Hardcover. Michigan, Tile Books, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 394 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. First in a series of baseball books to piece together the vast newspaper record of the nineteenth century. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Slight cocking to spine. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy. While Anson's greatest success was in being the lone player before 1900 to reach 3,000 hits, Cap Anson 1: When Captaining Meant Something: Leadership in Baseball's Early Years, examines him through his managerial and captaining roles with Chicago's National League team (the White Stockings, later known better as the Colts, before they became the modern-day Cubs) from 1879 to 1897. The book also compares Anson to other captain-managers of his day, and Chicago to contemporaneous teams with divided management: those with a combination of captains and bench managers.

Hardcover. Minocqua, WI, Willow Creek Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 200 pages. Hardcover. (SIGNED BY AUTHORS AND PHOTOGRAPHER). In excellent shape. Gilt title on spine. B/w illustrations throughout. Binding tight, clean inside and out.

Hardcover. London, Editions Gallimard, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. First French Edition. 14.25" x 10.5". French language throughout. Foreword by H.R.H. Duke of Edinburgh. Presented by Christian Fevrier. A collection of superb photographs from the archives of the well known photographers Beken of Clowes covering the hundred years from 1880 to 1980. All related to sailing, yachting, boats and printed in sepia duo-tone process with some as fold out spreads. Photographic index and captioned section at rear. Full bound maroon cloth with gold blocking to spine. Unclipped dust wrapper.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2nd pr., 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Blending biography and social history, this portrait of one of the first Black Americans to win fame and respect in the twentieth century draws on new interview material and translations from German press coverage. 330 pages, b&w illustrations.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Company, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 132 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BOOKPLATE WITH SIGNATURES OF BILL LITTLEFIELD AND BERNIE FUCHS. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, 3rd Printing, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 132 pages. INSCRIBED BY BILL LITTLEFIELD ON TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations by Bernie Fuchs. First edition, 3rd printing. Vermont Council on the Humanities stamp at bottom edge of front endpaper. Clean, tight copy.

Brattleboro VT, Stephen Greene Press, 2nd pr., 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Essays on Boston's favorite athletes: Ted Williams, Bob Cousy, Carl Yastrzemski, Bobby Hull and others. 248 pages, b&w illustrations. Short inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, unclipped, 324 pages, b&w illustrations. The inside story of baseball's most colorful team and it's controversial owner. "Ambitious, obnoxious, passive-aggressive, unpredictable and never satisfied with anyone but himself. He built the 1970s Oakland A's dynasty then proceeded to tear it apart by his own relentless meddling. He drove staff and managers out of town by the busload. His own players, tired of his interference, bullying and cheapskatery, bided their time at the dawn of free agency and signed elsewhere at the first chance." Clean copy.

Softcover. Jefferson NC, McFarland & Company, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 242 pages, b&w illustrations. "With a chapter on each World Series involving a Chicago team, this book covers 100 years of October baseball in the Windy City, from the 1906 classicwhich pitted the North Siders against the South Siders-to 2005, when the White Sox ended 88 years of frustration. Contemporary accounts from newspapers and sports publications complement the author's informed commentary". Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 207 pages. Featuring a six-page gatefold and more than 160 photographs, a collection of the photographer's classic and previously unpublished works includes nostalgic post-war portraits as well as action shots of some of today's most popular players, in a volume complemented by commentary by a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist.

