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Sheldon Harold P. Col
Tranquillity Revisited
New York: The Derrydale Press 1940. First edition No. 176 of 485 copies. With engraved title page; and 7 color tipped-in plates by A. Lassell Ripley. 130 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Original red cloth gilt t.e.g. Fine spine slightly rubbed at ends else fine. Bookplate of M.L. Biscotti. Ripley A. Lassell. First edition No. 176 of 485 copies. With engraved title page; and 7 color tipped-in plates by A. Lassell Ripley. 130 pp. 1 vols. 4to. A fine collection of shooting stories the sequel to the author's popular "Tranquillity" 1936. Siegel 163; Frazier S-3-a; Bruns S130 The Derrydale Press unknown books
书商的参考编号 : 242435
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Bainbridge George C.
The Fly Fisher's Guide
Liverpool: Printed for the Author by G.F. Harris' Widow and Brothers 1816. First edition. Hand-colored frontispiece and 7 hand-colored plates "representing upwards of forty of the most useful flies accurately copied from nature." 150 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Half calf and marbled boards. Small loss at top of last leaf no text affected. First edition. Hand-colored frontispiece and 7 hand-colored plates "representing upwards of forty of the most useful flies accurately copied from nature." 150 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Among the earliest books with colored plates of flies. "One of the text books of the fly-fisher." Westwood & Satchell. Westwood & Satchell pp. 20-21 Printed for the Author by G.F. Harris' Widow and Brothers unknown books
书商的参考编号 : 240254
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Howitt Samuel
The Angler's Manual; or Concise Lessons of Experience which the proficient in the delightful recreation of angling will not despise
Liverpool: Printed by G.F. Harris for Samuel Bagster Strand London 1808. First edition. With twelve etchings by Howitt signed in the plate hand colored possibly later. 28 pp. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo 6 x 8 in. Original printed boards uncut the upper cover reproducing the title page. Rebacked drab spine; some wear to boards. Bookplate of Bibliotheca Piscatoria Lynniana with small library stamp on front pastedown and in margins of p. i of "Advertisement" only; some marginal soiling but overall a pleasing very good copy. Preserved in a handsome red morocco-backed slipcase cloth wrapper. First edition. With twelve etchings by Howitt signed in the plate hand colored possibly later. 28 pp. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo 6 x 8 in. Westwood & Satchell's comment "The etchings good the text trivial" is not unjustified--the text is more general than useful--but it would be hard for any writing to upstage Howitt's charming images. This book rebound brought a high $15 at the Heckscher sale in 1909. Westwood & Satchell p.10; Heckscher 1055 Printed by G.F. Harris for Samuel Bagster, Strand, London unknown books
书商的参考编号 : 53228
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Ponsot Georges
Le Roman de la Rivière
Paris: G. Crès 1923. First edition. Illustrated with 10 color plates and numerous text illustrations after drawings by Georges Delaw. 1 vols. Tall 8vo. Half green morocco and decorated paper boards original wrappers bound in. Spine faded lower edge of a few preliminary and final leaves touched by waterstaining else fine. First edition. Illustrated with 10 color plates and numerous text illustrations after drawings by Georges Delaw. 1 vols. Tall 8vo. Charming saga of river life with equally engaging illustrations. Translated into English and published in America as Romance of the River Dodd Mead c. 1930 with a color frontispiece by Detmold. G. Crès unknown books
书商的参考编号 : 56891
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Hand-colored Print: "Le Désagrément d'aller à Cheval." N. 2 from" L'Elegance Parisienne.
Paris: chez Bance Rue St. Denis No. 175 près celle aux Ours 1830. 1 vols. Framed and glazed. 1 vols. chez Bance, Rue St. Denis, No. 175 près celle aux Ours unknown books
书商的参考编号 : 220490
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Pollard HBC. & Phyllis Barclay Smith H. B.
British & American Game Birds . With a chapter on Shooting in America by Eugene Connett
New York: Derrydale Press 1939. First American edition no. 57 of 125 copies on handmade paper signed by the artist and with a pencilled remarque. 20 color plates after Philip Rickman. 48 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Original quarter pigskin and cloth morocco spine label. Faintest rubbing at head of spine tiny chipping to right edge of label about a fine copy. Rickman Philip. First American edition no. 57 of 125 copies on handmade paper signed by the artist and with a pencilled remarque. 20 color plates after Philip Rickman. 48 pp. 1 vols. 4to. "A Rare Lovely and Valuable Work" - Frazier; One of 125 Copies. A very scare and desirable Derrydale. Siegel 145; Frazier P-11-a Derrydale Press unknown books
书商的参考编号 : 239236
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Alken Henry
A Panorama of the Progress of Life fashionably Displayed Illustrating 'shakespeare's Ages" and Exhibiting the Manners Costumes Character and Field Sports of the English People. The Whole Illustrative of Modern Character in a series of many hundred moving figures. Preface by C.F.G.R. Schwerdt.
