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Five Chip Hilton classics – Dugout Jinx, Fence Busters, Hardcourt Upset, No-Hitter, and Triple-Threat Trouble -
Clair Bee
1952 - Grosset & Dunlap, New York - First Editions
Five first editions from the inspirational Chip HIlton sports story series, written by the successful college basketball coach and 1968 Basketball Hall of Fame inductee Clair Bee.
Dugout Jinx – During the last week of that hectic baseball season, it was Chip from his position on the dugout bench who was able to solve the baffling puzzle of what had happened to the team’s pitchers and its general morale.
Fence Busters – There is a lot of wonderful baseball in this Chip Hilton story, and a lot of good sportsmanship and clean manhood besides. These friends of Chip’s have what it takes to pull a demoralized and strife-torn team out of the dumps and get it back at busting fences again.
Hardcourt Upset – When Chip Hilton, sensational scoring sophomore, is benched by a knee injury, and the basketballchampions are beaten by Tech, their home-town rivals, things take a turn for the worse.
No-Hitter – After helping State University win the N.C.A.A. baseball championship through his superb pitching, Chip Hilton had looked forward to a pleasant summer at home in Valley Falls. But when State was selected to represent the United States i a college baseball series with two of Japan’s finest teams, Chip, like his teammates, was thrilled by the opportunity.
Triple-Threat Trouble – Chip Hilton, All-America quarterback and captain of State University’s team faces one of the most challenging situations he has ever encountered on the gridiron.
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1952 - Grosset & Dunlap, New York - First Editions
Five first editions from the inspirational Chip HIlton sports story series, written by the successful college basketball coach and 1968 Basketball Hall of Fame inductee Clair Bee. Dugout Jinx – During the last week of that hectic baseball season, it was Chip from his position on the dugout bench who was able to solve the baffling puzzle of what had happened to the team’s pitchers and its general morale.
Fence Busters – There is a lot of wonderful baseball in this Chip Hilton story, and a lot of good sportsmanship and clean manhood besides. These friends of Chip’s have what it takes to pull a demoralized and strife-torn team out of the dumps and get it back at busting fences again.
Hardcourt Upset – When Chip Hilton, sensational scoring sophomore, is benched by a knee injury, and the basketballchampions are beaten by Tech, their home-town rivals, things take a turn for the worse.
No-Hitter – After helping State University win the N.C.A.A. baseball championship through his superb pitching, Chip Hilton had looked forward to a pleasant summer at home in Valley Falls. But when State was selected to represent the United States i a college baseball series with two of Japan’s finest teams, Chip, like his teammates, was thrilled by the opportunity.
Triple-Threat Trouble – Chip Hilton, All-America quarterback and captain of State University’s team faces one of the most challenging situations he has ever encountered on the gridiron.
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Mrs. Beeton’s Family Cookery -
Mrs. Isabella Beeton
1923 - Ward, London and Melbourne - New Edition
‘This book has more wisdom to the square inch than any work of man’ - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
With over 800 pages of recipes, culinary advice, and household hints, Mrs Beeton’s incomparable The Book of Household Management was one of the earliest cookery books to use coloured illustrations. A truly important English work, and one of the most successful cookbooks of all time, it is Illustrated with 20 colour lithograph plates, and nearly 300 black and white engravings.
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1923 - Ward, London and Melbourne - New Edition
‘This book has more wisdom to the square inch than any work of man’ - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. With over 800 pages of recipes, culinary advice, and household hints, Mrs Beeton’s incomparable The Book of Household Management was one of the earliest cookery books to use coloured illustrations. A truly important English work, and one of the most successful cookbooks of all time, it is Illustrated with 20 colour lithograph plates, and nearly 300 black and white engravings.
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The Adventures of Augie March -
Saul Bellow
1953 - The Viking Press, New York - First edition, first issue.
‘I am an American, Chicago born – Chicago, that sombre city – and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted.’
