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 about American Sporting Book Series. [Introduction by F. Phillips Willamson

[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 about First Annual Spring Meeting of the Brooklyn Athletic Association, to take place at the Grounds,...

[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 about The Surfer

New York: The Derrydale Press, 1937. No. 765 of 950 copies. Read More about A Decade of American Sporting Books and Prints by The Derrydale Press 1927-37

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 about The Whole Art of Legerdemain, or Hocus Pocus Laid Open and Explained

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 about Ballads of Archery, Sonnets, etc

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 about Hastividyarnava

1965. No. 281 of 525 copies, signed in pencil by the artist on the mount. Inscribed in the plate:“Painted for Capt. Bill Kill----The Yale Crew of 1935 gathered at Gales Ferry for their 30th reunion watching a practice racing start. Samuel A. Galpin 1965”. Read More about Lithograph: “Yale Crews at Gales Ferry. A Practice Racing Start”

[Boston: Sportsman, September, 1933]. First edition, published as a supplement to The Sportsman. An early version of Gee's selective list of notable sporting titles, published in expanded form by R.R. Bowker in 1940. Read More about The Sportsman's Library. A Descriptive List of the most important Books on Sport. Compiled by ...

1493 3/4 Allison [Ave.], Los Angeles 26: [n.d., ca. 1955]. One of Kesey’s earliest short stories. Beginning after his sophomore year at the University of Oregon, Kesey spent his summers in Los Angeles, trying to break into Hollywood as an actor, and later as a screenwriter. Starting in July 1955..... Read More about Typescript entitled "The Street in the Forest"