KEAR, J.A.

Sturges' Guide to the Game of Draughts. With critical situations.

London: George Bell & Sons 1895, 1st Edn. xxx, 240 pp. Original green cloth gilt, decorative black checkerboard to front board, 19cm x 13 cm. Corners curled, endpapers age browned, loss to part of rear free endpaper.

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Book number: 39724

Catalogue: Sports, Games & Pastimes

Keywords: SPORTS, GAMES & PASTIMES

LONGHURST, Percy.

Wrestling. "Blackie's Sports Series."

London & Glasgow: Blackie & Son, [1938]. Square 8vo. 88pp, frontis, text illustrations. Original red cloth lettered in black. Cloth very lightly rubbed and soiled.

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Book number: 45614

Catalogue: Sports, Games & Pastimes

Keywords: SPORTS, GAMES & PASTIMES

LYTTELTON, Robert Henry.

Out-door games: cricket & golf. 'The Haddon Hall Library Series.'

London: J.M. Dent, 1901 limited edition printed on hand-made paper no. 99/150 copies. 8vo. [x], 252pp, colour etched frontis with tissue-guard, 8 colour plates with guards, head-pieces, title and series pages printed in red and black. Original decorated full parchment gilt, bevelled edges, integral silk place-marker, pictorial endpapers after Arthur Rackham. Binding lightly soiled and rubbed; very light isolated spotting to prelims and last leaves; margins very lightly age-browned. Ex-reference library with following evidence: small Dewey numbers to spine tail; small six-figure number in ink to title-page gutter-margin; inked numbers and ink-stamp to title-page verso.

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Book number: 41948

Catalogue: Games & Pastimes

Keywords: Games & pastimes Arthur Rackham

MITCHELL, David A.

Checkers.

Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company. 1919, 1st Edn. 183[vii] pp, portrait frontis. Original green cloth, white lettering and black decorative design to boards and spine,15 cm x 12 cm. Minor loss of colour to spine tips, lettering and black decorative design, rear board warped with some damp staining , frontis and title page lightly age browned.

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Book number: 39729

Catalogue: Sports, Games & Pastimes

Keywords: SPORTS, GAMES & PASTIMES

NICHOLSON, Bill.

Glory glory. My life with Spurs.

London: Macmillan, 1984. 21cm. 224pp, illustrated. Original blue cloth, lettered in silver, glazed d/w. Front free endpaper lightly soiled.

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Book number: 41941

Catalogue: Sports, Games & Pastimes

Keywords: SPORTS, GAMES & PASTIMES Football

Park, William Jun.

The Game of Golf by William Park Jun. Champion Golfer 1887-89.

London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1896. 8vo. xii, 277[1]pp, plates, text illustrations, figures and tables. Library quarter calf gilt, maroon cloth sides, marbled endpapers, sprinkled leaf edges. Extremes lightly rubbed; light soiling to prelims otherwise very occasional light isolated soiling to margins; old tape repair to closed tears to leaves 101/102 and 109/110; pp 111-114 mis-bound between pp 126 - 127. Ex-reference library with following evidence: Dewey number in gilt to spine tail; book-plate to fpdep; small inked numbers to title-page verso; blind-stamps to upper fore-edge margin of title-page and some further leaves.

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Book number: 27392

Catalogue: Sports, Games & Pastimes

Keywords: SPORTS, GAMES & PASTIMES Golf

PROCTOR, Richard A.

Chance and Luck: a discussion of the laws of luck, coincidences, wagers, lotteries, and the fallacies of gambling: with notes on poker and martingales.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1887. 8vo. vi[ii], 263[1]pp, 16pp publisher's list, text tables. Original decorated blue cloth gilt, patterned eps, uncut. Extremes veryy lightly rubbed; slight evidence of printed paper label removal to ffep gutter-margin. * Sir John Robert Gadstone's heraldic book-plate to fpdep. From the Gladstone library at Fasque.

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Book number: 38402

Catalogue: Games & Pastimes

Keywords: Games & pastimes Gambling

ROBERTS, Charles

Tricks With Cards.

London: W. Foulsham & Co., Ltd. N.D. 61 pp, illustrated. Original printed orange card wraps with pictorial d/w, 18.5 cm x 12.5 cm. Small loss of paper to d/w, prelims foxed with minor closed tears, d/w lightly soiled.

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Book number: 40398

Catalogue: Games & Pastimes

Keywords: Games & pastimes

SHARPE, Ivan.

40 years in football. Foreword by A. Brook Hirst.

London: Hutchinson's Library of Sport and Pastimes, 1952 1st edition. 8vo. 224pp, illustrated. Original green cloth gilt, stained and repaired d/w. Text lightly age-browned.

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Book number: 41940

Catalogue: Sports, Games & Pastimes

Keywords: SPORTS, GAMES & PASTIMES Football

SNELL, H.

The case for Sunday games. Against Sabbatarian prejudice.

London: Watts & Co, 1923 1st edition. 8vo. 16pp including wraps. Original printed card wraps, sewn. Wraps creased, rubbed with wear and light soiling. Revised edition issued in 1933.

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Book number: 45645

Catalogue: Games & Pastimes

Keywords: Games & pastimes Religion Sunday. Religion Religious activities Sunday observance Secularism

VARDON, A.; E. W. J. WILSON.

Golfing Hints.

Weston-super-Mare: Lawrence Bros, N.D. [1912.] Small 8vo. 36pp, text illustrations and figures. Original limp grey cloth lettered in black with plate on-laid to front wrap, contents stapled. Wraps lightly rubbed and soiled; staples rusted but holding firm; small neat tape hinges to title and last page gutter-margins; light soiling to title-page margins; 'Soholenburg Golf Library' small round ink-stamp to inner front wrap.

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Book number: 37777

Catalogue: Sports, Games & Pastimes

Keywords: SPORTS, GAMES & PASTIMES Golf