Category: Sports

Der Olympische Eid [The Olympic Oath].

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York: Walter Schatzki, n.d.

Seller ID: qms601

Micro-miniature, 3/16 inch x 1/8 inch, bound in navy blue leather with Olympic rings stamped in silver on front cover. Text is the oath printed in five languages. Fine in a Plexiglass case with swivel magnifier and in original silk-lined jewel box.
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Ascent: Of the Invention of Mountain Climbing and Its Practice.

By: Bernstein, Jeremy.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York: Random House, [1965]. First Edition, First Printing, As Stated.

Seller ID: 00625sc

Octavo, blue cloth & board (hardcover), gilt letters, uncut, illus. endpapers, xv, 124 pp. Near-Fine, with former-owner inscription, in a Very Good dust jacket with rubbing and light edgewear. Ò...This book is a superb account of mountaineering in the Alps -- its history ad its continuing fascination. Mr. Bernstien begins by describing the birth of Alpinism...with de Saussure's dream of climbing Mount Blanc and the first successful assault on it by the French climber Dr. Paccard and his guide Balmat. The book then tells of the golden age of mountaineering in the Alps -- the time of the grea...
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Player-Manager.

By: Boudreau, Lou.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1949.

Seller ID: 29004

1st edition. Inscribed and signed by the author. Octavo, cloth, 246 pp. Photos. Fine in a spine-faded dust jacket.
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Cleveland Browns: 1966 Press Book.

By: Cleveland Browns Football Club. [Modell, Arthur B.; President-Treasurer].

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Browns Football Club, 1966.

Seller ID: qms1050

12mo, paperbound (stiff, photo. illus., stapled wrappers), 80 pp. Illustrated. Contents include: Organizational Roster; The Coaches; The Players; The Draft; All-Time Browns' Roster, 1946-1965; All-Time Browns' Scoring (NFL); Browns' Roster; 1965 NFL LEaders; 1965 Statistics; Browns' 1966 Rivals; 1965 Review; NFL Standings; Browns' Scores; AAC Standings; Pre-Season Games; Attendance Data; Bowns' Leaders; Team Highs-Game; Team Highs-Season; Individual Highs; Pro Bowl Browns; 1966 Travel Schedule.
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How to Box. Foreword by James J. Corbett.

By: Fleischer, Nat.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York: The Ring Athletic Library, [1949].

Seller ID: 28336

8th edition. Octavo, stiff illustrated wrappers, stapled, 112 pp. Photos, illus. Very Good; front cover creased.
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A Limited Edition of a Golfing Idyll. Dr. MacKenzie's Golf Architecture. Golf Architecture by Dr. A. Mackenzie, with an Introduction by Robert Trent Jones and a Commentary by Peter Thomson and Michael Wolveridge. Compiled and Arranged by H. R. Grant.

By: Flint, Violet.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Worcestershire, England: Grant Books, 1978. Limited Edition of 700, Signed & Numbered.

Seller ID: 2433qls

Octavo, green cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 85 pp + [iv] pp. Fine.
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How-To Book of Shuffleboard.

By: Haslam, Charles S.

Price: $12.50

Publisher: St. Petersburg: Great Outdoors Publishers, (1965).

Seller ID: vita5403

Octavo, softbound (stiff, illus. stapled wrappers), 64 pp. Near Fine, with light sunning to edges. Contents: Acknowledgments; An Ancient Game; Appeals; Building a Court; Champions, Open Division; Champions, Closed Division; Equipment; Foreword; Glossary of Terms; Kitchen, Playing the; Officials; Penalties; Rules; Scoring; Strategy; Substitutes; Technique; Tournaments; Violations and Penalties; Wet Court.
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Proceedings of the Marine Frontiers Conference at the University of Rhode Island, July 27-28, 1967: Industrial Development in Support of the Marine Sciences. Sponsored by The New England Council for Economic Development and The New England Marine Resources Information Program.

By: Hill, Richard F.; Director, New England Marine Resources Information Program; The Honorable Hubert H. Humphrey; Keynote Address; Wenk, Edward, Jr.; The National Marine Science and Technology Program; Nash, Harold E.; Challenges in National Defense -- Par

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Kingston, Rhode Island: University of Rhode Island, July, 1968.

