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The Boys of Summer - Signed by 15 of the Dodgers’ ‘Boys of Summer’ -
Roger Kahn
1972 - Harper & Row, New York - First Edition
‘…a novelistic tale of conflict and change, a tribute, a civic history, a piece of nostalgia… No book is better at showing how sports is not just games.’ – Sports Illustrated [Top 100 Sports Books of All Time]
First edition of prolific sportswriter Roger Kahn’s seminal, beloved baseball book, a poignant and nostalgic chronicle of his years assigned to cover the Brooklyn Dodgers for The New York Tribune, and featuring his accounts of some of the most exciting major-league ball clubs ever fielded, the ongoing racial struggles of Jackie Robinson who broke the game’s colour barrier in 1947, and his own memories of the ‘boys’ of Ebbets Field.
Signed by the following Dodgers’ ‘Boys of Summer’: Sandy Amoros, Buzzie Bavasi (General Manager), Joe Becker (pitching coach), Joe Black, Roy Campanella, Carl Erskine, Carl ‘Skoonj’ Furillo, Sandy Koufax, Clem Labine, Tom Lasorda, Billy Loes, Johnny Padres, Pee Wee Reese, Vin Scully (broadcaster) and Ben Wade.
Illustrated with numerous black and white photographs of players and moments from some of baseball’s most memorable games.
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Price HK$ 30,000
1972 - Harper & Row, New York - First Edition
‘…a novelistic tale of conflict and change, a tribute, a civic history, a piece of nostalgia… No book is better at showing how sports is not just games.’ – Sports Illustrated [Top 100 Sports Books of All Time]First edition of prolific sportswriter Roger Kahn’s seminal, beloved baseball book, a poignant and nostalgic chronicle of his years assigned to cover the Brooklyn Dodgers for The New York Tribune, and featuring his accounts of some of the most exciting major-league ball clubs ever fielded, the ongoing racial struggles of Jackie Robinson who broke the game’s colour barrier in 1947, and his own memories of the ‘boys’ of Ebbets Field.
Signed by the following Dodgers’ ‘Boys of Summer’: Sandy Amoros, Buzzie Bavasi (General Manager), Joe Becker (pitching coach), Joe Black, Roy Campanella, Carl Erskine, Carl ‘Skoonj’ Furillo, Sandy Koufax, Clem Labine, Tom Lasorda, Billy Loes, Johnny Padres, Pee Wee Reese, Vin Scully (broadcaster) and Ben Wade.
Illustrated with numerous black and white photographs of players and moments from some of baseball’s most memorable games.
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Price HK$ 30,000
Westward Ho!; Hereward The Wake; Hypatia; Two Years Ago; Alton Locke -
Charles Kingsley
1896-1900 - Macmillan and Co., London -
A finely bound five volume set of Kingsley’s best known historic novels, ‘Hypatia’, ‘Hereward the Wake’ and ‘Westward Ho!’, the classic action-packed saga of romance and seafaring adventure set against the dramatic backdrop of Elizabethan England, the battle of the Spanish Armada, and the exploration of North America, illustrated by Charles Brock.
Together with ‘Alton Locke’, the story of a tailor-poet who rebels against the ignominy of sweated labor and becomes a leader of the Chartist movement, and ‘Two Years Ago’ about a doctor named Tom Thurnall and his friends as they deal with the effects of the Crimean War and a cholera epidemic, reflecting on social issues of the time, such as public health, slavery, and social reform.
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1896-1900 - Macmillan and Co., London -
A finely bound five volume set of Kingsley’s best known historic novels, ‘Hypatia’, ‘Hereward the Wake’ and ‘Westward Ho!’, the classic action-packed saga of romance and seafaring adventure set against the dramatic backdrop of Elizabethan England, the battle of the Spanish Armada, and the exploration of North America, illustrated by Charles Brock.Together with ‘Alton Locke’, the story of a tailor-poet who rebels against the ignominy of sweated labor and becomes a leader of the Chartist movement, and ‘Two Years Ago’ about a doctor named Tom Thurnall and his friends as they deal with the effects of the Crimean War and a cholera epidemic, reflecting on social issues of the time, such as public health, slavery, and social reform.
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The Three Lieutenants, or, Naval Life in the Nineteenth Century -
W. H. G. Kingston
1897 - Griffith Farran Browne & Co. Limited, London
Illustrations by Charles J. de Lacy. From the Boys’ Own Favourite Library series. The second novel in Kingstons series which began with ‘The Midshipmen’. A lovely copy in pictorial boardsand gilt edges.
