Softcover. NY, Doubleday/Dolphin Books, 1st., 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers, unnumbered pages including text by Pete Hamill & many black-and-white photographic illustrations of boxers taken in New York's boxing arenas and gyms by George Bennett. Light edgewear, rubbing. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Los Angeles, CA , Taschen, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 296 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. This superb collection of 60s and 70s baseball images commemorates the sport's finest moments via the lens of legendary sports photographer Neil Leifer. Featuring over 300 photos. This unlimited popular edition is for readers on a budget or who were unable to get their hands on the original limited Collector's Edition.
Hardcover. Wiley, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 320 pages. Having signed the most lucrative contract in NHL history with the Washington Capitals, Alexander Ovechkin, at 24, is an undisputed hockey legend. In the mold more of a rock star than hockey player, Ovechkin courts the limelight, is never shy with his opinions, and, in a sport that thrives on the collective culture of the team-Ovechkin is an iconoclast who flouts convention, while loving the game. In The Ovechkin Project, veteran hockey writers Damien Cox and Gare Joyce trace his elite sports pedigree, his role representing Russia in the World Juniors, and how since entering the NHL, he's taken his team from worst to first in their division, and the hockey world by storm. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Guilford CT, The Lyons Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 296 pages. The importance of fishing in Ernest Hemingway's life was matched only by his passion for hunting. Edited and with an introduction by his grandson Sean, and with a foreword from his son Patrick, "Hemingway on Hunting" chronicles Ernest Hemingway's lifelong zeal for the hunting life, from the plains of Africa to the American West. B&w illustrations. Clean copy.
Softcover. Barre MA, National Ski Association of America, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wraps, 288 pages, b&w illustrations. Loads of great period ads. Clean copy. Neat clear tape reinforcement to paper spine.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 304 pages, b&w illustrations. The coach of the NBA's Houston Rockets recounts his life story, speaking out not only on the challenges of coaching a great player like Hakeem Olajuwon but also on the strategies that have led his team to two NBA titles. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Englewood Cliffs NJ, Prentice Hall, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. An entertaining profile of the iconic New York Jets quarterback. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The story of one remarkable summer when Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak captured the imagination and attention of the country. 260 pages, b&w illustrations.
Softcover. Jefferson NC, Mcfarland & Co , 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 174 pages. In early 1869, Harry Wright of the Cincinnati Base Ball Club made an announcement to the sporting press: the Red Stockings would be the first all-professional club in the history of the game. The outcry could be heard in nearly every town in which the sport was played. Wright, however, paid little heed to their protests and went about his business of signing players. By the start of the season he had inked ten players to contracts, with salaries ranging from $600 to $1,400 annually. By June of 1870, the Red Stockings had compiled a 90-game winning streak and were recognized as the finest team in the game. How the Red Stockings were formed, who the players were, and why things came to an end are all fully covered in this detailed history.
Hardcover. Warwick UK, The Roundwood Press, 1st thus, 1979, Hardcover. # 91 of 500 copies, Signed by Richard Hamilton on title page, reprint of the French Edition of 1933, 395 pages including Index, illustrated with numerous reproductions of period prints, with fifteen plates, and also some photographed documents. Dark Blue Leatherette with gilt and red titles, top edge gilt, dust jacket, dark blue slipcase with gilt and red titles. A beautiful copy in like dust jacket and slipcase.
Hardcover. Lyons Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 249 pages, b&w illustrations. William McGarvey "Bullet Bill" Dudley (December 24, 1921 - February 4, 2010) led a thrilling career as a professional American football player in the National Football League for the Pittsburgh Steelers, Detroit Lions, and Washington Redskins. With humble beginnings in Bluefield, Virginia he made the football team his junior year, and in 1938 he kicked a 35-yard field goal in the season's finale. Dudley was drafted in the 1942 NFL Draft with the first overall pick by the Pittsburgh Steelers. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1966 and the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame in 1972. During the 1942 season, he led the league in rushing with 696 yards on 162 carries and was then named to the All-Pro team. Steve Stinson revisits his father-in-law's journey from Bluefield, Virginia through his retirement from the NFL and shares everything he brought to communities in between each pivotal moment in Dudley's life. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Harrisburg PA, The Stackpole Company, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 287 pages. Pictorial endpapers. Maroon cover with gilt lettering and affixed picture of a fisherman in bright color. Black-and-white illustrations throughout by Fred Everett and three color illustrations in addition to the frontispiece. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 245 pages, b&w illustrations. Only a few dozen T206 Wagners are known to still exist, having been released in limited numbers just after the turn of the twentieth century. Most, with their creases and stains, look like they've been around for nearly one hundred years. But one -- The Card --appears to have defied the travails of time. Its sharp corners and still-crisp portrait make it the single-most famous -- and most desired -- baseball card on the planet, valued today at more than two million dollars. It has transformed a simple hobby into a billion-dollar industry that is at times as lawless as the Wild West. Everything about The Card, which has made men wealthy as well as poisoned lifelong relationships, is fraught with controversy -- from its uncertain origins to the nagging possibility that it might not be exactly as it seems. In this intriguing, eye-opening, and groundbreaking look at a uniquely American obsession, award-winning investigative reporters Michael O'Keeffe and Teri Thompson follow The Card's trail from a Florida flea market to the hands of the world's most prominent collectors.
