Search Results: Sports, Sporting, Game & Recreation Books from NEXUS BOOKS

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: 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..

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 spine slant. Overall, quite a nice copy of an interesting and collectable book. This book might not teach you to ski like an Olympic athelete but it will teach you to ski like people did in the Twenties and Thirties!.

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 front panel, with just minor age-dulling to spine. Scarce..

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 a Near Fine hardcover copy, very clean and tight. In a bright VG+ dustwrapper which has a little light edge rubbing and slight dust-soiling to rear panel..

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: 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..

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, bookplate on front pastedown, a VG+ copy, firm, tight and unworn..

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 Came South" and a short essay entitled "Archery", both written at Hove. The author's heraldic bookplate adorns the front pastedown and pencilled writing on the front free endpaper states: "R.G. Modera, complimentary from Smith-Turberville." With a b.& w. frontispiece plate of the author. A VG+ copy, sound and tight, in original printed paper-covered boards and grey cloth spine. Without dustwrapper, but almost certainly never had one originally. A highly unusual item and very scarce..

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 pleasing copy..

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. Scarce in this nice condition..