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1999004510New York: Alfred a Knopf Inc 1999. 208pp/illus. More than 100 glass plate images of sail and steam yachts typifying the romantic yachting scene in its turn-of-the-century heydays 1880-1905. An entertaining and informative text full of sailing racing boatbuilding stories to delight yachting fans. Gift inscription inside front cover. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Alfred a Knopf Inc hardcover
22431Longmans Green London 1894. First edition. Coloured frontispiece to each volume. Plates. 8vo 7 1/4 x 5 inches. 439 & 456 pages. Finely bound contemporary full tan marbled calf gilt border to sides. Spines gilt in compartments with black lettering piece all edges marbled. Short ink mark to title of vol.1. The binding by Gordon & Gotch Melbourne with their ticket. With the bookplate of Bertram E. Fenwick on front pastedown. Longmans, Green, London, 1894. unknown
1988188911988. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover dj/pub.1988/VG condition/213 pages - Presents a stunning panorama of olympic competition triumph and defeat. It captures moments of high drama and athletic excellence. A very picturesque t ext. KH918891 hardcover
201827677Bleadon UK: Somerset Valley Publishing. Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 2018. First Edition. Softcover. 1916001106 . Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 297 pages . Somerset Valley Publishing paperback
1981Q-0671420798Simon and Schuster 1981-01-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Simon and Schuster paperback
DADAX0671420798Simon & Schuster 0000-00-00. paperback. New. 0.00x0.00x0.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Simon & Schuster paperback
0835115399.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1999012599Sichuan Science and Technology Press 1999. Softcover. Near Fine. 190pp; Extremely clean tight copy Near Fine condition. Tai Chi Quan treatise on Wudang Sword technique. Illustrated with photos. TEXT IN CHINESE. Sichuan Science and Technology Press paperback
198227120Seattle Wa U. S. A.: University of Washington Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1982. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Inscribed on the half-title by the editor Roderick Haig-Brown's daughter. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 222 pages; Signed by Editor . University of Washington Press hardcover
1938067091London and Glasgow: Blackie and Son Ltd. 1938. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Red cloth lettered in black. Slight rub to cloth along lower front joint minor thumbing to flyleaves. 1st ed. Color pictorial dust jacket VG with modest surface soiling a few small chips along spine panel now in mylar. viii88 pp. illus. w/ b&w photos in the manner of a "flip book." Nicely preserved very scarce. Blackie and Son Ltd. Hardcover
1929009610London: Frederick Warne and Co Ltd 1929. Informative on wrestling 64 pages in very bright clean condition many B/w illustrations all present as published plus very informative text NO dustwrapper outer illustrated card covers are bright and clean little rubbed to bottom of spine. Only date in book is 1929 possibly first issue in this form. A very nice example of this book SEE IMAGES. DETAILED IMAGES CAN BE TAKEN ON REQUEST . Illustrated Card Covers. Very Good/No Jacket. 18.5 x 12.5 Cms. Card Covers. Frederick Warne and Co Ltd Paperback
2013SPOR0879Toronto: Bulger Gallery Press. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 2013. Numbered. Hardcover. 0968838332 . Unpaginated. Spine corners bumped. Signed by the author. Number 258 of 1000. Photographs of the fight scene - fighters in and out of the ring managers the environment and more. Get a taste of the boxing world. Heavy oversize book. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall . Bulger Gallery Press hardcover
19103London: Ernest Benn Ltd. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 11.8x8.5x2.3in. dust jackets price clipped light rubbing to head and foot of spine of volume 1. Dust jacket in clear protector. <br>Three volume set: Volume 1. Europe and Africa has 191 pages with 30 European timbers and 53 African timbers illustrated in color; Volume 2. North and South America has 150 pages with 30 North American timbers and 30 South American timbers illustrated in color; Volume 3. Asia and Australian and New Zealand has 175 pages with 42 Asian timbers 22 Australian timbers and 8 New Zealand timbers illustrated in color. All 215 timbers are concisely described with the minimum of technical terms. <br>516pp 7.71lb 11.8x8.5x2.3in <br>EXTRA SHIPPING CHARGES NECESSARY Ernest Benn Ltd hardcover
19842090502113703998Not Available 1984. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
19862090502113706415Not Available 1986. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
58178London: Bradbury Agnew & Co nd. Many hand colored plates mostly by John Leech and many illustrations in text. 9 vols. Royal 8vo. Bound in original two toned red cloth t.e.g. other edges uncut. Bookplate of Walter Rutherford Peterson. Fine. Many hand colored plates mostly by John Leech and many illustrations in text. 9 vols. Royal 8vo. Bradbury, Agnew, & Co unknown
1996029318Boulder Colorado: Paladin Press 1996. BRAND NEW in PERFECT CONDITION. Flat uncreased spine. NO chips tears creases rubbing or fading. Sharp corners. Square and tight. NOT a library discard. NOT a remainder. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are fresh crisp clean and unmarked. Well illustrated with step-by-step how-to-do-it photographs. Bound in the original pictorial wraps. From the publisher: "Here is a slew of new and interesting improvised silencer designs featuring innovative couplings plus variations on aluminum cans oil filters PVC pipe plumbing devices water sprinkler pieces and other unique materials. Warning: It is illegal to possess or make firearm silencers without BATF registration. For academic study only.". 1st ed No additional printings listed. Softcover. New. xi 65pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Paladin Press Paperback
