(East Lansing): (S.l.), [1947]. Diagrams throughout. Spiral bound card covers. Octavo. [ii], 94 pages. Legendary college football coach lays out his system of offense perfected over 31 years of college and service team coaching. Coach Charlie Bachman was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1978. Scarce..... More
[Bruceton Mills]: Old Hemlock, 1986. Limited Edition. Black & white drawings. Hardcover. Octavo. [x], 182 pages. Sketches from the gun diaries of George Bird Evans, who was one of the world's foremost authorities on upland gunning and bird dogs. He perfected the Old Hemlock line of English Setters, the descendants..... More
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New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1895. Retitled Second Edition of "Golf in America" Original cloth over boards. Sixteenmo. [i-iii], iv, [v], vi, [5]-194 pages. A landmark golf book whose first edition, published earlier the same year (1895) under the title 'Golf in America,' was the first book on the..... More
Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1992. First Edition. Black & White Photographs, Illustrations. Full cloth. Octavo. xx, 214 pages. Descriptions of 679 croquet books, ephemera, pamphlets, and other items from this unique collection housed at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center in Fremont, Ohio. Good annotations. Appendices list books on..... More
Buenos Aires: Peuser Ltda. 1942. Limited edition. Numerous drawings throughout, with a section of black and white photographic plates. Vellum over beveled boards. Quarto. 224 pages. A classic on the traditions, methods, and folklore of northern Argentina's cowboys. Winner of first prize in regional literature and folklore awarded by Argentina's..... More
New York: The Derrydale Press, (1938). Limited Edition, #772 of 950 copies. Illustrated with drawings by Paul Brown. Hardcover. Duodecimo. [viii], 144 pages. A collection of poetic musings that gallop through the fox chase and horse racing world--the thundering hooves, the wind in your hair, and the thrill of the..... More
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894. First Edition. Profusely illustrated, some color. Cloth over boards with leather spines and fore corners. Duodecimos. xvi, 439 pages and xvi, 456 pages. This handsomely bound two volume set was published as part of The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes. It includes articles..... More
[Tuskegee]: [Tuskegee Institute], (1933). Black and white photographic illustration on front cover. Stapled wraps. Quarto. [16] pages. A scarce program from the Jim Crow–era Southern Tennis Association, documenting Tuskegee’s role as a premier host of Black collegiate tennis and the vibrant Black business and entertainment networks that surrounded it... More