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Hardcover. Boston, The Page Company, 3rd, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 706 pages. Hardcover. Features over 700 black & white illustrations. Red cloth covers with attractive titles and decorations. Light wear. A nice copy.

Hardcover. Hudson NY, Princeton Architectural Press, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 143 pages. We are all critics now. From social media "likes" to reviews on Yelp and Rotten Tomatoes, we're constantly asked to give our opinion and offer feedback. Everyone's a Critic is a curated collection of the best and brightest New Yorker cartoonists celebrating the art of the drawn critique, whether about restaurants, art, sports, dates, friends, or modern life. Featuring the work of thirty-six masters of the cartoon, including Roz Chast, Sam Gross, Nick Downes, Liza Donnelly, Bob Mankoff, Michael Maslin, and Mick Stevens, over half the cartoons in this book appear in print for the first time. No dust jacket issued. Clean copy.

Hardcover. North Bennington VT, Poly Two Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket that has fading to spine, 170 pages, b&w illustrations. SIGNED "Best of luck/ Landon Manning" on the title page. A compilation of the best turf articles of Landon Manning, whose true stories on Saratoga thoroughbred racing, have long been recognized for their human interest appeal. As the long-time regular turf writer for Saratoga County's only daily newspaper, The Saratogian, Manning has written of the many individuals, both great and small, he has encountered primarily in the backstretch, during the great era of the 1960's and 1970's. Illustrated with black & white photos.

Hardcover. West Chester, PA, Schiffer Publishing, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 168 pages. Hardcover with light edgewear to dust jacket. Red leather boards with gilt illustration of duck and lettering on front. light foxing to underneath dust jacket rear. Color pictures throughout. Tight copy. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf.

Softcover. Camden ME, International Marine/McGraw Hill, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 250 pages, b&w illustrations. Forward by James Hardy. The story of the 1998 sailing competition between Sydney and Hobart that was caught by a rogue wave on the open seas becoming the worst sailing disaster in recent history; seven boats were abandoned and five sank; 57 sailors were rescued and six died. These firsthand accounts of the story are vivid and unforgettable. Clean copy.

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. San Francisco , Chronicle Books , 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 127 pages. Hardcover. Extensive b&w photography throughout. Illustrated frontispiece. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Hoff's skill as a photographer is shown plainly throughout this book. He was known for using very little film, which increases an objective appreciation of his skill; he understood boxing and could anticipate moments of significance and arrange them to create technically superb photographs, without making dozens of pictures. The boxers depicted in this volume are now historical figures, but so are these photographs, of which Hoff is perhaps the best example. Live television coverage has changed the nature of boxing photography irrecoverably since the days when Hoff was photographing the sport. This volume is important as a historical document, then, from two angles - firstly as a record of what many perceive as the golden age of boxing, but also as an archive of amazing photography skills which are now impossible for photographers to learn, let alone master. A must for fans of both serious photography and boxing.

Hardcover. Boston, Derrydale Press, reprint, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 297 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Blue leather covers with gilt lettering. Unnumbered limited to 500 copies. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in bright, unclipped dust jacket, 413 pages. His second collection after The Summer Game (1972). Five Seasons covers the baseball seasons from 1972 through 1976, described as the "most significant half decade in the history of the game." The era was notable for the remarkable individual feats of Hank Aaron, Lou Brock, and Nolan Ryan, among others. It also presented one of the best World Series of all time (1975), including still the greatest World Series game ever played (Game Six). Along with visiting other games and campaigns, Roger Angell meets a trio of Tigers-obsessed fans, goes to a game with a departing old-style owner, watches high-school ball in Kentucky with a famous scout, and explores the sad and astounding mystery of Steve Blass's vanished control. Angell's Five Seasons is a gem and a gift for baseball lovers of all ages. Super condition, clean.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 474 pages, b&w illustrations. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Spanish Fork UT, Hillcrest Publications, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 160 pages. 212 black-and-white photographs, 76 fine color plates, 16 illustrations and 2 maps and 8 decoy profiles. SIGNED BY BOB WHITE who wrote the Foreword. Clean copy.

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. New York, Moffat, Yard and Co, 3rd, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 463 pages. Contains black & white photographs. Light soiling to covers.

Hardcover. New York, George H. Doran, rep, 1916, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 328 pages. Foreword by Robert H. Davis. First few pages loose. Light rubbing to corners and spine.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, Reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 302 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket with only minor shelf wear. Clean, unmarked text.

Phildelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1st US, Hardcover, tan cloth with gilt stamping, 368 pages. Four color plates, 18 reproductions of hunting pictures, 45 illustrations. Volume 7 of The Lonsdale Library. No publication date. Mild soil to covers, small embossed stamp to front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, BC Ed., 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 268 pages. Illustrated with a section of black-and-white photographs. "In the poised, outspoken style that typifies his career as one of baseball's fiercest competitors and a superstar of the modern era, Frank Robinson recounts in this book his remarkable and dramatic experience as the first black manager in the history of the major leagues. Written in collaboration with Dave Anderson, the renowned sports columnist of The New York Times, Frank is both the essence of baseball and a document that transcends sports: an intimate, superbly detailed record of the business of managing men on the playing field and a revelation of one man on a spot no one ever occupied before him." Copyright page states first edition but lack of price on dust jacket tells us it's a Book Club. Embossed stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Prentice-Hall, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket, 176 pages. A behind-the-scenes portrait of Hall-of-Famer Bench, b&w photos by George Kalinsky. 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. Boston, Little Brown & Co., 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 132 pages. Black & white illustrations by Byron Goto. Dust jacket with light soil, edgewear.

Hardcover. NY, Putnam, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Describes how an unheralded New York horse--trained by a journeyman, ridden by a hard-luck jockey, and owned by a tiny stable founded by a group of high-school buddies from Sackets Harbor--beat the champions and their multimillionaire owners to sweep to the brink of the Triple Crown.

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. Chicago, IL, NTC Publishing Group, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A unique collection of photographs offers an intimate, behind-the-scenes visual chronicle of baseball players from the 1930s, '40s, and '50s