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AFRICAN WINNER (MAGAZINE) - FEBRUARY 1975. STORY OF HOGAN BASSEY

Edition of the pan-African monthly sports magazine, featuring a headline article on the continent's first great World Boxing Champion - Nigeria's Hogan 'Kid' Bassey MBE - and a review of the football World

£10.00

THE ALDIN BOOK OF OUTDOOR GAMES

Illustrated multi-author work covering rugby union, golf, lawn tennis and cricket, with notes on history and technical assistance for each, as taught in the early 1930s. 8vo. 695pp. Dust-wrapper. Small

£15.00

ALL IN THE DAY'S SPORT

Sporting reminiscences of a well-known sports journalist. 8vo. 186pp. Dust-wrapper, lightly rubbed. Very good.

£8.00

ALL IN THE GAME - THE FUNCTION AND MEANING OF SPORT

A lively and wide-ranging exploration of the personal and social meanings of sport during the 1970s, illustrated throughout. 8vo. 64pp. Paperback. Minor wear to cover, otherwise good condition.

£8.00

ALL SPORT - NOS.8-10 (1952); NO.9 (1954); NO.1 (1957) (5 ITEMS)

Five issues of the Swedish sports magazine, including Olympic specials covering the Helsinki and Melbourne Games and features on the medal-winning national heroes runner Gunder Haag and canoeist Gert Fredriksson.

£60.00

AMONG THE FANS - FROM ASHES TO THE ARROWS, A YEAR OF WATCHING THE WATCHERS

The acclaimed sports writer's account of spending time with fans during the major events of 2010, including Wimbledon, the football World Cup in South Africa and golf's Ryder Cup at Celtic Manor. 8vo.

£6.00

AMPOL'S AUSTRALIAN SPORTING RECORDS

A comprehensive A-Z of some 130 sports practiced by Australians, covering record achievements in each, from the obvious to the unusual. 8vo. 556pp. Dust-wrapper. Large tear/loss to top of wrapper, otherwise

£8.00

ANTHOLOGY OF SPORTING VERSE

Collection of verse about sport covering a wide range from Walter Scott on hunting to E.V. Lucas on cricket. 1st edition. small 4to. 288pp. cut page edges. Internally clean though mildly browned. In the

£10.00

ARENA: SPORTS SF

A compendium of eleven science-fiction stories by different writers offering visions of the future of sport. 8vo. 223pp. Paperback. Good condition.

£10.00

THE ART OF OFFICIATING SPORTS

Third edition of the classic American guide for sports officials, including sections on baseball and American football and featuring photographic illustrations and explanatory diagrams. 8vo. 367pp. Dust-wrapper.

£14.00

THE BEST OF ENGLAND

Includes chapters on many sports, including country sports, fishing, racing, football, cricket, golf, tennis etc. 8vo. 271pp. Original cloth-covered boards. Very good.

£9.00

BLOOD & GUTS: VIOLENCE IN SPORTS

Drawing on historical sources as well as countless interviews Atyeo gives us an eye-opening panorama of more than 2500 years of sporting violence. 8vo. 384pp. Dust-wrapper. A very good copy.

£4.00

BOOK OF SPORTS STARS - AN ALBUM OF PERSONALITIES FROM THE WORLD OF SPORT

Illustrated profiles of some of the great sporting celebrities of the early 1960s, including cricket's Brian Statham, Fred Trueman, Peter May and Ted Dexter, football's Danny Blanchflower, Stanley Matthews,

£8.00

THE BOOK OF THE BALL

The author compares several games, trying to discover and illustrate general principles governing the behaviour of the ball. There are chapters on the "sentiment", building, natural history and science of

£220.00

BRITAIN IN THE WORLD OF SPORT

An examination of the factors involved in Britain's participation in competitive international sports including athletics, football, rugby union and cricket and looking at training, facilities etc. 8vo.

£16.00

BRITISH SPORT

An overview of Britain's sporting heritage with an emphasis on its tradition of fair play across many sports, illustrated with both 1940s photography and reproductions of sporting prints and paintings. 8vo.

£9.00

BROKEN CIGARS

Stories and characters from the world of sport with much on American Football, Baseball and Boxing. 1st edition. 8vo. 275pp. Ex lib with the occasional stamp mark. Dust wrapper a little rubbed to edges.

£18.00

CAN I CARRY YOUR BAGS? - A SPORTS' HACK ABROAD

Martin Johnson's stories and experience as a sports journalist. 8vo. 338pp. Dust-wrapper. Very good condition.

£7.00

CASSELL'S BOOK OF SPORTS AND PASTIMES

Compendium of sports and non sporting pastimes illustrated throughout with line drawings of apparatus, equipment and players in action and diagrams of boards, pitches, moves and tactics and a full colour

£25.00

CATCHING UP THE MEN

Scholarly examination of the womens' sport worldwide. Paperback. 271pp. Page edges a little grubby, otherwise good.

£5.00

CHALLENGE TO CHANCE

Useful handbook for gamblers. 8vo. 200pp. Dust-wrapper, lightly rubbed. Very good.

£8.00

CHAMPIONS OF THE QUEEN - 40 GLORIOUS YEARS OF SPORT

A year-by-year illustrated history of British sport from 1952 to 1992, commemorating the first 40 years of Queen Elizabeth II's reign. 4to. 84pp. Paperback. Very good condition.

£8.00

THE CHUMS

John Hassall (1868-1948), illustrator. Contains coloured plates of children playing sport: golf, cricket, croquet, tennis, fishing, skating Small 4to. 24pp. 24 coloured plates. All plates beautifully

£60.00

DEAR TURLEY

Articles written in tribute to the schoolboy fiction author Charles Turley Smith, close friend of JM Barrie and amateur cricketer and golfer, contributed by writers including AA Milne, Cynthia Asquith

£35.00

DOPING

The proceedings of an international seminar organised at the University of Ghent and Brussels in May 1964. The seminar was intended as a multi-disciplinary approach to the study of the doping problem in

£20.00

THE ECONOMICS OF LEISURE AND RECREATION

Scholarly study. 8vo. 229pp. Dust-wrapper, very good.

£6.00

THE EMPIRE ANNUAL FOR GIRLS

Annual for young ladies, cover vignette in colour of a mixed doubles tennis match. Of sporting interest is Hints to Girl Hockey Players by K.E. Lidderdale. 1st edition. 8vo. 288pp. including black

£25.00

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SPORTS IN AMERICA - A HISTORY FROM FOOT RACES TO EXTREME SPORTS, VOLUME ONE, COLONIAL YEARS TO 1939

The first instalment of an authoritative two-part compendium of multi-authored essays giving a chronological account of the development of sport in the USA, with this volume covering the period from the

£10.00

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SPORTS IN AMERICA - A HISTORY FROM FOOT RACES TO EXTREME SPORTS, VOLUME TWO, 1940 TO PRESENT

The second instalment of an authoritative two-part compendium of multi-authored essays giving a chronological account of the development of sport in the USA, with this volume covering the period from World

£10.00

ENCYCLOPEDIE DES SPORTS

Illustrated French sports encyclopedia from the early 1960s, published in French. 8vo. 582pp. Dust-wrapper. Wrapper rubbed and with small tears to edges. Previous owner's name in ink to title-page. Good

£10.00

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