1984réf. 029859Ames Iowa: Championship Books 1984. Very Good condition. Flat uncreased spine. NO chips tears or fading. Bright and shiny. Mild bump to one corner. NO text or illustrations are affected. Previous owner's name on the front inside cover. Pages are otherwise clean and unmarked -- apparently seldom if ever read. Well illustrated with a few photos and numerous basketball play diagrams. Bound in the original white pictorial wraps printed in red and black. 1st ed No additional printings listed. Softcover. Very Good condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 60 pages. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Championship Books Paperback
1970réf. 029280New York: Harper's Magazine Press 1970. A beautiful copy in near PERFECTcondition. Fine in a bright and shiny Fine dust jacket. NOT price clipped $6.50 with "1070" code on bottom of front flap. NO chips tears or rubbing. Jacket design by Paul Bacon Studio with full color artwork by LeRoy Neiman. Sharp corners. Square and tight. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. NOT a remainder. Pages are fresh crisp clean and unmarked. NO foxing. From the Table of Contents: The Knick Phenomenon; The Tradition: At Last A Winner for New York; The Cast of Characters -- Willis Reed Walt Frazier Dick Barnett Cazzie Russell Bill Bradley Dave DeBusschere Coach Red Holzman Playground Profiles - The Stars Who Never Made It; The Fallen Idol; You Grow Up Quick The Giant Killers - Approaching the Playoffs; The Baltimore Scare; The Bucks; and Champions. With an 8 page section of New York Knick player photos. Bound in the original blue boards with a white cloth spine stamped in bright blue. Complete with beautiful dust jacket. 1st ed No additional printings listed. Hardcover. Fine condition/Fine dust jacket. Illus. by Neiman LeRoy jacket art. 8vo. xiii 210pp. 8 pages of photos. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Harper's Magazine Press Hardcover
1999Very Good Very Good English Original bdg. Dust wrapper. 4to. (31 x 22 cm). In Turkish. B/w and color photos. 235, [12] p. Signed by photographer. Dedication was deleted. Album of sport photographs of Gümüsdere who is one of first Turkish photojournalist on sport photography. Rare. Objektif yalan söylemez. Ismet Gümüsdere'nin spor fotograflari - 1.
1992réf. 029640New York: HarperCollins Publishers 1992. Laid in are 6 different Jerry Tarkanian basketball trading cards 1991 PLATINUM RADIO PARTNERS II and a full color photo of Tarkanian signing this copy of the book. The cards are in PERFECT condition having been enclosed in a protective plastic holder since day 1 temporarily removed to prevent glare in photos. SEE OUR PHOTOS. A beautiful copy. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by Jerry Tarkanian the front free endpaper. SIGNED on the front free endpaper by Don Yaeger with only "Enjoy! and 3-92. Fine condition in a Fine dust jacket. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NO fading. NOT price clipped $20.00. Square and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are fresh and crisp. NO underlining. No highlighting. NO margin notes. 1992. First printing with "First Edition" and complete number row 10 987654321 on the copyright page. Illustrated with 16 pages of photos. In April 2013 Tarkanian was selected for induction into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. He was one of the most successful coaches in college basketball history. His career coaching record was 729-201 78.4%. Only four other coaches have a higher winning percentage. Tarkanian became famous for his colorful behavior such as habitually chewing on a towel during games and for his public criticisms and legendary clashes with the NCAA. Tarkanian received the largest settlement in NCAA history. Bound in the original red boards with a blue spine stamped in bright gold. Complete with dust jacket. SIGNED by both authors. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Fine dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. xii 292pp. 16 pages of photos. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. HarperCollins Publishers Hardcover
1830réf. AQ27688London: The Religious Tract Society 1830. 48pp. With 13 hand-coloured engraved illustrations in the text. Original publisher's pictorial tan wrappers. Extremities a trifle rubbed and marked. Internally clean and crisp. A rare survival in crisp original state of the four hundred and ninth number in the Religious Tract Society's series of chapbook for the children; a rather dull narrative in which a destitute family of basket weavers are reminded by an interfering school-teacher of the sanctity of the Sabbath. OCLC records copies at four locations BL New Brunswick Philadelphia and Stanford; COPAC adds no further. . 16mo. The Religious Tract Society unknown
2001réf. Q-0736038043Human Kinetics 2001-02-27. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Human Kinetics paperback
réf. DADAX0736057846Human Kinetics Inc 0000-00-00. First Edition. paperback. New. 7.01x0.51x10.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Human Kinetics, Inc paperback
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2006réf. Q-0385501463Doubleday 2006-01-17. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Doubleday hardcover
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réf. 14738PML editions, 1993. Grand cartonnage editeur sous jaquette illustree, format 25x33 cm, 64 pagesTres bon etat .