Seller ID: 3067qs

Octavo, paperbound (stiff, illus. green wrappers), 118 pp. Good, with title inked to spine and sticker to upper cover.
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Proceedings Second Symposium on Underwater Physiology: February 25-26, 1963, Washington, D.C. Christian J. Lambertsen, M.D.; Leon J. Greenbaum, Jr., M.D.; Editors. Prepared for the Office of Naval Research, Washington, D.C., by the Mine Advisory Committee, National Academy of Sciences -- National Research Council.

By: Lambertsen, Christian J., M.D.; Greenbaum, Leon J., Jr., M.D.; Editors.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences -- National Research Council, 1963. [National Academy of Sciences -- National Research Council Publication 1181].

Seller ID: 3065qs

Octavo, paperbound (stiff, printed wrappers), viii + 296 pp. Very Good, with sunning to spine and neatly printed former-owner signature. Abstract: These proceedings represent a compilation of those papers presented at the Second Symposium on Underwater Physiology, February 25-26, 1963, sponsored by the Office of Naval Research and the Mine Advisory Committee of the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council. The range of interests covered includes oxygen toxicity, decompression and bends, and respiratory problems, with special emphasis on their implications in underwater swimmi...
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Courage: The Story of Modern Cockfighting.

By: Pridgen, Rim.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1938. First Edition.

Seller ID: 9057gcs

Octavo, black illus. cloth (hardcover), silver letters and drawing of cockerel to upper cover, xi + 263 pp. Very Good, with edgewear that includes fraying to head and foot of spine. Illustrated.
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Big-Time Football at Harvard, 1905: The Diary of Coach Bill Reid. Edited by Ronald A. Smith.

By: Reid, Bill.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Urbana: University of Illinois Press, [1994]. First Edition.

Seller ID: 70295s

Octavo, boards, (hardcover), xxxviii, 354 pp. Fine in dust jacket.
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The Art of Cockfighting: A Handbook for Beginners and Old Timers. With Contributions by Several Other Cockers of Note and Illustrations by Lloyd Sandford.

By: Ruport, Arch (Muff).

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York: The Devin-Adair Company, Publishers, 1949. First Edition, Stated.

Seller ID: 9056gcs

Octavo, gracy buckram (hardcover), red illus. of cock to upper cover, xvi, [212] pp. Near-Fine, with light foxing to endpapers; in a Good, mylar protected dust jacket with edgewear that includes light chipping. From dust jacket: The Sport of Cockfighting is one of the most ancient known to man. It was in 480 B.C. that Themistocles on his way to meet the Persions in battle spied two cocks fighting and was inspired to issue that famous observation cherished by all cockers: ÒBehold, these animals do not fight for their household gods, for the monuments of their ancestors, nor for glory, nor ...
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Florida's First Big League Baseball Players, A Narrative History.

By: Singletary, Wes.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Charleston, SC: The History Press, (2006).

Seller ID: 61331bd

Octavo, paperbound (stiff, b & w illustrated red wrappers), 127 pp. Fine (New). From lower cover: In recent years, Florida's playgrounds have produced an abundance of exceptional professional baseball players: Alex Rodriguez, Gary Sheffield, Luis Gonzales and Tino Martinez, to name only a few. Before 1950, however, only twenty-six Florida boys got their shot in the big leagues. Players like Tampa's Al Lopez, a Hall of Fame member and baseball's first Hispanic manager, and Pensacola native Russ Scarritt, who set the Boston Red Sox record for the most triples in a season his rookie year, b...
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Florida's First Big League Baseball Players, A Narrative History.

By: Singletary, Wes.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Charleston, SC: The History Press, (2006).

Seller ID: 61331bd2

Octavo, paperbound (stiff, b & w illustrated red wrappers), 127 pp. Fine (New). From lower cover: In recent years, Florida's playgrounds have produced an abundance of exceptional professional baseball players: Alex Rodriguez, Gary Sheffield, Luis Gonzales and Tino Martinez, to name only a few. Before 1950, however, only twenty-six Florida boys got their shot in the big leagues. Players like Tampa's Al Lopez, a Hall of Fame member and baseball's first Hispanic manager, and Pensacola native Russ Scarritt, who set the Boston Red Sox record for the most triples in a season his rookie year, b...
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Category: Sports