London: Privately Printed by the Author of "Hunting Hawking Shooting 1930. Number 36 of the first 250 for Great Britain of an edition of 400 signed by Mr Schwerdt. 6 pages of facsimiles three parts on roll tipped in on each page. Printed by Waterlow and Sons London. 1 vols. Oblong Folio. Printed tan wrappers. Number 36 of the first 250 for Great Britain of an edition of 400 signed by Mr Schwerdt. 6 pages of facsimiles three parts on roll tipped in on each page. Printed by Waterlow and Sons London. 1 vols. Oblong Folio. Privately Printed by the Author of "Hunting Hawking Shooting unknown books
书商的参考编号 : 221391
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Mele Frank
Small in the Eye of a River
New York: The Lyons Press 1998. First edition number 13 of 36 copies signed by the author and the publisher Nick Lyons. 150 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Blue cloth leather label. In slipcase. Very fine. First edition number 13 of 36 copies signed by the author and the publisher Nick Lyons. 150 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. ONE OF 36. Signed by the author before his death in 1996 and with a T.L.S. from Mele to Lyons laid in at back. <br/><br/>First published in 1988 as Small in the Eye of the River in an edition of 110 copies this beautifully produced memorial edition includes three additional essays and an appreciation of Mele by Tony Bonavist. The Lyons Press unknown books
书商的参考编号 : 228842
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Walton Izaac
The Complete Angler or Contemplative Man's Recreation . with Original Memoirs and Notes by Sir Harris Nicolas
London: Pickering 1836. First Nicolas Edition Large Paper. Engraved title page 48 engraved plates from designs by Thomas Stothard and J. Inskipp two pages of music and two woodcuts of the Walton seal 9 head-pieces and 2 portraits of Walton. Pp. 16 ccxii 2 129; 2 131-436 32. 2 vols. Large 8vo. Full contemporary green morocco gilt spines stamped with angling motifs in gilt boards with a piscatorial vignette surrounded by fish and floral devices a.e.g. Original spines laid down some minor rubbing else very good. With the bookplate of the Junior Carlton Club Library. First Nicolas Edition Large Paper. Engraved title page 48 engraved plates from designs by Thomas Stothard and J. Inskipp two pages of music and two woodcuts of the Walton seal 9 head-pieces and 2 portraits of Walton. Pp. 16 ccxii 2 129; 2 131-436 32. 2 vols. Large 8vo. One of the finest illustrated editions of Walton ever published. In its production Pickering employed 27 of the most prominent artist painters and engravers of the day. Coigney 44; Horne 43; Oliver 41 Pickering unknown books
书商的参考编号 : 212550
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Burns Eugene
Advanced Fly Fishing
Harrisburg: Stackpole 1953. First edition number 40 of a limited edition signed by the author. Color frontispiece by Fred Everett photos by Clyde Childress drawings by Firman Bradway. xiii 268 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Padded brown calf a.e.g. About fine. First edition number 40 of a limited edition signed by the author. Color frontispiece by Fred Everett photos by Clyde Childress drawings by Firman Bradway. xiii 268 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Deluxe Issue. Bruns E 302 ordinary edition only Stackpole unknown books
书商的参考编号 : 226067
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Halford Frederic M.
