Sports & Pastimes

First edition, first impression. 8vo. Publisher's green cloth, titles to upper board and spine in yellow. With the pictorial dust jacket. A superb copy in the pictorial dust jacket with three pieces of small tape repair.

First edition, 2 vols; folio (30 x 22 cm); illustrated throughout with photographic plates; original green cloth bindings with cricket scene in white, gilt lettering to front cover and spine, minor fraying. A very good copy.

First edition; folio (30.5 x 24 cm); 34 colour plates; full red morocco binding initialled P.L.L. in gilt to front, gilt spine in compartments (slightly faded), inner gilt borders flanked by dentelles in blind front and back, all edges gilt. A fine copy.

First edition. 4to; 388 pp., 26 plates in colour and 265 in half-tone, original blue cloth gilt, original pictorial dust-wrapper, light wear, an excellent copy.

4 vols including supplement, 4to, engraved portrait, additional engraved titles, with additional hand-coloured engraved frontispiece and half-title, 72 engraved plates (68 with original hand-colour), 2 engraved tables, occasional spotting to supplement and title to supplement with soft crease, contemporary russia gilt, all edges gilt, neatly rebacked preserving spines, wear to supplement corners, a very attractive set.

Limited deluxe edition, number 344 of 652, signed by the author; crown 4to (260 x 200 mm); 45 illustrations including frontispiece portrait of Grace, small mark and hole to base of tissue guard, not affecting image, else internally near fine; publisher's half black morocco, top edge gilt, others uncut, small, professional repair to head cap, offsetting (browning) to endpapers, fore-edges toned, with a few minor spots, otherwise a near-fine and very bright copy; xii, 512pp.

Boxed game containing instructional booklet, two decks of cards plus requisite bank notes and score cards. Collated complete and in excellent condition. An early iteration of this pseudo-Monopoly card game much championed by Angell in his book, The Money Game - How To Play It: A New Instrument of Economic Education.

Limited edition, number 7 of 250 copies; 4to; half-title, mounted colour frontispiece, additional plates throughout (some colour and mounted, some photogravure), captioned tissue guards, maps, text clean and bright; later half red morocco, spine gilt in compartments, upper cover slightly sunned, spine slightly faded, top edge gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers.

First edition; 4 vols, large 8vo; colour frontispieces, colour plates throughout, additional black and white illustrations in text, two folding chromolithographs on rear pastedowns of vols I and IV, scattered light foxing; publisher's blue pictorial cloth, gilt lettering to spines and upper covers, spine ends slightly bumped, corners slightly rubbed, otherwise an attractive set.

Second edition; 3 vols, thick 8vo (230 x 170 mm); vol. I: xvi, 507pp, frontis. & 29 full-page illustrations, with many illustrations in the text; vol. II: 544pp, frontis. & 17 full-page illustrations, with many in the text; vol. III: 534pp, frontis. & 12 full-page illustrations, with many text illustrations, fore-edge to two leaves in Preface of vol. I roughly cut but not affecting text, contents in each very clean save for some light foxing in each volume( as usual), particularly to preliminary and terminal pages and page edges but relatively minor; publisher's brown cloth decorated in black and gilt with gilt vignettes of pugilists in action to upper boards, bumping to spine extremities and corners, minor rubbing, otherwise very good-plus, an attractive set.