Category: Sports

A March to Madness ; the view from the floor in the Atlantic Coast Conference [basketball]

By: John Feinstein

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Boston, Massachusetts, Little Brown & Co. : 1998

Seller ID: 34509

ISBN-13: 9780316277402

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

ctavo, 9 1/2" tall, xvii + 464 pages, black and gray boards. A fine, clean, neat first edition with light shelf wear, gently read; hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a fine dust jacket with the original price present.
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A Who's Who of Sports Champions: Their Stories and Records (The 2,200 most important figures in North American Sports)

By: Ralph Hickok

Price: $36.00

Publisher: Boston, Massachusetts, Houghton Mifflin : 1995

Seller ID: 18066

ISBN-13: 9780395681954

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near fine

Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, xiv + 904 pages, blue boards. A near fine, clean hardcover first edition with minor shelf wear, slight soiling to bottom fore-edge corner; hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a near fine dust jacket with light edge wear, with original price.
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A Year in the Sun: The Games, The Players, The Pleasure of Sports

By: George Vecsey

Price: $8.50

Publisher: New York, New York, Times Books : 1989

Seller ID: 34503

ISBN-13: 9780812916782

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Octave, 9 1/2" tall, xiii + 334 pages, brown quarter-cloth. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover edition with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a near fine, lightly worn dust jacket, with the original price. A review copy with the publisher's slips laid in.
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All Seasons Afield with Rod and Gun

By: Raymond R. Camp; foreword by Van Campen Heilner; illustrated by L. M. Henderson

Price: $12.50

Publisher: New York, New York, Whittlesey House : 1939

Seller ID: 25601

Binding: Hardcover--cloth

Condition: Very Good

Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, 352 pages, decorative tan cloth; b&w photographs, and line drawings by L. M. Henderson. A very good, clean, hardcover first edition, second printing with light shelf wear at the bottom edges; hinges and binding tight, paper just slightly yellowed with the previous owner's name on the front endpaper. In a good, moderately edge worn dust jacket with chips at the folds and ends of the backstrip, with original price.
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Alpine Schriften [Mountain Climbing].

By: Dr. Achille Ratti (Heute S. H. Papst Pius XI); Giovanni Bobba und Francesco Mauro, ins Deutsche ubertragen von Leopold von Schlozer

Price: $22.80

Publisher: Berlin, Germany, Rudolf Mosse : 1925

Seller ID: 7029

Binding: Original Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Limited edition; this is #944 of 3000. Small quarto, 196 pages, paper wraps (spine repaired with blue cloth). A very good copy overall, interior clean and internal binding solid, but original thin paper wraps are missing and endpapers are exposed; paper clean and lightly yellowed. With tipped-in photographic illustrations of mountains in the Alps.
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AMERICAN LEAGUE RED BOOK: 1985: 56th Annual Edition.

By: American League Baseball

Price: $10.96

Publisher: New York, New York, American League : 1985

Seller ID: 7762

ISBN-13: 9780916415020

Binding: Paperback--trade

Condition: Very Good

Oblong quarto, 104 pages, stiff illustrated wraps .A very good original edition with minor shelf wear; binding tight, paper white.
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Annual Year Book, Trotting and Pacing in 1953 (USTA Sires and Dams; The Register) Volume 66, Part 1

By: Walter V. Adamkosky, Editor

Price: $11.60

Publisher: Columbus, Ohio, United States Trotting Association : 1954

Seller ID: 35293

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, xvi + 1438 pages, gilt titles, decorative black cloth. A very good, clean neat (and very thick) hard cover with moderate shelf wear and rubbing at the corners; hinges and binding solid, paper lightly yellowed. Without dust jacket.
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Baseball for Young Champions

By: Robert J. Antonacci and Jene Barr; foreword by Yogi Berra, illustrated by Rus Anderson

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, New York, Whittlesey House : 1956

Seller ID: 10827

Binding: Hardcover--cloth

Condition: Near Fine/Very Good

Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, 156 pages, red cloth. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with little shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a very good, lightly edge worn and lightly soiled dust jacket with price clipped. 'Handbook for a young player'.
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Birdie: Confessions of a Baseball Nomad / The Ripken Way: A Manual for Baseball and Life (two original titles sold together)

By: Birdie Tebbetts, with James Morrison; Reggie Jackson (foreword) / Cal Ripken, Sr., with Larry Burke; Cal Ripken, Jr. (foreword)