Hardcover. NY, Bantam Books, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 305 pages, b&w illustrations. First Printing of the First Edition, with complete number row (0987654321) on the copyright page. Illustrated with 16 pages of photos. Appendix (career stats). Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co., 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 292 pages. Tough and witty, SportsWorld is a well-known commentator's overview of the most significant form of mass culture in America n sports. It's a sweaty Oz that has grown in a century from a crucible for character to a complex of capitalism, a place where young people can find both self-fulfillment and cruel exploitation, where families can huddle in a sanctuary of entertainment and be force fed values and where cities and countries can be pillaged by greedy team owners and their paid-for politicians. But this book is not just a screed, it's a guided visit with such heroes of sports as Muhammad Ali, Billie Jean King, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Joe Namath, who the author knew well, and with some he met in passing, like Richard Nixon, who seemed never to have gotten over missing the cut in college varsity football, a major mark of manhood. We see how SportsWorld sensibilities help elect our politicians, judge our children, fight our wars, and oppress our minorities. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light gray cloth stamped in black. 144 pages, b&w drawings by Paul Brown. Clean, tight copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 221 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with full color and black & white photographs. Price clipped dust jacket with light wear. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Long Beach, CA, Safari Press, 1st thus, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 187 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Pictorial boards, no dust jacket issued. Minor wear to covers, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Del Mar, CA, Tehabi Books, 1st Edition, 1995, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 168 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Color illustrations throughout. Dust Jacked unclipped, excellent. Gray cloth bound cover boards, design blind-stamped on front cover board, in beautiful condition. Pages clean and unmarked, Binding tight. Spine straight. Looks nearly new. A collection of action-packed stories from the finest ski writers and spectacular photography from the foremost ski photographers.
Hardcover. Yokyo Japan, Tokyo Lawn Tennis Club, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 168 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Signed letter by Chairman of the Board presenting book to previous owner inserted. Very clean inside and out. Covered by plastic bookcover/sleeve.
Hardcover. Exton PA, Schiffer Publishing, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 270 pages. Describes decoys made for some of the seven hundred varieties of ducks, geese, and shorebirds found in New Jersey and offers profiles of major decoy makers
Hardcover. NY, Harper, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The Glory Game recreates in breathtaking detail the 1958 National Football League Championship Game between the New York Giants and the Baltimore Colts, which many football fans feel was "The Greatest Game Ever Played." This first-hand, field level, "behind-the-helmet" account by ex-Giant Hall of Famer and longtime "Monday Night Football" broadcaster Frank Gifford brings back to life all the sights and sounds of the momentous contest that changed football forever, and offers vivid, indelible portraits of the legendary players--including Sam Huff, Andy Robustelli, Art Donovan, Lenny Moore, and Raymond Berry. The Giants-Colts clash of '58 was truly The Glory Game--and now readers can relive it in all its glory. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Abrams Press, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 352 pages, b&w illustrations. The first full biography of the star Negro Leaguer and Hall of Famer James 'Cool Papa" Bell (1903-1991) was a legend in black baseball, a lightning fast switch hitter elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974. Bell's speed was extraordinary; as Satchel Paige famously quipped, he was so fast he could flip a light switch and be in bed before the room got dark. Wheeler recounts the life of this extraordinary player, a key member of some of the greatest Negro League teams in history. Born to sharecroppers in Mississippi, Bell was part of the Great Migration, and in St. Louis, baseball saved Bell from a life working in slaughterhouses. Wheeler charts Bell's ups and downs in life and in baseball, in the United States, the Dominican Republic, and Mexico, where he went to escape American racism and MLB's color line.
