New York: George H. Doran Company, 1919. First U.S. Edition, First Impression with publisher's colophon on copyright. Small octavo. 281 pages. Illustrated dust jacket. Dark red boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket shows a couple small chips to spine ends and rear flap, general rubbing, and bit of..... More

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

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

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

New York: Ives Washburn, 1930. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's red cloth lettered in yellow; 254pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece. Lacks dust jacket. Extremities rather rubbed with shallow loss at spine crown (spine lettering rather dulled), contemporary ownership ex libris to front pastedown, brief paper flaw to front free endpaper from previously..... More

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, ca. 1932. First Edition. Slim 12mo (16.5cm.); publisher's brown printed card wrappers; 63pp. Some minor dampstaining and spotting to upper wrappers, spine just starting to peel from upper joint, else Very Good, contents about fine. We find only one OCLC record as of June, 2017, listing..... 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

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

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

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

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

[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