Photograph of boys with surf boards on a towed flat bed.
9-3/4 x 7-1/32 inches, 1989. Read More about Photograph of boys with surf boards on a towed flat bed
Price: $500
9-3/4 x 7-1/32 inches, 1989. Read More about Photograph of boys with surf boards on a towed flat bed
Price: $500
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
Price: $150
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 about Piscatorial Reminiscences and Gleanings by An Old Angler and Bibliopolist. To which is added A...
Price: $750
[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,...
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[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 about Photograph Album: King Boat Company
Price: $2,500
[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
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[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 about Album of hunting and camping trips in Colorado, ca. 1890, including deer, elk, and bear hunts
Price: $2,250
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
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[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 about Guiding a Guide
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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
Price: $3,500
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 about Recognizing Derrydale Press Books: A Book of Pictures
Price: $200
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
Price: $300
[London & New Haven]: The Tate Gallery for the Yale Center for British Art, 1978. First Edition. Read More about British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867
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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
Price: $150
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 about A Catalogue of Books on Angling 1811 [With a foreword by Jack Heddon
Price: $1,500
Automobilia, nd. Read More about Ferrari 550 barchetta pininfanina
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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”
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New York: R.R. Bowker Co., Publishers, 1940. First edition, one of 600 copies. A standard work, covering a wide range of sports. Read More about The Sportsman's Library, Being a Descriptive List of the most important Books on Sport
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[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 ...
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Houghton Mifflin, 1939. First edition, no. 562 of 795 copies signed by the author. Signed by the author on the limitation page. Read More about Angling in America. Its Early History and Literature
Price: $350
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"
Price: $15,000
London: Printed for G. Kearsley, Fleet Street; Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh; and Brash and Reid, Glasgow, by W. Glendinning, 1801. First English edition. The first English edition of this quite unusual and very entertaining compendium of conundrums, problems, parlor tricks, and "interesting facts" — it is actually much more fun..... Read More about Select Amusements in Philosophy and Mathematics; Proper for Agreeably Exercising the Minds of...
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Boston: 1915. Narrative of the adventures of the Skipper, the Judge, the Deacon, and the Doctor on a three-day canoe trip up the Charles river from South Natick to Lake Populatic, “supposed to be the head of canoe navigability.” In earlier years the party had cruised the river from South..... Read More about A Charles River Canoe Cruise. By One of the Cruisers
Price: $2,250