Concord, NC: Griggs Publishing Company, Inc., 1993. Quarto; vg/none; black spine with gold text; minor shelf wear and bumping; text block, clean; illustrations in color and B/W; 128pp. More about AMERICAN RACING CLASSICS [Volume 2, Number. January 1993

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

N.p. The Fishing Book Club, 1971. na. Quarto. VG/VG. White spine of dustjacket has green & black lettering. Corners and spine ends of boards bumped and rubbed. Corresponding areas of dustjacket crinkled, creased, and abraded; top and bottom edges softened. Superficial scratches and scuffing across lightly soiled jacket. More about HARDY'S BOOK OF FISHING

New York: The Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co., 1912. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 398 pages; fully bound in blue cloth, front cover has gilt tooling, spine has gilt tooling and lettering; binding has wear along the top and bottom edges, with fraying at the top and bottom of the spine, has mild rubbing on both covers and mild bumping on the fore edge corners; pages have dust build up along the top edge, have age toning, and have minor small pencil marking on the first and last endpapers; profusely illustrated; shelved case 13. More about MODERN BILLIARDS: A COMPLETE TEXTBOOK OF THE GAME

London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1843. First Edition. large Octavo, 322 pages, 4 pages ads; VG; rebound in full crushed crimson levant, paneled spine with gilt lettering in one compartments, others with gilt frames and gilt hound heads or hunting horns; triple-ruled border on boards; two double-rules to turn-ins, with hounds in the corners; gray endpapers; top edge of text block gilt; binding by Birdsall, Northampton & London; original covers and spine bound in in rear; frontispiece with tissue-guard; separate illustrated title page; old bookseller's ad for this volume taped opposite title page, with tape leaving residue; shelved case 12. More about HUNTING REMINISCENCES

Garden City, NY: Hanover House, 1959. 12mo; pp 208; VG/VG; blue spine with red text; dust jacket has slight sunning to exterior, minor wear to edges; cloth has slight wear to exterior, light sunning to spine; text block shows slight toning to exterior edges; interior clean;. More about The World's Racing Cars and Sports Cars

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1945. Octavo; VG/VG-. Faded green/black text on off white spine. Dust Jacket darkened from age, spine sunned, light soiling along DJ, chipping along corners and spine head/tail/center, three 1/4" closed tears on rear cover along head/tail edges; Boards strong, clean, rubbing along corners and spine head/tail; Textblock darkened from age, clean, rear end paper inscribed with name/address. More about Arab Archery: "A Book on the Excellence of the Bow & Arrow and the Description Thereof"

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

Belmont, Mass. Wellington, 1960. First Edition. 8vo in black boards. VG. normal shelfwear, a little scuffing. pages clean, signatures sound, tiring just a touch. many photos. ex-lib. 142 pp. More about LAND OF TANE: THE THREAT OF EROSION

New York: Macmillan, 1916. (first). 8vo in red-orange cloth, with illustration on front board of acrobats and clowns; dj is photo-illustrated, with black text on red spine. VG-/VG. Water-stains and some residual fading on lower corner of front board, along spine, and along bottom edge of back board (though text itself is unaffected); Bumped at head & foot of spine; slight bowing to boards; soiling and some spotting along all edges of text block; previous owner's name and address in black ink on upper left corner of front paste-down endpaper; some age-toning to endpapers; hinges are shaken but still intact. Dj is chipped at head & foot of spine; dj spine is age-darkened; some slight wear and age-toning along edges; otherwise, a surprisingly good dj, considering the state of the book. From the dj's front flap: "A book that every boy needs." From the title page: "A new method of physical development for Boys and Girls" and "Based on The Ten Elements of Simple Tumbling and adapted from the practice of professional acrobats." From the dj's rear flap: "Profusely illustrated with photograohs of the most important acts." Odd and charming. 190 pp., plus 4 pp. of ads. More about AMATEUR CIRCUS LIFE: A NEW SYSTEM OF PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT ADAPTED FROM THE PRACTICE OF...