Kingston's reputation was made by these books, that first appeared about 1860, and dealt with an officer's life in the Navy at about that time. By an extraordinary coincidence, the three young men who had met as midshipmen, get postings that enable them to keep their friendships alive when they are lieutenants. Another old friend is Admiral Triton, who, though retired, takes a great interest in their careers.
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1897 - Griffith Farran Browne & Co. Limited, London
Illustrations by Charles J. de Lacy. From the Boys’ Own Favourite Library series. The second novel in Kingstons series which began with ‘The Midshipmen’. A lovely copy in pictorial boardsand gilt edges.Kingston's reputation was made by these books, that first appeared about 1860, and dealt with an officer's life in the Navy at about that time. By an extraordinary coincidence, the three young men who had met as midshipmen, get postings that enable them to keep their friendships alive when they are lieutenants. Another old friend is Admiral Triton, who, though retired, takes a great interest in their careers.
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Price HK$ 900
The Gardens of Italy -
C. Latham, E. March Philipps
1905 - Country Life Ltd., London - First Edition
First edition, two large folio volumes of this monumental work by the English photographer Charles Latham, with an introduction and descriptions by Evelyn March Philips. Dedicated by special permission to his Majesty the King of Italy.
The descriptions and over 300 magnificent photographs guide you through the finest Italian estates, the Vatican, public gardens, and embassies.
Charles Latham's photographs of Italian gardens, taken during a trip in 1903, provide an extensive visual record of Renaissance and Baroque landscapes across the country. Commissioned by Country Life magazine, these images capture the grandeur of sites such as the Villa d'Este in Tivoli, where he documented the intricate Fountain of the Dragons and terraced fountains, and the Boboli Gardens in Florence, featuring the Lemonia grotto, the West Gate avenue, and parts of the circular lake. Other notable locations include the Villa Falconieri and Villa Torlonia in Frascati, as well as the Villa Farnese in Caprarola, emphasizing elements like sculpted terraces, fountains, and manicured parterres that defined Italian garden design. In all, Latham photographed thirty-seven gardens.
Volume I - Villa Albani, Villa Pamphilj Doria, The Vatican Gardens, Villa Borghese, Gardens of the Quirinal, Villa Medici, The Colonna Gardens, Palazzo Borghese, Fountain of Trevi, Palazzi Doria, Palazzo Barberini, Palazzo Brancaccio, Villa Parisi, Villa Sciarra, the British Embassy in Rome, Villa Barberini, Villa D Este, Villa Falconieri, Mondragone, Villa Torlonia, Villa Aldobrandini
Volume II – Villa Farnese, Villa Lante, Villa Palmieri, Villa Garzoni, The Boboli Gardens, Villa Bondi, Villa Salviati, Villa Medici, Villa I Collazzi, Castello and Petraja, Villa Gamberaia, Villa Capponi, Villa Fabricotti and Villa Stibbert, Villa Montalto (vol. II).
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1905 - Country Life Ltd., London - First Edition
First edition, two large folio volumes of this monumental work by the English photographer Charles Latham, with an introduction and descriptions by Evelyn March Philips. Dedicated by special permission to his Majesty the King of Italy.The descriptions and over 300 magnificent photographs guide you through the finest Italian estates, the Vatican, public gardens, and embassies.
Charles Latham's photographs of Italian gardens, taken during a trip in 1903, provide an extensive visual record of Renaissance and Baroque landscapes across the country. Commissioned by Country Life magazine, these images capture the grandeur of sites such as the Villa d'Este in Tivoli, where he documented the intricate Fountain of the Dragons and terraced fountains, and the Boboli Gardens in Florence, featuring the Lemonia grotto, the West Gate avenue, and parts of the circular lake. Other notable locations include the Villa Falconieri and Villa Torlonia in Frascati, as well as the Villa Farnese in Caprarola, emphasizing elements like sculpted terraces, fountains, and manicured parterres that defined Italian garden design. In all, Latham photographed thirty-seven gardens.
Volume I - Villa Albani, Villa Pamphilj Doria, The Vatican Gardens, Villa Borghese, Gardens of the Quirinal, Villa Medici, The Colonna Gardens, Palazzo Borghese, Fountain of Trevi, Palazzi Doria, Palazzo Barberini, Palazzo Brancaccio, Villa Parisi, Villa Sciarra, the British Embassy in Rome, Villa Barberini, Villa D Este, Villa Falconieri, Mondragone, Villa Torlonia, Villa Aldobrandini
Volume II – Villa Farnese, Villa Lante, Villa Palmieri, Villa Garzoni, The Boboli Gardens, Villa Bondi, Villa Salviati, Villa Medici, Villa I Collazzi, Castello and Petraja, Villa Gamberaia, Villa Capponi, Villa Fabricotti and Villa Stibbert, Villa Montalto (vol. II).