Price: $7.79

Publisher: New York, New York, Pocket Books / Triumph Books : 1999 / 2002

Seller ID: 40373

ISBN-13: 9781572434554

Binding: Hardcover--cloth

Condition: Fine / Fine and Very Good / Very

2 individual vols. 1: Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, xvii + 205 pages, blue and white boards. A fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with light shelf wear, hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a fine, lightly worn dust jacket with the original price. / 2: Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, xxvii + 241 pages, black and brown boards. A very good, clean, neat hard cover first edition with light shelf wear over all, hinges and binding tight, paper cream white with light soiling to the fore-edges BUT with dampstaining to the upper fore-edge (not visible in the interior). In a very good, lightly worn dust jacke...
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Bodyline

By: Philip Derriman; with Foreword by Bill O'Reilly

Price: $13.20

Publisher: Sydney, Australia, Collins Publishers : 1985

Seller ID: 10718

ISBN-13: 9780002165778

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine/Fine

Quarto, 11 1/4" tall, 160 pages; with b&w photographs. A fine, clean hardcover edition with little shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a fine dust jacket.
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Boxing and Wrestling (two magazines in one): Volume 2, Number 9, January 1953. The Passing of a Champion (Jersey Joe Walcott/ Rocky Marciano (Cover illustration); Gene Hairston/ Bobo Olson; Lee Sala/ Joe Rindone; Bobby Dykes/Gil Turner; Rocky Castellani/ Johnny Lombardi; etc

By: Joseph Weider (editor); Eddie Borden, Stanley Weston, Arthur Goldwyn, Bill Miller, Johnny Fitzgerald, Norman Preo Ben Allen Fields Charles A . SMith, et al

Price: $19.00

Publisher: New York, New York, Ringside Publications. : 1953

Seller ID: 43956

Binding: Original Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Single issue. Quarto, 11" tall, wire saddle stitch, 82 pages + two color cover, single color interior. Many fabulous photos. A very good, clean original magazine overall with moderate edge wear ; moderate yellowing to pages. The original mill-rolled paper used on this magazine has high acid content and is now delicate and must be handled with care.
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Boxing News Record: 1939 Edition

By: George Winn (editor), Dick O'Brien, Ed Van Every, Frank Korch, Harry F. Brown, Edward W. Cochrane, Billy Stevens, Sam Taub, Harry B. Smith, Fred Eisenstadt, Fred Mosebach, et al

Price: $65.00

Publisher: George Winn: New York : 1939

Seller ID: 59176

Condition: Very Good

Octavo, 7 1/4? tall, 320 pages, stiff illustrated wraps. A good plus, interior very good, generally clean but cover edge worn, with chipping at top edge and spine bottom edge, cover lightly creased and slightly soiled with yellowing to paper stock, internal binding solid, text paper lightly yellowed with light soiling to the fore-edge and several spots to the top edge
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Broken Patterns, the Education of a Quarterback [signed by Ron Johnson

By: Fran Tarkenton (as told to Brock Yates); [ Ron Johnson, #30]

Price: $19.00

Publisher: New York, New York, Simon & Schuster : 1971

Seller ID: 46887

ISBN-13: 9780671242176

Binding: Hardcover--cloth

Condition: Good +

Signed by Ron Johnson, Giants #30, who is pictured in the plates an mentioned in the text and inscribed to a previous owner. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 191 pages + black and white plates, blue cloth. This is a well read volume in generally good condition only; a moderately worn hard cover, fore-corners rubbed,with some finger soiling and light soiling to the endpapers and fore-edges; hinges and binding solid, paper about cream white with a checked passage. In a good, edge worn dust jacket with the original price present, back strip and flp folds chipped, and a small notation at the center referring ...
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Bull Fever

By: Kenneth Tynan

Price: $12.50

Publisher: New York, New York, Harper & Brothers : 1955

Seller ID: 39340

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

To explain the kind of pleasure the bull fight can bestow, I have written this book....." Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, 221 pages + black and white photo-illustration. A very good plus, clean, neat hard cover first edition with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper slightly yellowed with slight foxing to the endpapers and fore-edges; light musky odor present. In a good, moderately worn dust jacket, back strip faded, chipped at the fold edges, with the original price.
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Climber's Choice: the best climbing writers present their work

By: Pat Ament (editor); Stephen Venables, John Gill, Chris Bonington, Joe Simpson, Greg Child, Paul Pritchard, Alison Osius, Kurt Diemberger, Walt Bonatti, et al

Price: $12.50

Publisher: New York, New York, Ragged Mountain Press--McGraw Hill : 2002

Seller ID: 46226

ISBN-13: 9780071377232

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very good

Octavo, 8 3/4" tall, xix + 284 pages, maroon and blue boards. A very good, generally clean, neat, sturdy, hard cover first printing with light shelf wear (likely read without dust jacket); hinges and binding tight, paper white. In near fine, lightly worn dust jacket with the original price present.
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Coaching Basketball Successfully

By: Morgan Wootten; with Dave Gilbert; foreword by John Wooden

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Champaign, Illinois, Leisure Press : 1992

