Search Results: Sports and Games from Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA

Columbia, SC: Julian K. Quattlebaum | printed by R. L. Bryan Company, 1957. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. Quarto. [10], 133, [1] pp., illus. First edition. As issued, in black and red cloth with publisher issued dust jacket. presentation page bears the name of Augusta Henrietta Roebling White; it is uncertain in whose hand this is written. Binding is presentable with only trivial shelfwear; hinges are just a trifle loose; contents clean; dust jacket is quite sharp with just a bit of scuffing to the back panel and a small closed tear to the top edge of the front panel; foxing to the verso. Profusely illustrated, this is an uncommon book in uncommonly good condition.

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. Octavo. xii, 364 pp. First edition.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. Hard Cover. near Very Good binding. Quarto. [20], 299, [18 (photographic review)], [18 (index)] pp., frontis, plates, illus, map. As issued, in scarlet cloth with leather title label on the spine; illustrated throughout with photographic plates and in-text illustrations; additionaly photographic plates are collected in a section at the rear; folding map is present in front of the rear free endpaper. Light staining to the covers; spine sunned; previous owner name and address on the first blank; several of the leaves in the index are dog-eared at the bottom corner; largely a clean, bright copy of this history of the Rolling Rock Hunt at Ligonier south of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania which was established on family land by Richard Beatty Mellon of the Pittsburgh Mellon family. Uncommon.

Richmond: Printed by Whittet & Shepperson, 1955. Spiral Bound. Very Good binding. Quarto. 96 pp., illus. As issued, in spiral binding with pictorial wrappers. Light edgewear, only. A remarkably sound copy of this profusely illustrated and uncommon promotional booklet. It contains a description of the course, biographical sketches of some of the golfers, descriptions of other courses in the region and an abundance of promotional material on Richmond and environs, and more.