1. Cricket – [Anonymous].

“At the Oval” – General View of the famous, international Cricket Ground “Oval” at Kennington for Surrey County Cricket Club.

Vintage, photographical Postcard. [Bavaria], c. 1900. 13.5 cm x 8.5 cm. Excellent condition with only a minor abrasion.

2. [Riddell, Charlotte Elizabeth] / [Riddell, William Easton].

A Bright Sunset – Or, Recollections of the Last Days of a Young Scottish Football Player. With introductory Note by J.H.Wilson.

First Edition. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1884. Small Octavo. Pagination: Original portrait photograph of William Easton Riddell as Frontispiece, VI, (2), 142 pages with two wood-engravings (″Toward Point” and “Up the Kyles in the Ariel”). Original, beautifully illustrated Hardcover with a football-scene on the front board, gilt lettering and floral elements. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. The rare first edition with the original photograph of William Easton Riddell. Private giftinscription on the front free endpaper.

3. Walker, George.

A Selection of Games at Chess, Actually Played by Philidor and his Contemporaries – Now first published from the original Manuscripts with Notes and Additions by George Walker.

First Edition. London, Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper, 1835. Duodecimo. Frontispiece, XVI, 110 pages plus 2 pages with advertising (List of Works by George Walker). Hardcover / Original cloth with original printed label to frontcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Front free endpaper missing. Very Rare !

4. Zdarsky, Mathias / Wilcox, Joe / Herbert, E.S. / Smythe, F.S. / Ullman, James Ramsey / Young, Geoffrey Winthrop and many others.

Collection of 35 interesting and important publications on climbing, mountaineering, pioneers of skiing etc. The collection includes several historical monographs of value and also a very rare signed publication by the 1963 American Mount Everest Expedition around James Ramsey Ullman and Norman G. Dyhrenfurth.

London / Philadelphia etc., Hodder and Stoughton / Edward Arnold and other printing houses, 1892 – 2000. Octavo. More than 3000 pages. Original Hardcover volumes, often with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. The price includes an upgrade to worldwide free shipping of the collection per DHL Express Courier.

5. Rees, Dai.

Dai Reese on Golf.

London, Gerald Duckworth & Co., 1959. 16 cm x 25 cm. 176 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with minor signs of external wear. Some wear at corners. Spotting on endpages. Otherwise clean inside with intact binding.

6. O’Driscoll, Diarmuid / O Drisceoil, Diarmuid.

Douglas Golf Club – Centenary History 1909 – 2009.

Cork, Douglas Golf Club, 2009. Large – Octavo. 288 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Excellent, close to new condition. Very Rare !

7. [Felix, Nicholas] Brodribb, Gerald.

Felix on the Bat. Being a Memoir of [cricketer] Nicholas Felix. Together with the full text of the second edition of Felix on the Bat: Being a Scientific Inquiry into the use of the Cricket Bat; together with the History and use of the Catapulta, containing also coloured drawings, woodcuts and vignettes, illustrative of the principles of Batting; new diagrams and theoretical demonstrations, illustrative of the great question of “Leg before Wicket”; – A Dissertation on the Different Styles of Bowling; much new and important matter relative to the disposition of Fieldsmen, more especially of the additional number when brought into action against the “Eleven of England”: Also The Laws of the Game as revised by the Marylebone Cricket Club.

The Text of Part two is a facsimile of the second edition of 1850. London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1962. Octavo. XIV, 145, VIII, 58 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Some staining to the binding and dustjacket ! Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear to the binding.

8. Smythe, Pat.

Flanagan My Friend.

London, Cassell, 1963, 14.5 cmx 21.5 cm. XI, 113 pages. Several black and white photographs throughout. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear to dust jacket mainly. An inscription by photographer Keith Money on endpaper, claiming one of the credited photographs in the publication being his instead of the falsely credited source.

9. Armour, Tommy / Gustavson, Lealand (illustrations).

How to Play Your Best Golf All the Time.

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1961. 15 cm x 22 cm. X, 160 pages including illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with minor signs of external wear. Slightly grubby cover and page-edges with wear at corners of dustjacket. Clean inside with intact binding.

10. Hoyle, Edmond.

Hoyle’s Games Improved : Being practical Treatises on the following fashionable Games, viz.: Whist, Quadrille, Piquet, Chess, Back-Gammon, Billiards, Cricket, Tennis, Quinze, Hazard, and Lansquenet. In Which Are Also Contained The Method of Betting at those Games upon equal or advantageous Terms. Including The Laws of the several Games, as settled and agreed to at Whites and Stapleton’s Chocolate Houses. Revised and corrected by Thomas Jones, Esq.

London, Printed for W. Wood in Fleet-Street, 1778. Small Octavo (9.5 cm x 15 cm). XI, 216 pages. Hardcover / Original 18th century full leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Spine professionally repaired, original endpapers preserved. Name of preowner “Desproz” on titlepage. A little dusty but overall very desirable and very rare publication.