COLONEL BOGEY'S SKETCH BOOK
First edition of this tongue-in-cheek history of golf, beginning with the prehistoric Golfosaurian, moving onto the missing "link" Golfolinkius Anthropomorphus, and so on.
First edition of this tongue-in-cheek history of golf, beginning with the prehistoric Golfosaurian, moving onto the missing "link" Golfolinkius Anthropomorphus, and so on.
Inscribed first printing of tennis icon Arthur Ashe's memoir, an association copy presented to NAL Books marketing exec Maryann Palumbo.
Inscribed first printing of this profile of "the greatest [basketball] player in the history of the Ivy League" (jacket) – who would later become a US Senator – John McPhee's first book.
Illustrated with many B&W photographs.
Inscribed first printing of the autobiography of the Negro League great, an exciting story of baseball in the US, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Venezuela, and Canada.
Penguin paperback edition of this breathless account of the epic World Chess Championship of 1972, including game analysis and profiles of the players, with portraits by award-winning artist Michael Foreman.
Jesuit's Alaskan adventures, many of which appeared in slightly different form in either the Saturday Evening Post or the priest's popular lecture tours.
An anecdotal account of the 1976 major-league baseball season, one of Kahn's many works on the sport.
Signed first edition of biography of heavyweight champion boxer JOE LOUIS, "The Brown Bomber" who fought racism and Nazism with athletic skill.
Uncommon limited edition of Macdougall's classic "fish-yarn lore of the upper Kennebec," with ten stories originally published in Field & Stream magazine and two original to this collection.
A handsome, illustrated spectator's guide to bullfighting.
First edition / printing of this memoir from golfing great.
A handsome copy of this scarce title.
Striking limited edition artist's book that contrasts the violent world of prize fighting with the measured, clean format of a fine press book.
Lovely post-Civil War US edition of this classic of fishing and morality, with attractive engraved illustrations.