Price: $250
London: Williams and Norgate, 1927. No. 158 of 250 copies on hand made paper, signed by Sir Theodore on the limitation page. Read More Item Details for Henry Alken. With an Introduction by Sir Theodore Cook Add to Wish List
Item #11447
Price: $500
9-3/4 x 7-1/32 inches, 1989. Read More Item Details for Photograph of boys with surf boards on a towed flat bed Add to Wish List
Item #307780
Price: $4,250
[London]: Privately Printed, 1899. First edition. Barrie's team of authors and artists was founded in 1887, and was active from 1890 to 1913. According to his own account in The Greenwood Hat, they thought 'Allahakbar' was African for 'Heaven help us', and his less than skilfull team therefore became the..... Read More Item Details for The Allahakbarrie Book of Broadway Cricket for 1899 Add to Wish List
Item #329868
Price: $250
Worcester, Mass: Isaiah Thomas, 1787 [i.e., 1944]. Facsimile of the first Worcester edition issued by F. G. Melcher in celebration of the 200th anniversary of its first publication. Fine facsimile of the first of the children’s books produced by John Newberry, originally published in 1744. The first American edition was..... Read More Item Details for A Little Pretty Pocket-Book Intended for the Instruction and Amusement of Little Master Tommy and Pretty Miss Polly Add to Wish List
Item #242401
Price: $450
Paris: Chez l’Auteur, [1893]. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author “A Monsieur Georges Richard, hommage empressé de son devoué professeur A. Baudry 1901”. Read More Item Details for L’Escrime Pratique au XIXe siècle. [Préfaces de MM. D. Cloutier et Max Doumic’ Add to Wish List
Item #368350
Price: $650
London: Published at the Offices of "Country Life," Ltd, 1923. First edition. Born in 1880, Bell left school at 14 to make his way to Africa on a cargo ship. After working briefly on the Ugandan railway he was off to join the Klondike gold rush. After fighting with the..... Read More Item Details for The Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter Add to Wish List
Item #371397
Price: $150
Paris: G. Charpentier et ie 13, rue de GFrennelle, 1885. First Edition. Read More Item Details for L'Art de L'Escrime Add to Wish List
Item #368269
Price: $150
Madison, Ohio: Sunrise Publishing Company, 1994. Duncan, T. O. Limited edition, no. 17 of 289 numbered copies signed by the author. A highly useful bibliography, this is also a leaf book containing tipped-in leaves gathered from imperfect copies. Read More Item Details for American Sporting Book Series. [Introduction by F. Phillips Willamson] Add to Wish List
Item #229058
Price: $850
Far Hills, NJ: Meadow Run Press, 1997. First edition, one of 1000 copies. A continuation of John Phillips's A Bibliography of American Sporting Books 1582-1925, this indispensable update contains some 5,000 detailed entries by author and--most happily--an alphabetical index by TITLES (which Phillips did not have). Approved by the Boone..... Read More Item Details for A Bibliography of American Sporting Books, 1926-1985. Foreword by Gene Hill Add to Wish List
Item #257927
Price: $350
Leipzig: Verlagsbuchhandlung von J.J. Weber, 1895. Zweite, verbesserte Auflage. Read More Item Details for Das Billardbuch. Vollständige Theorie und Praxis des Billardspiels. Mit 128 in den Text gedruckten Illustrationen Add to Wish List
Item #245336
Price: $750
London: William Pickering, 1835; 1836. First edition. More “the result of paste and scissors” (Westwood & Satchell) than a coherent text, but redeemed by the groundbreaking bibliography of angling books prepared by Pickering, who states in the Catalogue that it “is formed upon Sir Henry Ellis’s corrected copy of the..... Read More Item Details for Piscatorial Reminiscences and Gleanings by An Old Angler and Bibliopolist. To which is added A Catalogue of Books on Angling Add to Wish List
Item #250183
Price: $150
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. Second edition. An extensive exposition of figure-skating by the 1906 champion. Read More Item Details for The Art of Skating: Its history and Development with Practical Directions and Instantaneous Action Photographs of Celebrated Skaters of Many Nationalities Add to Wish List
Item #62580
Price: $250
