1. 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.

2. [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.

3. University College Cork ( R.F.C.).

U.C.C. R.F.C. Centenary History – 1874 – 1974.

Cork, University College Cork, 1974. 18 cm x 24.5 cm. XXII, 120 pages. Several black and white photographs and advertisements throughout. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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].

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. Delany, Ronnie.

Staying the Distance.

Dublin, O’Brien Press, 2006. 18 cm x 25 cm. 208 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. Ex-library copy with stamp on title page and lable on spine. Dog ear on page 158. Intenal pages clean and bright.