sports

Hardcover. NY, Bobbs-Merrill , 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 226 pages, b&w photos. An expose' of the World Football League: "The story of the men who manipulated bodies to make or prevent touchdowns and the men who manipulated the dream of owning a professional football team to make fortunes for themselves." It all ended with lies, financial sleights-of-hand, and bounced checks. Rare and informative look at "the complexities of creating a major sports empire." Dust with short closed tear, wrinkle to front flap. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 329 pages, color and b&w illustrations. The first book to show the range, cultural importance, and aesthetics of sports photography through the work of 165 extraordinary photographers-- some heralded, many unknown. Here in almost 300 spectacular images--more than 120 in full color--are great action photographs; portraits of athletes, famous and unknown; behind the scenes, athletes off the field; athletes practicing, working out.

Hardcover. Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1st, 1860, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 283 pages. Hardcover. Stated Author's Edition. Brick colored end papers scarred & chipped. Small discard stamp on title-page - ex-library with few markings. Short tear to page 7 of preface. Original embossed brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine faded. Uncommon book detailing the hunting of Indian animals, including man-eaters, panthers, bears, buffalo and wild elephants.

Hardcover. London, S.O. Beeton, 1st, 1862, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 3/4 leather tooled binding with raised decorated bands on spine. 426 pages. Illustrated with woodcuts by Harden Melville and William Harvey. 10 color illustrations from water-color drawings by J.R. Zweker, Harrison Webb, and Harden Melville. Six fold-out maps. Marbled edges. Endpapers with light foxing. Rubbing wear to spine edges, small scuff mark to front leather edge. Corners bumped, worn. A fascinating work of hunting and natural history by journalist and novelist James Greenwood discusses the history, habits and physiology of a number of species of big game, including tigers, elephants, hippos and leopards. The work also offers information regarding the methods of their hunting including weaponry and tactical movements. The work is particularly noted for its discussion regarding deer hunting, with anecdotal evidence regarding the capacity of the white tail deer to heal from extremely serious wounds.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 192 pages with b&w illustrations by E. B. Sanders. A comprehensive resource that covers essential survival skills, including fire-making, shelter construction, and foraging for edible plants. It is designed to help individuals learn how to thrive in the wild using basic techniques and knowledge.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 200 pages. The years 1930-1970 were the Golden Age of both American sports and American comic strips, and we turn your attention to a neglected part of the art form "sports cartooning "and to its greatest practitioner, Willard Mullin. Willard Mullin's Golden Age of Baseball: Drawings 1934-1972 collects for the first time Mullin's best drawings devoted to baseball. Mullin was to baseball players what Bill Mauldin was to soldiers: advocate and critic, investing them with personality, humanity, dignity, and poignancy; Mauldin had Willie & Joe and Mullin had the Brooklyn Bum, his affectionate 1939 character representing the bedraggled figure of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Hardcover, no dust jacket. black and white illustrations and color illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset and Dunlap, 1st, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth. 183 pages, 4 pages of b&w photos up front. light rubbing to covers.

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton and Co, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 416 pages, b&w diagrams and illustrations. Edge wear, small tears to price-clipped dust jacket. Else a clean, tight copy. A complete discussion of the effects of wind and its changes on racing strategy --- by one of the world's most successful sailboat racers. Races are lost by a failure to understand and predict changes in wind. This book is the first and only one of its kind to deal with the character of the wind as it applies specifically to the racer. It shows how surface wind is affected by season, time of day, temperature disparities, clouds and geography. It supplies the meteorology needed to understand surface winds, and it shows how to predict the many kinds of wind shifts. Above all it shows how to take advantage of this special knowledge.

Hardcover. Boston, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 300 pages. Yellow cloth cover with gilt lettering and color embossed illustrations, b&w frontispiece and 7 illustrations by Charles Copeland. Cocked spine, wear to cover corners and edges, previous owner's inscription to front endpaper; otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay Company, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 333 pages with b&w illustrations. A handsome volume on hunting ducks and geese, upland game birds, small game and deer, with chapters on shotguns, rifles, blinds, decoys and sporting dogs. Lovely wrap-around dust jacket with a colorful illustration. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Julian Messner, 1st, 1962, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. 186 pages, b&w illustrations. This book looks at ten top world series thrills from 1912 to 1960 featuring the likes of Ruth, Maz, Larsen, Stengel, Johnson , Diz and more. Previous owner's stamp on front fly leaf, some pencil marks on contents page, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket. 300 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Great Britain, The Observer, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Decorative endpapers. In excellent shape. Binding tight, clean inside and out.