Sutton Coldfield: Chess, 1975-1976. Octavo; G/no DJ; Hardcover w/out DJ; Spine, brown with gold print; Boards in brown cloth, stain/smudging to front, cocked spine, wear to corners, front hinge, and spine caps; Text block has cracked front hinge, tanning to endpaper, tanning to paper; 408 pages, illustrated. More about CHESS. VOLUME 41, NOS. 731-754, OCTOBER 1975-SEPTEMBER 1976

Altona-Bahrenfeld: Reemtsma, 1933. 301-330th thousand. Quarto; 142 pp. + index and folding chart in color of medal tallies. Illustrated with photographs in b-w and color. Blue cloth hardcover in photographic collage dust jacket. VG/G. Some slight soiling to boards; endpapers age-toned. Binding tight. Dust jacket chipped at spine ends and at folds, with several long closed tears. Text in German. Shelved on Front Table. More about DIE OLYMPISCHEN SPIELE IN LOS ANGELES 1932

Philadelphia: Henry F. Anners, 1845. Early U.S. edition "specially adapted to the United States." 16mo in red embossed hardcovers with gold gilt; VG; moderate soiling; slight fraying on top of spine; strong binding; age-toned paper; very tight text; pp. 277; shelved in front door case. More about HOYLE'S GAMES: CONTAINING ESTABLISHED RULES AND PRACTICE

Thomas Guild. Octavo; Light brown spine w/o text; Boards have slightly rubbed and sunned exterior with some wear along edges & corners, but still intact; Text block is moderately age toned with slight rubbing along edge due to handling, but pages are still bound. More about Souvenir Album of Carnoustie Views

San Diego: A.S. Barnes & Company, 1980. First Edition. Octavo; First Edition; VG/VG; Hardcover with DJ; Spine, grey with white print; DJ has mild edgewear, otherwise clean and bright; Boards in red cloth with gold print, bump to top outside corners and spine tail, slight spotting; Textblock clean and tight; 108 pages, illustrated. More about THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO CARD CONJURING

Charlottesville, WV: University Press of Virginia, 1999. US Printing. 8vo. VG+/VG+. brown/white pictorial DJ, jacket rear, spine and front are widely illustrated, with DJ spine tilting in small white and red characters. black clothbound HC with a touch of wear, gilt-stamped titling, adjacent boards are thick and sturdy. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON RIGHT FEP. solidly bound, lightly read interior is free of marks. head, fore-edge and tail are smoothly clear. 275 pp. ISBN# 0813918847. More about BRUSHING BACK JIM CROW : THE INTEGRATION OF MINOR-LEAGUE BASEBALL IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH (SIGNED

New York and London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2003. First Norton Paperback. Octavo; pp 284; G/paperback; blue spine with white text; covers have moderate sunning to exterior; minor thumbing to corners; intact panels; text block shows slight shelf wear to exterior edges; interior clean; illustrated. More about Secrets of the Russian Chess Masters: Volume 1, Fundamentals of the Game

London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, n.d. Quarto; good+/none; black cloth spine with red titles; ex lirbis, bookplate; head-edge, gilt; shelf wear and bumping; text block, clean; 123 pp.; illus., plates and text figures; some color; binding shaken; toning; foxing; boards, discolorations along head-edge; else good. More about RATCATCHER TO SCARLETT

Eugene: Harvest House Publishers, 2006. Octavo. VG/VG DJ. Red-black spine with white text/title; dustjacket is clean with mild edgewear; boards are strong and clean; INSCRIBED by author on the front free end page; binding is strong; textblock is clean. Pp. 224. More about Touchdown Alexander: The Story of Faith, Football, and Pursuing the Dream - INSCRIBED

USA: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1973. Second Printing. small, slender 8vo. VG+/ - no DJ. slim white HC, with tiny black and green titling, with blue/green/black illustrated front board. prior owner name in ink on right fep. mild surface wear to rear white board with text. with b/w figures and illustrations. 96 pp. ISBN# 0397009690. More about SPORTS ILLUSTRATED -- SKIN DIVING AND SNORKELING

London: E. H. Butler & Co., 1863. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 156 pages; VG-; spine is green with faded gilt lettering; half bound in green cloth and red vellum; binding has heavy rubbing on both boards, moderate wear along the top, bottom, and fore edge, with heavy chipping at the fore edge corners and mild chipping at the top and bottom of the spine; pages have gilt along the top edge, age toning, occasional blotching, and minor detachment on page 120; shelved case 13. More about THE LIFE OF PHILIDOR: MUSICIAN AND CHESS-PLAYER

New York: Brentano's, 1924. Octavo; VG-/no-DJ; Blue fabric spine with gilded text. Boards have general shelf wear, age toned spine, bumping on corners, rubbing to edges, apart from that, binding strong; Textblock has minor wear on top edges, otherwise, clean, free of underlining/highlighting; pp 341. More about Memories of Men and Horses

New York, NY: ESPN Books, 2007. First Edition. 8vo. VG+/VG. tiny close cut to black/white tip with neon orange band, black uppercase title followed by neon orange segment, gray segment as tail end with white lettering. bright pictorial jacket front. medium gray clothbound HB with imprinted white titling, with light gray boards. like new, tightly bound, SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON HALF-TITLE PAGE. textblock skimmed lightly without marks or wear. 290 pp. ISBN#9781933060194. More about MAN IN THE MIDDLE (SIGNED

