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1. Baisi, Neal. COACHING
THE ZONE AND MAN-TO-MAN PRESSING DEFENSES. Englewood
Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall: 1961. 190 pages. Some shelf wear to binding. Dust
jacket has some wear to the edges. Some underlining to a few pages. $18.00
2. Barsis, Max. SKI
WHIZ! BOTTOMS UP, OLD AND NEW. New York, Stephen
Daye Press: 1945. In scarce dust jacket! Shelf wear, else near VG in dust jacket
with small chips and tears to edges. Nice illustrated dust jacket. Dust
jacket has chipping and wear to edges and some browning and discoloration, but
is very presentable and scarce on this title A book of whimsical cartoons and
drawings dealing with skiing and skiing mishaps. $15.00
3. Blount, Joe. THE
SMORGASBORD OFFENSE FOR WINNING HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL. Englewood
Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall: 1965. 214 pages. Some shelf wear to binding. Dust
jacket has some wear to the edges and a few small tears, but is overall very
presentable. Scarce. $75.00
4. Bonder, James B. HOW
TO BE A SUCCESSFUL COACH. Englewood Cliffs, NJ,
Prentice Hall: 1960. 208 pages. Shelf wear to spine edges and corners. Dust
jacket has small tears and chips. $20.00
5. Boyden, Elizabeth. CONTRACT
BRIDGE OF 1930. New York, Harcourt, Brace &
Co. : 1929. Shelf wear, else VG in edge-worn else near VG dust jacket. $25.00
6. Brocklin, Norm Van. NORM
VAN BROCKLIN'S FOOTBALL BOOK: PASSING, PUNTING, QUARTERBACKING. New
York, Ronald Press Company: 1961. 115 pages. Shelf wear to spine edges and
corners. Dust jacket has small tears and chips to the edges. $38.00
7. Curtice, Jack C. THE
PASSING GAME IN FOOTBALL. New York, Ronald Press
Company: 1961. 117 pages. Shelf wear to spine edges and corners. Dust jacket has
tears and chips to the edges. $50.00
8. Engen, Alan K. & Gregory C.
Thompson. FIRST TRACKS: A CENTURY OF SKIING IN
UTAH. Salt Lake, Gibbs-Smith: 2001. 192 pages. VG
in lightly edge-worn dust jacket. A beautiful book, with hundreds of
photographs. $49.50
9. Evashevski, Forest. SCORING
POWER WITH THE WINGED T OFFENSE. Dubuque, Iowa,
W.C. Brown Co: 1957. 231 pages. Shelf wear and rubbing to the spine edges and
the corners. Binding tight. $55.00
10. Frank Tousey, Publisher. HOW
TO FENCE: CONTAINING FULL INSTRUCTION FOR FENCING AND THE USE OF THE BROADSWORD.
ALSO INSTRUCTION IN ARCHERY. DESCRIBED IN TWENTY-ONE PRACTICAL ILLUSTRATIONS. New
York, Frank Tousey, Publisher: 1898. 60 pages. Paper covers show some browning
to the edges. Pages are slightly browned. There is a small chip to the bottom of
the back cover. Overall near very good condition. A beautiful copy of a scarce
19th-century fencing and archery instruction book. $100.00
11. Fuoss, Donald E. CHAMPIONSHIP
FOOTBALL DRILLS FOR TEACHING OFFENSES AND DEFENSIVE FUNDAMENTALS AND TECHNIQUES.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall: 1964. 346
pages. Spiral-bound flexible card covers. Slight wear to covers, but overall
clean and tight. $6.00
12. Fuoss, Donald E. QUARTERBACK
GENERALSHIP AND STRATEGY. Englewood Cliffs, NJ,
Prentice-Hall: 1958. 154 pages. Some shelf wear to binding. Dust jacket has some
wear to the edges. Underlining. There is quite a bit of underlining scattered
throughout the text. $10.00
13. George, Elvan. THE
SPLIT-T IN HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL. Englewood Cliffs,
NJ, Prentice-Hall: 1958. 215 pages. Shelf wear to binding and rubbing to the
spine and corners. $7.50
14. George, Elvan & Ralph Evans. WEIGHT
TRAINING FOR FOOTBALL. Englewood Cliffs, NJ,
Prentice-Hall: 1959. 159 pages. Some shelf wear to the binding. Dust jacket has
chips and tears to the edges. $7.00
15. Healey, William Albert. COACHING
AND MANAGING HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL. Danville,
Illinois, Interstate Printers & Publishers: 1952. 260 pages. Some shelf wear
to binding and rubbing to spine and corners. $10.25
16. Holgate, James. FUNDAMENTAL
FOOTBALL. New York, Ronald Press Company: 1958.
100 pages. Shelf wear to binding and rubbing to spine and corners. Corners
slightly bumped. Some pencil scribblings on outside covers, and there are pen
scribblings on the front inside endpaper and paste-down. No text pages are
marked. $10.00
17. Huff, Sam. DEFENSIVE
FOOTBALL. New York, Ronald Press Company: 1963.
117 pages. Some shelf wear to binding. Dust jacket has some chips to the edges.
