Two Books About Billiards First Editions
First Edition. Description: A lot of two books about billiards:
Anonymous. Hand-book of Rules: Billiards and Pool. New York: The Brunswick-Balke Collender Co., 1890. First edition, first printing.
Octavo, 130 pages. Good+. Fully bound in green cloth with gilt tooling and lettering to front cover. Rubbing to both covers with wear to edges and spine; fraying at top of spine and bumping to fore-edge corners. Text block age-toned and a bit dusty.
Willie Hoppe. Thirty Years of Billiards. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1925. First edition, first printing.
Octavo, 255 pages. Good+. Fully bound in dark blue cloth with gilt tooling and lettering to spine and front cover. Binding worn along the top and bottom edges, with mild chipping at the top and bottom; mild rubbing on both covers and minor bumping on the fore edge corners. Spine has hard rubbing near the bottom. Text block age-toned, slightly foxed, and somewhat dusty. Illustrated with plates with tissue guards.
K21086
NOTE: Shelved in Room G.
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FP New Rockville Stock
Price: $350