The Game Of Billiards

New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1858. 3rd Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Revised, Enlarged, and Richly Embellished with Engravings." Complete with 267 pages and tissue-protected frontispiece showing the author. 28 full-page diagrams with in-text illustrations throughout. Sound binding with intact hinges. Clean pages; front free endpaper has a faint corner crease. Light cover wear; the gilt cover… Read more about this item

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1863. Fifth Edition. Hardcover. Despite the missing portrait, a Fine, bright copy of this uncommon title. Revised, Enlarged, and Richly Embellished with Engravings." Decorated cloth. First published in 1856, all editions of this early billiards book, the second American book on the game, are scarce. The author, Michael Phelan, also published the… Read more about this item

New York: D. Appleton and Company 1858. 8vo. xii, 13-267 pp. Original brown blind-stamped cloth with gilt decoration & lettering to front board & spine. Spine lettering dulled with slight wear to extremities. Endpapers darkened. Stain to fore-edge affecting margins of leaves (but not affecting text). Frontis portrait engraving. With 28 full-page diagrams and additional illustrations. Binding firm. . Good.… Read more about this item

12mo, original cloth, illustrated 237 pp. Backstrip a bit faded, some edge wear, owner’s signature on title, modest aging, otherwise, very good or better. Billiards is a game with a very long history that actually started as an outdoor activity. Around the fifteenth century the game seems to have moved indoors, and the game reached America with English and… Read more about this item

New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1866. Cloth. Near Very Good/No Jacket. Most interesting scarce, early work on American Billiards by an expert & innovator. Frontispiece illustrated with a Monochrome Engraved Portrait of Phelan with facsimilie signature beneath, protected by tissue guard. Well illustrated with Diagrams, Superior Views of Shots on the Table and illustrations of Players. Preface for… Read more about this item

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

Hardback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.