Softcover. Boulder CO, Velo Press, 1st, 2005, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictoeial wraps. Little-known Graeme Obree became international cycling's most unlikely star, capturing the public's imagination with his innovative engineering and design skills and unique training regiments. When he broke world records and won championships, the cycling authorities outlawed both his bike and his tucked riding position. He invented the "Superman" riding style and triumphed again. But while battling authorities and other cyclists, Obree was also battling a much more serious threat: bipolar disorder. In "The Flying Scotsman, Obree tells his remarkable story with brutal honesty and unexpected humor. Beginning with his troubled childhood in Ayrshire, where the bike was his only escape, Obree recounts his turbulent life and career, describing what drove him to not only break records, but to attempt suicide on three separate occasions. Long known for his courage on the track, here Obree demonstrates a different kind of courage as he movingly lays bare his struggle with manic depression.
Hardcover. Dallas, Taylor Publishing, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Includes appendix of player statistics. Recalls the record-breaking New York Yankees, the only team in baseball history to win five consecutive World Series, offering the remembrances of the greatest Bronx Bombers. 228 pages, b&w photos.
Softcover. Sunderland UK, Standard Golf Company, 13th Ed., 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. stapled light blue paper wrappers. Housed in mauve cloth covers with a clamshell card folder. Appears to be the original printing of the 1909 catalog with the small 4 lines of the printer on rear cover: Mawson, Swan & Morgan Limited, Newcastle upon Tyne. Near fine, 28 pages with b&w illustrations. All encased in a mauve cardboard slipcase with a reproduction of the cover pasted to front. Clean.
Hardcover. NY, Fleming H,. Revell, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. The story of boxer Henry Armstrong's rise to fame and the spiritual experience which led him from the prize ring to the pulpit. Armstrong was one of the few fighters to win in three or more different divisions: featherweight, lightweight, and welterweight. He defended his welterweight title a total of nineteen times. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. bit of fading to the green top edge. Angell was the consummate writer on baseball, and this, his first baseball book, is one of his major achievements. Thoughtful, funny, appreciative of the elegance of the game and the passions invested by players and fans, it goes beyond the usual sports reporters beat to examine baseballs complex place in our American psyche. Owner's inscription on the half-title page, light creasing to rear flap, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 286 pages, b&w photos. The autobiography of the baseball legend. Clean copy, dj spine with light fading.
Hardcover. West Chester PA, Schiffer Publishing, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 128 pages illustrated in color and b&w. The story of the life and works of an American wildfowl artist. Lem's life is a tale of courage - of a man who overcame a withered arm, lack of formal education, cultural isolation, and severe illness to become one of the founders of American Wildfowl Art. This is a close look at how he and his brother, Steve, grew up together in the marshes along the Chesapeake Bay, how they subsisted as barbers and foragers, how they retained their independent spirits to create birds that pleased them - wildfowl art - while carvers around them were creating decoys just good enough for hunting ducks. Lem's work is described in pictures, accompanied by colorful comments and interesting insights by a collector who became one of the artist's closest friends. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Prentice-Hall, 2md pr., 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 176 pages. A behind-the-scenes portrait of Hall-of-Famer Bench, b&w photos by George Kalinsky. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 306 pages, b&w photos. Don Baylor explores every facet of his career. In 1988, he became the first baseball player in history to go to the World Series for three consecutive years with three different teams. Fans know him as a frank, thoughtful man who speaks his mind about the game and his peers. In this book, he takes the reader onto the field and into the clubhouse with a rich blend of anecdotes and insights about the game he played - and studied - for more than twenty years. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers, 2nd pr., 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 267 pages, color frontispiece, 58 b&w photographic plates. Blue cloth covers with a pastedown photo of fish on front, top edge gilt. Publisher's code of I-T on copyright page indicating a September 1919 printing, 3 months after the June 1919 date on the same page. Spine has darkened and gilt faded so title is barely visible, but covers very good and interior of book is clean and tight.
Hardcover. Cincinnati, Stewart Kidd, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 197 pages. Green cloth covers with gilt lettering. B&w photos. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Bright copy.
