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British Sports and Sportsmen, Past and Present -
Circa 1913 - British Sports and Sportsmen, London - First Edition. Royal Edition, limited to 250 copies, of which this set is number 105.
Two large finely bound folios containing the biographies of 303 of leading British sportsmen from the eighteenth and (primarily) nineteenth centuries, practitioners of the hunt, polo, steeplechase, cricket, rugby, boxing, and other gentlemanly pursuits accompanied by approximately 300 full page photogravure portrait plates. With a fascinating introduction by Horace G. Hutchinson. Volume I covers Hugo Meynell 1735-1808 to The Hon. Egremont Lascelles 1825-1892; Volume II covers George Parr 1826-1891 to Henry Arthur, Viscount Chelsea 1868-1908.
Compiled and Edited by ‘The Sportsman’. Two large folio volumes [39x29cm] . Profusely illustrated.
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Price HK$ 8,000
Circa 1913 - British Sports and Sportsmen, London - First Edition. Royal Edition, limited to 250 copies, of which this set is number 105.
Two large finely bound folios containing the biographies of 303 of leading British sportsmen from the eighteenth and (primarily) nineteenth centuries, practitioners of the hunt, polo, steeplechase, cricket, rugby, boxing, and other gentlemanly pursuits accompanied by approximately 300 full page photogravure portrait plates. With a fascinating introduction by Horace G. Hutchinson. Volume I covers Hugo Meynell 1735-1808 to The Hon. Egremont Lascelles 1825-1892; Volume II covers George Parr 1826-1891 to Henry Arthur, Viscount Chelsea 1868-1908.Compiled and Edited by ‘The Sportsman’. Two large folio volumes [39x29cm] . Profusely illustrated.
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The Cricket Match - with - The Test Match Surprise -
Hugh De Selincourt, Jack Hobbs
1924 - The Readers Library Publishing Company Ltd., London - First Reader’s Library Edition, First Edition
Two Great Cricket Fictional Works, rare in their original dust jackets.
‘The Cricket Match’ - James Barrie (of Peter Pan) thought this ‘the best story about cricket or any other game that has ever been written’, and this novel of a cricket match played in the idyllic Sussex village of Tillingfold is still the best-known and best-loved cricket story ever written.
‘Test Match Surprise’ - A fictional account by Jack Hobbs, legendary England and Surrey batsman.
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Price HK$ 2,200
1924 - The Readers Library Publishing Company Ltd., London - First Reader’s Library Edition, First Edition
Two Great Cricket Fictional Works, rare in their original dust jackets.‘The Cricket Match’ - James Barrie (of Peter Pan) thought this ‘the best story about cricket or any other game that has ever been written’, and this novel of a cricket match played in the idyllic Sussex village of Tillingfold is still the best-known and best-loved cricket story ever written.
‘Test Match Surprise’ - A fictional account by Jack Hobbs, legendary England and Surrey batsman.
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Price HK$ 2,200
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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Cricket of To-Day and Yesterday. With Special Articles by Famous Cricketers -
Percy Cross Standing
1902 - Blackwood, London - First Issue of the Subscription Illustrated Edition
A clean and sharp example of this large, wonderful and comprehensive two volume set on Cricket at the turn of the 20th century, illustrated throughout with colour, black and white, and sepia toned illustrations.
The extra articles listed in the title were only included with this subscription edition and are placed at the front of each volume.
Much coverage of international cricket, such as ‘Our Tropical Cricket Match’, a chapter covering a match in Bangkok in 1893 during the Franco-Siamese dispute of 1893, amongst other chapter headings are - ‘English Teams in Australia’; ‘Australian Teams in England’; and ‘Tours in America and South Africa’.
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1902 - Blackwood, London - First Issue of the Subscription Illustrated Edition
A clean and sharp example of this large, wonderful and comprehensive two volume set on Cricket at the turn of the 20th century, illustrated throughout with colour, black and white, and sepia toned illustrations.The extra articles listed in the title were only included with this subscription edition and are placed at the front of each volume.
Much coverage of international cricket, such as ‘Our Tropical Cricket Match’, a chapter covering a match in Bangkok in 1893 during the Franco-Siamese dispute of 1893, amongst other chapter headings are - ‘English Teams in Australia’; ‘Australian Teams in England’; and ‘Tours in America and South Africa’.