198071 pages. Black and white reproductions of photos. Diagrams. Undated but appears to be circa 1980. "Discusses the principles of plyometrics, which has been utilized by Europeans and Russians for years. Provides the proper ways to execute plyometric drills and how to incorporate them into a comprehensive training program. Explains drills available for all athletic pursuits but more specifically tailors workouts for football, basketball, volleyball and track and field." - Introduction. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Book
1982Features: Piece by Paul H. Robinson, US Ambassador to Canada; The Hard Politics of Bill Bennett's hard sell in B.C.; Resurrection of Robert Bourassa; Eric Akland dies in Aylmer, Quebec; Niagrary River pollution protesters; Cover Story - Lebanon - Flames and the future after Israelli invasion; Q&A with David Kimche, of the Israelli Foreign Ministry; Jews murdered in Paris - reaction to Lebanon invasion; British pound in decline - black mark for monetarism; Alexander Haig's calculated climb; South Africa - death in dark places; Canada's regional airlines fight for the skys - Nordair and Quebecair; End of economic miracle - AEG-Telefunken AG; BC's BCRIC; Steel and forestry industries hit very hard by economy; Jack Donohue and his unknown Canadian basketball team; Labor - unemployment and new despereation; Deely Bobbers; Drive-in theatres; United Church dares to tread; The Guardian Angels - citizen's call to arms; New Wave music toughs it out - photo of David Byrne/Talking Heads; Entertainment reviews. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
1983Features: Why our MPs fail us - a Q&A with Arthur Lower; Joe Clark Rallies his allies; Will and Patricia Steger charged in the Arctic; Ghanaians fleeing Nigeria; Zimbabwe - charge of the fifth brigade; Leo Rautins - young Canadian basketball star with dreams of the NBA; Gold fever strikes a moose pasture - Murray Pezim and Hemlo; Divided, Bell Prospers; Peter C. Newman discusses how Big Oil is sticking around; A Media Judgement on surrogate birth - The Stivers and Malahoff on The Phil Donahue Show; Wind-Skiing on water and ice; Bumpy birth for pay TV - demonstrators protest soft-core porn in Ottawa; Cover Story - Kate Nelligan's Broadway Triumph - nice photos; The bulk food fad - a sanitary concern?; David Cronenberg - a vivid obsession with sex and death - Videodrome. Average wear. Book
1927Features: Mr. Peaslee on Using Brains; A the Wreck of the Circus Train, by Samuel Merwin; Crashing Through - a basketball story; The Home Girl III; The Gathering Storm XI. Wonderful ad for the Chrysler '60' automobile. Full-page Montgomery-Ward catalogue ad. Motors aand Generators - How an Electric Motor Works; Peeling near cover-fold on front cover else unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
1926Features: The General Manager's Special, by Samuel Merwin; What the Man in the Moon Saw, by C.A. Stephens; In Channel Waters - III, by Mary Austin; Lost from the Fleet - V; by George Allan england; His Lone Adventures, by Franklin Welles Calkins; Nostalgic image of a young basketball player in Crowell Publishing ad on page 219; Plan for foot-powered sander; Ways and Means of Getting to College - how girls are doing it now; The Field of Evil Weeds, by Edward W. Frentz; and more. Nice ad for the Willys Overland Six on back cover. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
1996160 pages. Black and white photos. A wonderful early biography of the best athlete Vancouver Island has ever produced! Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this amazing story. Book
1964réf. 00006620New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1964 1964. First edition. hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. 8 1-176 pp. Pictorial boards with a red topstain. Decorated endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a few full-page drawings. The twenty-second book in the Chip Hilton Sports Series. Lists to Comeback Cagers" on the rear board and lists to self on the verso of the half-title page. A Very Good book with a name and a date written on the verso of the free front endpaper and a slight lean. Grosset & Dunlap [1964] unknown