Hardcover. NY, Praeger Publishers, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Foreword by Wilfrid Sheed. IIlustrated with photographs. Statistics. 274 pages. Biography of one of the greatest baseball player in the game. Roberto Clemente was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1973. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. On New Year's Eve 1972, following eighteen magnificent seasons in the major leagues, Roberto Clemente died a hero's death, killed in a plane crash as he attempted to deliver food and medical supplies to Nicaragua after a devastating earthquake. David Maraniss brings the great baseball player brilliantly back to life in "Clemente", a book destined to become a modern classic. 401 pages, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Mariner Books, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 374 pages, b&w photos. Mike Krzyzewski, known worldwide as "Coach K," is a five-time national champion at Duke, the NCAA's all-time leader in victories with nearly 1,200, and the first man to lead Team USA to three Olympic basketball gold medals. Through unprecedented access to Krzyzewski's best friends, closest advisers, fiercest adversaries, and generations of his players and assistants, three-time New York Times bestselling author Ian O'Connor takes you behind the Blue Devil curtain with a penetrating examination of the great but flawed leader as he closes out his iconic career. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chapel Hill NC, Algonquin Books, 2nd pr., 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 436 pages, b&w photos. The author offers the reader a fascinating window into the Georgia Peach's life and times when the then, dying Cobb, hired him in 1960, to ghost write his autobiography. It was from those months that came "My Life in Baseball," a carefully sanitized justification for Cobb's life and career. This book, however, includes the darker side of Cobb's life in an authoritative and compelling account of this sports legend. Remainder X on bottom edge otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Assouline, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 3 volumes in slipcase. Very clean, like new in publishers shrink-wrap. For over a century Coca-Cola has been a touchstone of modern culture and a global icon. First sipped at an Atlanta soda fountain, the beverage has become an instantly recognizable symbol around the world, woven into people's lives and memories. This newest addition to Assouline's best-selling Memoire collection, Coca-Cola: Film, Music, Sports celebrates the iconic brand's broad-reaching influence in the domains of film, music, and athletics. With imagery of some of these industries' most revered names, and forewords penned by Ridley Scott, Quincy Jones, and LeBron James, these volumes explore the beverage's prominence in some of the greatest films of all time, its inspiration for legendary musicians of all genres, and its motivational support of athletes from the Olympics to professional sports.This slipcase set is a must-have accessory not only for collectors of Coca-Cola memorabilia but also for lovers of American culture everywhere.

Hardcover. New York, Assouline, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 3 volumes in slipcase. Very clean, like new in publishers shrink-wrap. For over a century Coca-Cola has been a touchstone of modern culture and a global icon. First sipped at an Atlanta soda fountain, the beverage has become an instantly recognizable symbol around the world, woven into people's lives and memories. This newest addition to Assouline's best-selling Memoire collection, Coca-Cola: Film, Music, Sports celebrates the iconic brand's broad-reaching influence in the domains of film, music, and athletics. With imagery of some of these industries' most revered names, and forewords penned by Ridley Scott, Quincy Jones, and LeBron James, these volumes explore the beverage's prominence in some of the greatest films of all time, its inspiration for legendary musicians of all genres, and its motivational support of athletes from the Olympics to professional sports.This slipcase set is a must-have accessory not only for collectors of Coca-Cola memorabilia but also for lovers of American culture everywhere.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay Co., 1st US, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 224 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners bookplate with inscription on inside front cover. Black & white illustrations and full color plates by Arthur Rackham. Light wear to Green cloth covers. Titles and decoration in gilt. Foxing to preliminary pages. Dust jacket with chunks of paper missing at top of spine, light chipping along edges, moderate rubbing to back cover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Le Roy Phillips, Reprint, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 232 pages plus 8 pages of ads. Green cloth covers with title in gilt on cover and spine. Illustrated with 13 full color plates by W. Lee Hankey. Light foxing to some pages. Dust jacket missing chunk at top of spine - chipping and closed tears along edges.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, and Co., 1st, 1889, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Softcover. Seoul Korea, Nanam Publications, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 219 pages, b&w illustrations. Essential for any serious martial artist and practitioners of Tae Kwon Do. Contains practical one-step fighting techniques arranged in the traditional format along with articles on the philosophy andlaguage of the Tae Kwon Do culture. Clean copy.

Softcover. Princeton WI, Kitchen SinkPress, 1st , 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 156 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w with Gotto's baseball comic strip from the 1950s. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Silver City NM, High-Lonesome Books, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 270 pages, b&w illustrations. Features essays of outdoor sport that range well beyond the usual "where-to-go" and "how-to-do-it" of the Hook & Bullet press. Sporting sharp opinion, insight, and the skills of a natural-born raconteur, the author trails his teen-aged son on a wilderness hunt to a quarter-mile shot at a mule deer buck; and, on a hunt for snowshoe hare, is saved from a killer blizzard by a clairvoyant Bassett. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Silver City NM, High-Lonesome Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 288 pages, b&w photos and illustrations. The author's award-winning newspaper column is collected herein: hounds & hunting; double guns & bamboo rods; poaching; catfish; wild trout on the fly; homesteading; book reviews; rants & raves; etc. Clean copy.