Shreveport, LA: 1931. Original black and white photograph (15.5x25.5cm.) depicting the girls' basketball team alongside their coach Mr. Russ, each player identified in ink manuscript along bottom of image. Photograph slightly curled with very small flaw at bottom of image, else Very Good overall. Misidentifying manuscript label mounted to verso..... More
Fairbanks and Chatanika, Alaska: Huey Foto / Huey and Hyland Foto, 1909-1910. Two original photographs from the 1909 and 1910 midnight baseball games held in Chatanika and Fairbanks, Alaska. Mounted on black cardstock with "Chatanika Alaska July 4th One A.M. 1909" to first and "Midnight Ball Game Fairbanks-vs-Chatanika. June 19-1910..... More
New York: American Sports Publishing Company, 1911. First Edition. Octavo. 542 pp. Black and white photographs and illustrations, with fold-outs, complete though three panels from the Polo Grounds and Forbes Field double-side fold-out and two panels from the Athletics and White Sox fold-outs detached but present. Publisher's decorative cloth; dark..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1946. First Edition. Octavo. 240 pp. Black and white photographs including frontispiece, complete. Illustrated dust jacket with "$3.00" price present. Dark blue boards stamped in green. Dust jacket lightly chipped and creased along edges with mild staining along bottom edge and light spotting to..... More
Boston: Wright & Ditson, 1911. First Edition. Octavo. 32 pp. Black and white photographs and illustrations throughout. Illustrated wraps. Light rubbing to edges with some minor staining and spotting. Binding sound. Slight marginal stain but otherwise pages clean and unmarked. Scarce trade catalog from the early sporting good..... 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
Boston: Printed for the Author. Press of Rockwell & Churchill, 1880. Second Edition. Octavo. 261 pp. + 2 pp. advertisements. Black and white illustrations, complete. Black leather boards lettered in gilt. Chips to spine ends, wear along edges, and spotting to rear. Binding is sound. Smudging to endpapers..... More
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
Chevy Chase, MD: Doubled Dummy Card Holder Co., 1905. First Edition. Complete game set including original green cloth clamshell box (25x14x3cm.) printed in white, string-bound "You & I Score Pad" printed in red and black (23.5x6.5cm.) with small blue pencil attached at end of string, and matching green cloth dummy..... 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
![Item #25583 [Drop title] Eli A. Smith: Noted U.S. Mail Carrier and Musher [With Original...](/pictures/thumb/25583.jpg?v=1676407134)
Washington? s.i., 1907. Presumed First Edition. Photo-illustrated broadsheet flyer (23x15.5cm) printed entirely in brown, text on verso in double columns; accompanied by original photograph (10x18cm) of Smith and his team. Old mail folds to flyer with bottom third entirely split, three small losses to right-hand margin from biopredation not affecting..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. First Edition with "A" and publisher's seal to copyright page. Large octavo. 295 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.75 price present. Light green cloth stamped in black and gilt; topstain. Dust jacket chipped and creased along edges with some fading to spine and..... 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
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1910. Edition De Luxe, one of 75 copies signed by Halford at title page of volume I, with an additional 50 copies published in the U.S. Two quarto volumes. Volume I with frontis portrait; 9 color plates of flies; 18 color samples; 16 photogravures. Vol..... 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
Quarto (28cm.); original grey post-bound pictorial card wrappers, housed in bespoke blue clamshell box, morocco gilt-lettered spine label; [4],97pp.; text printed mimeograph from original typescript. Wrappers a bit foxed and slightly soiled, minor wear from handling, else Very Good and sound. Self-published (and apparently unrecorded) collection of "Facts, Hints..... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1948. First Thus; Limited Edition of 1500 copies signed by Gorsline, this being #432. Quarto. 316 pp. Copper engravings and wash-drawings. Bound in half ivory calfskin over charcoal paper with gilt decorating to spine. Dark topstain. Publisher's prospectus and monthly newsletter laid in at..... 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: Lane & Scott, 1851. Reprint. Small 12mo; publisher's brown blind-embossed cloth, gilt-tooled spine; 132,[12](ads)pp. Minor soiling to covers, spine slightly cocked and starting to split significantly along rear hinge, foxing to preliminaries, else a Good to Very Good copy overall. New Jersey clergyman's attack on the practice of..... More
![Item #26000 Massacre in the Sun [alt. title Dempsey, by the Man Himself] [Signed]. Jack Dempsey,...](/pictures/thumb/26000.jpg?v=1679089469)
London: Heinemann, 1961. Second Printing. Signed by Jack Dempsey with brief inscription to previous owner at front free endpaper. Octavo. 249 pp. Black and white photographs. Renato Fratini-illustrated dust jacket. Red boards stamped in silver. Price-clipped dust jacket chipped and creased along edges with general rubbing and scuffing..... 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
![Item #8428 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
![Item #9002 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
![Item #9005 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
Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Company, 1910. First Edition. Octavo. 308 pp. + 2 pp. advertisements. Black and white photographs, lacking two plates. Tan boards stamped in red with photo-illustrated card mounted to front. Boards rather worn with brief exposure to extremities, corners bumped, and general soiling and scuffing..... More