Modern Development of the Dry Fly. The New Dry Fly Patterns The Manipulation of Dressing Them and Practical Experiences of Their Use
Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Co 1923. Second American edition. Illustrated including color plates of various fly tying patterns. viii 219 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Red cloth paper spine label. Spine slightly faded else About Fine. Bookplate. Second American edition. Illustrated including color plates of various fly tying patterns. viii 219 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. An important book with Halford's 33 famous patterns fully described and illustrated. Houghton, Mifflin & Co unknown books
书商的参考编号 : 213237
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Horsemanship
Seven hand-colored engraved plates showing methods of riding and training horses
London: H. Bonwicke and others 1705. From an Engligh translation of George Guillet's Les Arts de l'Homme d'Epée ou le Dictionnaire du Gentilhomme Paris 1678. 1 vols. Each approximately 3 x 4-1/2 inches; matted together and framed to 40-1/2 x 13-1/4 inches overall. From an Engligh translation of George Guillet's Les Arts de l'Homme d'Epée ou le Dictionnaire du Gentilhomme Paris 1678. 1 vols. Each approximately 3 x 4-1/2 inches; matted together and framed to 40-1/2 x 13-1/4 inches overall. Splendid Equitation Color Engravings ca. 1705. The science of equitation and the means of teaching it developed primarily in 16th century Italy and moved northward through Europe to England in the ensuing centuries. As time went on techniques were refined but the plates in early Italian and Continental manuals such as this one have seldom been equaled much less surpassed. H. Bonwicke and others unknown books
书商的参考编号 : 42212
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Sandeman Fraser
By Hook and By Crook
London: Henry Sotheran 37 Piccadilly W. & 140 Strand W.C. 1894. First edition. Frontispiece and 15 full-page plates 10 in color of salmon & trout flies 9 textual drawings. viii ii 255 1 pp. Printed by Taylor and Francis. 1 vols. 8vo. Original tan cloth. Spine very slightly faded else fine. First edition. Frontispiece and 15 full-page plates 10 in color of salmon & trout flies 9 textual drawings. viii ii 255 1 pp. Printed by Taylor and Francis. 1 vols. 8vo. Westwood & Satchell Supplement p. 252 Henry Sotheran 37 Piccadilly W. & 140 Strand, W.C. unknown books
书商的参考编号 : 240817
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First Annual Report of the Commissioners of Fisheries Game and Forest of the State of New York . Annual Report for 1907 - 1908 - 1909
Albany New York 1910. First editions. Numerous chromolithographic plates after Denton engraved plates by Hy. J. Watson and many others. 10 vols. 4to. Original cloth. All volumes are fine with the requisite number of plates. First editions. Numerous chromolithographic plates after Denton engraved plates by Hy. J. Watson and many others. 10 vols. 4to. Cf. Bruns N38-48 unknown books
书商的参考编号 : 241308
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Roosevelt Robert B.
Superior Fishing; or The Striped Bass Trout and Black Bass of the Northern States
New York: Carleton Publishers 413 Broadway 1865. First edition. Numerous woodcuts. 304 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green cloth. Slight wear to head and foot of spine else fine. First edition. Numerous woodcuts. 304 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed. Personal recollections of Lake Superior angling with observations on fly-tying and recipes for sporting fare and potent drink.<br/><br/>Inscribed "Presented to S. Bowne Dec. 25th 1865 by the Author" Bruns R-106 Carleton, Publishers, 413 Broadway unknown books
书商的参考编号 : 42878
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Baseball Sanders Charles W. & JC. J. C.
Sanders' Pictorial Primer: or an Introduction to "Sanders' First Reader
New York: Published by Mark H. Newman & Co 1846. Frontispiece illustration showing pitcher and a batter repeated on p. 23 with the caption "The Play Ground." Numerous engravings. 48 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary cloth-backed green boards. Some light scattered foxing; Very Good. Frontispiece illustration showing pitcher and a batter repeated on p. 23 with the caption "The Play Ground." Numerous engravings. 48 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. 1846 Baseball Image. Charles Sanders was the author of a very successful series of school readers. His first primer was published in 1840 with the same image and the "Pictorial Primer" appeared in 1846. American Imprints cites two other edition of the Pictorial Primer in the 1846 volume; OCLC adds two more. The American Antiquarian Society dates this edition as "between 1846 and 1850" based on the imprint. A new edition of the "Pictorial Primer" copyrighted 1858 has a baseball-playing illustration with the same caption but a different image. American Imprint 46-6243; Block Baseball before We Knew It p. 209 Published by Mark H. Newman & Co unknown books
书商的参考编号 : 232320
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Vyner Robert Thomas
Notitia Venatica: a Treatise on Fox-Hunting. To which is added a compendious Kennel Stud Book
London: Rudolph Ackermann 1841. First edition. 8 lithographic plates after Henry Alken. xi 1193 cccxxx pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in three quarter crimson morocco and marbled boards t.e.g. Joints a little rubbed else fine some foxing. First edition. 8 lithographic plates after Henry Alken. xi 1193 cccxxx pp. 1 vols. 8vo. A hunting classic with particular emphasis on the care and use of hounds. Schwerdt II p. 286; Biscotti Six Centuries of Foxhunting pp. 389-90 Rudolph Ackermann unknown books
书商的参考编号 : 52991
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Foxhunting Horlock Knightley William
Horses and Hounds; A Practical Treaatise on Their Management. By 'scrutator
London: George Routledge & Co 18 1855. First edition. Illustrations by Harrison Weir. 1 vols. 12mo. Bound in polished tan calf gilt emblematic tooled spine t.e.g. Minor foxing else fine. First edition. Illustrations by Harrison Weir. 1 vols. 12mo. A celebrated and exhaustive treatise on horses and kennel management for the foxhunter by a famous hound breeder and writer. Higginson British and American Sporting Authors pp. 100-104; Biscotti Six Centuries of Foxhunting p. 194 George Routledge & Co 18 unknown books
书商的参考编号 : 221750
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Savile Albany
Thirty-Six Hints to Sportsmen
Okehampton: Simmons Printer 1825. First edition. 18 pp. 1 vols. Small 12mo. Contemporary marbled wrappers. First edition. 18 pp. 1 vols. Small 12mo. Very scarce - At the time of the Schwerdt catalogue there was no copy in the British Library. Written by a famous master of hounds. Schwerdt II 148; NUC 3 copies: NN MH CtY; Biscotti Six Centuries of Foxhunting p. 320 Simmons, Printer unknown books
书商的参考编号 : 5201
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Nye Russell Scudder
Scientific Duck Shooting in Eastern Waters
Falmouth Mass: Independent Press Spencer & West proprietors 1895. First edition. viii 9-116 pp. 1 vols. 16mo. Green cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover spine blank. First edition. viii 9-116 pp. 1 vols. 16mo. Philips p.279; Heller 2:724 Independent Press, Spencer & West, proprietors unknown books
书商的参考编号 : 233997
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Walton Izaac
The Compleat Angler .
