Search Results: Sports & Games from Motte & Bailey, Booksellers

Charlotte, NC: UMI Publications, 1999. First edition. Hardcover green binding with gilt decorations and lettering. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Quarto-sized (oversized). Light wear to edges of boards. Dj has light wear along edges and some scuffing to covers. 159 pages with illustrations, list of past race winners and Miss Southern 500 winners. A handsome work on the history of this important race track.

Hermitage, TN: Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of dj. 274 w/ b&w and toned illustrations, list of schools and champions, hall of fame, bibliography, index.

London: Batsford, 1972. First UK edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Thick octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards, more so to dj. A bit of foxing at edges of textblock, more so at top edge. Attractive bookseller sticker from Chess magazine (from whom the book was probably first purchased) on flyleaf. 448 p. w/ illustrations, indexes of opening moves and opponents. An important and classic work on Fischer's games, up through 1971.

Detroit, MI: National Horseshoe Pitchers' Association, 1940. First edition. Pamphlet. Very Good. Thick pamphlet. Some wear to edges and corners. Staples rusty. Endpapers a little tanned, but other pages clear. 96 p. w/ illustrations, rules, history of horseshoe pitching, tips, constitution of the organization, history of part world tournaments, a discussion of a nationa league, and brief histories from various state associations. The exception is Iowa, which has a much longer and more detailed entry than the rest. This is an expanded and up to date survey and history of the game, the first being published in 1929. An important history of an American game, uncommon in its print form.

Alkmaar, the Netherlands: International Chess Data Information System / Interchess BV, 1995. First edition. Hardcover w/glossy pictorial boards. Very Good. No dust jacket issued. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. A quarterly survey of chess practice and theory for the serious chess player. Theories discussed in this volume include the King's Indian and King's Gambit, along with over a score of other surveys.

Alkmaar, the Netherlands: International Chess Data Information System / Interchess BV, 1998. First edition. Hardcover w/glossy pictorial boards. Very Good. No dust jacket issued. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. A quarterly survey of chess practice and theory for the serious chess player. Theories discussed in this volume include variations on the English Openings and From's Gambit. Also adds over two dozen other surveys and several NiC forum entries. Particularly noted are Igor Glek's variation on the King's Indian, and Viktor Kupreichik's vaiation on the Sicilian.

New York, NY: The Derrydale Press, 1934. First edition. Hardcover in red cloth. Very Good. Octavo (standard size). One of a limited edition of 1150 copies. Some darkening to boards and spine. Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Page edges slighty browned and foxed. A slight stain to top of page edges near headband. 239 p. An attractive work from the classic Derrydale Press, a collection of horse and hunting stories.

Ann Arbor: the author. printed at Edwards Brothers Inc., 2009. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Octavo ( slightly oversize). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dj. SIGNED by Lund and SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the author, both on title page. Uncommon in hardcover edition. 456 p. w/ illustrations. A detailed look at the life and baseball career of University of Michigan letterman and MLB player Lund, based on extensive interviews with him by Irwin, helped by Lund's excellent memory, which the author called "verifiable" and "beyond normal".

London: Collins, 1972. First edition. Hardcover in full cloth. Very Good in Good dust jacket. Octavo ( standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Dj has more wear and a small tear at top rear dj flap crease. Name of formwer owner masked with an exhuberance of whiteout on flyleaf. 192 p. w/ games notated in the old style, index of opponents, index of openings. An important work on an important master reknowned for his many games.