Paris: Ed. Rouveyr et G. Blond, 1884. First edition. Uncommon and nicely illustrated fencing textbook. Read More Item Details for Traité d'Escrime. Pointe et contre-pointe Add to Wish List
Item #368351
Price: $3,750
Paris: chez l'auteur, rue de la Harpe, la première porte cochère après le Collège d'Harcourt, 1784. First edition. Beautiful copy of this late eighteenth-century work on falconry, with a dictionary of terminology. Uncommon. Read More Item Details for Les Agrémens des campagnards dans la chasse des oiseaux, et Le Plaisir des Grands Seigneurs dans les oiseaux de fauconnerie Add to Wish List
Item #353867
Price: $350
Paris: Louis Westhausser, 1888. Inscribed by the author on the half title: “Offert par l’auteur a son ami Monsieur Camille Tixier le 22 Nbre 1897”. Read More Item Details for Attaque et Défense sur le Terrain Add to Wish List
Item #368348
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Price: $2,500
[Oakland: 1927]. An unusual album featuring boats and canoes manufactured by the King Boat Company of California. Many of the photographs are dated 1927, and the album serves not only as a visual catalogue of various boats available from the King Boat Company, but also as a document of water..... Read More Item Details for [Photograph Album: King Boat Company] Add to Wish List
Item #316594
Price: $200
Dallas, Texas: The Southwest Press, 1931. First edition. Privately distributed account of building a summer cabin on a small island in the Canadian wilderness in the early 1930s, full of whimsy. The cabin remains in family ownership. Read More Item Details for Two on an Island. A Summer Idyll Add to Wish List
Item #335063
Price: $150
Paris: Maison Quantin, 1890. First Edition. Read More Item Details for Ma Méthode Add to Wish List
Item #368271
Price: $2,250
[n.d., 1890s]. An excellent album of photographs of outdoor Colorado at the turn of the century, including railroad, ranch, and mountain scenes, a rural graveyard, and several hunting and camping trips in the back country in summer and winter. A summer bear hunt shows two pelts; the winter bear hunt..... Read More Item Details for Album of hunting and camping trips in Colorado, ca. 1890, including deer, elk, and bear hunts Add to Wish List
Item #346415
Price: $400
West Chester, Pa: Published and sold by the Author, [1869]. Standard Edition. Early and substantial work on cockfighting in America, here with a fine series of captioned engravings of a cockfight, hand colored and heightened with gum arabic: “A Challenge”; “A Set Too”; “A Rally”; “A Knock Down Blow”; “Heeling”;..... Read More Item Details for Game Fowls, Their Origin and History, With a Description of the Breeds, Strains, and Crosses … Add to Wish List
Item #317380
Price: $300
Paris: Chez L'Auteur, 25, Rue de Provence et a la Salle d'Armes de la Maison Dorée, Chez M. Pelleng, 1862. +first edition, signed by the author on the verso of the title-page to prove it is not a counterfeit. Read More Item Details for Leçons d'Armes...de Duel et de l'Assaut Edition illustrée de 28 planches et de 42 figures représentant les diverses positions de l'escrime, gravées sur acier par M Brown Add to Wish List
Item #367431
Price: $3,500
New York: Published by N.C. Nafis; Philadelphia: by John B. Perry, [circa 1830s]. Early American edition. An early American edition of the first magic book published in the United States, first publlished by Carey in 1795. The work, often attributed to Dean was originally published in England in 1722. The..... Read More Item Details for The Whole Art of Legerdemain, or Hocus Pocus Laid Open and Explained Add to Wish List
Item #325063
Price: $200
Morristown, NJ: Privately printed, 1983. First edition, No. 137 of 347 numbered copies. An excellent reference, by a major collector and dealer for many years, this is virtually indispensable to anyone collecting or considering the purchase of Derrydale Press books, not all of which are readily apparent as coming from..... Read More Item Details for Recognizing Derrydale Press Books: A Book of Pictures Add to Wish List
Item #249769
Price: $225
Brussels: Veuve Monnom, 1888. First edition. Read More Item Details for La Science de L’Escrime … Add to Wish List
Item #229900
Price: $200
Brussels: Imprimerie Veuve Monnom, 1888. First edition. Read More Item Details for La Science de L’Escrime … Add to Wish List
Item #367429