(Garno, Benjamin)

Modern Billiards. A Complete Text-Book of the Game.

New York, The Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. 1909. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Hardcover. 382 pp. Blue cloth, gilt billiards player on front cover, black border, gilt lettering and decoration to spine, numerous plates. Corners lightly rubbed, spine slightly darkened, contents are clean and binding is tight. A very well-preserved book. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 004601

Catalogue: How-to and Hobbies, Sports

Keywords: Games Billiards Pool Instructions Rules

Cromie, William J.

Pyramid Building Part I Withour Apparatus, Part II With Wands, Chairs and Ladders (Spalding's Red Cover Series)

New York, American Sports Publishing Company, 1928. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Soft cover. 95pp. Illustrated wrappers. Edgewear and chipping to spine, spine tape mended, faint linear stain on rear cover, contents mildly toned but sound. Photos and step-by-step instruction. Good.

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Book number: 002009

Catalogue: Sports, Hobbies and How-To

Keywords: Fitness Acrobatics Spalding

Daly, Maurice

Daly's Billiard Book Illustrated with More Than 400 Diagrams, 30 Technical Photographs and 3 "Strategy" Maps

Chicago, A.C. McClurg & Co. 1920. Fifth Edition, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover. 276pp. Green cloth. Very light wear, but lettering to cover and spine is worn away, and heavy staining to rear cover not affecting interior. Contents are surprisingly clean and unmarked, and binding is tight. In depth strategy for billiards, with numerous diagrams and a few photos. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 003494

Catalogue: Sports, Hobbies and How-To

Radke, Ernst F.

New Angles to Bass Fishing

New York, Greenberg, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Laszlo Razel. Signed by Author(s). 188pp. Tan linen cover, orange decoration, gilt spine lettering. Covers unworn and clean, contents age-toned, some darkening to endpapers, owner's name in pencil on front pastedown. Book is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by author on front free endpaper. Unclipped dust jacket is moderately soiled and chipped and is essentially complete. Good/Good.

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Book number: 003424

Catalogue: Sports, Hobbies and How-To

Keywords: Casting Trolling Lures

Riley, Capt. Tom

Swimming; How, When and Wherd to Swim. Its Progress and Place in American Sports.

New York, Blumenberg Press, 1903. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 114pp. Blue cloth, gilt lettering to cover and spine. Light wear and some soiling to cover, water staining to endpapers and upper margins of some pages, occasional foxing, some cracking to endpapers, binding holding tightly. A rare and highly entertaining book by an esteemed swimming instructor in the early 20t century. In addition to explaining the basics of swimming , he covers subjects including trick swimming, diving, "how to restore the apparently drowned,", where to swim and the history of swimming. The author shares his knowledge of swimming during his "twenty-five years' experience as a professional swimmer, instructor and life saver at the principal watering places on the New England, Atlantic and Long Island coasts." Illustrated with photos and instructive drawings. Fair.

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Book number: 004650

Catalogue: Sports, How-to and Hobbies

Keywords: Swimming Swimmers Diving "Water Sports"

Segura, Pancho and Heldman, Gladys

Pancho Segura's Championship Strategy; Hot to Play Winning Tennis

New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1976. First Edition, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover. xii, 179pp. Tan and grey boards, unclipped dust jacket. Ex library, light rubbing to corners, text is clean, remnants of label removal on rear endpaper, dust jacket has been pasted to inside covers, light wear and small abrasion to lower spine of dust jacket, with slight loss. Excellent instructions by one of tennis's all-time greats. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 004351

Catalogue: Sports, How-to and Hobbies

Keywords: Instruction "Tennis Pro"

Talbert, William F. and Old, Bruce S.

The Game of Doubles in Tennis

New York, Vendome Press, 1956. First Edition, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 214pp. Green cloth, black spine lettering. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front free endpaper. Book is sound and tight, slight fading along edges, contents clean, small rust spots from binding staples in front inner hinge, underlining on a few pages, former owner's name on front free endpaper. Unclipped dust jacket chipped and torn along edges, missing several pieces. An uncommon signed book by tennis great Bill Talbert. Very Good/Fair.

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Book number: 004337

Catalogue: Signed, Sports, How-to and Hobbies

Keywords: Tennis "Net Play" Serving "Service Return" Diabetes

Tilden, William T.

"The Kid" A Tennis Lesson

New York, American Sports Publishing Company, 1924. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Soft cover. 68pp +14 pp ads and tennis wear advice. Light soil, moderate chipping to spine, light exterrnal wear, 1/2 inch ink spot near foredge of front cover, internally clean and sound, order blank at front still present. Tennis instructions and practical advice by tennis great Bill Tilden himself, plus photos. Spalding "Red Cover" Series of Athletic Handbooks No. 102R. Good.

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Book number: 003101

Catalogue: Sports, Hobbies and How-To

Keywords: Instruction "Tennis Pro" Athletics

Van Wyck, William

A Treatise on Fishing with a Hook; Attributed to Dame Juliana Berners, Printed in the Book of Saint Albans by Wynkende Worde, MCCCLXXXXVI and Rendered Into Modern English by William Van Wyck

New York, Self-Published, 1933. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 54pp. Green cloth, gilt decoration to front cover, gilt spine lettering. Sine is faded, corners lightly rubbed, interior is age-toned. Author has signed the half-title page, and dated it Sept. 19, 1933. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 004606

Catalogue: Sports, Hobbies and How-To

Keywords: Fishing Angling