11. Toptani, Count Ilias.

Modern Show Jumping – The South American Method.

London, Hurst & Blackett, 1954. 14 cm x 21.5 cm. 183 pages. 48 black and white photographs and 27 line drawings throughout. Original Hardcover. Good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Discolouration on some pages and more markedly on endpapers with foxing throughout. Signature in ink pen on endpaper.

12. The Council for Croquet Assosiation.

The Official Handbook of the Laws of Association Croquet and Golf Croquet and The Regulations for Official Tournaments etc. Confirmed and Adopted by the Council of The Croquet Association 1953.

London, The Croquet Assosiation, 1953. 10.5 cm x 16.5 cm. IV, 48 pages. Original Pamphlet. Good condition with only minor signs of wear throughout. Sellotape used to keep covers together which has become detached. The rest of the pamphlet is intact however although staples are rusted.

13. The Badminton Association of England.

Know the Game – Badminton.

Fourth Edition, Third Impression. London, Educational Productions Ltd, 1956. 20.5 cm x 14 cm. 39 Pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. [Know the Game].

14. 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.

15. New Yorker, The.

The New Yorker Album of Sports and Games.

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1958. 23 cm x 30 cm. 96 pages. Original Hardcover (green cloth with New Yorker logo embossed on front cover in red, title in embossed silver on spine). Design and Layout by Carmin Peppe. Good condition with signs of external wear and an inscription on front free endpaper.

16. 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.

17. 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.

18. Murphy, John A.

Where Finbarr Played: A Concise History of Sport in University College Cork, 1911-2011.

Cork, Office of the Vice President for the Student Experience, 2011. 19.5cm x 25.5cm. XV, 254 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket and protective Mylar covering. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Rare. Signed and inscribed by the author.

19. Chapman, F. Spencer.

Memoirs of a Mountaineer. Helvellyn to Himalaya and Lhasa: The Holy City. With 31 pages of illustrations.

Original Edition (NOT a Reprint). London, The Reprint Society, 1945. 19 cm x 12,5 cm. 446 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Jacket slightly torn. In protective mylar.

20. 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.