London: Printed for Samuel Bagster in the Strand 1808. First Bagster edition. Engraved half title present. Illustrated with 32 engravings by Audinet 15 plates 17 small fish in text 2 musical engravings 2 woodcuts. 1 vols. 8vo. Full tan levant spine gilt with angling motifs gilt fillet borders to boards angling cornerpieces dentelles gilt a.e.g. by Bayntun. As with Coigney's copies lacking the advertisements. Front joint somewhat rubbed else Fine. First Bagster edition. Engraved half title present. Illustrated with 32 engravings by Audinet 15 plates 17 small fish in text 2 musical engravings 2 woodcuts. 1 vols. 8vo. Coigney 17 Printed for Samuel Bagster, in the Strand unknown books
书商的参考编号 : 229071
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Walton Izaac
The Complete Angler . with original memoirs and notes by Sir Harris Nicolas
London: Chatto & Windus 1875. Third Nicolas Edition. With engraved title 60 engraved plates. 1 vols. 8vo. Three quarter green morocco uniformly mellowed to brown marbled paper sides and endpapers gilt panelled spine t.e.g. Extremities slightly rubbed else fine. Third Nicolas Edition. With engraved title 60 engraved plates. 1 vols. 8vo. A compact pleasing edition with the illustrations of the first Nicolas edition 1836 here printed all on separate leaves. Coigney 95; Westwood & Satchell p. 235 Chatto & Windus unknown books
书商的参考编号 : 212952
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Salmon Richard T.
Trout Flies. Foreword by Arnold Gingrich
New York: Sportsman's Edge Press 1975. First edition no. 389 of 589. With drawings by the author and 12 page containing numerous mounted specimens of feathers fur and other fly-tying components. 1 vols. 8vo. Original dark green rexine gilt. Fine in fine matching slipcase. Bookplate of Edward Sands Litchfield. First edition no. 389 of 589. With drawings by the author and 12 page containing numerous mounted specimens of feathers fur and other fly-tying components. 1 vols. 8vo. Reproduced from the author's elegant calligraphic manuscript. With distinguished provenance. Sportsman's Edge Press unknown books
书商的参考编号 : 41564
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Book of Secrets
One Thousand Valuable Secrets into the elegant and Useful Arts Collected from the practice of the best Artists and containing an Account of the Various Methods
Philadelphia: Printed by W. W. Woodward for B. Davies No. 68 Market Street and T. Stephens No. 57 South Second Street 1795. First American edition of selections from "Secrets Concernant les Arts et Metiers." The English translation first published in London 1775 as "Valuable Secrets Concerning Arts and Trades." the second American edition was published in 1795 in Norwich Conn. Pp. xxxvi 377. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary sheep remains of red morocco label. Leather torn with loss on spine and covers endpapers removed short marginal tears some gatherings sprung browning some soiling marginal waterstaining even so a very good copy. First American edition of selections from "Secrets Concernant les Arts et Metiers." The English translation first published in London 1775 as "Valuable Secrets Concerning Arts and Trades." the second American edition was published in 1795 in Norwich Conn. Pp. xxxvi 377. 