Sporting Books from John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller

1942. Ottowa: Royal Society of Canada, 1942. Slim 8vo, pp. 59-78. Staple-bound offprint in the original printed wrapers. Inscribed by the author. § "From The Proceedings of The Royal Society of Canada, Third Series, Volume XXXVI, 1942

2007. New York: Hyperion, 2007. 8vo, (8), 260pp. Original quarter black cloth, grey boards, dust-jacket. Fine with neat blind stamp of former owner on half title. § First edition, first printing, with number line "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2". A classic, surely one of the best books ever written about golf.… Read more about this item

1926. London: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd. 1926. 8vo, lxxxiv, 454, (14) pp. Full polished green calf gilt by Riviere and Son, backstrip with red leather labels and fish ornaments, gilt turn-ins, block printed endpapers, all edges gilt. Backstrip and upper board faded, joints lightly rubbed, internally fine. § An attractive and very readable edition… Read more about this item

1926. New York: Privately printed for Ernest R. Gee, 1926. 8vo, (vi), 24 pp., untrimmed. Frontispiece portrait of Hugo Meynell by Gordon Ross, title-page vignette of a foxhound. Original cloth backed boards. Near fine with a small mark on the lower board and a gift inscription dated 1928 on the front free endpaper. § An account… Read more about this item

2014. California, U.S.A., 2014. 20 x 19.5 inches. Colored pencil and graphite on paper. Loosely mounted to illustration board. Verso has a label with the artists contact information. Fine condition. § Yukimi Sasago Annand is a calligrapher and text artist living and working in Southern California. Annand studied communication design and worked for ten years as… Read more about this item

1856. New York: Stringer & Townsend, 222 Broadway, 1856. 8vo, 425 pp. plus 6 pp. publisher's catalogue. With six coloured illustrations by John Leech. Original blind-stamped publisher's cloth, vignette of fox-hunting gilt-stamped on upper cover and in blind on lower cover, backstrip gilt-stamped with titles and sporting motifs, yellow endpapers. Somewhat shaken, backstrip worn at crown and… Read more about this item

1837. London: Rudolph Ackermann, Eclipse Sporting Gallery, 1837. 8vo, xiv, (15)-208 pp. with errata. 15 colored aquatints after T. J. Rawlins. Publisher's original full green morocco with wide gilt-tooled borders, backstrip titled in gilt, and gilt edges. Binding very lightly worn, pages showing some offsetting from the plates and occasional spotting, cracked at page 192. Overall a… Read more about this item

1877. Liverpool: John Fraser, January - December 1877. 12 numbers bound together, includes the supplement to No. 83. Folio, [148] pp., engraved headpieces and some illustrations in text. Full pebbled blue cloth, title stamped in gilt to backstrip. Occasional creasing and minor edgewear, endpapers foxed; very good. § A complete run of Cope's Tobacco Plant… Read more about this item

1920. London: The Times Publishing Co., n.d. [circa late 1920s]. Oblong 4to. Title-page, foreword and 28 full-page captioned photogravure plates, lettered lightly in pencil in each outer right corner. Original blue cloth with gilt titles on upper cover and backstrip. Bookplate of Robert Maytag on front pastedown, presentation inscription dated 1932 on front free endpaper. Covers somewhat… Read more about this item

1813. London: William Bulmer and Co., 1813. 4to, 118 pp. 15 wood engravings by Charlton Nesbit and John Thurston printed on India paper; pages untrimmed. Original boards, printed paper label, a couple of chips along outer front hinge, and very light spotting. Paper spine label chipped with some loss. Overall a nice, internally bright example. Armorial bookplate… Read more about this item

1935. London: Rowland Ward, Limited, 1935. Roy. 8vo, xiii, 408, (6, ads). Original gilt lettered brown cloth, with illustrations in text from photos. Very fine, in worn and stained dust jacket. § Tenth edition of this meticulous collection of records with illustrations. Very uncommon in the dust-jacket.

1922. London: Rowland Ward, Limited, 1922. Roy. 8vo, xiii, 527pp. [4]pp. (ads). Original gilt lettered maroon cloth and zebra endpapers with illustrations in text from photos. Very fine, in slightly worn dust jacket. § Eighth edition of this meticulous collection of records with illustrations. Very uncommon in the dust-jacket.

1913. London: The Field and Queen (Horace Cox), [circa 1913] 8vo, xvi, 284, [4, advertisements] pages with a table; 48 photographic plates. Original green cloth stamped in black and gilt, text recased as it was a little loose, and a few plates carefully re-inserted. A very pleasant copy of a very scarce book in any condition. … Read more about this item

1928. London and Edinburgh: Gurney and Jackson, 1928. 8vo. xix[i], 353[1]pp including index, [5]pp appreciations of Abel Chapman's work, errata slip tipped in after contents leaves, 20 coloured plates with printed tissue-guards and 35 b/w plates by Joseph Crawhall, W. H. Riddell and rough sketches by the Author. Original green cloth gilt, a bit worn but a… Read more about this item

1925. London: William Heinemann, 1925. Large 4to, pp. xxiv, 206; large folding b/w frontispiece plate of elephants, colour folding map and numerous other b/w photographs. Original blue cloth, gilt lettering to the spine, a bit rubbed and word, original dust-jacket loosely folded in at the end. § First trade edition, after the 1924 de luxe edition.… Read more about this item

1947. London: Collins, 1947. slim 8vo, 48pp. Original blue and white pictorial paper-covered boards. Taped backstrip, some warping to boards, browning to endpapers, no dust jacket. Very good. § First edition, third impression. Part of the 'Britain in Pictures: The British People in Pictures" series from Collins, which includes the title 'British Golf,' also written… Read more about this item

1984. [London and Canada]: Souvenir Press, 1984. 8vo, 223pp. Original black buckram lettered in gilt to backstrip, lime green dust pictorial dust jacket lettered in black, white and red with black & white decoration. One small red smudge to edge, some slight shelf wear to dust jacket. Near fine. § First edition. A pleasing anthology of… Read more about this item

1926. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1926 8vo, x, 115pp. Original green cloth stamped in black to top cover and backstrip, original pictorial dust jacket in green and white; frontispiece plus 16 photographic illustrations. Dust jacket chipped, missing 1 inch gap top left front cover, 2 inch gap at base of backstrip, light soiling. Bookplate affixed to… Read more about this item

1915. Garden City and New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1915. 8vo, 258pp. Original blue-green cloth, lettered in orange to top cover and backstrip, top cover decorated in orange and black with a golfer at the finish of his stroke; frontispiece from a painting illustrating the text, plus 8 illustrations. Slight bumping to top and bottom of… Read more about this item

1897. Edinburgh & London: W. H. White & Co. Ltd./Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd. [1897]. Small 8vo, (1), 99pp. Original red cloth stamped in black. Bookplate affixed to front pastedown. Some water-staining to top cover, as well as buckling to top and bottom boards. Owner inscription in pencil to front free endpaper. §… Read more about this item