1995085516Orange Frazer Pr Inc 1995. Hardcover. Collectible: Like New/Like New. 7x1x10. Signed. Flat signed by author and illustrator with whimsical drawing on blank front endpage. Loosely laid in is the publisher's news release. Like new hardback and jacket. Appears unread. Binding is tight and square. No owners' names/labels. Dust jacket is enclosed in a clear protective cover. Text is clean unmarked. First edition 1st printing. Full number line with "1". Shelf: I4 Books are carefully sealed in waterproof poly and boxed to prevent damage during transit. Orange Frazer Pr Inc hardcover
1965228782Barre MA: Barre Publishers 1965. First edition number 95 of 200 copies. 89 3 pp. Printed at the Stinehour Press in Bembo type. 1 vols. 8vo. Decorated paper over boards tan calf spine gilt lettered t.e.g. Book label of Jeffrey Norton. Fine in original publisher's slipcase. First edition number 95 of 200 copies. 89 3 pp. Printed at the Stinehour Press in Bembo type. 1 vols. 8vo. An engaging collection of sporting anecdotes and reminiscences by the beloved angling writer. Bruns L17 Barre Publishers unknown
194456888New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1944. First edition No. 145 of 275 copies on Rives Liampre All-Rag Paper signed containing an extra color plate. Frontispiece and 4 color plates from paintings by Dr. Edgar Burke 10 photographic plates in black & white. 161 ii pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green boards gilt tan cloth spine with lettering piece very fine in slightly worn board slipcase. First edition No. 145 of 275 copies on Rives Liampre All-Rag Paper signed containing an extra color plate. Frontispiece and 4 color plates from paintings by Dr. Edgar Burke 10 photographic plates in black & white. 161 ii pp. 1 vols. 8vo. A beautiful copy of a handsome book signed by author and illustrator on limitation page. Biscotti p. 242; Heller 2:693 Alfred A. Knopf unknown
1970201881970. Women's boxing photograph archive 1974 to 1983 documents women as fighters trainers judges and sanctioned competitors during a period when boxing remained one of the most heavily gendered professional sports. The archive provides primary visual evidence of women's participation in combative athletics before women's boxing received Olympic recognition as a medal sport in 2012 and it records several forms of ring authority: women entering the ring as athletes women training male and female boxers and Eva Shain appearing as a pioneering judge. Shain became the first woman to judge a world heavyweight championship bout when she scored the 1977 Muhammad Ali and Earnie Shavers fight at Madison Square Garden placing one image in this group within the broader history of women claiming official authority in professional boxing.<br /> <br /> The archive consists of eight black-and-white silver gelatin photographs of women boxers and women in combat-sport settings circa 1970s to 1980s measuring from approximately 5 x 7 inches to 8 x 10 inches. One press photograph shows a co-ed boxing match between Sheila McGuire and Buddy DiBenedetto in a ring with a referee watching closely behind them. Another press photograph shows Eva Shain at age seventy-one wearing boxing gloves presenting her public identity through the equipment of the sport she judged. A 1983 photograph shows boxing coach Butch Fohndan training a young woman at Palmer Boxing Club in Alaska. A 1974 photograph from Japan shows Masako Takatsuki training a young male boxer; the attached press information identifies Takatsuki as a twenty-seven-year-old cosmetician and the only female boxing trainer-manager then licensed by the Japan Boxing Commission to spar and act as a second. Another action photograph shows an outdoor wrestling match between Gisa Pipa and Aggi Tillman with Tillman holding Pipa from behind. Two photographs show an unidentified woman near a boxing ring in a crouched stance with a direct combative expression suggesting training or promotional posing. The final 1975 photograph shows Sharon Allbery charging toward Zinda Foster at Seattle Center Arena in what contemporary women's boxing history sources identify as the first sanctioned female prizefight in Seattle Washington and the Pacific Northwest.<br /> <br /> The photographs are significant because they show women's boxing as a developing practice rather than a single symbolic breakthrough: fighters in sanctioned and mixed bouts a female judge associated with a heavyweight title fight a Japanese woman trainer-manager local gym instruction and women using combat poses to claim athletic presence. Their strongest research value lies in the way they document the infrastructure around women's boxing including referees licenses gyms press captions arenas and training relationships alongside images of women's physical force. Light handling wear and minor edge wear; press details present on several images; photographs remain crisp with clear ring gym and figure detail; overall very good. Concentrated women's sports photography archive documenting the contested expansion of women's boxing and combat-sport authority in the 1970s and early 1980s. unknown