1 vols. 8vo. First American edition. ENCOURAGING THE UNITED STATES TO SELF-SUFFICIENCY AND INDEPENDENCE FROM EUROPE. The editor of the American edition in the Preface notes that "Whilst the inhabitants of Europe are distracted by the din of arms and their principal employment is to contrive the most expeditious means of destroying one another let the happy citizens of these infant States turn their attention to the useful and elegant arts of peace; let them avail themselves of the discoveries of those ancient nations in the happier years that are past; until we no longer stand in need of their supplies or remain exposed to the fluctuations of their fortune." Includes instructions for engraving on copper brass and steel secrets relstive to metals making cements mastichs sealing wax varnished creating imitation gems and French paste painting especially for carriage painters painting of papers dyeing skins and gloves painting on glass art of gilding dyeing woods bones making inks making liquors making confections on fishing making marbled papers and preparing snuff and winemaking as well as making true phosphorus extracted from urine which is inflammable. Shipton & Mooney 29242; Lowenstein American Cookery 9; Rink Technical Americana 154; Ferguson Books of Secrets 849-851 French editions; Supplement 3 p. 58; Maclean Household and Cookery Books p. 146; Cagle American Books on Food and Drink 774; Sabin 98399 second American edition Printed [by W. W. Woodward] for B. Davies, No. 68, Market Street and T. Stephens, No. 57, South Second Street unknown books
书商的参考编号 : 36979
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Bowlker Charles of Ludlow
The Art of Angling; or Compleat Fly-Fisher . to which are added Directions for Making Artificial Flies
Birmingham: Printed by and for M. Swinney Birmingham 1788. Fifth edition. Frontispiece. xi i 118 2 ads pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Contemporary paneled calf. Very good. Fifth edition. Frontispiece. xi i 118 2 ads pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Westwood & Satchell p.39 Printed by and for M. Swinney, Birmingham unknown books
书商的参考编号 : 240245
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Crosley C.
An attractive pastel "'Over the water' - Liverpool Grand National" signed and titled by the artist
England 1920. 12 1/2 x 18 inches plus margins; in an archival mat overall dimensions 18 1/2 x 24 inches. 1 vols. In colored pastels on brown art board; fine condition. C. Crosley. 12 1/2 x 18 inches plus margins; in an archival mat overall dimensions 18 1/2 x 24 inches. 1 vols. GRAND NATIONAL. A spirited somewhat stylized picture of two horses jockeys up taking the water jump at Aintree with a suggestion of landscape in the background. We have not been able to trace this artist but he was almost certainly a professional drawing with a sure and individualistic hand. unknown books
书商的参考编号 : 12677
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Chatto William Andrew P. Fisher
The Angler's Souvenir
London: Charles Tilt 1835. First edition. With illustrations by Beckwith & Topham engraved title & half-title pages 31 engraved plates. iii-1x 192 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary half brown morocco and marbled boards a.e.g. some foxing to first 2 leaves else Very Good. Bookplate of Ophelia Fowler Duhme. First edition. With illustrations by Beckwith & Topham engraved title & half-title pages 31 engraved plates. iii-1x 192 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. "The work is clever and caustic and contains a critique of several of the angling books of the day" Westwood & Satchell p. 93. Westwood & Satchell p. 93 Charles Tilt unknown books
书商的参考编号 : 244541
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McCarthy Eugene
The Leaping Ouananiche. What It Is Where When and How to Catch It
New York: Field and Stream Publishing Co. 318 Broadway 1896. Second edition. Illustrated. 57 pp. with a small broadsheet tipped in advertising Chamber's Book "The Ouananiche and its Canadian Environment.". 1 vols. 12mo. Printed pictorial wrappers. Very good. Second edition. Illustrated. 57 pp. with a small broadsheet tipped in advertising Chamber's Book "The Ouananiche and its Canadian Environment.". 1 vols. 12mo. Field and Stream Publishing Co., 318 Broadway unknown books
书商的参考编号 : 58125
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Stone Herbert L.
