Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 238 pages. Introduction by E. K. Hall. Black & white illustrations. Corners a bit bumped. Spine sunned. Spine slightly cocked. Some markings to covers.

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. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1st US, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 288 pages, b&w illustrations. In a worn, frayed dust jacket with a darkened spine. Included also are Veterinary Notes by Col. Todd and a chapter on Pig-Sticking by Lieut. Col. Arthur Brooke. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and drawings. Not an ex-library copy. No remainder marks. No names or marks in the text. No date but probably 1929.

Hardcover. New York , Hyperion Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 96 pages illustrated by Nelson. SIGNED BY NELSON on title page. Featuring nearly fifty iconic oil paintings and a dramatic double-page fold-out, an award-winning narrative, a gorgeous design and rich backmatter, We Are the Ship is a sumptuous, oversize volume for all ages that no baseball fan should be without. Using an inviting first-person voice, Kadir Nelson shares the engaging story of Negro League baseball from its beginnings in the 1920s through its evolution, until after Jackie Robinson crossed over to the majors in 1947.

Hardcover. Rutland VT, Academy Books, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 149 pages, b&w illustrations. SIGNED BY BAKER on title page. Unnumbered copy of 500 printed.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 327 pages, b&w illustrations. This engaging collection of 11 interviews with some of baseball's best players from the 1950s and 1960s, whose salaries were often less than $10,000, might have been better subtitled, "And, Come to Think of It, We Did" (play for nothing, that is). But those guys could play. Former baseball commissioner Fay Vincent just starts the tape and lets them talk. There's Ralph Branca, alternately bitter and philosophical about the Shot Heard 'Round the World that Bobby Thompson hit off him in 1951; Harmon Killebrew downplaying the monster homers he hit off everybody; Whitey Ford (236-106 lifetime) sharing great Yankee stories; and Brooks Robinson marveling more at his great peers than at his own illustrious career. Other interviewees include Bill Rigney, Duke Snider, Robin Roberts, Carl Erskine, Lew Burdette, Frank Robinson, and Billy Williams. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Long Beach CA, Safari Press, 2nd Ed., 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 289 pages. Thirty-five enchanting tales by distinguished experts from 1888-1913--bring back the flavor of incredible shooting from British Columbia, Montana, and Oregon down to Arizona and Mexico.

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, Prentice-Hall, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket, 263 pages. A Seattle sports reporter follows the Seattle Supersonics through the tumultuous 1978-77 season, A team full of superstars, Bill Russell as coach and championship hopes, all go sour. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Prentice-Hall , 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 40 pages of riddles and jokes about sports illustrated with b&w cartoons by Stan Mack.

Hardcover. South Tamworth NH, Bearcamp Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with a sunned spine, 151 pages. Signed by the author on the title page. Writings on the beginnings of cycling. B&w illustrations. Previous owner's stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow , 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In 1906 the baseball world saw something that had never been done. Two teams from the same city squared off against each other in a World Series that pitted the heavily favored Cubs of the National League against the hardscrabble American League champion White Sox. Now, more than a century later, noted historian Bernard A. Weisberger tells the tale of a unique time in baseball, a unique time in America, and a time when Chicago was at the center of it all. 213 pages, b&w photos. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 4th pr., 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright. unclipped dust jacket, 340 pages. A compelling, up-close-and-personal portrait of basketball's most inimitable duo. It is also a rollicking ride through professional basketball's best times, the golden age of hoops for the boomer generation. This work tells the story of Magic and Larry from their vantage point and takes the reader inside their fascinating rivalry, with new insights and revealing details about two men who evolved from bitter competitors into lifelong friends. Clean copy.

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. 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. 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. 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.