Sydney: Surf Living Saving Association of Australia, 1948. Octavo, pictorial wraps, b&w illus, pp 196. Covers worn and rubbed with some loss, pages lightly creased, internally clean. Good condition Very detailed early guide to surf lifesaving, with photographs and plans.
Full set of 50 colour cricket trade cards with the slogan "Butter 'em up" issued by the Australian Dairy Corporation in 1983-84. The individual cards, 90mm x 58mm, feature photographs of leading test cricketers from Australia, West Indies and Pakistan. The set in near fine condition Cricketers include Dennis Lillee.....
Perth: West Australian Football Commission, 2004. Quarto, pictorial wraps, pp vii, 439. Many b&w photographs. Includes achievement records, notes, bibliography, etc. Clean and unmarked, fine condition. Heavy book, please inquire regarding postage.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993. Quarto, cloth boards, dustjacket, many b&w plates, unpag. Near-fine condition in very good d.j. The photographer Howard Bingham and Muhammad Ali (then Cassius Clay) first met in 1962. Bingham became a close friend and for thirty years recorded every facet of Ali's life. "Muhammad.....
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2001. Octavo, paperback, b&w illus, pp 421. Signed by the author, with presentation inscription. Related ephemera loosely inserted (ticket to an event at which the author was speaking). Very good condition. Autobiography of the cricket writer and commentator.
Sydney: JC Management Pty Ltd, 1985. 4to, pp 296, colour plates, orig boards, v.g., in ld.j., rubbed at rear, small tear to d.j. at rear top corner. Very good in good d.j. A pictorial essay on Australian horse racing.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, nd c( 1910). illustrations by G. Denholm Armour. Roy. 8vo, pp. 62, tipped in col fronts., tipped in col plates, b/w ills., both hinges split, rear eps marked, boards, backstrip frayed and chipped, cnrs bent and rubbed, good History of the horse and coach, includes comments.....
Leicester: Blitz Editions, 1990. Text appears to be a facsimile edition of the original 1894 publication, in moden cl bds, d.j. B&w photographic illus. Ex-library, usual stamps and plastic cover. Photographic history of boxing between the 1850s and 1890s, written by a former lightweight champion. Photographs and histories of the.....
London: Chartwell, 1991. Cl bds, d.j. pp. 128, col illus, d.j. somewhat worn and dusty but complete and uncreased, inside endpapers slightly yellowed at edges, text and illus clean and bright. Illustrated history of games and puzzles from mid-eighteenth to early twentieth century, written by a curator at the Bethnal.....
London: Hurst & Blackett, 1948. revised and abridged by Major-General Geoffrey Brooke. 6th ed., 8vo, pp. 254, Index, b/w fronts., b/w photos and ills., both hinges cracked, orig cl bds., bottom edge rubbed, some wear head and tail spine, in d.j chipped top edge, some discolouration to spine, v.g Originally.....
Sydney: Simon & Schuster, 1994. 1st ed., 8vo, pp. 176, colour plates, maps, wraps, very good. Ten bike tours covering each state.
pp 280, adverts, orig wraps, good, curled at spine. New South Wales Cricket Association.
London: Methuen, 1986. 1st ed., 8vo., pp (viii) 215, b/w maps & plates, or. lc. bds., v.g in marked d.j.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1887. 3rd ed., sm. Octavo, pp.vii, 69, four unnumbered pages of diagrams (complete), some foxing to edges of pages 17-21, not affecting text, prev. owner's name to fep, orig pict bds, lightly marked, spine cocked and tanned, contents very good condn. Rare. First published in.....
Melbourne: Viking / Penguin, 2012. 1st ed., Royal octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w plates pp xiv, 434. Signed by the author and two members of the 'Invincibles' team, Neil Harvey and Arthur Morris. Near-fine condition in like d.j. ('Signed copy' sticker on d.j.) Scarce thus. Examines the history, including the.....
Perth: Malwil Books, 1991. 8vo, pp. 135, b/w photos, wraps, nr fine. Stories of the club told by the players. Now scarce.
Tokyo: Kodansha, 1971. Quarto, original buckram cloth boards with red panel of Japanese characters, many b&w photographs (taken with a stroboscope to capture rapid movement), colour frontis plate, glossary, pp 308. Ex-library markings. Very good condition. Masatoshi Nakayama was an internationally famous Japanese master of Shotokan karate. "Dynamic Karate" is.....
Sydney: The Author, (c. 1925). 1st ed., octavo, pp.(96), (vii, explanatory notes), profusely illus with full page plates, previous owner's contemporary notes to last pages with some markings and loss mainly along edges and cnrs., now professionally repaired and recased in new boards retaining remains of original foxed front cover.....
London: L. Upcott Gill, nd c( 1900). 8vo, pp. (vi) 72, Index, 16 (publisher list), b/w ills., pictorial wraps, small chips head and tail spine, some creasing, v.g Management and care of the horse, with hints on buying, treating injuries, and appropriate saddlery.
London: Granada, 1981. 8vo, or. cl. bds., dustjacket, b&w plates, pp x, 272. Very good in like d.j.
Perth: 1969. In association with Darcy Farrell. Pictorial wraps, octavo, colour frontis photo, colour and b&w illus, pp 106. Gift inscription title page, very good condition.Scarce. Football.
London: Nicholson & Watson, 1946. 1st ed., Roy. 8vo, pp. 880, Index, b/w plates, b/w photos, b/w ills., dec eps., prev owner's inscr., p61 torn no loss, both hinges weak, some foxing and marks scattered throughout, orig dec cloth, edges rubbed, spine worn with small split head, covers marked and.....
London: William Heinemann, 1922. Royal octavo, original green cloth boards with Greek key design blindstamped to borders of upper boards and in gilt to spine, b&w frontis portrait plate, 32 b&w plates, pp x, 144. Lacks front free endpaper. Lightly rubbed to edges. Very good condition. Diana Watts (1867 -.....