Hardcover. France, Arthaud, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 267 pages, with map laid-in. Minor dust jacket edge wear. Minor yellowing along dust jacket back cover edge. Otherwise, in very clean condition. With 169 helogravure illustrations. Protective clear dust jacket cover.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Studio, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A gallery of the most compelling images from baseball's history. Beginning with a team portrait of the Cincinnati Red Stockings taken in 1869, the books charts the sport through the Black Sox scandal, when giants like Honus Wagner, Ty Cobb and Shoeless Joe Jackson roamed the field; all through the Babe Ruth years, WWII, the Negro League and Jackie Robinson's first day in the major leagues. As well as the many famous famous, many unknowns are also shown with the criteria for inclusion being the artistic merit of the photograph.
Hardcover. NY, Warner Books, 4th pr., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 258 pages, illustrations. INSCRIBED BY RILEY on the front fly leaf: "To Edward/Best Regards- Hoping your season will be as successful as ours/ 88 Pat Riley". Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Freshet Press, reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardback in slipcase; 1970 reprint of 1828 edition. Three engraved plates of flies, vignette engravings of fish. Cream linen, spine titled in gilt, green angler motif and titles to front of yellow paper-covered slipcase. The first three editions were published anonymously. Cornerstone fly fishing book because of insights into techniques and biology; one of first books to show both natural mayflies and caddis along with artificials. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A magnum opus from acclaimed baseball writer Joe Posnanski, The Baseball 100 is an audacious, singular, and masterly book that took a lifetime to write. The entire story of baseball rings through a countdown of the 100 greatest players in history, with a foreword by George Will. Longer than Moby-Dick and nearly as ambitious, The Baseball 100 is a one-of-a-kind work by award-winning sportswriter and lifelong student of the game Joe Posnanski. In the book's introduction, Pulitzer Prize-winning commentator George F. Will marvels, "Posnanski must already have lived more than two hundred years. How else could he have acquired such a stock of illuminating facts and entertaining stories about the rich history of this endlessly fascinating sport?" Clean, bight copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, Triumph Books, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy pictorial boards. 306 pages, b&w illustrations. Taking a decade-by-decade approach to the Chicago Cubs baseball tradition, this collection brings together over 40 stories from the most outstanding voices of the team. The spirit of Cubs baseball is not captured by just one phrase, one season, or one particular game; instead, the players and managers who made the magic happen over the decades blend their experiences to capture the true essence of their beloved team. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 4th pr., 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The memoirs of one of America's most famous baseball sluggers and a leading player of the New York Yankees, describing playing with other famous players from 1951 onwards - e.g. Joe DiMaggio - belting three series home runs in 1964, filled with facts and anecdotes about baseball, teams, and players, as well as has his own personal story of his addiction to alcohol, his family, much more. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The most exciting season in baseball climaxed by Bobby Thomson's legendary home run to win the pennant for the Giants. 284 pages, b&w photos. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, Revised Ed., 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. 253 pages, b&w photos. Expanded with new material for this 1956 editon. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Very large, heavy book, light blue cloth, bright DJ has color photo of golfer in knickers hitting ball on front, two color illustrations of golfers Nancy Lopez and Jack Nicklaus by Walt Spitzmuller on back. More than 400 pictures, 164 in color. 304 heavy photo paper pages. Clean copy. NOTE: DUE TO SIZE AND WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. NY, Atria Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY HURT on the half-title page. Talk to any and all golfers, be they Tour professionals or once-a-month country clubbers, and you'll hear that they want to improve their game in some way. But up until now, most expert books on golf instruction have focused only on the approach advocated by a particular teaching pro or famous player; the authors usually talk about "the golf swing" or "the putting stroke" as if there is only one way to do it -- their way. With How to Learn Golf, the first comprehensive guide to contemporary golf instruction, Harry Hurt III will help you become a better golfer by identifying what type of player you really are, and which of the several leading methods are right for you and your golfing goals. Based on Hurt's sessions with all of America's top ten instructors, this book helps you choose between the two main types of golf instruction available -- error correction, which offers a quick fix for a specific swing flaw, and swing development, where the focus is on building the swing from top to bottom. Hurt provides illuminating detail on the most effective approaches to improving each aspect of your golf game: putting, the full swing, the short game, and the all-important mental game. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, A.S. Barnes, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 96 pages, in an edgeworn dust jacket. Illustrated in b&w by Tyler Micoleau. No marking.
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