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The Lorette System of Pruning -
Louis Lorette, W. R. Dykes (translator)
1925 - Martin Hopkinson & Company Ltd., London - First Edition in English
A rare first edition of this classic work which revolutionised the pruning of fruit trees, profusely illustrated throughout with a total of 129 photographs and diagrams. First published in French in 1914, and then into this First Edition in English in 1925.
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1925 - Martin Hopkinson & Company Ltd., London - First Edition in English
A rare first edition of this classic work which revolutionised the pruning of fruit trees, profusely illustrated throughout with a total of 129 photographs and diagrams. First published in French in 1914, and then into this First Edition in English in 1925.
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Celebrities of the Shanghai Turf -
Juel Madsen, Edmund Toeg
1923 - Juel Madsen, Shanghai - First and only edition
A rare piece of Shanghai horse racing history, in remarkably clean condition.
Containing 54 full page captioned illustrations of prominent members of the Shanghai community, by Danish artists Juel Madsen, and Edmund Toeg, with an introduction by A. W. "Bertie" Burkill, Steward of the Shanghai Race Club.
The illustrations consist of 33 individual portraits of members of the Shanghai Race Club, Shanghai Paper Hunt Club, and International Recreation Club, beginning with G. H. Stitt, then Chairman of the Shanghai Racing Club (and Shanghai manager of the Hong Kong bank, interesting trivia – the right hand lion below the HSBC building in Hong Kong is nicknamed Stitt); 5 group sketches of Shanghai Race Club and Paper Hunt Club; 2 group sketches of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps (those featured are named below each sketch); 2 horses; all by Juel Madsen and 12 caricature sketches by Edmund Toeg.
Possibly the last publication and showing some of the last sketches by the Danish artist and war correspondent Juel Madsen who was killed in September 1923 in the Great Kantō Japanese earthquake.
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1923 - Juel Madsen, Shanghai - First and only edition
A rare piece of Shanghai horse racing history, in remarkably clean condition.Containing 54 full page captioned illustrations of prominent members of the Shanghai community, by Danish artists Juel Madsen, and Edmund Toeg, with an introduction by A. W. "Bertie" Burkill, Steward of the Shanghai Race Club.
The illustrations consist of 33 individual portraits of members of the Shanghai Race Club, Shanghai Paper Hunt Club, and International Recreation Club, beginning with G. H. Stitt, then Chairman of the Shanghai Racing Club (and Shanghai manager of the Hong Kong bank, interesting trivia – the right hand lion below the HSBC building in Hong Kong is nicknamed Stitt); 5 group sketches of Shanghai Race Club and Paper Hunt Club; 2 group sketches of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps (those featured are named below each sketch); 2 horses; all by Juel Madsen and 12 caricature sketches by Edmund Toeg.
Possibly the last publication and showing some of the last sketches by the Danish artist and war correspondent Juel Madsen who was killed in September 1923 in the Great Kantō Japanese earthquake.
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Heroes and Heroines of the Grand National -
Finch Mason
1911 - The Biographical Press, London - Second Edition (Revised with Addenda)
‘Embellished with illustrations of Winners where procurable, portraits of owners, trainers, jockeys, etc., and six colour plates from original drawings by the author.’
Second and best edition, in the publisher’s deluxe morocco leather binding, with an additional six colour plates not included in the trade edition, together with 61 black and white plates, 27 in-text illustrations, and one folding plate of the ‘Liverpool Grand National’ course (opposite page 121).
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1911 - The Biographical Press, London - Second Edition (Revised with Addenda)
‘Embellished with illustrations of Winners where procurable, portraits of owners, trainers, jockeys, etc., and six colour plates from original drawings by the author.’Second and best edition, in the publisher’s deluxe morocco leather binding, with an additional six colour plates not included in the trade edition, together with 61 black and white plates, 27 in-text illustrations, and one folding plate of the ‘Liverpool Grand National’ course (opposite page 121).
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Flying Tackle - A Bronc Burnett Story -
Wilfred McCormick
1949 - G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York - First Edition [Scarce and not to be confused with the Grosset & Dunlap Reprint]
A fine first edition of the first football story in the legendary Bronc Burnett series by the prolific Wilfrid McCormick.
Bronc finds himself leading Sonora High to the conference title, aided by Cap'n Al, the gruff but lovable coach "solid as a granite boulder".
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1949 - G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York - First Edition [Scarce and not to be confused with the Grosset & Dunlap Reprint]
A fine first edition of the first football story in the legendary Bronc Burnett series by the prolific Wilfrid McCormick.Bronc finds himself leading Sonora High to the conference title, aided by Cap'n Al, the gruff but lovable coach "solid as a granite boulder".
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Price HK$ 1,500