Barre, Massachusetts: Imprint Society, Inc., 1972. Octavo; pp 136; VG-; Brown spine with gilt and white text; Cloth shows slight sunning to spine, some fraying to head spine edge, minor scratches to exterior; Text block has slight foxing to exterior edges; interior clean; loose page with signed paper in bag and tipped in;. More about Selections from the Fancy; or True Sportsman's Guide [signed with an etching by Randy Jones

Milwaukee: TS Andrews, 1924. Octavo bound in blue buckram with gilt titles on spine. 315pp total, two editions of Ring Battles, from 1914 and 1924, bound together. Binding dates back to early 1950s. SIGNED by TS Andrews at the front of the 1924 issue. Condition is Very Good, with some age-yellowing, especially to the 1914 issue. More about RING BATTLES OF CENTURIES 1914 and RING BATTLES OF CENTURIES 1924 bound set

New York: The Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co., 1890. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 130 pages; G+; fully bound in green cloth, front cover has gilt tooling and lettering, binding has rubbing on both covers, has wear along the top and bottom edges and along the spine, with fraying at the top of the spine and bumping on the fore edge corners; pages have age toning and dust build up along the top edge; shelved case 13. More about HANDBOOK OF RULES: BILLIARDS AND POOL

Chicago: Era Publishing Co., 1900. first edition. Octavo; G+/no-DJ; Green spine with dark green text; Out of print; Cloth has moderately rubbed exterior with white spotting toward fore edges & mostly on rear and slightly fraying spine edge, lightly bumped fore edge corners and with otherwise strong, intact and unmarked panels, 'as is'; Text block has darkened on exterior edges and previous owner's name on front end paper, slight cracking along binding between end pastedown with fully intact pages; pp 339. More about A Ball Player's Career

Philadelphia: Macrae Smith, 1961. First Edition. Octavo; G+/G+; orange and blue illustrated spine with black text; jacket has age toning, light bumping to head and tail edges, bumping to the head and tail of spine, rubbing on the front and back; boards bumping to the head and tail of spine, age toning to interior boards; textblock has age toning; interior pages have age toning; pp 187. More about Crazy Legs McBain

Norwalk, CT: Golf Digest, Inc., 1970. First printing. Small Quarto; pp 127; VG-/G; Black spine with white text; dust jacket has chipping to corners, slight sun fading and light rubbing to exterior; cloth has slight wear to exterior, light sunning to boards; text block shows minor wear to exterior edges, interior clean;. More about The Square-to-Square Golf Swing: Modern Method for the Modern Player

Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1987. First edition. Octavo; First edition; G-/no DJ; Hardcover w/out DJ; Spine, green with white and green print; Boards in glossy illustrated green paper, mild edgewear/shelfwear, spotting to front; Text block has puckering pages (water damage) through page 15, slight blemishes at margins of pages 21, 27, tanning to title page and page 294; viii, 296 pages, chess diagrams. More about COMPREHENSIVE CHESS ENDINGS. VOLUME 4, PAWN ENDINGS (PERGAMON RUSSIAN CHESS SERIES

London: Andre Deutsch, 1957. Octavo; G-/G-; Hardcover with DJ; Spine, green and yellow with brown print; DJ has small tear at spine head and rear bottom edge, edgewear, shelfwear, pen mark on rear; Boards in blue cloth with gold print, slight wear to spine head, slight bumps to bottom edges; Text block has spotting to edges, tanning and spotting to endpapers, owner embossed stamp on front flyleaf, small amount of foxing within; 237 pages, illustrated with b&w plates. More about THE CONQUEST OF FITZROY

Dehiwala: Tisara Prakasakayo, 1970. Octavo; First Edition 1853, Reprint April 1970; VG/VG; Paperback with DJ; Spine, illustrated with red print; DJ has slight edgewear, mild smudging, fading to spine, small tear at spine head and upper right corner; Cover is clean and strong, some creasing to spine; Textblock is clean and tight but beginning to separate from cover at rear hinge; xiii, 207 pages, frontispiece, illustrated. More about THE RIFLE AND THE HOUND IN CEYLON

New York: A.S. Barnes and Company, 1960. Octavo; G/G; Hardcover with DJ; Spine, blue with white print; DJ in mylar, mild edgewear and shelfwear/smudging, taped to boards; Boards in blue cloth with white print, mild wear to corners and spine caps; Text block has owner bookplate and name in ink on front endpapers, spotting to all edges, clean text; 238 pages, frontispiece, illustrated (b&w plates). More about RAKAPOSHI

London: Jonathan Cape, 1931. Reprint. Octavo; VG; 326 pages; Green spine with gilt tooling, red and black labels, and raised bands; Beautifully re-bound in green leather by Riviere and Sons, with gilt tooled fox and horseshoe design on front board; All edges gilt; Full color plates and frontispiece; Green marbled endpapers; Binding strong; Minor wear to the edges, previous owner's gift inscription on flyleaf, corners lightly bumped; Shelved in case 12. More about THOUGHTS ON HARE AND FOX HUNTING IN A SERIES OF LETTERS TO A FRIEND

1990. Revised. Octavo; G+; Paperback; Spine, tan without print; Cover is tan with black print, peripheral fading, mild creasing to front top edge, slight smudging to rear; Text block clean and tight; 254 pages, chess diagrams. More about CHESS ENDGAME LESSONS