1. Chapman, F. Spencer.

Memoirs of a Mountaineer. Helvellyn to Himalaya and Lhasa: The Holy City. With 31 pages of illustrations.

Original Edition (NOT a Reprint). London, The Reprint Society, 1945. 19 cm x 12,5 cm. 446 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Jacket slightly torn. In protective mylar.

2. Cotton, Henry / [Charles Patrick Ranke Graves].

My Swing [Inscribed and signed by Cotton to British journalist and Travel Writer, Charles Graves].

London, Country Life Limited. 1952. 22 cm x 14,5 cm. 144 pages. With many black-and-white illustrations throughout the book. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear to spine. Inscribed and signed by author to Charles Graves. Rare !

3. Delany, Ronnie.

Staying the Distance.

Dublin, O’Brien Press, 2006. 18 cm x 25 cm. 208 pages. Several black and white photographs throughout. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Ex-library copy with stamp on title page and lable on spine. Dog ear on page 158. Intenal pages clean and bright.

4. Edward, Ian.

The Royal Aberdeen Golfers: 225 Years on the Links.

Worcestershire, Grant Books, 2005. 18 cm x 25 cm. XIV, 218 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Signed by the author. Very Rare !

5. [Felix, Nicholas] Brodribb, Gerald.

Felix on the Bat. Being a Memoir of [cricketer] Nicholas Felix. Together with the full text of the second edition of Felix on the Bat: Being a Scientific Inquiry into the use of the Cricket Bat; together with the History and use of the Catapulta, containing also coloured drawings, woodcuts and vignettes, illustrative of the principles of Batting; new diagrams and theoretical demonstrations, illustrative of the great question of “Leg before Wicket”; – A Dissertation on the Different Styles of Bowling; much new and important matter relative to the disposition of Fieldsmen, more especially of the additional number when brought into action against the “Eleven of England”: Also The Laws of the Game as revised by the Marylebone Cricket Club.

The Text of Part two is a facsimile of the second edition of 1850. London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1962. Octavo. XIV, 145, VIII, 58 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Some staining to the binding and dustjacket ! Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear to the binding.

6. Hoyle, Edmond.

Hoyle’s Games Improved : Being practical Treatises on the following fashionable Games, viz.: Whist, Quadrille, Piquet, Chess, Back-Gammon, Billiards, Cricket, Tennis, Quinze, Hazard, and Lansquenet. In Which Are Also Contained The Method of Betting at those Games upon equal or advantageous Terms. Including The Laws of the several Games, as settled and agreed to at Whites and Stapleton’s Chocolate Houses. Revised and corrected by Thomas Jones, Esq.

London, Printed for W. Wood in Fleet-Street, 1778. Small Octavo (9.5 cm x 15 cm). XI, 216 pages. Hardcover / Original 18th century full leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Spine professionally repaired, original endpapers preserved. Name of preowner “Desproz” on titlepage. A little dusty but overall very desirable and very rare publication.

7. Murphy, John A.

Where Finbarr Played: A Concise History of Sport in University College Cork, 1911-2011.

Cork, Office of the Vice President for the Student Experience, 2011. 19.5cm x 25.5cm. XV, 254 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket and protective Mylar covering. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Rare. Signed and inscribed by the author.

8. New Yorker, The.

The New Yorker Album of Sports and Games.

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1958. 23 cm x 30 cm. 96 pages. Original Hardcover (green cloth with New Yorker logo embossed on front cover in red, title in embossed silver on spine). Design and Layout by Carmin Peppe. Good condition with signs of external wear and an inscription on front free endpaper.

9. [″Nudity is Expected”] – Graves, E.J.

The “Manor House” Club – Naturism in Perfect Comfort – Luxury Holiday Club for the Naturist / [Rare Nudist Ephemera]. Fantastic Pamphlet with plenty of interior photographs showcasing the Accommodation and also photographic imagery showing nudists playing Badminton and Tennis.

