Sports & Games from James Cummins Bookseller

New York: Random House, 1975. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Black cloth backed boards. Fine copy in dust jacket (spine panel sunned). First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. 'you work me to death'. Inscribed to editor Selma Shapiro: "To Selma from your Boy Muhammad Ali / Say you work me to death / May 11 -75 Time 1:39". … Read more about this item

Boston: Printed for the Society, 1928. Separate issue. Color frontispiece by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. 11 plates. pp. [vi], [491]-588. 1 vols. 4to and Smaller. Green wrappers. Bookplate of William Mitchell Van Winkle. Cloth slipcase. Separate issue. Color frontispiece by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. 11 plates. pp. [vi], [491]-588. 1 vols. 4to and Smaller. Van Winkle Copy. Monograph on the… Read more about this item

Richmond: Printed by Mathew Bell, Finkle Street, 1835. First Edition. 67, [1]pp. 4to. Contemporary mottled purple cloth, spine faded and slightly worn. First Edition. 67, [1]pp. 4to.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914. First Edition. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. xiv, [2], 383 pp. with color fold-out map at back. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. Original publisher's brown cloth, gilt stamped cover with gilt wings on upper covers. Spine and boards faded. Early gift inscription. Good plus. First Edition. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. xiv, [2],… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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.… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

[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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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,… Read more about this item

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.… Read more about this item

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,… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item