Search Results: Sports from Minotavros Books

London: C.C. Wakefield & Co, 1954. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8.5" x 6" Oblong. Pictorial wraps, staple bound. 48 pp. Illustrated with B&W photos throughout. Light wear to spine with 3/4" tear to spine head, and crease to upper corner of front cover. 1954 was an exciting year for the motoring enthusiast. Grand Prix racing under the new Formula I presented as thrilling spectacle as any since the war and closer finishes gave additional stimulus to what is undoubtedly the most exciting of sports. The classic sports car races, international rallies, moto-cross and reliability trials, all contributed to a "vintage year.

Chichester, Sussex: British Automobile Racing Club, 1958. Soft cover. Near Fine. 5.5" x 8.5" Orig. printed wrappers, staple bound. 44 pp. B&W photos in text. Some light rubbing to spine, crease to lower corner of rear cover. Age toning to interior.

Toronto: Fenn Publishing Company Ltd, 2013. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Black paper boards, silver lettering. xi, 324 p.p. [16] p.p. B&W photo plates. Light bumping to extremities of dust jacket, else a fine copy.

London: Stanley Paul, 1990. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo (royal). Soft cover. 93 pp. B&W illustrations throughout. Light edge wear, creasing to joints, sticker ghost to rear. Few champions have dominated their sports as Jahangir has dominated squash. Advanced Squash, the sequel to the popular Winning Squash, draws on his own programme for match-winning success to show how each player can improve their game.

Montreal: CBC Enterprises, 1986. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. Soft cover. 128 pp. B&W photos. About fine.

New York: Hyperion, 2000. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. Advanced uncorrected proof. Original card wraps. x, 372 pp. Some creasing, bumping, and light damp staining to covers. Completely revised and updated, this book chronicles the Angels' tumultuous history - written by a sportswriter that's followed the team since its inception.

Toronto: Dundurn Group, 2001. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 10.25" x 8" SIGNED to title page. Tan paper boards. 208 pp. [16] pp. colour photos, B&W frontis., B&W photos in text. Spine tilted. Edge toning to interior. Gift inscription to front pastedown. Dust jacket stained to tail edge of front cover, light bumping to edges, crease to front flap, chip to lower corner of rear flap.

New York: Pocket Books, 1953. Soft cover. Good. 16mo. Pocket Books Series No. 933. Paperback. viii, 207pp., (4)ads. Some faint dampstaining to outer margin of last leaves. Covers worn and creased, especially at ower corners but still a good copy. "Arnold 'Red' Auebach, famous coach of the Boston Celtics, tells you the Winning Techniques of Championship Basketball.

Toronto: Canadian Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation, 1968. Soft cover. Near Fine. 16mo. Original red printed wraps, staple bound. 67 pp. B&W illustrations and diagrams. Some creasing to covers, rubbing to upper front cover, chip to spine foot.

London: W. Foulsham & Co., Limited. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 32mo. 108 p.p. With 45 specially drawn diagrams, in-text. Frontispiece photo of a man addressing the ball with his cue. Some scuffing and rubbing to boards. Spine ends gently bruised. Interior clean. In very good condition. An interesting book offering insight into Billiards with a variety of techniques and tips.

Toronto: John Wiley & Sons Canada Limited, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Black hardcover with white spine lettering.A couple of light bumps to the boards and one closed tear in the dust jacket. A good clean copy overall, SIGNED by Vern Buffey.

Toronto: John Wiley & Sons Canada Limited, 1980. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. 151 p.p. Cloth. Photographs throughout book. Browning to dust-jacket covers. Nicks throughout edges of dust-jacket covers. Some bumping to corners of boards. Signed by author, a former referee in this NHL.

Toronto: John Wiley & Sons, 1980. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. As told to Robert Soucie and Michael Monty. Foreword by Gordie Howe. Full black cloth. 151 p.p. [32] pp. plates of B&W photographs. Cracking to inner hinge at first set of photo plates. Dust jacket lightly sunned and rubbed at edges, spot of wear to lower spine from sticker removal.

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2006. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Quarter black paper over white paper boards. 299 pp. Dust jacket lightly bumped to edes, else fine. The basis of the 2009 film starring Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw, and Quinton Aaron about NFL offensive tackle Michael Oher.

Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2018. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. Soft cover. 262 pp. B&W photos in text. Fine. Danny Gallagher leads readers up to that infamous day in October 1981 when Rick Monday of teh Los Angeles Dodgers hit a home run off Montreal Expos pitcher Steve Rogers in the ninth inning, giving the Dodgers a berth in the World Series.

London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd, 1954. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. 127 p.p. Cloth. Rubbing throughout extremities of dust-jacket. Marks to rear dust-jacket covers. Discolouration to boards. Light staining to rear board. Very light bumping to spine ends. A near fine copy of book.

New York: Harper and Row, 1972. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Tan and blue cloth. xxii, 442 pp. [16] pp. B&W photos. Bumping to spine foot. Damp staining to top edge of text block, tail edge scuffed. Dust jacket is price clipped, bumped to spine ends. A warm, delightful narrative of growing up within shouting distance of Ebbets Field, working for the Herald Tribune in the Jackie Robinson years...and what's happened to everybody since.

Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1990. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Full blue paper boards. 227 pp. [16] pp. B&W photos. Ink ownership inscription to front pastedown. Light bumping to edges of dust jacket, slight toning to flaps. Fine overall.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Inc, 1995. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. xii, 236 p.p. No marks to book, in fine condition. Signed by the author. Charles Wilkins is an award-winning Canadian author of non-fiction books, including Paddle to the Amazon, In the Land of Long Fingernails, and The Circus at the Edge of the Earth.

Toronto: Stoddart, 1996. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. White paper boards, red lettering to spine. xiii, 217 pp., [16] pp. B&W photo plates. Light bumping to head to dust jacket. The second in a series about the Original Six teams of the National Hockey League, in which readers can experience once again the entension and excitement that dominated the atmosphere of any on-ice encounter feating Les Canadiens.