Ice-Boating. The Latest Opinions of the Foremost Authorities in America
New York: The Macmillan Company 1922. Later printing. Illustrated with diagrams. 177 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Olive decorated cloth. Spine slightly faded else About Fine in Very Good dust jacket lacks one-inch portion at head of spine panel. Later printing. Illustrated with diagrams. 177 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. First published in 1913 this is the first known book on Ice boating. The Macmillan Company unknown books
书商的参考编号 : 232307
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France and Belgium Audin Jean Marie Vincent
Guide Classique du Voyageur en France et en Belgique. Par Richard pseud
Paris: L. Maison 1845. Twenty-second edition. Engraved title and 8 plates illustrations in text large folding table of "Tableau Itinéraire et Postale Indiquant les Distances en Myriametres et Kilometres entre tous les Chef-lieux des Departements". 1 vols. 12mo. Contemporary boards manuscript paper label. Rubbed rebacked some spotting and browning of text else very good. Twenty-second edition. Engraved title and 8 plates illustrations in text large folding table of "Tableau Itinéraire et Postale Indiquant les Distances en Myriametres et Kilometres entre tous les Chef-lieux des Departements". 1 vols. 12mo. L. Maison unknown books
书商的参考编号 : 30791
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Henderson William
Notes and Reminiscences of My Life as an Angler . With an Appendix containing a Description of the Caves of Adelsberg and the Proteus Anguinus
London: Printed by Spottiswoode & Co. New-Street for Private Circulation 1876. First edition. This is one of the royal 8vo copies issued for private circulation only with tipped in presentation slip. Frontispiece Woodburytype portrait of the author tipped in. Wood engraved plates and text illustrations by Clement Burlison engraved by Edmund Evans. xiii. i 324 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original burnt orange cloth. Bookplate of Edward Hamilton M.D. Adhesion to pastedown torn away else very good. Tipped in printed slip "From Wm. Henderson . . First edition. This is one of the royal 8vo copies issued for private circulation only with tipped in presentation slip. Frontispiece Woodburytype portrait of the author tipped in. Wood engraved plates and text illustrations by Clement Burlison engraved by Edmund Evans. xiii. i 324 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. With notes in pencil identified as from Henderson on the front flyleaf. Westwood & Satchell p.114; Heckscher 939; Bibliotheca Salmo Salar 45 Printed by Spottiswoode & Co. New-Street for Private Circulation unknown books
书商的参考编号 : 240658
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Clark Ronald W.
An Eccentric in the Alps The Story of the Rev. W.A.B. Coolidge the Great Victorian Mountaineer
London: Museum Press 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 224 pp indexed and illustrated. Blue cloth boards lettered in gilt no dust jacket. Mild wear to extremities and slight spine lean. Tightly bound and unmarked. No dust jacket. William Augustus Brevoort Coolidge was an American theologian and climber who lived much of his life in Europe making many first ascents in the Alps in the 1860s-1880s. According to Neate C58 he had "tremendous knowledge of the history of mountaineering but was extremely quarrelsome." Museum Press hardcover books
书商的参考编号 : 12506
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Sports Terzian Jim New York Giants
New York Giants
New York: Macmillan Publishing 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition first printing. Part of MacMillan's Great Teams Great Years series of books. Two small abrasions to front pastedown else a sharp very good plus copy in blue cloth binding. In very good or better unclipped dustwrapper. This copy INSCRIBED by Tony Veteri INSCRIBED by Jim Katcavage and SIGNED by Y. A. Tittle. Signed by Author. <br/><br/> Macmillan Publishing hardcover books
书商的参考编号 : 009357
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Crane Stephen; Peck Annie Smith; Kipling Rudyard et al.
McClure's Magazine Volume VII June 1896 to October 1896
New York and London: S.S. McClure Co 1896. Hardcover. Very good. Bound volume. Three-quarter leather over marbled boards; spine gilt with raised bands. Some scuffing to the leather; internals sound and clean. Includes among other things Stephen Crane's "The Veteran" and "The Little Regiment" two poems by Kipling "The 'eathen" "Cholera Camp"; "A Woman's Ascent of the Matterhorn" by Peck; several articles on Abraham Lincoln by Ida Tarbell; and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps' reminiscences of Harriet Beecher Stowe Longfellow Whitter and Oliver Wendell Holmes. There is also a very interesting illustrated article entitled "The Edge of the Future" regarding horseless carriages and the advent of motor travel. S.S. McClure Co hardcover books
书商的参考编号 : 18878
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Sports History
CROQUET The Rules Governing the Game as Adopted by the National American Croquet Association. Revised and Corrected by the National Association. Spalding's Athletic Library. Vol. 1 No. 10. July 1893
New York: American Sports Publishing Company 1893. Printed grey stiff-stock paper wrappers stapled. 1st edition. Not in Drazin though see A96 where a later 1895 edition is noted as the "First Edition" though Drazin does question this status. Wrappers darkened. Extremity wear. Paper yellowing. An About VG copy of a rare work on the subject. 33 15 pp. Adverts last 15 pages. Illustrated with 7 drawings on 6 pages. Adverts illustrated with cuts. 12mo. 6-3/4" x 5" <br/><br/>OCLC records no institutional holdings. American Sports Publishing Company unknown books
书商的参考编号 : 35582
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Tuckett Elizabeth Fox