1900réf. 514167B. F. Johnson Publishing Co 1900. Revised Edition. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. SIGNED and inscribed by the author 'Presented to Prof. J. F. Bivins with compliments of the author. Richmond VA Feb. 22-1901.' Ex-libris Duke Hospital Library likely donated by Joseph Francis Bivins founding headmaster of Trinity Park School a preperatory school for Duke's Trinity College. Revised and Enlarged Edition Fifth Thousandth. 7 8-137pp. With in-text photos and b/w plates illustrating games posture and calisthenics as part of Johnson's program of Physical Education. Including B/W frontispiece photo of young women playing 'Basket-Ball' a nice early photo of the sport invented only 9 years prior. 12mo khaki publishers cloth stamped in burgundy and green. Some modest rubbing and stainint to the cloth text clean and sound. B. F. Johnson Publishing Co hardcover
1953réf. 26995Abingdon-Cokesbury Press New York 1953 HBDJ 1953 On Title Page First Edition. VG/FAIR- AS-IS Oblong Yellow GOLD cloth Hard Cover WITH TITLE IN BLACK. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: FAIR. Yellow hard cover with black lettering on spine and cover. Colorfully illustrated blue DJ with black lettering on spine. NOT EX Library. DJ has mylar cover. 1.5 x 2" tear at front DJ and 5" x 3" tear to back DJ which has Tiny Sticker. Tears to top/bottom spine corners and edges of DJ. Otherwise book is clean and tight. No other marks. Approx. 23 pages but no page numbers. blue and gold cover with big cat standing in fish on Pier. UNPAGINATED 8vo. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, New York, hardcover
1951réf. 111471951 Reprinted courtesy of Art Hubenthal, Los Angeles Examiner (Imp. du Val d'Osne, J - P. Paumereau, 1951; plaquette in-4° brochée, couverture jaune illustrée en couleurs au 1er plat, une publicité illustrée en couleurs pour Dubonnet occupe le 2ème plat; 16 pp. imprimées en bleu et illustrées de nombreuses photographies ou dessins.
187116 pages. Contents: Silk and cashmere walking suit; poplin walking suit; Poonah-Work; Domestic Life; MAnners upon the Road; New York Fashions - ladies' cloth, cloakings, twilled woolen goods, lingerie, laces, hints about costumes; Personal; Lace and Point Lace Collar; Waste-paper basket with embroidered lambrequins; waste-paper basket run with colored braid; point lace tidy; crochet insertion for lingerie; point lace and crochet insertion for lingerie; tatted edging; tatted rosettes for lingerie; tatted square for lingerie; Hannah - continued; sayings and doings; netted guipure insertion and edging; point lace and crochet edging; lady's point lace and crochet gimp chemise yoke; knitted and crochet insertion; needle-work edging for lingerie; crochet edging worked crosswise; crochet insertion worked crosswise; point lace and crochet insertion; cashmere over-skirt; ecru crepe de Chine over-skirt; Algerienne over-skirt; How Nationalities Grow Old; My Prophet; The Lunch-Table-Coffee; Useful Recipes; carriage leather wall tidy to hang over wash-stand; embroidery designs for a foundation for toilette cushions, etc.; Blood-sucking Bats; humor. Average wear. Clipping from page 603. Book
187216 pages. Contents: Ladies' and Children's Sea-side Suits; Indelible Drawings; Home Life; Manners Upon the Road; New York Fashions - postilion-basque polonaise with apron front, summer shopping, inexpensive summer dresses, camisoles, belted dresses, jewelry, under-sleeves, ties, etc.; Personal; borders, insertions and edgings for lingerie and chldren's garments; medallions for cigar-cases; wire and bead basket for worsted; case with Boston tablet; The Bitter End - continued; Sayings and Doings; Illustration "Linked Names"; small clipping from page 449; Paris Gossip; My Parasol; English Gossip; George Eliot's Sayings; Illustration "The Death of Cleopatra"; Illustration "David Garrick Between Tragedy and Comedy"; humor. Average wear. Small clipping from page 445. Book
187216 pages. Contents: Practical notes on cements; Black gros grain paletot - front and back illustrations; Mode of roasting coffee; Having One's Own Way; Manners Upon the Road - of temper and temperament; New York Fashions - mourning dress goods, bonnets and veils, widows' mourning, dresses, trimmings, second mourning, varieties; Personal; Basket of covered card-board rings; needle-work and lace collar imitation of bruges lace; crochet and lace insertion and edging for lingerie; carriage leather flower-pot screen; black lace and bead sprays for bonnets, head-dresses, etc.; spring and summer hats and bonnets of trulle crape; To the Bitter End - continued; Sayings and Doings; Selection of Annuals; Making both ends meet; The Tea-Pot, by Hans Christian Andersen; Mr. Sutherland's Sickness, by Harriet Prescott Spofford; Paris Gossip; Dolly Varden Carriage costume; The Origin of Lace; Devices for looping trained skirts; Sympathies and antipathies; Tatted Edging for Lingerie; humor. Average wear. Book