Seller ID: 35489

ISBN-13: 9780880114462

Binding: Pictorial Stiff Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

Quarto, 11" tall, 223 pages, stiff pictorial wraps. A near fine, clean soft cover with minor shelf wear; binding tight, paper white.
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Cousy: His Life, Career, and the Birth of Big-Time Basketball

By: Reynolds, Bill

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : 2005-02-01

Seller ID: 59270

ISBN-13: 9780743254762

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, xiii + 307 pages, black quarter-cloth over green boards. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover with little shelf wear, gently read, binding tight, paper just slightly yellowed. In a near fine, lightly worn dust jacket with the original price present.
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Covert-Side Sketches; or, Thoughts on Hunting Suggested by Many Days in Many Countries with Fox, Deer, and Hare.

By: H. Nevill Fitt

Price: $24.00

Publisher: London, England, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington : 1878

Seller ID: 1306

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Good

Octavo, vii + 346 pages, plus 32 pages of ads dated 1878; green cloth with gilt decorations and titles. Color frontispiece by Meyerstein. A good, clean hardcover first edition with minor fraying to the cover cloth backstrip edges, cloth worn through to the boards at the fore-corner tips, gilt titles bright; back hinge cracked, internal binding solid, paper lightly yellowed with light scattered foxing.
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Creating the National Pastime: Baseball Transforms Itself 1903 - 1953

By: G. Edward White

Price: $14.50

Publisher: Princeton, NJ / New York, Princeton University / Basic Books : 1996

Seller ID: 46913

ISBN-13: 9780691034881

Binding: Hardcover--cloth

Condition: Near Fine / Fine

Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, xiv + 368 pages, blue cloth; with b&w photographs. A near fine, clean hard cover first edition with minor shelf wear, light foxing at top and bottom fore-edges; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a fine dust jacket.
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Cut Time: An Education at the Fights [Boxing]

By: Carlo Rotella

Price: $6.80

Publisher: Boston, Massachusetts, Houghton Mifflin : 2003

Seller ID: 24786

ISBN-13: 9780618145331

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine / Near Fine

Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 222 pages, black boards. A fine, clean, neat hardcover first edition with mimimal shelf wear; binding tight, paper cream white. In a near fine lightly rubbed dust jacket, with original price.
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Die Alpen; Les Alpes; Le Alpi, Las Alps: Monatsschrift De Schweizer Alpenclub; Revue du Club Alpin Suisse; Rivista del Club Alpino Svizzero; Revaisa dal Club Alpin Svizzer; 1947, Dezember/Decembre/Dicembre; XXIII - No 12

By: Helga S. Paasche, Herbert Kuntscher, J. Hell, Rudolf Gsell, Toni E. Muller, Casper Zieger, Max Oechslin, Eugene Rambert, G. Conne, Louis Henchoz, Francis Morand, Pierre Vaney et al.

Price: $19.00

Publisher: Bern, Switzerland, Druck und Kommissionsverlag / Stamppfi & Cie : 1947

Seller ID: 43882

Binding: Original Wraps

Condition: Very Good -

Single issue; periodical. German/French/ Italian/ Spanish text. Quarto, 10 1/4" tall, pages 441 to 480 + black and white photo plate pages (1 color ) + xxiv ads; stiff printed covers. A very good minus issue over all, cover yellowed, lightly soiled, with some chipping and splitting at the spine, interior binding solid, paper moderately yellowed (more so to the margins), photo plates slightly yellowed
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Die Alpen; Les Alpes; Le Alpi, Las Alps: Monatsschrift De Schweizer Alpenclub; Revue du Club Alpin Suisse; Rivista del Club Alpino Svizzero; Revaisa dal Club Alpin Svizzer; 1947, Jini, Juin, Giugno; XXIII - No 6

By: Sam Aubert, Edmond Pidoux, Marcel Kurtz, Max Oechslin, E. Wyler, M. Werder, E. Rudd, Armin Ruhl et al.

Price: $16.50

Publisher: Bern, Switzerland, Druck und Kommissionsverlag / Stamppfi & Cie : 1947

Seller ID: 43863

Binding: Original Wraps

Condition: Good

Single issue; periodical. German/French/ Italian/ Spanish text. Quarto, 10 1/4" tall, pages 201 to 152 + black and white photo plate pages + xxiv ads; stiff printed covers. A good issue over all, cover yellowed, moderately soiled, with chipping at the spine, cover hinge splitting, interior binding solid, paper moderately yellowed (moreso to the margins), photo plates lightly yellowed
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Die Alpen; Les Alpes; Le Alpi, Las Alps: Monatsschrift De Schweizer Alpenclub; Revue du Club Alpin Suisse; Rivista del Club Alpino Svizzero; Revaisa dal Club Alpin Svizzer; 1947, November/Novembre; XXIII - No 11

By: Ali Szepessy, L. Seylaz, G.R. de Beer, Claude Ruchet, Herbert Alboth, A. Pfaffli, Martin Jaggi, Hugo Nunlist, Rudolf Gsell et al.

