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New York: The Derrydale Press, 1934. Barber, Joel. First Edition, ONE OF 55 LARGE-PAPER COPIES, signed by Barber, this being No. 4. “One of the most important books published by Connett.” -- Siegel This is the large paper edition of this work. The regular, trade, edition was published at the..... Read More Item Details for Wild Fowl Decoys Add to Wish List
Item #375021
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Cincinnati: [October 2, 1919]. Although the pre-printed lineups are for the first game, the original owner has filled in the scorecards as per game 2, which the Reds won 4-2. White sox pitcher Lefty Williams, normally known for his control, was uncharacteristically wild during the game, an argument used by..... Read More Item Details for Golden Jubilee Cincinnati Reds Champions 1869-1919. Official Souvenir Score Card. World's Series Games. Redland Field 1919 [cover title] Add to Wish List
Item #374962
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New York: The Derrydale Press, 1931. For an edition of 250 signed sets. Ordeman notes that “it is rare that one finds a complete set today”. An extremely handsome and decorative set of American sporting notables. The six portraits, each set in an appropriate background, are of: SAMUEL MORRIS, ESQ...... Read More Item Details for “FATHERS OF AMERICAN SPORT”. The ORIGINAL SIX WATERCOLORS of this famous Derrydale Press set, signed by the artist “R.L. Boyer”. Together with a set of PROOFS BEFORE LETTERS, with what is evidently the artist's modelling and coloring, each signed by him in pencil (one, unsigned, is in print state, with legend engraved in lower margin) Add to Wish List
Item #261099
Price: $9,000
New York: Derrydale Press, 1929. First edition, no. 47 of 75 large paper copies signed by the author on colophon page. Read More Item Details for The Horse of the Desert. Introduction by Major-General James G. Harbord and Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn Add to Wish List
Item #368095
Price: $22,500
New York: Derrydale Press, 1935. First edition. Number 14 of 56 numbered deluxe copies with a signed drawing by Lynn Bogue Hunt of a jumping swordfish in pencil (total edition of 1,006 copies). Read More Item Details for American Big Game Fishing Add to Wish List
Item #368098
Price: $1,750
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1925. First edition. James John Corbett (1866-1933), was a handsome young Irish-born boxer on the rise in 1891. The following year he became World Heavyweight Champion when he defeated John L. Sullivan in New Orleans in December 1892. He defended the title in 1894 and..... Read More Item Details for The Roar of the Crowd. The True Tale of the Rise and Fall of a Champion … With a Foreword by Robert Gordon Anderson Add to Wish List
Item #375096
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New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, [1866]. First edition. Includes sections on euchre, whist, bezique, all-fours, pitch, commerical pitch, French fours, all fives, cassino, cribbage, straight poker, draw poker and whiskey poker. Read More Item Details for The American Card-Player: Containing Clear and Comprehensive Directions Add to Wish List
Item #323089
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Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, printed at The Riverside Press, 1908. First edition, no. 276 of 440 copies. Read More Item Details for The Mystery of Golf: A brief Account of Games in generall: their Origine; Antiquitie; & Rampancie: and of the game ycleped Golfe in particular [etc.] Add to Wish List
Item #303460
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1893. Group of 193 original albumen print photographs documenting the Indian portion of the world tour of Archduke Franz-Ferdinand of Austria (1863-1914). This official voyage of the Archduke, lasting from December 1892 to October 1893, had explicit diplomatic, ethnographic, and scientific aims, as well as an unspoken goal of permitting..... Read More Item Details for Photographs of the Indian Tour of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, January to March 1893 Add to Wish List
Item #307575
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Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, [1976]. First edition, first printing. Norman Maclean‘s autobiographical title novella of fly fishing and life draws upon his early years spent mostly in the Rocky Mountain region. Though critically acclaimed from the outset, the work received little attention until its adaptation as a...... Read More Item Details for A River Runs through It and Other Stories Add to Wish List
Item #366547
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Berlin: Deutschen Verlag, [1937]. First edition. Riefenstahl's magnificent photographic chronicle of the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, including a photograph of Jessie Owens taking off for his world-record jump (p. 100). At the end is a section on the photographer and her team at work. A fascinating production, issued in conjunction..... Read More Item Details for Schönheit im Olympischen Kampf Add to Wish List
Item #235281
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New York: Derrydale Press, [1937]. First edition, no. 21 of 60 deluxe copies. “A big and very beautiful Derrydale” (Frazier); Siegel notes “binding unsigned,” but this copy clearly bears the MacDonald bindery stamp on verso of front free endpaper. A lush, elegant volume in beautiful condition. Read More Item Details for Skiing, The International Sport, by Adolf Attenhofer, Count De Baillet Latour, H.P. Douglas, Richard Durrance, Dr. H. Hoek, et al Add to Wish List
Item #370161
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New York: Harper and Brothers, [1959]. First edition. A crisp signed copy of the author's signature title, chronicling the rise and fall of pool shark Fast Eddie Felson. Basis for the classic 1961 film of the same name, starring Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, Piper Laurie, and George C. Scott. Invariably..... Read More Item Details for The Hustler Add to Wish List
Item #374776
Price: $10,000
New York: New Amsterdam Book Co, [1901]. First edition. The famous baseball poem, one of the most celebrated of all American popular poems, was first published in The San Francisco Examiner in June 1888. This is its first appearance in book form, which is now extremely scarce, especially in its..... Read More Item Details for Casey at the Bat Add to Wish List
Item #374798
Price: $3,000
New York: American Lawn Tennis, 1925. No. 147 of 340 copies signed by the author and editor. A classic of American tennis. Read More Item Details for Match Play and the Spin of the Ball. Edited by Stephen Wallis Merrihew Add to Wish List
Item #352539
Price: $900
London: Printed for John and Francis Rivington, (No 62), 1775. The Third Hawkins edition. With note on inserted blank, "this copy of Sir John Hawkin's edition of Walton and Cotton's Angler was the late Sir Wm. Boothby's and bought at the sale of his effects at Ashbourne Hall in Nov..... Read More Item Details for The Complete Angler ... to which are prefixed The Lives of the Authors Add to Wish List
Item #263664
Price: $4,000
London: William Pickering, 1836. First Nicholas Edition. One of the finest illustrated editions of Walton ever published. Pickering employed 27 of the most prominent artists, painters, and engravers to illustrate it. The present copy is in a particularly attractive Rivière & Son binding. Read More Item Details for The Complete Angler…by Izaak Walton and…Charles Cotton…With Original Memoirs and Notes by Sir Harris Nicolas Add to Wish List
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