New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xvi, [2], 3-367, [1] pp. Tan cloth with a brown label on the spine, brown topstain. Illustrated by a frontispiece and fifteen additional plates, illustrations taken from paintings of horse racing culture in the United States. A history of..... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1969. First printing. Hardcover. Price of $4.95, traces of age toning; slight lean. More
New York: Macmillan Publishing Company [1986], 1986. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xv, [3], 1-311, [7] pp. Tan paper-covered boards quarter-bound in beige cloth with metallic brown lettering on the spine, red endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $16.95 on front flap of dust jacket. A nice copy of Feinstein's classic..... More
Philadelphia: David McKay, Publisher [1902], 1902. First edition thus. Hardcover. Large 8vo. 884 pp.; 122 pp. (appendix pagination). The true first edition was published several years earlier in London. Revised and edited with an American appendix by S. Lipschutz, champion of the Manhattan Chess Club of New York. Includes several..... More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2006. First printing. Hardcover. 299 pp. Price of $24.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Basis for the well-received film. More
New York: Random House, 1976. First printing. Hardcover. 466 pp. Price of $12.50 on front flap of jacket. Groseclose A.034. A very near Fine book with minor fading to the edges of the boards in a Near Fine dust jacket with two creases to the front panel. More
London: Printed and Published by M.A. Pittman, 1831. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-vii, [2], 2-503, [5] pp. Three-quarter bound in red morocco over red cloth, spine has fived raised bands, with lettering and decorations in gilt. All edges gilt. Finely bound by Zaehnsdorf. With notes and a copious index..... More
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1964. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 5-189, [1] pp. Black cloth with purple lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $3.95 on front flap of jacket. A murder mystery set at Wimbledon. Very Good book with name written on free front endpaper, light rubbing..... More
New York: Arbor House [1981], 1981. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], 8-256 pp. Quarter black cloth over blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated with a color frontispiece and several black and white photographs. Warmly inscribed by Dave Newhouse on the free front endpaper. The autobiography of Plunkett..... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company [1964], 1964. First printing. Hardcover. 429 pp. Bound in blue cloth with white and light blue lettering on the spine, red topstain, illustrated endpapers and pastedowns in color. Price of $8.95 on front flap of jacket. Numerous black and white photographs and several color photographs..... More