How We Spent the Summer or a Voyage en Zigzag in Switzerland and Tyrol with some Members of the Alpine Club from the Sketch Book of One of the Party SIGNED
London: Longmans Green Reader & Dyer 1866. Hardcover. Very good. Third edition re-drawn first published 1864. 10.25 x 14 inches oblong. Original green cloth decorated in gilt. Elizabeth Fox Tuckett 1837-1872 was the sister of the well-known English alpinist Francis Fox Tuckett 1834-1913 who regularly gathered a party of friends and family to accompany him on climbing expeditions. Elizabeth had a talent for drawing as well as a love of travel and produced four popular light-hearted books of which this was the first chronicling her adventures in the form of humorous sketches. Neate T66. Some creasing to cloth corners rubbed occasional foxing lacking rear free endpaper; overall about very good. Inscribed in light pencil on the front free endpaper "With heartfelt good wishes for the/New Year E.F. Tuckett iIllegible place name Dec. 30 1869." In addition Tuckett has written out the full names of the members of the expedition on the "Dramatis Personae" page where they are identified in print only by their initials. Rarely found signed. Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer hardcover books
书商的参考编号 : 14703
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Perkins Kelly
The Climb of my Life Scaling Mountains with a Borrowed Heart SIGNED
Lanham MD: Rowman and Littlefield 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 244 pp illustrated with color photographs. Some rubbing to bottom edge. Binding tight text unmarked. Signed by Perkins under her name on the title page with two hearts drawn beneath. Dust jacket has light edgewear and a mild spine crease. Account of the author's life in climbing after a heart transplant. Rowman and Littlefield hardcover books
书商的参考编号 : 14210
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Nunlist Hugo
Spitsbergen The Story of the 1962 Swiss-Spitsbergen Expedition
New York: A.S. Barnes 1966. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good-. 191 pp w/photographs and maps. Translated from the original German by Oliver Coburn. "Describes the pleasures and drawbacks of climbing in Spitsbergen" Neate N45. The 8 members of this expedition covered about 1250 miles and made many first ascents. Light spotting to boards and top edge. Tight binding no markings. Dust jacket is somewhat rubbed and has a 1.5 inch closed tear to the rear panel. A.S. Barnes hardcover books
书商的参考编号 : 11815
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Americana 20th Century Photography New Hampshire School Sports
1928 Two Large Format Cabinet Card Photographs of a Football Team and a Candid Fraternal Group of Boys By the Kimball Studio Concord N.H.
Concord N.H.: The Kimball Studio 1928. A football team posed for the camera on the field with goal posts in the background; the other photo a candid of a group of young men holding Will Rogers signs and dressed in cowboy outfits. The photographs are not identified and the football team photo ball being held with Champions & "1928" visible. Approx. 8" x 10" overall size including the mounts. Photos mounted on heavy gray cardstock with the studio name and location imprinted at bottom margins of both. A little fading to the images; light wear to the mounts; in very good condition. Photographs. Not Bound. Very Good. The Kimball Studio paperback books
书商的参考编号 : 26681
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Hunt Sir John; Hillary Sir Edmund Signed by Three Climbers and the Expedition Journalist
The Conquest of Everest
New York: E.P. Dutton 1954. Hardcover. Very good/near fine. First American edition signed on the front free endpaper by expedition members Edmund Hillary George Lowe and Charles Evans and the London Times correspondent James Morris now Jan Morris who accompanied the party. xx 300 pp with index photographic illustrations. Two-tone cloth boards have some old inert mildew spotting internally clean and sound. Original owner's name at top of front free endpaper well above the signatures. Dust jacket has minor creasing to top of front panel and one 1/4 inch closed tear. Original $6.00 price present. Account of the 1953 British Mount Everest Expedition which when Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit on May 29 was the first confirmed complete ascent. Hunt led the expedition with physician Charles Evans as his deputy. Evans was the leader of the first expedition to summit Kangchenjunga the world's third highest peak in 1955. George Lowe directed an Academy Award-nomnated documentary during the Everest expedition and went on to join the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition--the first to reach the South Pole by land since Amundsen 1911 and Scott 1912--and to participate in many other notable mountaineering expeditions. Neate H135. E.P. Dutton hardcover books
书商的参考编号 : 21020
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The Perpetual Hills A Personal Anthology of Mountains
Merrick Hugh
London: Newnes 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 247 pp illustrated with b/w photos most by the author. Mild wear to spine ends boards very slightly bowed. Dust jacket has light edgewear and a few small chips. Neate M83. A combination of anthology and autobiography. Newnes hardcover books
书商的参考编号 : 12868
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Royal Bangkok Sports Club
Bye-Laws 1971. cover title
Bangkok: Printed at the Chai Pradit Press 1971. Paperback. Very Good. 51p. Original green wrapper. 17cm. <br/><br/> Printed at the Chai Pradit Press paperback books
书商的参考编号 : 78951
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Hunt Sir John; Brasher Christopher
The Red Snows An Account of the British Caucasus Expedition 1958
