Sports & Games from James Cummins Bookseller

Philadelphia: A. W. Auner, Song Publisher and Printer, 1870. 1p. 7-1/2 x 4-1/2 inches. A bit toned and brittle, minor chips. 1p. 7-1/2 x 4-1/2 inches. The song begins: "My name is O'Halloher, / I'm a man that's influential. / I mind my business, stop at home/ My wants are few and small. / Some blackguards 'tother day… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: [The De Vinne Press] Printed for Private Distribution to the Author's Friends, 1908. First edition. One of 100 copies, printed on Imperial Japan paper. Photogravure frontispiece and 38 photogravure plates. 124 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original vellum backed boards, printed spine label, t.e.g. Some natural speckling to spine. Book label of Henry E. Coe, Jr. Fine copy… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Tho. Newcomb for Richard Marriott, 1670. First collected edition. With four engraved portraits, general title page, separate title-pages for Wotton, Hooker, Herbert; Herbert's letters with continuous register and pagination. 1 vols. 8vo. Eighteenth-century speckled calf gilt, boards with gilt roll border, all edges red. Superbly rebacked to period style. Fine copy. Custom solander box. First collected edition.… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: printed by S[amuel] R[oycroft] and are to be sold by Edward Gough at Cow-Cross, 1682. First edition. Pp. [xvi], 78. A-F8 (-F8). 2 parts in one volume, with second title page to second part (continuously paginated): "A Remembrance of the Worthy Shooting by the Duke of Shoreditch and His Associates the Worshipful Citizens of London upon Tuesday the… Saber más sobre este artículo

Paris: Cotillon, 1858. First separate edition. 57 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Brown cloth and marbled boards, preserving original wrappers. Fine. First separate edition. 57 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Presentation Copy. Inscribed on front wrapper "offert à M. Bertin, avocat par son affectionné confrère A. M. Valette". Thimm, p. 91

London: The Medici Society Limited 7 Grafton Street, 1924. First edition, Number 157 of 568 copies (550 for sale) numbered and signed by Maxwell. Printed by the Arden Press. With 113 plates (some folding) in photogravure after photographs by the author and a colored map of Kenya Colony. Laid in a pocket at the rear is a 4-page folding… Saber más sobre este artículo

[Trumbull County, Ohio, 1860. Broadside. 1 vols. 13-1/2 x 10-3/4 inches. Minor chips at corners. Broadside. 1 vols. 13-1/2 x 10-3/4 inches. Performance by the Ladies at 2-1/2 o'clock. Likely related to equestrian displays at the Trumbull County Ohio Agricultural Society, where both Austin and Seely (identified on the broadside as the President and Marshall respectively) seemed to… Saber más sobre este artículo

Albany, New York: Published by J.B. Lyon Company, 1936. First edition. Illustrated. xvii, [2], 477 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Red cloth, gilt lettering. Near fine copy (spine slightly faded as usual). First edition. Illustrated. xvii, [2], 477 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed at Three Score and Ten. Inscribed, with the author's bookplate, on an inserted leaf. "Inscribed by… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Sold at His Academy, 148, Holborn Bars, Five Doors from Gray's Inn Lane towards the City. By Page and Son, Booksellers, &c., 62, Blackfriars Road, 1830. First edition. With two folding plates. xii, 60, [1, errata] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Quarter cloth and brown drab boards, printed spine label. Lightly rubbed, near fine. First edition. With two… Saber más sobre este artículo

Paris, 1864. Troisième Edition. Portrait and Illus,. 607pp. 8vo. Near contemporary green cloth spine leather label anbd marbled boards, opriginal wrappers bound in. Some foxing. Troisième Edition. Portrait and Illus,. 607pp. 8vo. Thimm p. 122