1910200811910. Women's competitive golf archive 1910s to 1930s documents women golfers in practice tournament and club settings during the formative decades of organized women's golf in the United States. The group provides visual evidence of women's athletic participation in a sport long associated with country-club respectability social access and gendered expectations about dress leisure and competition. The U.S. Women's Amateur Championship began in 1895 as one of the USGA's first three championships and the USGA identifies it as marking the beginning of women's competitive golf in the United States; these photographs and postcard show how that competitive culture appeared in everyday and press imagery in the decades that followed. <br /> <br /> The archive consists of seven items dated between the 1910s and 1930s: six silver gelatin photographs and one brightly illustrated postcard measuring from approximately 1.75 x 2.75 inches to 7.25 x 9 inches. The photographs include a 1934 press image of golfer Barbara Stoddard in a swing position; a 1935 lineup from the Annual Women's St. Valentine Golf Tournament identifying Helen Waring Sarah Fownes Wadsworth Myrom W. Marr and W.C. Fownes Jr.; three small circa 1928 photographs of women positioned with clubs on a golf range; and an early 1930s image of two women posed with a man at a country club the women holding several clubs with one woman wearing trousers. The illustrated postcard from the early twentieth century shows a woman swinging a club in an athletic outfit still shaped by long-skirted fashion rather than later sportswear. Across the group recurring details include golf clubs held as markers of athletic identity posed swings tournament lineup conventions country-club settings and changing women's clothing from long skirts to less restrictive dress.<br /> <br /> The archive records women's golf as both competitive sport and social performance making visible the relationship between athletic skill class-coded club culture and evolving public ideas about women's physical capability. Its strongest research value lies in the mix of press photographs vernacular practice images tournament documentation and illustrated popular culture allowing comparison between women as actual competitors and women as stylized sporting subjects. Light handling wear minor edge wear and typical surface wear to photographs and postcard; images remain clear and identifiable; overall very good. Cohesive women's sports archive documenting early twentieth-century women golfers as competitors club participants and subjects of changing athletic representation. unknown
1910201861910. Women's participation in boxing long preceded formal recognition of the sport for female athletes developing through informal exhibitions training clubs and novelty bouts that challenged prevailing gender norms. Although women were largely excluded from organized boxing competitions during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries scattered photographic evidence demonstrates that women continued to box recreationally and publicly despite social restrictions. This archive of photographs dating from the early twentieth century through the mid twentieth century documents women participating in boxing across a range of informal settings illustrating the gradual emergence of female athletic culture in a sport historically defined as masculine.<br /> <br /> Archive of sixteen black and white photographs including six silver gelatin prints and one real photo postcard measuring approximately 2.5 x 3.5 inches to 3.5 x 5.25 inches dating from the 1910s through the 1950s. The earliest image a real photo postcard dated August 1914 depicts two women wearing corsets and long dresses while sparring with boxing gloves before a mixed group of spectators. The postcard bears a pencil inscription on the verso reading "August 1914 For fun women boxers Francis Edith." Another early photograph shows two women posing with gloved fists raised before a snowy background with the inscription "Grace Miss Vandehei boxing This is Grace's roommate. A fine girl she's here now." Later photographs from the 1920s depict staged boxing encounters between a man and a woman with the female boxer dressed in athletic trousers and high heeled shoes reflecting the novelty and spectacle often associated with early female boxing exhibitions. One image shows the pair squared off with raised fists while another captures the moment of a punch landing against the man's chest. Another photograph shows two women sparring on a ship deck while surrounded by onlookers one boxer wearing a dress and curlers beneath her head covering while raising her gloved fists before a mixed audience of men and women.<br /> <br /> Boxing has historically generated controversy due to its physical intensity and female participation in the sport remained marginal for decades. Women occasionally boxed publicly as early as the eighteenth century yet organized opportunities remained rare. Women's boxing appeared briefly as a demonstration sport at the 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis and training clubs such as Andrew Newton's Women's Boxing Club in London emerged during the 1920s. Nevertheless women's boxing did not become an official Olympic sport until the 2012 Olympic Games. The photographs in this archive illustrate the persistence of women athletes who trained and competed informally despite these restrictions offering visual evidence of women's athletic experimentation and resilience during a period of shifting gender expectations in sport. Sixteen photographs including silver gelatin prints and a real photo postcard measuring approximately 2.5 x 3.5 inches to 3.5 x 5.25 inches. Photographs clear and well preserved with light handling wear. Overall condition very good. unknown
