Category: Games & Sports

Program for English Premiere of South African production of King Kong: A Jazz Musical

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, African Music and Drama Trust : 1961

Seller ID: k210403a

Condition: Good

London, Princes Theatre 1961 Stapled wrappers.7.25x5” 24pp.#####'King Kong' was a pioneering South African musical inspired by the life and death of the heavyweight boxing champion Ezekiel Dlamini. Billed as a 'Jazz-Opera', the production was first staged in Johannesburg, opening on February 2nd 1959 and went on to take South Africa by storm. Nelson Mandela attended the opening night and is on record as highlighting the show as his favorite musical. 'King Kong' subsequently opened at London's Princes Theatre on February 23rd 1961 and ran for 201 performances.#####With an all-black cast, the pl...
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Golf, the Book of a Thousand Chuckles: The Famous Golf Cartoons

By: Briggs, Clare

Price: $275.00

Publisher: NY, Chicago, P. F. Volland : 1918

Seller ID: 022024

1st ed., oblong 4to, ½ green cloth, illustrated boards. Briggs’ classic work on the joys and frustrations of the sport, most of which had been previously published in the New York Herald-Tribune. Very good: Externally very clean with rubbed corners, edges; spine a bit loose; front hinge lightly cracked. Interior clean and bright with no foxing. Notoriously prone to wear, a very nice copy.
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Training in Theory and Practice [Rowing]

By: MacLaren, Archibald.

Price: $200.00

Publisher: London: MacMillan and Co. : 1866

Seller ID: k190121i

Condition: Poor

Training in Theory and Practice. London MacMillan and Co. 1866. 1st ed., Oblong 8vo, blue cloth. 202 pp. Gilt titles and spine with gilt artwork of the Oxford Eight rowing team on the front cover; two folding plates. An early treatise on the sport of rowing. Maclaren was a Scottish expert on physical education. In 1860, he was asked to develop a new training program of physical education for the British Army. In Training in Theory and Practice he applies his principles in detail to a single sport, rowing -- “an art of considerable intricacy involving the possession of both muscular and respira...
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The Angler's Museum; or, The Whole Art of Float and Fly Fishing To which is prefixed The Sermon of St. Anthony to a Miraculous Congregation of Fishes.

By: Shirley, Thomas

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Printed for John Fielding, London : 1790

Seller ID: k190218g

Condition: Fair

Third edition. 12mo., later [19th century] green morocco with five raised bands, gilt titles and ruling; marbled boards, new endpapers. 135 pp., [1, advt]. Explains the rules to be observed by young anglers, the choice and preparation of rods and lines, float and fly fishing, the laws and customs of angling, and related subjects. [Shirley's name is omitted; it appeared only on the first edition of 1784] Frontispiece portrait of John Kirby, "the celebrated fisherman," who was keeper of Newgate. Condition: Fair -- the text block is good overall; pages toned but no foxing; title page beginnin...
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Elaborate prospectus for Solano Hills Golf Course – Fairfield CA

By: Solano Hills Golf Course

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Fairfield CA, Solano Hills Golf : 2000

Seller ID: k221017g

Condition: Fine

Folio, 12.5x14.5", green leather with inlaid trophy décor, tartan fabric slipcase. 40 pp. n.d. [2000]An elaborate, illustrated prospectus for a planned 18-hole championship golf course in the Montezuma Hills, near Suisin Bay east of San Francisco. The 2,700 acre project was to have more than three miles of direct access to the Sacramento River, providing the layout with undulating greens, sparkling lakes, and vistas of the river and nearby Mount Diablo. This comprehensive prospectus is profusely illustrated with color maps, photos, and schematics. The text describes the site, planned corpor...
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Olympia 1936. Die Oliympischen Spiele 1936 in Berlin und Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Band I. [The1936] Olympic Games in Berlin Vol I]

By: [Olympics]

Price: $325.00

Publisher: Berlin, Cigareten-Bilderdienst, Hamburgo : 1936

Seller ID: k180331a

4to, Publisher's blue boards with bright gilt design and black lettering. 128 pp. plus folding map. The first only of two volumes; this volume for the winter olympics. Several hundred glossy photographs tipped-in to their pages; mostly b/w but some color. A good+ copy overall. Text block and photos are very good-fine with some light toning to page margins. Covers are rubbed at corners and top of spine with a 2" white crayon mark on front cover and some rubbing to the gilt logo.
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PHILOSOPHY IN SPORT MADE SCIENCE IN EARNEST being an attempt to illustrate the first principles of natural philosophy by the aid of POPULAR TOYS AND SPORTS

By: [Paris, John]

Price: $175.00

Publisher: London, Longman Rees Orme Brown And Green : 1827

Seller ID: k200801f

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Poor

First Edition, 1827. 3 Volumes. 8vo, boards. Vol. (1). xviii, 316pp, Vol. (2). vii, 314pp [2]. Vol. (3). vi, 207pp. Woodcut chapter headings by George Cruikshank. ##### Chapters on balls and motion, marbles, popguns, the kite, ancient music, optical illusions, the swing. Also, an important book in the history of moving pictures since Vol 3 discusses the Thaumatrope, a pioneering device for displaying images in motion. Other topics covered include momentum, geometry, elasticity and the collision of bodies; the science behind these is demonstrated using a yo-yo, a jack-in-the-box, marbles and...
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Category: Games & Sports

Program for English Premiere of South African production of King Kong: A Jazz Musical

Golf, the Book of a Thousand Chuckles: The Famous Golf Cartoons

Training in Theory and Practice [Rowing]

The Angler's Museum; or, The Whole Art of Float and Fly Fishing To which is prefixed The Sermon of St. Anthony to a Miraculous Congregation of Fishes.

Elaborate prospectus for Solano Hills Golf Course – Fairfield CA

Olympia 1936. Die Oliympischen Spiele 1936 in Berlin und Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Band I. [The1936] Olympic Games in Berlin Vol I]

PHILOSOPHY IN SPORT MADE SCIENCE IN EARNEST being an attempt to illustrate the first principles of natural philosophy by the aid of POPULAR TOYS AND SPORTS