Paris: Chez l'Auteur, 1893. First edition. Title page vignette. With 16 illustrations (15 plates from photographs). 150 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary quarter calf, red morocco label. Near fine. First edition. Title page vignette. With 16 illustrations (15 plates from photographs). 150 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. PRESENTATION COPY. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author "A Monsieur Georges Richard,… Saber más sobre este artículo

Paris; Toulouse: Courcier; Bompard, 1859. First edition. Frontispiece portrait in vol. 1; 6 plates in vol. II. [8], vi, 370; [viii], 296 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary quarter dark green leather, titled in gilt. Corners rubbed. Very good. First edition. Frontispiece portrait in vol. 1; 6 plates in vol. II. [8], vi, 370; [viii], 296 pp. 2 vols.… Saber más sobre este artículo

Paris: Imprimé par Motteroz, 1884. First edition, no. 95 of 480 copies. Frontispiece portrait of Bertrand, wood-engraved vignettes. Title printed in red and black. 106, [6] pp. 1 vols. 16mo. Contemporary three quarter burgundy morocco, t.e.g., original vellum wrappers bound in. Fine (occasional light traces of foxing). First edition, no. 95 of 480 copies. Frontispiece portrait of Bertrand,… Saber más sobre este artículo

Paris: Louis Westhausser, 1888. Frontispiece. [viii], 160, [1, table], [3, blank] pp. First and last leaves are blanks. 1 vols. 12mo. Contemporary half red calf, wrappers bound in. Minor rubbing, some foxing, very good. Frontispiece. [viii], 160, [1, table], [3, blank] pp. First and last leaves are blanks. 1 vols. 12mo. Presentation Copy. Inscribed by the author on… Saber más sobre este artículo

Paris: Librairie des Bibliophiles, Jouaust, 1887. First edition. 185 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Quarter vellum and marbled boards, red morocco spine label. Some toning to first and last leaves. First edition. 185 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Inscribed by the author on the half title, "A Monsier Hebrard de Villeneuve Président de la Sociéte d'Encouragement de l'Escrime, Hommage de… Saber más sobre este artículo

Paris: A. Lahure, 1894. First edition. viii, 211 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Recent quarter green cloth. Fine. First edition. viii, 211 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Presentation Copy. Inscribed by the author "à mon excellent camarade H Hervyh affectueux souvenir H. de Villeneuve" Henri Hebrard de Villeneuve (1848-1925), French soldier, politician, and fencer, was founder of the Société… Saber más sobre este artículo

Paris: Ed. Rouveyr et G. Blond, 1884. First edition. With five plates by Eugène Chaperon and 27 technical plates numbered 1-14, 1-13 (some folding). 115 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary half red cloth, leather spine label. Some toning, near fine. Neat early gift inscription on half title. First edition. With five plates by Eugène Chaperon and 27 technical… Saber más sobre este artículo

Santa Monica, Calif: Printed by Seward and Flood Printing, 1952. Illustrated. 143 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Maroon cloth. Some spotting to upper cover. Very good. Signed by the author on the front flyleaf. Illustrated. 143 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Accounts of cattle ranching, coal mining, and hunting in North Dakota before the first world war. Almost half the… Saber más sobre este artículo

[Grand Rapids, MI: Privately Printed, 1931. First edition. Illus. 59pp. Printed at Brechting Printing Co. 12mo ( 7-1/2 x 5 1/4 inches). Black velour-covered boards stamped in blind. Fine. First edition. Illus. 59pp. Printed at Brechting Printing Co. 12mo ( 7-1/2 x 5 1/4 inches). Rare. INSCRIBED "To my good friend Carl M. Saunders (Max Sandy of the… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Country Life Ltd, 1929. First Edition, one of 250 numbered copies signed by the artist. Illustrated with 16 colored tipped-in plates. 32 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Original quarter vellum and green cloth, upper cover titled in gilt. Fine. First Edition, one of 250 numbered copies signed by the artist. Illustrated with 16 colored tipped-in plates. 32 pp.… Saber más sobre este artículo