Item 307780Photograph of boys with surf boards on a towed flat bed.
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: $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
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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: $750
London: William Pickering, 1835; 1836. First edition. The Birth of Angling Bibliography: Heckscher Copy. 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..... 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: $250
[New York: Hendricks & Furlong, Publishers, 115 Nassau St, 1886]. Includes a brief account of the Association, which leased the grounds of the former Williamsburg Athletic Club on De Kalb Avenue, with a list of officers and board members, and the stewards for the Spring meeting. Details of scheduled participants..... Read More Item Details for First Annual Spring Meeting of the Brooklyn Athletic Association, to take place at the Grounds, De Kalb and Classon Aves. and Graham St. Monday, May 31st, at 3 p.m. [Title from cover] Add to Wish List
Item #228269
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: $175
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: $300
[Australia]: n.p, June, 1971. Draft script for an unproduced film. Peter Clifton is known for his documentaries of rock and roll groups including the Beach Boys, mostly famouly Led Zeppelin (The Song Remains the Same), the Rolling Stones, and Public Image Ltd., among others. In 1969 he made a 16mm..... Read More Item Details for The Surfer Add to Wish List
Item #339773
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: $150
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1937. No. 765 of 950 copies. Read More Item Details for A Decade of American Sporting Books and Prints by The Derrydale Press 1927-37 Add to Wish List
Item #228902
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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: $300
[np. prob NYC: Privately Printed, 1935]. First Edition. The tales of Ed and Cap in the wilderness of Maine before Cap goes back to Gramercy Park, NYC. Read More Item Details for Guiding a Guide Add to Wish List
Item #366590
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
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London: Printed for R.H. Evans, Pall Mall and W. Ginger, College Street, Westminster, 1818. First Edition. Prafce p. XV: "The following ballads were written between twenty and thirty years past, at various times, for the entertainment of a Society of Archers, called the Royal Kentish Bowmen, at their occasional meetings..... Read More Item Details for Ballads of Archery, Sonnets, etc Add to Wish List
Item #334711
Price: $200
[London & New Haven]: The Tate Gallery for the Yale Center for British Art, 1978. First Edition. Read More Item Details for British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 Add to Wish List
Item #229274
Price: $150
Gauhati [Assam]: Publication Board, Assam, 1976. A reproduction of one of the most famous illustrated manuscripts of Assam, with explanations in English on facing pages. Commissioned by King Siva Singha (1713-1744) and produced by Sukumar Barkaith, it deals with the management and care of elephants in the royal stables. A...... Read More Item Details for Hastividyarnava Add to Wish List
Item #317035
Price: $1,500
Honey Dun Press, 1977. No. XI of 50 copies, signed by the editor. The finely produced Honey Dun facsimile of the first angling bibliography ever published, in the deluxe issue. Scarce. Read More Item Details for A Catalogue of Books on Angling 1811 [With a foreword by Jack Heddon] Add to Wish List
Item #236057
Price: $1,750
[New York: 1940s to 1990s]. He Saved the Peregrine Falcon. Karl Heinz Günter Meng (1924-2016), was born in Brühl, Baden (Germany). His parents emigrated to America in 1929 and Meng was raised in upstate New York where he developed a love of the outdoors. Heinz Meng was educated at Cornell..... Read More Item Details for Photographic Archive of Dr Heinz Meng, Ornithologist and Falconer Add to Wish List
Item #345901
Price: $4,250
1974-80. A collection of action photos from California Amazon, a company founded by the wrestler Judell du Long in 1973, the first video production company focused on female submission wrestling. Between 1974 and 1985, California Amazon released more than three hundred matches on Super 8, VHS and Betamax. This collection..... Read More Item Details for Collection of photographs of California Amazon women wrestlers Add to Wish List
Item #367282
Price: $300
Paris: Maison Quantin, [n.d., ca. 1890]. Second edition. Inscribed Presentation Copy. François Jules Dérué (1835-1922) was a career officer in the French army, a fencer, and an author. This copy of L’Escrime dans l’Armée has been bound to preserve the original pictorial wrappers, and bears a presentation inscription from the..... Read More Item Details for L’Escrime dans l’Armée Add to Wish List
Item #367567
Price: $375
Londres: Franz Thimm … Paris: Librairie Fischbacher, 1891. First edition. Read More Item Details for Bibliographie complète de l'Escrime Ancienne et Moderne comprenant la pointe, la contre-pointe, l'escrime à la baïonnette, le duel, etc Add to Wish List
Item #367566
Price: $400
Paris: Motteroz, 1882. No. 330 of 420 copies on vélin (edition of 480). Presentation Copy. Presentation copy inscribed from the great fencer and historian of the sport, Arsene Vigeant, to the caricaturist Emmanuel Poiré (1858-1909) on the first blank “A Caran d’Ache cordial souvenir de A. Vigeant”. Poiré was trained..... Read More Item Details for La Bibliographie de L'Escrime Ancienne et Moderne par Vigeant, Maitre d'Armes à Paris Add to Wish List
Item #367610
Price: $450
Paris: Imprimé par Motteroz, 1883. No. 193 of 480 copies on vélin. With an Autograph Letter, Signed. Beautiful copy of this essay on the celebrated French maître d'armes Jean-Louis Michel (1785–1865), renowned as the greatest fencer of the nineteenth century (who never wrote any works of instruction). He was born..... Read More Item Details for Petit essai historique. Un maître d'armes sous la restauration Add to Wish List
Item #367565