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Casey at the Bat -
Phineas Thayer, Dan Sayre Groesbeck (illustrator)
1912 - A.C. McClurg & Co., Chicago - First Hardback Edition
‘But there is no joy in Mudville — mighty Casey has struck out.’
First stand alone hard back and fully illustrated edition of this classic Baseball poem.
‘Casey at the Bat’ first appeared in a San Francisco newspaper in 1888 as a featured piece of humorous doggerel by Ernest Lawrence Thayer. Its ascension to immortal status was due primarily to actor and toastmaster DeWolf Hopper, who began reciting it at dinners and other functions, as well as on the vaudeville stage. It was then published alone in soft covers 1901, and finally in 1912 it was published as a book, and fully illustrated with thirteen full page offset lithographs printed in orange and black, each facing a corresponding verse with accompanying vignette.
A fine example of a particularly delicate book, usually found in poorer state with chipped, restored or replaced spine.
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Price HK$ 8,000
1912 - A.C. McClurg & Co., Chicago - First Hardback Edition
‘But there is no joy in Mudville — mighty Casey has struck out.’First stand alone hard back and fully illustrated edition of this classic Baseball poem.
‘Casey at the Bat’ first appeared in a San Francisco newspaper in 1888 as a featured piece of humorous doggerel by Ernest Lawrence Thayer. Its ascension to immortal status was due primarily to actor and toastmaster DeWolf Hopper, who began reciting it at dinners and other functions, as well as on the vaudeville stage. It was then published alone in soft covers 1901, and finally in 1912 it was published as a book, and fully illustrated with thirteen full page offset lithographs printed in orange and black, each facing a corresponding verse with accompanying vignette.
A fine example of a particularly delicate book, usually found in poorer state with chipped, restored or replaced spine.
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Price HK$ 8,000
Imperial Cricket -
P. F. Warner (editor)
1912 - The London & Counties Press Association Ltd, London - Subscriber’s Edition of 900
‘Hail CRICKET! Glorious, manly, British Game!
First of all Sports! be alike in Fame!’ – James Love, 1744.
And Huzzah! to that. Presenting a large, magnificent and obviously Imperial work (32x26x6cm), which covers the growth and development of Cricket throughout the Empire from Hong Kong and the Far East, Ceylon, India, British Malaya and Bermuda to South Africa, West Africa, India, Australia, Fiji, Egypt and the Sudan. Not only the history of Cricket in each area but with anecdotes and illustrations. In addition there are chapters on The History of Cricket; Cricket and the Royal Family, Oxford and Cambridge Cricket; I Zingari; and Free Foresters.
One of 900 copies of the Subscriber’s Edition, heavily illustrated with six full page photogravure plates, three full page colour plates and 93 black and white images.
Contributors include FS Ashley-Cooper, ACM Croome, Andrew Lang, Cecil Headlam and SP Foenander. With an extensive index compiled by Ashley-Cooper.
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Price HK$ 3,000
1912 - The London & Counties Press Association Ltd, London - Subscriber’s Edition of 900
‘Hail CRICKET! Glorious, manly, British Game!First of all Sports! be alike in Fame!’ – James Love, 1744.
And Huzzah! to that. Presenting a large, magnificent and obviously Imperial work (32x26x6cm), which covers the growth and development of Cricket throughout the Empire from Hong Kong and the Far East, Ceylon, India, British Malaya and Bermuda to South Africa, West Africa, India, Australia, Fiji, Egypt and the Sudan. Not only the history of Cricket in each area but with anecdotes and illustrations. In addition there are chapters on The History of Cricket; Cricket and the Royal Family, Oxford and Cambridge Cricket; I Zingari; and Free Foresters.
One of 900 copies of the Subscriber’s Edition, heavily illustrated with six full page photogravure plates, three full page colour plates and 93 black and white images.
Contributors include FS Ashley-Cooper, ACM Croome, Andrew Lang, Cecil Headlam and SP Foenander. With an extensive index compiled by Ashley-Cooper.
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Price HK$ 3,000