London: Hutchinson 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 176 pp with 17 plates and a 2-page sketch map of Bezingi Basin. Brief gift inscription on front free endpaper else a fine copy in a price-clipped dust jacket with some creasing to the upper front panel and chips at the corners and spine tips. In addition to the account of their expedition and their interactions with Russian mountaineers the authors provide a useful summary history of climbing in the Caucusus. Neate H139. Hutchinson hardcover books
书商的参考编号 : 11697
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Keen Dora
Arctic Mountaineering by a Woman" in Scribner's Magazine Volume LII July-December 1912
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1912. Hardcover. Very good. Bound volume containing six complete issues bound without their original wrappers. pp viii 768. Publishers drab green cloth boards with beveled edges decorated in gilt on spine and front board top edge gilt.Mild shelfwear; very good. Dora Keen 1871-1963 was the first known woman to climb mountains in Alaska. Her article in this volume describes the first ascent of Mount Blackburn which she organized. She was a member of the American Alpine Club and fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and also climbed in the Selkirks of Canada in Norway and in the Alps. This volume also includes work by Henry Cabot Lodge Johm Galsworthy Sara Teasdale and three poems on The Titanic by Corinne Roosevelt Robinson. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
书商的参考编号 : 18873
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NEWBORN Monty
Kasparov Versus Deep Blue: Computer Chess Comes of Age
NY: Springer. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1997. Hardcover. 0387948201 . First printing. Some underlining notes on rear free endpaper else very good in a very good dust jacket. . Springer hardcover books
书商的参考编号 : 28013 ???????? : 0387948201 9780387948201
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China Business History Sports
1995-1996 Group of Business Research and Development Materials Concerning the Development of a Winter Sports Facility Baldy Mountain Resort Weihe Forest Heilongjiang China: China Ski Corporation
China & Colorado: Not Published 1995. Group of materials includes: "Baldy Mountain Resort" 2 copies development project brochure 54 pgs of very professional-appearing computer-generated color photographs of proposals for development of this skiing resort some folding information on the Asian sports market including Olympic aspirations site overview demand for skiing and golfing facilities in China resort infrastructure the 'villages' of the resort; with a "Private Placement Memorandum" of 12 illustration pages essentially the stock offering for the resort; several typed letters signed from the Colorado-based resort marketer regarding developments in the project travel by the investors to the site more; and a shorter booklet titled "Grand Opening 1995-1996 Ski Season Baldy Mountain Resort Mongolian Yurt Skiing Village" with objectives strategies tactics budget for the set-up of this possible phase of the operation; all these materials clear-covered spiral or side-post bound standard 8 1/2" x 11" size; light wear; in very good condition; interesting glimpse at the proposed development of sporting activities in China by Western venture capitalist investors. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Not Published Paperback books
书商的参考编号 : 21917
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SPORTS ILLUSTRATED
Small Boat Sailing. By the Editors of Sports Illustrated
Philadelphia: Lippincott 1972. hardcover. very good. Illustrated. 93pp. 8vo pictorial boards. Philadelphia: Lippincott 1972. Very good<br/><br/> Lippincott unknown books
书商的参考编号 : 200059 ???????? : 0397008600 9780397008605
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Lee Chip; Roberts David; Andrasko Kenneth
On Edge The Life & Climbs of Henry Barber
Boston: Appalachian Mountain Club 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 291 pp with glossary and many b/w illustrations. Dust jacket is rubbed at the corners and has a few short closed tears. Barber was an early advocate of clean climbing and a prolific solo climber who claimed many first solo ascents mostly in the 1970s. This book covers his climbing career from his teens through the controversy surrounding his attempt on Kilimanjaro in which climbing partner Rob Taylor was seriously injured and accused Barber of abandoning him. Appalachian Mountain Club hardcover books
书商的参考编号 : 12588
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Washburn Bradford
Among the Alps with Bradford
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. First printing. 160 pp plus ads. Orange cloth binding stamped in black; no dust jacket. Minor soiling to rear board spine slightly faded but fully legible protected by a clear mylar jacket. The first book by the accomplished Alaskan mountaineer and alpine photographer written when he was just 17 and developing his climbing skills in the Alps. Illustrated with photographs by the author his brother and their climbing guide. Neate W24. G. P. Putnam's Sons hardcover books
书商的参考编号 : 11395
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Thompson Dorothy E.
Climbing with Joseph Georges
London: Titus Wilson and Son 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 159 pp with 13 plates. Mild shelfwear; tight binding no markings. Dust jacket is chipped at the corners and spine ends and has a few short closed tears. "Climbing memoirs of a noted British alpinist between the wars. Written as a tribute to her guide and published posthumously by her friends" Neate T22. Thompson was best known for a traverse of Mont Blanc from the Refuge Durier over the Aiguille de Bionnassay with the first-ever descent of the Peuterey Ridge to the Gamba Hut. Titus Wilson and Son hardcover books
书商的参考编号 : 12364
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