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JAMES CUMMINS bookseller catalogue 123 Sporting Books & Prints JAMES CUMMINS bookseller catalogue 123 Sporting Books & Prints To place your order, call, write, e-mail or fax: james cummins bookseller 699 Madison Avenue, New York City, 10065 Telephone (212) 688-6441 Fax (212) 688-6192 [email protected] jamescumminsbookseller.com hours: Monday – Friday 10:00 – 6:00, Saturday 10:00 – 5:00 Members A.B.A.A., I.L.A.B. front cover: item 11 inside front cover: item 6 inside rear cover: item 40 rear cover: item 84 photography by nicole neenan terms of payment: All items, as usual, are guaranteed as described and are returnable within 10 days for any reason. All books are shipped UPS (please provide a street address) unless otherwise requested. Overseas orders should specify a shipping preference. All postage is extra. New clients are requested to send remittance with orders. Libraries may apply for deferred billing. All New York and New Jersey residents must add the appropriate sales tax. We accept American Express, Master Card, and Visa. unique on vellum [APPERLEY, Charles J.]. The Life of a Sportsman. By Nimrod. [BARKER, Thomas]. Barker’s Delight: Or, the Art of Angling. With pictorial title-page and 37 hand-colored engraved plates Wherein are discovered many rare secrets, very necessary to be by Henry Alken. (The usual 36 and 2 additional plates after knowne by all that delight in that recreation. 2 title-pages dated pp. 70 & 178). Includes the 4 mounted plates with titles be- 1657 and 1659, 3-page publisher’s catalogue at end. 12mo, neath — as in all 1st issue copies. vii, [ii], 402 pp. 8vo, London: London: J. H. Burn, 1820. Second edition, reprinted from the Rudolph Ackerman Eclipse Sporting Gallery, 191, Regent original edition of 1657. PRINTED ON VELLUM. Bound in con- Street, 1842. First edition, frst issue. Bound in crimson temporary straight-grained green morocco, tooled in gilt and morocco with triple gilt fllet border, spines with fve raised blind, maroon watered silk endpapers, a.e.g. Fine. Preserved bands, richly gilt, inner dentelles gilt, a.e.g., by Lloyd. Joints in morocco-backed solander box. For an extensive commen- rubbed (front joint tender). Very good, plates fne and bright, tary on this work, see Westwood & Satchell, pp. 21-23. internally clean. Tooley 65. The only copy of this edition printed on vellum. “One copy “Considered by many to be the premier coloured plate sport- of the reprint by Burn was on vellum and is now in the ing book in the 19th century” (Tooley). Denison collection” (Westwood & Satchell). It reappeared in The added plates are two comic domestic scenes by Alken, the Davis sale at Sotheby’s on 26 November 1900, lot 16 (sold “The frst attempt at the Coach-Box” and “The Début or frst for £15.15.0), and again in the same rooms on 20 March 1967, attempt at the Brush.” where it was purchased by Thorp. According to an inserted note from John Simpson, it was probably originally the $2,500 Corser copy, sold at Sotheby’s in July 1868. $13,500 superb copy (BASEBALL) Spalding, Albert G. America’s National Game. Historic Facts Concerning the Beginning Evolution, Develop- ment and Popularity of Base Ball with Personal Reminiscences of Its Vicissitudes, Its Victories and Its Votaries. Cartoons by Homer C. Davenport. Portrait, frontis, illustrations, photo- graphs and plates (some folding). xix, [1], [1]-542 pp. Thick 8vo, New York: American Sports Publishing Company, 1911. First edition. Bright blue ribbed cloth, lettered in gilt, and with gilt depiction of Uncle Sam at bat on the upper cover. Front hinge with nearly imperceptible conservation repair. An unusually fresh, tight copy of a book most often seen in deplorable condition. One of the key works in the literature of baseball, by one of the prime movers in its codifcation and development. In ad- dition to his pitching career (which began in 1865), Spalding helped organize the National League, co-founded the Spald- ing sporting goods company, and published the frst ofcial rules guide for the game. This book was published four years prior to his death. $3,750 2 | james cummins bookseller twenty years of the “blue and buff”: with the badminton pack (BEAUFORT HUNT) Henry, Frank [Lt.-Col. Francis I.]