Saul Bellow’s masterful novel – heralded as a classic of modern American literature – tells the story of the eponymous Augie March, a poor Chicago boy growing up during the Great Depression, whose numberless occupations and diverting encounters offer startling extremes of vivid realism and bravura philosophising.
‘The Adventures of Augie March is the Great American Novel. Search no further.’ – Martin Amis.
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1953 - The Viking Press, New York - First edition, first issue.
‘I am an American, Chicago born – Chicago, that sombre city – and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted.’Saul Bellow’s masterful novel – heralded as a classic of modern American literature – tells the story of the eponymous Augie March, a poor Chicago boy growing up during the Great Depression, whose numberless occupations and diverting encounters offer startling extremes of vivid realism and bravura philosophising.
‘The Adventures of Augie March is the Great American Novel. Search no further.’ – Martin Amis.
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Madeline's Rescue -
Ludwig Bemelmans
1953 - Viking, New York - First Edition
One day on a walk through Paris, Madeline slips and falls off a bridge right into the Seine. Everyone feared she would be dead, ‘But for a dog that kept its head,’ saving her from a ‘watery grave.’ And so the adventure begins….
Recipient of the 1954 Caldecott Medal, with illustrations by the author.
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Price HK$ 6,400
1953 - Viking, New York - First Edition
One day on a walk through Paris, Madeline slips and falls off a bridge right into the Seine. Everyone feared she would be dead, ‘But for a dog that kept its head,’ saving her from a ‘watery grave.’ And so the adventure begins….Recipient of the 1954 Caldecott Medal, with illustrations by the author.
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British Mountaineering -
C.E. (Claude Ernest) Benson
1909 - George Routledge & Sons, London - First Edition, in the First Issue Gilt Binding
An excellent copy – in the superb original gilt binding – of this informative mountaineering guidebook, profusely illustrated throughout with wonderfully detailed inset drawings and photographs.
With chapters on equipment, rambling, practice climbs on low crags, rock climbing, climbing in winter, severe courses, dangers of mountaineering, and medical hints, as well as an instructive section on ‘Mountaineering for Ladies’, in which Benson recommends women make ‘a special study of the art of tieing knots’ and suggests their skirts to be ‘quite short, at least five or six inches from the ground’... very practical advice indeed.
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1909 - George Routledge & Sons, London - First Edition, in the First Issue Gilt Binding
An excellent copy – in the superb original gilt binding – of this informative mountaineering guidebook, profusely illustrated throughout with wonderfully detailed inset drawings and photographs. With chapters on equipment, rambling, practice climbs on low crags, rock climbing, climbing in winter, severe courses, dangers of mountaineering, and medical hints, as well as an instructive section on ‘Mountaineering for Ladies’, in which Benson recommends women make ‘a special study of the art of tieing knots’ and suggests their skirts to be ‘quite short, at least five or six inches from the ground’... very practical advice indeed.
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The Corinthian Yachtsman, or Hints on Yachting -
Tyrrel E. Biddle
1881 - C. Wilson, London - First Edition
‘A well written description of what yachting was like in a world that has vanished forever, a world where the pace was slower but where time and effort needed to manage and maintain boats used up a large proportion of one’s leaisure time.
Contents: Yachting as a national sport; Progress of naval architecture; Buying and building; Concluding a purchase; Yacht’s boats; Navigation; Preparing to start; Handling yachts; Extended cruising; Racing.’ - Toy, Adventures Afloat.
A superior example of this lovely book, scarce in such nice condition. Illustrated 32 woodcut in-text drawings, illustrated title page and two full page schematics of yachts, to the rear is a fifteen page appendix of Principal Terms Used in Yacht Sailing and twenty pages of wonderful yachting advertisements.
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1881 - C. Wilson, London - First Edition
‘A well written description of what yachting was like in a world that has vanished forever, a world where the pace was slower but where time and effort needed to manage and maintain boats used up a large proportion of one’s leaisure time.Contents: Yachting as a national sport; Progress of naval architecture; Buying and building; Concluding a purchase; Yacht’s boats; Navigation; Preparing to start; Handling yachts; Extended cruising; Racing.’ - Toy, Adventures Afloat.