$25.00
18. Hutchinson, Horace G. GOLF
GREENS AND GREEN-KEEPING.. London, Offices of
Country Life: 1906. 219 pages. Rare first edition. Bound in red cloth, with gold
titles on front cover and spine. There is shelf wear to the spine edges. The
corners are bumped a bit. There is some fading to the spine edges, and the top
edges of the spine has a small bleed-through stain that affects a small portion
of the tops of many of the pages. This is on the gutter side of the pages and
really only affects a small area, not any of the text or illustrations. The
binding is tight. A few page edges have creases from being folded over at the
top. Complete with all of the historic photographic illustrations of famous
British golf courses of the day. $550.00
19. Ingram, Stan. ANTHONY,
A TALE OF TWO SKIS: A HISTORY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ANTHONY LAKES SKI AREA
AND EARLY SKIING IN THE LOCALITY. Baker, Oregon,
Record-Courier Printers: 1971. 124 pages. Softbound covers. Some wear to the
covers. $15.00
20. Jones, Gomer. MODERN
DEFENSIVE FOOTBALL. Englewood Cliffs, NJ,
Prentice-Hall: 1960. 273 pages. Some shelf wear to binding. Dust jacket has
chips to the edges. $15.00
21. Katchmen, George A. HOW
TO ORGANIZE AND CONDUCT FOOTBALL PRACTICE. Englewood
Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall: 1962. 242 pages. Shelf wear to spine edges and
corners. Dust jacket has small tears and chips. $20.00
22. Kelner, Alexis. SKIING
IN UTAH, A HISTORY. 1980. 255 pages. Softcovers.
Some shelf wear and rubbing to spine and corners. Binding tight and pages clean.
A rare title. $45.00
23. Kuwashima, T. Shozo. JUDO:
FORTY-ONE LESSONS IN THE MODERN SCIENCE OF JIU-JITSU. New
York, Prentice-Hall: 1951. Shelf wear, else near VG in dust jacket with some
chipping to edges. Thirteenth printing, published in 1951. $9.50
24. Lee, F.J. THE
COMPLETE CHESS-GUIDE. New York, Frederick Warne:
Shelf wear and rubbing to the spine and corners. A few discolored spots and
soiled spots to the binding. Corners slightly bumped. $9.95
25. McClow, L.L. TUMBLING
ILLUSTRATED. New York, A. S. Barnes and Company:
1936. 212 pages. Some wear to binding and rubbing to spine and corners. A clean
bright copy. $8.00
26. Mihori, Fukumensi. JAPANESE
GAME OF "GO". [n.p.], Japanese Board of
Tourist Industry: 1939. 76 pages. Flexible stiff paper covers. Ex-library copy,
with library marks and card pocket inside back cover. Shelf wear to the spine
and the edges. Text block starting to crack in the middle, but still holding
together. $17.50
27. Montgomery Ward. HOME
GAMES AND PARLOR AMUSEMENTS: GAMES, CONUNDRUMS, AND FORFEITS DESIGNED FOR THE
PARLOR, THE HEARTH, LAWN SOCIABLES, ETC. Chicago,
Montgomery Ward: 1909. Some shelf wear. Corners bumped. A small book with
numerous ideas for games and amusements. A few pages have pencil marks, not
serious. A few pages have creases at the edges from being folded. $25.00
28. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford. "GOOD
MORNING": AFTER A SLEEP OF TWENTY-FIVE YEARS, OLD-FASHIONED DANCING IS
BEING REVIVED. Dearborn, Michigan, Dearborn
Publishing: 1926. Some shelf wear. Softbound covers. $3.50
29. O'Connor, W. Harold. COACH'
S GUIDE TO WINNING HIGH SCHOOL TRACK AND FIELD. West
Nyack, New York, Parker Publishing Co.: 1965. 236 pages. Shelf wear to the spine
edges and corners. Dust jacket has tears and chips to the edges. $6.00
30. Reebenacker, Noel. HOW
TO DEVELOP A SUCCESSFUL HIGH SCHOOL PASSING ATTACK. Englewood
Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall: 1965. 241 pages. Some shelf wear to binding. Dust
jacket has some chips and tears to the edges. $8.50
31. Renick, Marion. CHAMPION
CADDY. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1943.
131 pages. Shelf wear to spine edges and corners. Dust jacket has small tears
and chips. Scarce in dust jacket. $18.95
32. Rice, Homer. THE
EXPLOSIVE SHORT T. Englewood Cliffs, NJ,
Prentice-Hall: 1963. 204 pages. Shelf wear to spine edges and corners. Dust
jacket has small tears and chips. Scarce. $65.00
33. Sanders, Everett L.. THE
BLUE BOOK OF SPORTS, SPORT CHARACTERS - - - PAST AND PRESENT. COMPRISING:
PHOTOGRAPHS, BIOGRAPHIES, EDITORIALS, STORIES AND RECORDS OF INTERNATIONALLY
PROMINENT EVENTS, CLUBS, COLLEGES, ATHLETIC TEAMS, AND INDIVIDUALS. Los
Angeles, Everett L. Saunders: 1931. 421 pages. Shelf wear and rubbing to spine
and corners. $19.95
34. The Major. THE
CHECKER PRIMER, INCLUDING BACKGAMMON AND DICE. New
York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1887. Small softbound covers. Some discoloration
& soiling to the paper covers. Pages are browned at the edges. A scarce and
early checkers book. $12.50
35. Unruh, Otto D. HOW
TO COACH WINNING FOOTBALL. Englewood Cliffs, NJ,
Prentice-Hall: 1960. 179 pages. Shelf wear and some fading to binding. Corners
are slightly bumped. $8.00