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In summer reading books on winter sports seem particularly
appealing: skating, skiing, curling, etc., all reek of cold, frosty
days - anticipation of which makes sweltering temperatures a little
more bearable! In winter the appeal is more one of anticipation:
waiting for just the right weather conditions in which to participate
in these sports. Either way, the books are here ...
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General
Winter Sports
Curling
Ice Skating
Skiing
General Winter
Sports
M-255
Heathcote, J.M.; Tebbutt, C.G.; Witham, T. Maxwell; [et al.].
Skating ... [and] Figure Skating. London: Longmans, Green, and
Co., 1892. [First edition]. "With contributions on Curling (Rev John
Kerr), Tobogganing (Ormond Hake), Ice-Sailing (Henry A. Buck), [and]
Bandy (C.G. Tebbutt). Illustrated by Charles Whymper and Captain R.M.
Alexander and from photographs." "The Badminton Library of Sports and
Pastimes." Original Badminton Library pictorial brown cloth, now dulled
(especially gilt decoration) and lightly spotted on spine, covers still
bright; ends creased and corners rubbed with minor loss at tail.
Bookseller's label on front pastedown; front hinge cracked, yet strong;
lower half of text a bit rippled, and faintly dampstained near front;
minor foxing.
A very good
copy.
Skating comprises first 323 pages, with other sports filling an additional 120 pp.; profusely illustrated with skating diagrams, elegant 19th-century figure skaters, racers and racecourses, equipment (skates, curling-stones, toboggans, sails, etc.), and instructional diagrams.$45
CurlingM-143
Grand National Curling Club. Annual of the Grand National Curling
Club of America, Volume XVIII. New York: Printed for the ...
Club, 1890. Reddish brown cloth lettered and decorated in gilt;
corners bumped and spine ends creased. Ink name on front endpaper;
internally excellent,
with superb
photographic frontispiece of ancient looking David Foulis
(Secretary and Treasurer) and fold-out lithographic plan of the
rink
$65
| [Vanity Fair prints]. Curling. Updated as available. |
Ice
SkatingM-262
Brown, Nigel. Ice-Skating: A History. London: The Sportsmans
Book Club, 1960. A fine copy in original bright blue cloth lettered
in gilt on spine, in publisher's glassine. An excellent history of the
sport, from the earliest known skates to modern figure-skating and
ice-dancing competitions and shows; illustrated with photographs of
early to mid 20th century champions, as well as historical images.
$25
SkiingM-168
Lunn, Peter. High-Speed Skiing. Brattleboro, Vermont: Stephen
Daye Press, 1935. [First edition]. Original blue cloth, lettered in
black on spine. Plain putty-coloured dust jacket letered in red and
blue (caption: "Increase your SPEED by using your HEAD"); unsightly
2" browned glass-ring stain on front panel (virtually invisible on
front cover); top edge creased resulting in short closed tears and
1/4" chip lacking across head of spine; light loss to corners; some
light soiling. A very good copy.
$25
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