BARCLAY, JAMES A.

Golf in Canada; a History

Toronto, McClelland & Stewart. 1992. (4to, cloth) Fine in very good plus dust jacket. 626pp. Illus. ports. - 400+ b / w photos; 32 colour. The complete history - the whole shootin' match.

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Book number: 202320

Catalogue: Sports

Keywords: Golf, Canada

BELANGER, ART J.

A Half Mile of Hell; The Story of Chuckwagon Racing

Calgary, Frontier Publishing. 1970, 1st edition. (Mass market paperback) Fine. 64pp. 8vo. Illus, B&W photos. Bound in pictorial card wrappers. Previous owners name struck in black felt to title page. Frontier Book No. 23.

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Book number: 117467

Catalogue: Sports

Keywords: Rodeo, Calgary, Calgary Stampede, Canadian Prairies

BERKELEY, GRANTLEY F.

The English Sportsman in the Western Prairies

London, Hurst and Blackett. 1861, 1st Edition. (Half leather) Very good. 431pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Light wear. Front hinge a little tender. Attractive copy with raised bands and gilt. Howes B371 "Buffalo hunting around Fort Riley and western Kansas." Wagner-Camp 368. Sabin 4883.

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Book number: 200153

Catalogue: Sports

Keywords: Sports, American West, United States, Western Americana

BOYD, BILL

Hockey Towns; Stories of Small Town Hockey in Canada

Toronto, Doubleday Canada Limited. (ISBN: 0-385-25783-X). 1998. (hardcover) Near fine in fine dust jacket. 250pp. 8vo. There is a gift inscription penned (small and neat) to the front free endpaper; otherwise, clean and crisp, in near fine condition.

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Book number: 130362

Catalogue: Sports

Keywords: Hockey, Canadian - History, Canadian Sports 038525783X

MUELLER, CHESTER (COL. USA RET.) & JOHN OLSON

Small Arms Lexicon and Concise Encyclopedia

New Jersey, Shooter's Bible Inc.. 1968, 1st edition. (Cloth, 4to) Near fine in very good dust jacket. 309pp. Jacket shows wear at edges, small tears and chips (most notably on rear at about an inch and a half by an inch). Internally beautiful.

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Book number: 113953

Catalogue: Sports

Keywords: Guns, Encyclopedia, Guns, Military

CROSSMAN, EDWARD C.

The Book of the Springfield

Birmingham, Alabama, Palladium Press. 1997, Special edition. (Leatherbound) Fine, no dust jacket. x, 451pp.

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Book number: 121526

Catalogue: Sports

Keywords: Guns, Americana, Guns, Hobbies, Sports

CUNNINGHAM, ROBERT

Bluenose Coasting; A Tradition Lost

Hantsport, Nova Scotia, Lancelot Press. (ISBN: 0-88999-595-8). 1995. (Mass market paperback) As new. 119pp. 8vo. As new. The saga of Bluenose coasting.

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Book number: 125900

Catalogue: Sports

Keywords: Sailing, Canadian History, Nova Scotia History, Sea Stories, Ships 0889995958

CUTLER, MICHAEL M.

Great Hockey Masks - Les grands masques de hockey

Montreal, Tundra Books. 1983. (4to, wrappers) Near fine. Unpaginated. Illus. ports. - b/w and colour. Association letter laid in. Signed and dated by author. Bilingual - English / French.

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Book number: 112624

Catalogue: Sports

Keywords: Hockey

ELLIS, ROY; NIXON, ELVA

Saskatchewan's Recreation Legacy; A Perspective from the Saskatchewan Parks and Recreation Association - Special Edition

Saskatoon, Sask. Modern Press. 1986, Special edition. (Leatherbound) Fine, no dust jacket. xii, 169pp.

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Book number: 123493

Catalogue: Sports

Keywords: Sports, Canadian Prairies, Recreation, Saskatchewan

ELLIS, ROY; NIXON, ELVA

Saskatchewan's Recreation Legacy; a Perspective from the Saskatchewan Parks and Recreation Association

Saskatoon, Modern Press. (ISBN: 0-9692616-1-6). 1986. (Mass market paperback) Near fine. 169pp. Illus.

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Book number: 104572

Catalogue: Sports

Keywords: Sports, Canada, Canadian Prairies, Saskatchewan 0969261616

FICHTER, GEORGE S. (ADAPTED BY)

How to Build an indian Canoe

New York, David McKay Company, Inc.. (ISBN: 0-679-20352-4). 1977. (hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 90pp. 8vo. Clipped jacket shows moderate wear at top and lower edges. Brown buckram overboards, black title to spine; front top corner lightly bumped. There is a stamp to the front free endpaper; else is clean and bright, with black and white drawings and photographs. Describes various types of canoes built by Indigenous people of the Eastern Maritimes region, Central Canada, Northwestern Canada, as well as canoes of the fur trade, with the fundamentals of construction, materials and tools used.

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Book number: 128389

Catalogue: Sports

Keywords: Canoeing, Canoes and Canoeing, Indigenous Culture, Indigenous History 0679203524

FRAYNE, TRENT

The Queen's Plate

Toronto, McClelland & Stewart. 1959. (4to, cloth) Near fine. 168pp. Illustrated cloth. Illus. ports.

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Book number: 112622

Catalogue: Sports

Keywords: Horse Racing, Canadian

HOWE, GORDIE AND COLLEEN; DELISLE, TOM

And ... Howe!; An Authorized Autobiography

Traverse City, Power Play Publications. (ISBN: 0-9647149-0-6). 1995. (Cloth) Fine in fine dust jacket. 427pp. Illus. ports. SIGNED bookplate by Gordie and Colleen laid in.

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Book number: 112681

Catalogue: Sports

Keywords: Hockey, Canadiana, Hockey, Sports 0964714906

GORSKY, BERNARD

Dix Mètres Sous la Mer

Paris, Durel Éditeur NO ISBN. 1946. (hardcover) Good. xiv, 212pp, [1]. 8vo. Blue half-leather over marbled boards. Spine with raised bands, title compartment lettered in gilt. Shelfwear, rubbing. Front hinge beginning to split, more pronounced at head; remaining entirely secure. Marbled EPs; ffep beginning to separate from the leaf on which it is pasted. Original wrappers bound-in. Textblock clean. Illustrated with monochrome photos.

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Book number: 127597

Catalogue: Sports

Keywords: Fishing, Fine Bindings, Fish, French, Maritime, Sea

HANCOCK, DELL [PHOTOGRAPHS]; BOWEN, EDWARD L. [TEXT]

From Foal to Champion

New York, Stewart, Tabori & Chang. (ISBN: 1-55670-205-1). 1991. (hardcover) Fine, no dust jacket. 152pp. 8vo. Dark Kentucky blue cloth slip case with a photo pastedown, lightly sunned at back edge. Dark Kentucky blue cloth, gilt titles to front and spine. Profusely illustrated with incomaparable photographs of race horses, standard horses, the blue hills of Kentucky, created in celebratio of the 100th anniversary of Claiborne Farm. Clean, tight, bright, solid, and seemingly never read. Full number line.

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Book number: 127532

Catalogue: Sports

Keywords: Horse Racing, Horse Racing, Horses, Kentucky, Photography, Race Horses 1556702051