Search Results: Sports from Midway Used and Rare Books

Irish Setter Club of America, 1975. Hard Cover. good/good. Quarto. (11 1/2" x 9"). 852pp. A massive work. Some light "spotting" to top fore-edges. In dust jacket.

Ice Follies, 1956. Wraps. vg. Stapled pictorial wrappers. 62pp and ads. Some light foxing.

Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1975. vg/vg dj. 8vo, 240 pp. Some chipping to head of dj spine, dj rubbed heavily at edges and in verticle lines near spine, price clipped.

Ralph F. Hartenstein, 1948. First edition. Hard Cover. vg+. Quarto. 206pp Bound in brown cloth. Illustrated with photographs. Nice copy.

Ohio: Sunrise Publishing Co, 1994. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. fine/fine. Quarto. Green cloth with tissue guard in slipcase. 300 copies of the limited edition were produced, each bound in buckram. The first 289 of these are numbered and signed by author an dare for sale. This is copy # 132. A beautiful copy.

New York: Nassau Press, 1908. vg. Sm 8vo, 155 pp. Green boards, gilt logo, corners lightly bumped, previous owners' sticker and ink signature, pages fresh and clean.

New York: Devin-Adair Co, 1949. First edition. vg. 8vo. 1st edition. Lacking dust jacket. Photographs.

London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co, no date. Hard Cover. good+. Brown leather with gilt lettering to spine. 412pp Marble endpapers. Full page color illustrations and black and white by John Leech. Some light scuffing to edges of spine and corners. Binding tight.

Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 1996. Collector's Edition. Full Leather. Near Fine. 22 x 14.5 cm. Octavo. 244 pages. Bound in blue leather with gilt foredges and design. 4 raised bands to spine. Scratch to gilt foredge.

Exposition Banner, 1972. First edition. Hard Cover. very good/very good. There is some toning to gutters of both front and rear. Otherwise, a very nice copy in a lightly chipped dust jacket. On August 16, 1920, Mays accidentally struck Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians with a pitch. Chapman died the following morning. Many fans and players demanded Mays be banished from baseball. "Nobody, it seems, ever remembers anything about me except one thing- that a pitch I threw caused a man to die". Carl Mays.

Northumberland Press Ltd, 1955. First edition. Hard Cover. very good. Green cloth. Gilt lettering to cover and spine. 287pp. Frontispiece a bit loose. Name of preivous owner on front free endpaper.

Lima: Museo Taurino De Arte, 1966. Hard Cover. vg/vg. 161pp Illustrated in color and black and white. Nice copy in dust jacket. Spanish text.

Northern Illinois University Press, 2013. First edition. Hardcover. near fine/near fine. 396pp. A very nice copy in an equally nice dust jacket.

Montana: Wilderness Adventures Press, 1995. Hard Cover. nf/nf. A excellent copy in dust jacket. SIGNED and dated by author.

Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson & Brothers, 1881. new revised and enlarged edition. Hard Cover. good. Two volume set. 12mo. 7:" x 5". Red cloth with gilt lettering and design to covers and spines. Illustrated. Tender at middle section of Volume one but signature still intact. Sunning to spines. Bottom edges of spines frayed. Corners bumped. Name of previous owner on front endpapers. In mylar protective wrappers.

Milan: Franco Maria Ricci, 1989. Limited Edition. Hardcover. fine. Quarto. Limited to 5000 copies of which this is copy #607. Color illustrations. A beautiful copy of a beautiful book. In slipcase.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1930. vg. Sm 4to, 293 pp. Blue boards, gilt decoration, board lightly rubbed at edges and corners, some soiling to spine, sticker residue on ffep.

London: T. Bensley for White and Co., 1810. Second Edition. 1/4 leather. 30.5 x 23.5 cm. Quarto. 357 pages. 59 sepia plates. Contemporary brown quarter calf with 5 raised bands to spine. Marble boards, endpapers and foredges. Fairly extensive foxing to the plates. Expert mending to front and rear joint. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover. Binding is tight. First published in 12801, Strutt's was the standard guide to the history, customs, and rules of every sport and board game known to Britain. These included: chess, tennis, falconry, hunting, billiards, swimming, track and field, archery, rowing, wrestling, angling, horse-racing, skating, sailing, puppetry, minstrel singing, juggling, fencing, fire-eating, bull-baiting, bowling, dominos, various card-games, dice, jousting, an early form of baseball.

New York: Huntington Press, 1931. First Trade Edition. Hard Cover. vg/vg. A nice copy in dust jacket. Photographically illustrated.

Far Hills, NJ: United States Golf Association, 1988. Cloth. nf. 8vo. 300 pp. Excellent hardbound copy in crisp slipcase. Number 718 in a limited run of 1500 copies. Occasional black/white photographs.