1880206021880. Unidentified photographers female tennis player photograph archive ca. 1880s-1910s documents women's participation in organized sport and recreational culture during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries supporting research into gender roles physical activity and educational environments for women in the Victorian and Edwardian periods. The group captures tennis as one of the few socially sanctioned athletic pursuits for women showing both formal portraiture and active play. The inclusion of seminary-based stereoviews alongside studio cartes-de-visite and outdoor scenes establishes a transatlantic visual record of how tennis intersected with women's education leisure and identity formation during a period of restricted physical and social mobility.<br /> <br /> Eight original photographs including five albumen prints and three stereoviews sepia toned ranging from approximately 2.5 x 4 inches to 3 x 4.5 inches. Two cartes-de-visite depict waist-length portraits of women holding tennis rackets dressed in late nineteenth-century attire including fitted bodices and high collars; versos bear photographer imprints for Hellis & Sons of London and George Goodman of Margate. Additional images show women engaged in doubles matches on grass courts including one action-oriented scene with players mid-swing wearing wide-brimmed hats and layered dresses. One photograph shows two young women in matching outfits possibly school uniforms standing in a yard holding rackets. The three stereoviews dated 1905 and issued by C.H. Graves of Philadelphia are captioned "A Masquerade at the Seminary Confidences" "Trying on the Costumes" and "Planning to Scare the Freshies" each depicting groups of young women in a dormitory interior; tennis rackets are visible mounted on the wall in the background linking athletic culture to residential school life. Based on the photographer and setting the images may relate to a women's seminary such as Darlington Seminary in West Chester Pennsylvania.<br /> <br /> Produced during the decades following the introduction of lawn tennis to the United States in 1874 the archive situates women's participation in sport within broader developments in leisure education and shifting norms of female physicality. The imagery documents the persistence of restrictive dress including corseted garments and long skirts even in athletic contexts underscoring the negotiation between mobility and propriety. Minor surface wear consistent with age with strong image clarity and tonal stability across prints. Overall in very good condition. unknown
1910219051910. Archive of original photographs documenting women's participation in athletics and organized physical culture during the early twentieth century when women's sports and exercise programs increasingly became accepted within schools colleges camps and recreational organizations. The photographs show women engaged in archery synchronized gymnastics calisthenics and cheer leading during a period when female athletic participation expanded alongside broader debates concerning women's health education public visibility and social independence. The photographs provide visual evidence of the physical culture movement as it shaped women's recreational and educational environments in the United States and abroad preserving both formal athletic training and communal performance activities that contributed to changing expectations surrounding women's physical activity and public presence.<br /> Collection consists of seven original silver gelatin photographs dating approximately from the 1910s through the 1930s. The archive includes several photographs of women participating in organized physical education exercises and athletic activities while dressed in period sporting attire. One image dated July 5 1928 documents uniformed women performing synchronized gymnastic drills during a Sokol Festival dress rehearsal in Prague capturing rows of participants in coordinated motion during a major international physical culture gathering influenced by Central European nationalist and athletic traditions. Another photograph from the 1910s-1920s shows a group of young women posed with medicine balls Indian clubs and batons while wearing sailor-inspired gymnasium uniforms associated with school or collegiate athletic programs. A separate 1930s image depicts a cheerleading squad in matching lettered "S" sweaters posed in formation within a school auditorium. Archery appears prominently throughout the archive. One press photograph portrays Olympic diver and sportswoman Helen Meany Balfe standing with a bow on the grounds of White Sulphur Springs West Virginia as identified by a typed caption on the verso. Another image depicts Stella M. Ives identified in manuscript drawing a bow while dressed in full sporting attire. A vernacular photograph portrays four young women practicing archery in the hills above Troy New York including one identified as Louise Hatch of Troy with a handwritten verso inscription linking the group to Bridgewater Massachusetts. The final photograph shows a large assembly of young women gathered on outdoor steps beside a prominent archery target possibly at a camp or collegiate event emphasizing organized recreation and group participation.<br /> The archive documents the increasing visibility of women's athletic participation during the early twentieth century when organized exercise and sports became associated with women's education health reform and public modernity. Physical culture programs in schools colleges camps and civic organizations promoted athletics as both disciplined recreation and social training while sports such as archery and gymnastics offered women expanded opportunities for public competition and physical expression. Particularly notable is the range of activities represented from regimented calisthenic performance to recreational archery and cheerleading illustrating the broad spectrum of athletic environments available to women before the widespread professionalization of women's sports. Light wear and occasional handling marks consistent with age; photographs remain well-preserved overall in very good condition. A visually engaging archive documenting the growth of women's athletics and physical culture in the early twentieth century. unknown