A superior example of this lovely book, scarce in such nice condition. Illustrated 32 woodcut in-text drawings, illustrated title page and two full page schematics of yachts, to the rear is a fifteen page appendix of Principal Terms Used in Yacht Sailing and twenty pages of wonderful yachting advertisements.
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A Practical Treatise on Brewing, Based on Chemical and Economical Principles; with Formulæ for Public Brewers, and Instructions for Private Families. -
William Black
1844 - Longman, London - Third Edition, ‘Much Enlarged and Improved’
A near fine, and unopened copy, of this important and popular treatise, first published in 1835
Folding plate ‘Delineation of the New Improved Saccharometer’ to the rear.
The Spectator in it’s review notes that this is ‘A new edition of a book we formerly noticed as a useful and original-minded treatise. The additional matter has been revised by Professor Graham, of the London University.’
Perhaps the most well known historical Scottish brewing firm was that of William Black & Company of Aberdeen believed to have been established in 1803, and his ‘Devanha Brewery’ used the former Paper Mills by the Wellington Suspension Bridge in Aberdeen. Black’s Devanha Porter - a dark beer resembling stout - became famous throughout the UK, the Brewery being conveniently close to the railway halt at the Cattle Bank. The firm itself was laterally acquired in 1819 to become the Gilcomston Brewery and again by the Devanha Brewery Company Limited, registered as a limited liability company in 1910. Brewing finally ceased in 1930 after the firm was acquired by Thomas Usher & Son Ltd. of Edinburgh. William Black & Co. also ran the Devanha Distillery, built about a mile upstream from the Brewery in 1825. [Durden Park Beer Circle / The Doric Columns].
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1844 - Longman, London - Third Edition, ‘Much Enlarged and Improved’
A near fine, and unopened copy, of this important and popular treatise, first published in 1835 Folding plate ‘Delineation of the New Improved Saccharometer’ to the rear.
The Spectator in it’s review notes that this is ‘A new edition of a book we formerly noticed as a useful and original-minded treatise. The additional matter has been revised by Professor Graham, of the London University.’
Perhaps the most well known historical Scottish brewing firm was that of William Black & Company of Aberdeen believed to have been established in 1803, and his ‘Devanha Brewery’ used the former Paper Mills by the Wellington Suspension Bridge in Aberdeen. Black’s Devanha Porter - a dark beer resembling stout - became famous throughout the UK, the Brewery being conveniently close to the railway halt at the Cattle Bank. The firm itself was laterally acquired in 1819 to become the Gilcomston Brewery and again by the Devanha Brewery Company Limited, registered as a limited liability company in 1910. Brewing finally ceased in 1930 after the firm was acquired by Thomas Usher & Son Ltd. of Edinburgh. William Black & Co. also ran the Devanha Distillery, built about a mile upstream from the Brewery in 1825. [Durden Park Beer Circle / The Doric Columns].
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Horse-Racing in England – A Synoptical Review -
Robert Black
1893 - Richard Bentley and Son, London - First Edition
‘Mr. Black knows his subject and brings plenty of sound common-sense to bear on it’ – The Spectator
A handsome copy of sports writer Robert Black’s informative reference, spanning two hundred years from the reign of Charles II to Queen Victoria, of the history and development of horse-racing. Black – considered an authority on the subject – with records of famous races and ‘some memorable matches’.
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Price HK$ 1,800
1893 - Richard Bentley and Son, London - First Edition
‘Mr. Black knows his subject and brings plenty of sound common-sense to bear on it’ – The Spectator A handsome copy of sports writer Robert Black’s informative reference, spanning two hundred years from the reign of Charles II to Queen Victoria, of the history and development of horse-racing. Black – considered an authority on the subject – with records of famous races and ‘some memorable matches’.
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Price HK$ 1,800