Clifford Manor [Newent / Gloucestershire], The Manor House, no year [c.1925]. Oblong – Octavo. 12 pages with photographs and text and loosely inserted a note for the availability of “The Club Taxi” Stapled Softcover Pamphlet. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. Very rare !

10. O’Driscoll, Diarmuid / O Drisceoil, Diarmuid.

Douglas Golf Club – Centenary History 1909 – 2009.

Cork, Douglas Golf Club, 2009. Large – Octavo. 288 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Excellent, close to new condition. Very Rare !

11. Rees, Dai.

Dai Reese on Golf.

London, Gerald Duckworth & Co., 1959. 16 cm x 25 cm. 176 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with minor signs of external wear. Some wear at corners. Spotting on endpages. Otherwise clean inside with intact binding.

12. [Riddell, Charlotte Elizabeth] / [Riddell, William Easton].

A Bright Sunset – Or, Recollections of the Last Days of a Young Scottish Football Player. With introductory Note by J.H.Wilson.

First Edition. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1884. Small Octavo. Pagination: Original portrait photograph of William Easton Riddell as Frontispiece, VI, (2), 142 pages with two wood-engravings (″Toward Point” and “Up the Kyles in the Ariel”). Original, beautifully illustrated Hardcover with a football-scene on the front board, gilt lettering and floral elements. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. The rare first edition with the original photograph of William Easton Riddell. Private giftinscription on the front free endpaper.

13. Smythe, Pat.

Flanagan My Friend.

London, Cassell, 1963, 14.5 cmx 21.5 cm. XI, 113 pages. Several black and white photographs throughout. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear to dust jacket mainly. An inscription by photographer Keith Money on endpaper, claiming one of the credited photographs in the publication being his instead of the falsely credited source.

14. Tennis (Eastbourne) – Anonymous.

Tennis Tournament – Eastbourne (Sep. 1899) – possibly showing the great rivals Charlotte Cooper and Blanche Bingley Hilliard during one of the two Challenge Cup Matches in the 1899 season at Eastbourne.

Large, vintage Albumen Silver Print of an original photograph. [Eastbourne], 1899. 19.3 cm wide x 14 cm high. Excellent condition. Very rare !

15. The Badminton Association of England.

Know the Game – Badminton.

Fourth Edition, Third Impression. London, Educational Productions Ltd, 1956. 20.5 cm x 14 cm. 39 Pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. [Know the Game].

16. The Council for Croquet Assosiation.

The Official Handbook of the Laws of Association Croquet and Golf Croquet and The Regulations for Official Tournaments etc. Confirmed and Adopted by the Council of The Croquet Association 1953.

London, The Croquet Assosiation, 1953. 10.5 cm x 16.5 cm. IV, 48 pages. Original Pamphlet. Good condition with only minor signs of wear throughout. Sellotape used to keep covers together which has become detached. The rest of the pamphlet is intact however although staples are rusted.

17. Toptani, Count Ilias.

Modern Show Jumping – The South American Method.

London, Hurst & Blackett, 1954. 14 cm x 21.5 cm. 183 pages. 48 black and white photographs and 27 line drawings throughout. Original Hardcover. Good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Discolouration on some pages and more markedly on endpapers with foxing throughout. Signature in ink pen on endpaper.

18. University College Cork ( R.F.C.).

U.C.C. R.F.C. Centenary History – 1874 – 1974.

Cork, University College Cork, 1974. 18 cm x 24.5 cm. XXII, 120 pages. Several black and white photographs and advertisements throughout. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

19. Walker, George.

A Selection of Games at Chess, Actually Played by Philidor and his Contemporaries – Now first published from the original Manuscripts with Notes and Additions by George Walker.

First Edition. London, Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper, 1835. Duodecimo. Frontispiece, XVI, 110 pages plus 2 pages with advertising (List of Works by George Walker). Hardcover / Original cloth with original printed label to frontcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Front free endpaper missing. Very Rare !