New York: The Century Co., 1912. First edition. 8vo. 377 pages. Frontispiece with tissue guard, black and white photographic illustrations. Publisher's decorated beige cloth. Provenance: L. R. Burnett (signature dated 5-20-[19]12 on front free endpaper). An exceedingly scarce history of baseball from the early 20th century. Includes a chapter from.....
New York: Macmillan, 1934. 8vo. ix, 300 pages. Frontispiece. Original red cloth. First edition, presentation copy, with a full-page inscription by Eagan on the front free endpaper to Dr. C. Ward Crampton: "a fellow devotee of the strenuous life and one that keeps the American youth on the straight and.....
Hastings-on-Hudson, NY: Self-published, 1938. 8vo (9 x 6.25 inches). 146, [4] pages. Color frontispiece, black-and-white plates. Original salmon printed wrappers. Provenance: Hastings Historical Society (label on front pastedown, donor's name in ink on-half-title). Sold on behalf of the Society to Benefit their annual fund. SCARCE FIRST EDITION, one of only.....
Indiana: Sport Media Publishing, 2005. First edition. 9.25 x 6.5 inches. 398 pages. Original black boards; pictorial dust jacket. "In this beautifully written book, pioneering race car driver Guthrie tells her story from the beginning. Nearly two decades in the making, the book conveys all that she encountered along the.....
London: Henry Colburn, 1834. Two volumes, 8vo. With half-titles. 19th-century green half morocco gilt, marbled boards, top edges gilt. FIRST EDITION of this delightful collection of periodical articles collected here for the first time. Includes articles on angling, hats, dolphins, etc. Brewster, p. 163.
Philadelphia and Toronto: John C. Winston Company, 1950. 11 x 8 inches. Richly illustrated. Original wrappers.
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co, 1886. 8vo (7 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches). Fifteen chromolithograph plates by M. Bradley & Co., and one map. Publisher's green cloth, front cover blocked in black with a fishing scene, lettered in gilt, gilt-and black-lettered and decorated on spine, top edges.....
Seville: Imprenta Mayor de la cuidad, 1790. 4to (302 x 211 mm). 4pp. Unbound folded sheets. (Tears to folds.) Red cloth slipcase. FIRST EDITION OF THE SEVILLE PRINTING OF THE 1790 ROYAL ACT PROHIBITING THE RUNNING OF THE BULLS: “... considering the bad consequences that it have and will always.....
London: William Pickering, 1836. 2 volumes, 4to (270 x 180 mm; 105/8 x 71/8 in.). Half-titles, titles printed in red and black, 61 steel engravings in two states, many printed on india paper. Contemporary dark green morocco by Hering, wide borders gilt, fish tool cornerpieces gilt, spines in 6 compartments.....
