The Game of Croquet; Its Appointment and Laws; with Descriptive Illustrations
New York: Hurd and Houghton, 401 Broadway, Cor. Walker Street, 1865. Cloth. [SPORTS]. 12mo; 31pp; maroon cloth covered stiff wrapper, blind-stamped borders, gilt-stamped vignette of a croquet player with a mallet on front, blind-stamped rear wrapper; publisher’s string binding; brown endpapers; ownership in ink to fly-leaf; b&w frontispiece and a few illustrations in the text; near fine.
[JUVENI[SPORTS]. FELLOW. R. The Game of Croquet; Its Appointment and Laws; with Descriptive Illustrations, New York: Hurd and Houghton, 401 Broadway, Cor. Walker Street, 1865.
12mo; 31pp; maroon cloth covered stiff wrapper, blind-stamped borders, gilt-stamped vignette of a croquet player with a mallet on front, blind-stamped rear wrapper; publisher’s string binding; brown endpapers; ownership in ink to fly-leaf; b&w frontispiece and a few illustrations in the text; near fine.
A short pamphlet-style book on the game of croquet in an elegant binding.
$160.00
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[JUVENILE] [BIOGRAPHY]. HATCH, Alden. General Ike, A Biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Peoples Book Club Edition, Chicago: Consolidated Book Publishers,1944.
First edition thus. 8vo; 258pp; tan buckram over board, gilt lettering on spine; pictorial endpapers; ownership on front pastedown; “A Wartime Book”; b&w photographic illustrations; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, chipping to edges and creasing; near fine in very good dj.
$30.00
[ESSAY] [SIGNED]. BUCKLEY, JR., William F. Overdrive: A Personal Documentary, Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1983.
SIGNED and Inscribed. First edition. 8vo; 262pp; quarter bound in black cloth over grey boards, gilt-stamped lettering on spine; red endpapers; inscribed bookplate “For Dr. Bernard S. Bordman, Gratefully, William F. Buckley,” a Texas general surgeon; unclipped color dust jacket, review by Kurt Vonnegut on rear, light chipping at head & tail of spine; fine in near fine dj.
William Buckley, Jr.’s book about a week in his life.
$60.00
[JUVENI. Near fine. Item #1544
A short pamphlet-style book on the game of croquet in an elegant binding.
Price: $160.00