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THE BACKCOUNTRY HANDBOOK: An Illustrated Guide to the Techniques and Joys of the Wilderness Experience by the Editors of Mother Earth News
New York: Fireside / Simon and Schuster, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Very good in like jacket. Jacket lightly toned at edges, mild edgewear. Book bumped at a couple corners. Clean and sound overall. First edition of this guide to the outdoors and a rather uncommon Abbey item. 191pp. with.....
JUDY'S TEEN-TOPICS / Vol. 7 No. 10 October 1952
Framingham, MA: Dennison Manufacturing Co., 1952. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Single sheet folded in horizontal thirds [6pp.] Mild toning; light edgewear. Very good. Halloween issue of this monthly guide for girls of the early 1950s; the publication was equal parts part social training manual, craft project suggestions, and advertisement for.....
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['O'Mens Motorcycle Club Patches]
[Cleveland, OH]: [ca. 1980s]. Four fabric patches: one approx. 4" sewn logo design; three approx. 8" x 3" red fabric nameplates with black sewn lettering: "X-Rated," "Miss Giggles," and "Big Sexy." Patches appear removed from previous jacket mountings. Overall each clean, about very good. Four assorted patches from the 'O'Mens.....
THE LIFE OF PHILIDOR: Musician and Chess-Player
New York: Da Capo, 1971. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth. Near fine. Small scuff to cloth of front cover. Trace wear to extremities. Else bright, clean, and tight. A sharp copy. Unabridged reproduction of the original 1863 Philadelphia edition. With a Supplementary Essay by Tassilo Von Heydebrand Und Der Lasa. 156pp.....
SURFERS: Photographs
New York: Powerhouse Books, (1997). First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Brown cloth with blindstamped title to front, in photographic dust jacket. Very near fine in like DJ. Slight hint of toning to jacket and pages, but overall quite clean. Unpaginated. Very nicely produced photobook collecting images of surfers throughout the world.....
LIKE IT IS
Chicago: Playboy Press, (1974). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth in original metallic dust jacket. SIGNED at ffep. Moderate rubbing and edgewear with several short closed tears and creasing at rear panel. Price-clipped. Touched of wear to cloth at edges. Interior bright and clean. Very good. A collection of.....
THE PROFESSOR, THE BANKER AND THE SUICIDE KING: Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Time
New York: Warner Books, (2005). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's paper-covered boards in original dust jacket. Jacket suffers minor shelf-wear. Interior bright and clean. Near fine. An account of the poker game with the highest stakes of all time, initatied by Texas billionaire Andy Beal.
Parallel Bar Exercises (Spalding Athletic Library, Group XV, No. 328)
New York: American Sports Publishing, (1909). First edition. Wraps. 12mo. Original blue decorated wraps. Very good or better overall wih some chipping to the edges of wraps. Some rusting at staples. Else sound and clean. [19], 6-71, [27]. Illustrated with many B&W photographs. Numerous related and illustrated ads. Scarce number.....
TROLLS: An Illustrated Price Guide
(Paducah, KY): Collector Books, (1981). First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Original pictorial wraps. Very good. Some rubbing and toning to covers. Small stain to a couple pages, unobstrusive. Else clean and sound. 78pp. Trolls! Miniature. Collectible. Hideous. Trolls. A whole book of them. With pictures. And prices. From the era that.....
"Rectiform" Sports Spectacles
London: J.H. Steward, [Circa 1935]. 5.25" x 8" folded pamphlet printed in blue on pale blue stock. Illustrated with drawings of two different frame styles. "12/24/45" penned in black ink at front. Mild toning and foxing. Short split at fold. Very good. Also includes price list, 8" x 10" approx.....
SUMMER OF '49
New York: William Morrow, (1989). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth backed paper boards. Near fine in good jacket. Adheisive residue at front panel of dust jacket. Slight edge-wear and foxing along the top edge. Front board bumped at tail. Touch of foxing to fore-edge. Else clean and sound. First.....
PERILS AND PLEASURES OF A HUNTERS LIFE OR THE ROMANCE OF HUNTING
Philadelphia: J. W. Bradley, 1858. Later Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Original cloth. Rubbing, soil to cloth. Penciled child-scrawl to rear endpaper. Book cocked. Chip to title page. Good. Stories of big game hunting in the American west, Brazil, Argentina, South Africa, and India. Later printing of Wagner Camp 239b:1 (this printing.....
