England at the FIFA World Cup over the years – it’s certainly been a journey! From crushing defeat to glorious victory…to who knows what the 2026 tournament will bring. We’ve still got the fun and great hope of not knowing at this point. The first World Cup took place in Uruguay in 1930. FIFA chose […]
Was Jim Thorpe the greatest athlete in the world? King Gustav V of Sweden certainly thought so. He described Thorpe thus as he handed him two gold medals at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. Jim Thorpe was a legendary Native American sportsman, who lived from 1888 – 1953. He was a Sac and Fox Native American, […]
Our most recent New Stock catalogue has a huge range of sports as usual. It also has quite a fine line in rare and classic fitness and wellbeing books too. Any of them should help you get ready for the summer! One of the most direct of the fitness and wellbeing books is ‘Be Fit […]
Eightieth edition. Original limp cloth. Covers rubbed to edges and marked, mainly to front. Spine, back cover and internal pages are generally good. A fair copy.
Eighty-fourth edition. Original limp cloth (paperback), spine a little bowed and cloth lightly marked. Short gift inscription to first advert page. Good condition.
88th edition. Original limp cloth (paperback). A very good copy. This copy belonged to the Middlesex and England batsman Jack Robertson, with his name in ink to the front cover. Robertson was the leading
