpaper with brief inscription dated May 1927, "To Eustace [?] S. Regan, from Becky and Charles D. Lanier." Octavo (7.75" x 5.25"); x, 204p. Blue paper-covered boards with blue paper title card on white cloth..... More
Ithaca, NY: Cornell Publications Printing Co., 1923. First Edition. Octavo. 107 pages. Black and white photographs. Photographic dust jacket with additional onion skin covering. Green boards stamped in red and gilt. Courtney never lost a rowing race as an amateur, though his professional career was marred by controversy. He..... More
Haywards Heath, West Sussex: Partridge Press, 1987. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's simulated cloth in photo-illustrated price-clipped dust jacket; [12],142pp.; half-tone photographic illus. Light shelf wear to jacket extremities and some dust-soil to board and textblock extremities, jacket spine panel a shade sunned, else Very Good and sound. Memoir..... More
![The Rites of Autumn: A Falconer's Journey Across the American West [Inscribed and Signed]. Dan...](/pictures/thumb/8640.jpg?v=1612803527)
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1988. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's two-toned boards in pictorial dust jacket; [12],192pp.; map endpapers. Light shelf wear, a hint of cockling to dust jacket, brief water spot to rear jacket panel, else Very Good or better. Warmly inscribed and signed by the author on..... More
![Real Grass, Real Heroes: Baseball's Historic 1941 Season [Signed by DiMaggio]. Dom DiMaggio, Bill...](/pictures/thumb/7697.jpg?v=1604085965)
[New York]: Zebra Books / Kensington Publishing Corp., [1990]. First Edition, First Printing. Signed by Dom DiMaggio on front free endpaper. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in pictorial dust jacket; [12],240pp.; eight leaves of photographs printed on rectos and versos. A Fine copy in like dust jacket. More
Madrid: Revista Geografica Española, 1958. Octavo; unpaginated [220pp in this copy, see full description]. Tipped-in sepia frontispiece; 38 full-color tipped-in plates; 56 full-page B&W photogravure reproductions of paintings; 24 full-page B&W reproductions of drawings; 67 smaller B&W drawing reproductions (1/4, 1/2, or 3/4 page) embedded within text. Entirely in Spanish..... More
New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1949. Second Printing. Octavo. 244 pages. Black and white diagrams and photographs. Photographic dust jacket. Green boards stamped in white. Unclipped dust jacket is chipped along edges with some general soiling, more heavily to rear panel. Boards are worn at extremities with chipping and..... More
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1898. First Edition. Large Octavo. 272 pages. Black and white illustrations throughout. Brown boards decorative chess board to front and spine and front in gilt. Top edge gilt. The second in Young's 'Chess Strategetics' series and includes chapters on major tactics, geometric and sub-geometric..... More
Garden City, NY: Crime Club / Doubleday & Company, 1949. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; 219pp. Jacket extremities rather worn with coin-sized chip at spine foot, spine slightly cocked, textblock uniformly toned due to inferior paper stock, else Very Good overall. A Crime..... More
Zaragoza et al: v.p., ca. 1930s. Collection of twelve real photo postcards; light wear and a hint of dust-soil, else a Very Good or better collection. One example with the rubberstamp of Zaragoza photographer J. Elosúa, "Fotógrafo Taurino"; another with the rubberstamp of a Pamplona photographer (Gerardo Zaragu[?]); the remaining..... More
Garden City: Garden City Publishing Company, 1926. Reprint of the G.P. Putnam's Sons edition. Photographic dustjacket over red cloth-covered boards with black lettering. Jacket chipped at corners and spine ends, with a few small tears and a couple scuffs to face. Spine ends nudged with a small tear at head..... More
![Messenger: the Great Progenitor [Limited Edition]. John Hervey](/pictures/thumb/8428.jpg?v=1616608688)
New York: Derrydale Press, 1935. First Edition, Limited to 500 hundred copies of which this is no. 176. Slim octavo (24.5cm.); publisher's vegetable vellum-backed paper-covered boards, pictorial paper onlay to upper cover printed in brown and black, gilt-lettered spine; xi,[3],63pp.; frontispiece, nine leaves of plates, including a facsimile and photographs..... More
![The Imaginary Girlfriend [Signed Bookplate Laid in]. John Irving](/pictures/thumb/9002.jpg?v=1616185289)
London: Bloomsbury, 1996. First Edition. Bookplate signed by Irving loosely laid in at front. Small octavo. 148 pages + black and white photographs. Photographic dust jacket. Black boards stamped in gilt. A memoir of writing and wrestling, first published in the U.K. and incorporated into Trying to Save..... More
![The Imaginary Girlfriend [Signed Bookplate Laid in]. John Irving](/pictures/thumb/9003.jpg?v=1616187112)
London: Bloomsbury, 1996. Uncorrected Proof. Bookplate signed by Irving loosely laid in at front. Small octavo. 148 pages. Printed wraps. Wraps show light wear along edges and front wrap curls open slightly. Binding is sound and pages clean and unmarked. A memoir of writing and wrestling, first..... More
![The Imaginary Girlfriend [Signed Bookplate Laid in]. John Irving](/pictures/thumb/9005.jpg?v=1616184883)
Toronto, CA: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. First Canadian Edition. Bookplate signed by Irving loosely laid in at front. Small octavo. 148 pages + black and white photographs. Photographic dust jacket. Red boards stamped in gilt. Unclipped dust jacket worn along edges with some general rubbing. Boards show a...... More
London: Ward and Lock, 1863. First Edition. Slim octavo (18.5cm.); contemporary half brown morocco over marbled boards by Little Brown & Co., gilt spine in six compartments, expertly recased with spine laid down, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, original brown pictorial cloth spine and upper cover bound in rear; 112pp.;..... More
Delaware, OH: Cooperative Recreation Service, ca. 1940s. First Edition. Seven volumes housed in original "Handy" cloth binder; small 12mo (17.5cm.); each issue bound in pictorial stapled card wrappers, binder upper cover lettered in gilt. Binder a bit bumped at corners and slightly dusty, minor toning to wrappers and stock, contemporary..... More
San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2003. First Edition with full numberline. Signed by the author with inscription "To Chris Matthews. Pray for D.C. baseball!" on full title. Octavo; [vi], 170pp. Illustrated purple dust jacket over blue and gray boards with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket is clean and crisp with no..... More
[Buckingham]: Kenilworth Press, [1987, 1993]. Reprint. Small quarto; publisher's simulated cloth in brown pictorial dust jacket; 240pp.; illus., chiefly photographic. Light wear from handling, spine rather cocked and sunned, else a Near Very Good copy. Compiled by Watson, the Olympic, World and European Three-Day Event Gold Medallist. More
Washington, DC: Navy Yard Recreation League, 1921. First Edition. Quarto. 124 pages plus advertisements. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Brown wraps printed in black and red. Original illustrated tan wrappers are chipped along edges with some light staining and soiling. Large but light dampstain to top edge running..... More
![Banks' Scientific Checkers: A Complete Manual for Beginners and Advanced Players [Signed]. Newell...](/pictures/thumb/6471.jpg?v=1592943307)
Detroit, MI: Morris-Systems Publishing Co., 1929. Second Edition. Signed by Banks on front free endpaper dated Nov 12, 1937. Octavo. 201 pages + advertisement. Graphs and illustrations of games throughout. No dust jacket. Green boards stamped in gilt, now faded. Light wear to extremities and slight lean to..... More