Sports, Sporting, Game & Recreation Books from NEXUS BOOKS

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1930. First edition, hardcover, 231 pages. Small, decorative book-plate on front pastedown, spine a little browned, a little foxing (brown age spots) on endpapers and edges, else a nice firmly-bound Very Good copy. All the tipped-in illustration plates are present, the hinges are firm and uncracked, and the book sits square with no… Ler mais sobre este item

Toronto: Fur Trade Journal of Canada, 1945. Second edition. With numerous photographs and diagrams. Deals mainly with mink breeding and raising. A VG+ copy, clean and tight, in original blue cloth..

London, Methuen, 1956 First edition. With four coloured plates and thirty-two monochrome half-tone plates. In this book Mrs. Underhill, one of the best woman climbers of her day, distils a life-time of mountain climbing, including explorations and first ascents in the Rockies of Idaho and Montana. Small ink name at top corner of first free endpaper, else… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1950. First edition. With photographs by the author. Neat ink name (dated 1952) on front free endpaper, page edges a little age-browned, spine slightly faded, otherwise a very solid, tight VG+ copy in original full blue cloth, lacking dustwrapper..

Prince George, Antler Publishing, 1994 First edition. With scores of b.& w. photographs. A Near Fine copy (one corner slightly bumped) in pictorial boards without dustwrapper, as issued..

London: Longmans Green, 1898 First edition. With numerous b.& w. illustrations and diagrams. A volume in the 'Fur, Feather and Fin Series.' In original pictorial light brown cloth. Attractive bookplate on front pastedown, else a very clean, tight, bright copy. Small rub to red lettering on front panel, spine mildly age-dulled, almost Near Fine. … Ler mais sobre este item

No place (Warwick?): No Publisher (self-published) No date (circa 1928). Presumed first and only edition. Four essays by the author, written between 1914 and 1928, and a reprinting of the poem "If" by Rudyard Kipling. Smith-Turberville, a former Mayor of Warwick, was a keen golfer and archer and this book contains a long essay entitled "When Golf… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Seeley Service, 1949. No edition stated. Volume XVII in the Lonsdale Library. With 120 b.& w. illustrations, including 88 b.& w. plates. Small slightly rubbed patch at bottom of front panel, else a very clean and tight Near Fine copy in original brown cloth, gilt lettered and decorated on spine and front panel. A very… Ler mais sobre este item

Toronto: Macmillan, 1929. First edition. With 106 full page b.& w. photographic illustrations. Inscribed by author on front fly-leaf: "To __ ____ ____, Young enough to be thrilling, Old enough to be interesting, Clever enough to be successful; Frank Proctor, June 3, 1939." A VG+ copy in original blue cloth with gilt lettering and decoration to spine and… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Longmans Green & Co., 1896. First edition. One of the 'Fur and Feather' (later 'Fur, Feather and Fin') hunting/angling series. This is Copy number 40 of a limited edition of 157 Large Paper copies printed. Bound in half-vellum and cloth. Mild age-browning to cloth on front board, vellum inevitably but only moderately age-browned on spine,… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Faber and Faber, 1958. First edition. The author's development of a trout stream. Name on front endpaper, else a Near Fine hardcover copy in a VG- dustwrapper which has 1/4 inch chipping at head and heel of spine..

London: Longmans Green, 1894 Second edition. With numerous b.& w. illustrations and diagrams. A volume in the 'Fur and Feather Series.' In original pictorial light brown cloth. Attractive bookplate on front pastedown and slight occasional foxing, else a very clean, tight, bright copy, Near Fine. Scarce in this nice condition..

London: Longmans Green, 1895 First edition. With numerous b.& w. illustrations and diagrams. A volume in the 'Fur and Feather Series.' In original pictorial light brown cloth. Attractive bookplate on front pastedown and very slight occasional foxing, else a very clean, tight, bright copy, Near Fine. Scarce in this nice condition..