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According to one website Edward Ray was the original 'John Daly' of Golf. He was an unorthodox player, but a great crowd pleaser. A large man he could drive the ball down the fairway with some force, but would often end up in the rough - he was known for his outlandish recovery shots. Inland Golf was published c. 1913 and is usually found bound in red cloth, but this is a variant light blue. Boards with some small markings, three small library stamps to front endpapers Worcestershire Regiment Library and British Red Cross Library. 234 pages plus ten page catalogue of publisher Werner Laurie books at the back. 31 b/w photographic plates showing Ted in a variety of golf poses, with pipe in mouth. 31 plates as per list - no missing plates. One plate with some creasing and wear to bottom margin, but not affecting image.Ted was immortalised in film by the actor Stephen Marcus in The Greatest Game Ever Played which immortalised the 1913 US Open win by Francis Ouimet, the first American golf hero. More...
1st ed. A unique copy of a rare tennis title. Pictorial boards, rebacked preserving 99% of original spine. New endpapers. Around 30 pages have been annotated in pencil by a tennis aficionado adding interesting biographical details to the text and photos; clearly many of those portrayed were known to him/her. Very well illustrated book giving an overview of the sport in the early twentieht century. A number of contributors supply the different chapters. The first half of the book covers tennis in the UK and the latter half looks at tennis around the world.InformationAuthor: Arthur Wallis MyersPublisher: NewnesDate: 1903Printer: Dalziel & Co. Click for more photos...
Rare boxing title. Red cloth rebacked with original backstrip laid down. Spine darkened, covers little age toned but good. Original pictorial endpapers retained. Old bookplate pasted to verso frontis. Staining to rear endpapers from cloth. 10 photo plates of boxers all present. 266 pages, plus 4 pp catalogue for Werner Laurie. The book is subtitled A history of Some of the Chief English and American Prize Fights since the year 1788. Chapters cover famous bouts of the past including Jackson vs Mendoza; the Game Chicken vs John Gully; Bendigo vs Deaf Burke; Jem Corbett vs John Sullivan and many others. InformationAuthor: Henry SayersPublisher: Werner LaurieDate: 1904 Click for more photos...
A very nice copy of the second impression of this rare skiing title. Complete with all photographic plates. Boards & binding in VG condition, slight loss in small patches of the colour to front board illustration. 'Without pretending to have any new system to propound, I have attempted a closer analysis of the manoeuvres by which the best ski runners control their skis' - from the preface. 244 pages 3p catalogue 59 photo plates and some diagrams. Some foxing to foredge, slight dustiness to top edge, but really a very good copy.Currently on eBayInformationAuthor: Vivian CaulfeildPublisher: Nisbet & CoDate: 1912Printer: Ballantyne Click for more photos...
A rare item of lawn tennis ephemera from the Lawn Tennis Tournament held in Buxton in 1884. The Ladies Doubles that year was called the 'All England Ladies Doubles', the first time the designation was used. The Wimbledon club whose own tournament had begun in 1877 liked the phrase and began to use it themselves. To this day the Girls' Singles Championship Cup is inscribed 'presented by the directors of the Buxton Garden Company' who promoted the Buxton event during the 1880's. The cup was one of two presented to the winners of the Ladies Doubles. After Miss Bertha Steedman and Miss Blanche Hillyard had won the trophy for three years in succession between 1893-1895, their trophies were 'retired' and given to them. After Miss Steedman died her trophy was given to the Wimbledon club and thenceforward presented to the winner of the Girls' Singles. This pamphlet recounts in a humourous parody of Hiawatha how the tournament unfolded. Illustrated by little line drawings it is a wonderful example of exuberant Victorian humour applied to the still in its infancy sport of lawn tennisTHIS ITEM IS NOW SOLD
