With the 15th Australian XI (A Complete Record of the Team's Tour Throughout Great Britain and South Africa ) by Sydney Smith - 1922

New York: American Lawn Tennis 1922, 2nd edition. (Hardcover) 399pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Gilt decorated green cloth. Top edge gilt, frontispiece with facsimile signatures of William T. Tilden, 2nd and Wm.W. Johnston, numerous illustrations and plates. The head and foot of the spine and corners are lightly worn. With Opinions on Disputed Points of Technique from Many Expert Players. Edited by S. Wallis Merrihew. (Sports, Lawn Tennis, Tennis).

Printed for F. Style. London.,1739. FIRST, AND ONLY, EDITION. 8vo. Front wrapper, ii,28pp. Lacking the half title but with the rare printed front wrapper (showing the price of Six Pence) laid down and bound in. Text complete. Top edge of pages have been cut and gilded, the others are untrimmed. Pages a bit marked and rubbed but overall a very good example. The original front wrapper has some small areas of loss to the edges and corners and has been professionally laid down. Bound in modern half red crushed morocco by C. Walters. Spine with raised bands, ruled in blind. Compartments lettered in gilt. Boards with dark red cloth. Burgundy endpapers. Previous owners bookplate (Douglas Peter Crossman, Earl Stonham) on front pastedown endpaper. Overall a very good copy of this uncommon political satire, mocking the supporters of George II and Prince James Stuart, the Old pretender. Not in Halkett & Laing.:

Australia, 1952. Card Menu (4 sides). Farewell Dinner to Members of the Rowing Section of the Australian Rowing Team at The Hermitage Sydney, Friday May 30, 1952. Given by Members of earlier Crews to have rowed at Henley on Thames. 27 handwritten signatures on Menu, including those of previous Australian Rowing crews. Menu also contains the signatures of 13 members of the Australian Olympic Rowing Team for the Helsinki Games. Notable signatures include Mervyn Wood, who was the flagbearer for Australia at the Games and who also won a Silver medal in the Mens Single Skulls Event. Also, signatures of David Anderson, Philip Cayzer, Ernest Chapman, Thomas Chessel, Mervyn Finlay, Robert Tinning and Geoffrey Williamson who were part of the Bronze medal winning Australian eights. Front of menu features handwritten name of W. J. Dixon (Bill) who was one of the hosts, having competed for Australia at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition. Card. Very… Read More

Second edition. Simkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. London. nd. [1919] Quarto. xxiii, 422pp, 2pp ads. Colour frontis tipped in, colour plate tipped in, numerous further monochrome plates and illustrations. Contemporary quarter calf, green cloth. Spine in six compartments, with red and green leather labels, gilt lettering. Corner of frontis. slightly creased. A nice copy.
Provenance: Armorial bookplate of Green-Price to fep.
The Green-Price Baronetcy, of Norton Manor in the parish of Norton in the County of Radnor.

NY: The Outing Company Limited, 1895. First edition. Half-bound morocco and boards. Containing issues 6 issues, January through June. Published NY: The Outing Company Limited, 1895. 4to., 7 1/4" x 10 1/4". Ribbed black morocco with raised bands and gilt titles, pebbled black cloth, brown endpapers. Athletics, Canoeing, Football, Equestrian, Fishing and Boating. Articles include: Greco-Roman Games in California; Cycling in the Jersey Pines; Bear Hunting in Japan; the National Guard of New York State; A Kangaroo Hunt. Wear at the spine, outer hinges and edges, binding tight. Very good minus. . 1st. Hard. Very Good Minus/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to.

London: John Mitchell, Sporting Review Office. Very Good. 1841. First Edition. Hardcover. Half brown leather spine & corners over brown silk boards. 4 bands with lightly faded gilt lettering & decoration on spine. Marbled endpapers. VOLUME #5: [1 (title) , 483, 1]; engraved title, 6 engraved plates, 6 maps and several partial page engravings and drawings. VOLUME #6: [1 (title) , 484]; engraved title, 11 engraved plates (one hand-colored) ; 4 maps; 2 drawings of trophy cups and several partial page engravings and drawings. Text tight, clean & intact with tissue guarded plates, hinges just starting: covers firm. Light shelf wear. Both volumes have two prior owner's ink stamps on front endpaper: one belonging to industrialist "William K. Dick" of Islip, Long Island, NY. Sports, Hunting, Horses. ; B/W Engravings; 8vo; 967 pages .

"NEWCASTLE FISHERS' GARLANDS" - A Collection of Right Merrie Garlands for North Country Anglers, edited by Joseph Crawhall. 1864; George Rutland; Newcastle-on-Tyne, United Kingdom. The book is a compilation of content from past publications of "The Fisher's Garland" from 1820 to 1864. At the back of the book is a Memorial to Izaak Walton, best know as the author of "The Compleat Angler.""Dedicated to the Members of the Coquet-Dale Angling Club, with an earnest hope that the lines herein cast may perchance rise some stray Roxby or Doubleday of that honourable body, and induce an attempt to resume and continue the Newcastle Fishers' Garlands, so charmingly set forth by the spirits of a former generation."Condition:Some areas of bubbling under the cloth on the front cover; sharp corners; bright gilt lettering on the spine; light soiling to front and back covers. Tight binding. No cracks. No loose pages. Occasional foxing to a handful of random pages...otherwise, the pages are clean and white with no… Read More

New York, Total Sports, 1998, large format hardcover (9" x 11"), xiii-210 pp, Edition not stated, No previous printings noted, Association Copy, Signed by the author and inscribed to the American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science Stephen Jay Gould with a bookplate to the front pastedown identifying the book as 'From the Library of...', Fine in Fine dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, slightest spine-end and corner bumps. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, in protective glassine sleeve. The sports historian and author of The Glory of Their Times, often called 'the greatest book about baseball ever written', presents a cultural history of New York City in the first half of the twentieth century with sports, those who participated in them, and the many legendary venues that housed them at the center. Profusely illustrated throughout with both black-&-white and color photographs, many from the author's personal collection. Appended:… Read More

New York: Rizzoli, 1992. SCARCE. Publisher's promotional poster,20"w x 30" h, featuring the same great close-up photograph of Ali as the cover of the book. Distributed in limited numbers at the ABA trade show in 1992. Near Fine, faint creases. Well suited for framing. Will be shipped loosely rolled in a mailing tube.. First Printing. Poster. Near Fine. 20 " x 30".

New York: Gladys Medalie Heldman, 1963. SCARCE. Most likely the first magazine cover for Arthur Ashe, the beloved African-American tennis champion, the first black player selected to the United States Davis Cup team and the only black man ever to win the singles title at Wimbledon, the US Open, and the Australian Open. This issue published a month after his first major men's title at the Pacific Southwest, while he was still a student at UCLA. Very Good, library stamp rear cover, ink mark front cover not affecting photograph, 3 pages with top corner creases, light soiling and wear to covers. . First Printing. Magazine. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.