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

New York: Boy Scouts of America, 1914. Stated First Edition. Octavo; publisher's tan photo-illustrated cloth; [2],352,[10](ads)pp.; illus. and photographs throughout. Boards rather scuffed with exposure at corners, rear cover quite discolored from exposure to damp, some light toning and finger soil to text block, else Good to Very Good overall..... 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

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

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

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

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

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