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Bern, Switzerland, Druck und Kommissionsverlag / Stamppfi & Cie : 1947

Seller ID: 43883

Binding: Original Wraps

Condition: Good

Single issue; periodical. German/French/ Italian/ Spanish text. Quarto, 10 1/4" tall, pages 401 to 440 + black and white photo plate pages + xxiv ads; stiff printed covers. A good issue over all, cover yellowed, moderately soiled, with chipping at the spine, cover hinge splitting, interior binding solid, paper moderately yellowed (moreso to the margins), photo plates lightly yellowed
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Don Baylor ; nothing but the truth: a baseball life.

By: Don Baylor with Claire Smith

Price: $7.60

Publisher: New York, New York, St. Martin's Press : 1989

Seller ID: 34494

ISBN-13: 9780312029067

Binding: Hardcover--quarter cloth, paper over boards

Condition: Fine/Near Fine

Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, xxvii + 306 pages, brown quarter-cloth. A fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with little shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper white with a remainder marlk on the top edge. In a fine dust jacket with the original price.
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Driving The Green: The Making of a Golf Course (Ironhorse)

By: John Strawn

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, New York, Harper Collins (Harpercollins) : 1991

Seller ID: 22508

ISBN-13: 9780060166595

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine/Near Fine

Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, 344 pages. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with light shelf wear but one corner bumped; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a near fine lightly worn dust jacket with the original price.
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Dropping the Ball: Baseball's Troubles and How We Can and Must Solve Them

By: Dave Winfield, with Michael Levin

Price: $8.50

Publisher: New York, New York, Scribner : 2007

Seller ID: 38781

ISBN-13: 9781416534488

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine/Fine

Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, 211 pages, black and blue boards. A fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a fine dust jacket with the original price.
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Fall Classics: The Best Writing About The World Series' First 100 years

By: Bill Littlefield & Richard A. Johnson, Editors

Price: $9.50

Publisher: New York, New York, Crown : 2003

Seller ID: 29798

ISBN-13: 9781400048991

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, 290 pages, brown boards. A fine, clean neat hard cover first edition with light shelf wear, gently read; hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a fine, lightly edge worn dust jacket with the original price present.
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Famous American Athletes of Today (fifth series)

By: LeRoy Atkinson et al (J. Brooks Fenno, HaroldKaese, Richard Van Horne, Benjamin C. Bowker, Harold J. Tuthill)

Price: $45.00

Publisher: L.C. Page: Boston : 1937

Seller ID: 60728

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good plus

Sold as a good original reading copy of a scarce title. Octavo, 8? tall, 410 pages + 15 photo plates (all present), illustrated tan cloth. A good, generally clean, hard cover first edition with moderate shelf wear, slight fraying to the cloth at the top and bottom edges of the spine, light exterior soiling, hinges cracked but secure and internal binding solid, paper light to moderately yellowed, with soiling or foxing to the fore-edges. Without dust jacket. Pictures include James Jay Braddock, Joseph Thomas DiMaggio, James Cleveland 'Jesse' Owens, Helen Stephens, Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, Wilm...
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Frank Forester's Horse and Horsemanship of the United States and British Provinces of North America (issued in two volumes--Vol. II only) with steel-engraved original portraits of celebrated horses.

By: Frank Forester; Henry William Herbert; F.O.C. Darley , J. Smillie, and N. Orr, illustrators

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, New York, Stringer and Townsend : 1857

Seller ID: 43669

Binding: Hardcover--cloth

Condition: Good

Single vol. 2 only. An ex-library copy with markings to the endpapers and second title page. Small quarto, 10 3/4" tall, engraved title page + 576 pages with intertextual woodcut illustrations + 7 steel plate engravings (all listed engravings present plus one additional which is the volume one title page; three-quarters leather over brown cloth. A good, original hardcover overall with significant shelf wear and rubbing at the corners, binding cloth taped, hinges broken but reglued and mostly secure; internal binding otherwise solid, paper light to moderately yellowed with some scattered foxing...
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Fun & Games; On Sport and Other Amusements

By: Alistair Cooke

Price: $5.20

Publisher: New York, New York, Arcade Publishing : 1995

Seller ID: 18884

ISBN-13: 9781559702973

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine/Fine

Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, xii + 255 pages, green boards. A fine, clean, neat hard cover with minor shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper white, with slight foxing at top fore-edge. In a fine dust jacket, with original price.
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Category: Sports