MUSH, You Malemutes!
New York: The America Press, 1943. Second edition. Cloth. 8vo. Very good in like jacket. Scarce DJ toned here and there, moderate edgewear. Unclipped. Book mildly rubbed at extremities. Else clean and sound throughout. Inscribed and SIGNED by author Hubbard ("The Glacier Priest") to frontis. Jesuit's Alaskan adventures, many of.....
A SEASON IN THE SUN
New York: Harper and Row, (1977). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's cloth-backed boards in original dust jacket. Jacket suffes minor edge-wear and some small spots of soil. Fore-edge slightly foxed. Interior bright. Neaer fine. 175 pp. An anecdotal account of the 1976 major-league baseball season, one of Kahn's many works.....
MARTY LIQUORI'S GUIDE FOR THE ELITE RUNNER
First Edition. 8vo.
TO THE BULLFIGHT
New York: Knopf, 1953. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pictorial boards, in pictorial dust jacket. A very good plus copy in like DJ. Light edgewear to jacket, 1/4" closed tear to front panel. Mild corner bumps to boards. Small holes to inner hinge; binding else good and sound. Bright, clean.....
SECOND BASE SLOAN
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1917. Hardcover. 8vo. Green and brown pictorial cloth boards. In pictorial dust jacket. Boards bumped; moderate soil to boards and jacket. Spine sunned. Chipping to jacket edges with some loss to spine ends; several tears along front fold. Ownership signatures to front paste-down and ffep.....
POSITIVELY FIFTH STREET: Murders, Cheats, and Binion's World Series of Poker
New York: Farra, Straus, Giroux, (2003). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Near fine in like jacket. DJ unclipped. Touches of shelfwear. Else clean, bright, and sound throughout. First edition / printing of McManus' classic account of the 2000 World Series of Poker. One of the best poker books of all time.....
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[Original Pen-and-Ink Drawing of Outlaw Biker]
Indiana? 1968. 17.5" x 12" overall, with image 10.5 x 10" approx. Mild wear, soil. Very good. Original vintage pen-and-ink portrait of a rider shown from the rear mounted on a custom motocycle and wearing a club cut. The plates on the bike are from Indiana, but we are unable.....
[Photograph Archive of an Early-1940's West Coast Motorcycle Club]
[Oregon]: [ca. 1941]. 117 black and white photographs including 4 medium enlargements and 1 narrow photo scrap, the remaining 112 snapshot format. Mounted in an apparently later album to rectos and versos of 9 adhesive card leaves. At least 7 prints appear trimmed to fit into current album mounting. Most.....
HOW I PLAYED THE GAME: An Autobiography
Dallas, TX: Taylor Publishing Company, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Near fine in like jacket. Book has slight lean. Else fine: bright, clean, sound. DJ has trace toning to top edge of flaps. Trace rubbing. Else sharp and unclipped. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by author and golf legend Byron Nelson to.....
GREAT BOOK OF BASEBALL CARDS
New York: Beekman House, (1989). First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Publisher's green boards in original dust jacket. Jacket mildly worn at lower edge with small closed tear at front corner. Remainder mark at lower edge. Interior bright and clean. Near fine. 452pp. A survey of collectible baseball cards, from the 19th.....
AMERICAN WATERFOWL: Their Present Situation and the Outlook for their Future.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's cloth. Boards sunned. Edges worn. Corners bumped. Spine faded. Stains at edges of text block. Interior clean. Tight. 312 pp. Iithographic frontispiece and illustrated plates throughout.
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SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE BULL-FIGHTING [Cover Title]
(London): [ca. 1925?]. Hardcover. Oblong 4to. cloth-bound album. 25 x 36cm. 103 original photographs, most (92) approx. 3.5 x 5.5" with remaining 7 x 9.5". Almost all images accompanied by typed detailed captions. SIGNED by Reynold's to front pastedown. Covers rather rubbed and wrinkled. Else sound and internally fine. Very.....
THE BIG NINE: The Story of Football the Western Conference
New York: Putnam's, (1948). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth in pictorial dust jacket. Very good in like DJ. Moderate edgwear to jacket, one small tear at bottom right corner. Clean throughout. 257pp. Story of the Western Conference collegiate league.