. Hunting Register [cover title]. 18 Seasonal Diaries,1877-1898, recording Hunt Meets with the Beaufort Hunt and others. Dated manuscript entries in ink in copies of Spiers and Son’s Hunting Register, with holograph lists of Horses in Stable, various directions to binder, occasional inserted ephemera. 18 volumes bound in two. Oblong folio, [Elmestree, Tetbury, Gloucs.: 5 October 1877 to 23 March 1898]. Contemporary half navy blue morocco, cloth sides, spines titled in gilt. Some minor rubbing, superfcial traces of damp-staining to cloth, else fne and internally clean. Signifcant group of sporting diaries recording the participation of Lt.-Col. Francis Henry (d. 1931) at the meets of the Beaufort Hunt during a twenty-year period. Henry A.W.F. Somerset (1847-1924), ninth duke of Beaufort, was one of the great sportsmen of the nineteenth century, and the Badminton pack hunted a wide country with legendary energy. Hunstman Will Dale recalled that one season the pack hunted 186 days “and I was the only one of the frm who went the whole lot.” It was under the ninth duke that the Badminton Sporting Library series was produced (1885-1902). Frank Henry hunted with the Beaufort from 1866-7, served as Honorary Secretary for the hunt for more than two decades, and compiled the Members of the Beaufort Hunt Past and Present (privately printed, May 1914, see below), which includes a substantial historical appendix. His diaries record hunts with the Beaufort (the Dukes as he called it), as well as the Quorn, Lord Sufolk’s Harriers, Vale of the White Horse, the Cottesmore, and others. His residence at Elmestree, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, is still at the center of hunt country and adjoins Highgrove, the country residence of the Prince of Wales. Entries (October to April of each season) include date, pack, fxture (place of the meet), hack ridden to meet, hunter ridden, coverts drawn; foxes found, killed, or run to ground; weather; and usually a few lines of narrative summary of the day’s events. At his most active, Henry was hunting four and fve days a week. With an 1890 autograph letter, signed (“Beaufort”), from the ninth Duke, on mourning stationery; and several newspaper clippings. A sporting manuscript of outstanding interest. With a copy of: [HENRY, Frank, compiler]. Members of the Beaufort Hunt Past and Present. Printed in blue on buf paper. 80 pp. Cirencester: Standard Printing Works [for Private Circulation], 1914. The historical appendix, compiled by Henry, gives highlights, including Henry’s accounts of his best days with the Badminton pack, and the presentation to Henry of a portrait by John Bacon, R.A. in 1912. Henry noted that “Farmers and foxhunting go hand in hand” and that during his tenure as secretary subscriptions rose from 91 to 291 members. $3,500 catalogue 123 | 3 first american golf poet prepares material for publication BONNELLE, Frank J. Golf. Poetical Putts. [Mock-up of unpublished book]. [With:] [Archive of Golf Poetry and related materials]. 4to and smaller, [Boston: n.d., ca. 1905]. Overall very good. Not in OCLC or Donovan & Murdoch. Frank J. Bonnelle (1850-1921), a longtime editor at the Boston Herald, contributed a large number of occasional poems to that newspaper and was the frst contributor of poems to The Golfer, a periodical published in Boston at the turn of the 20th century (though not recorded on OCLC or in Donovan/Murdoch, the U.S.G.A. Library holds a run of The Golfer, 1895-1903) and the frst American periodical devoted exclusively to the sport. The Massachusetts Historical Society holds a small collection of Bonnelle family correspondence that includes some material involving Frank J. Bonnelle. 1. Golf: Poetical Putts. Mock-up for an unpublished book. Portrait frontispiece, printed title-page, 31 of Bonnelle’s long poems, each with a golfng theme, some illustrated, clipped from a periodical and mounted to the rectos of album leaves, 20 more golf- ing poems (clips, typescripts, or small printed broadsides), laid in; some of the poems have manuscript corrections, additions, or deletions. Spine perished. Titles of the poems include “On the Links,” “Her Caddie,” “The Unsuccessful Golfer,” “Hazards,” “The Golfer Who Loved and Lost,” “Fore!,” “A Ghost on the Green,” “Belinda of the Links,” “St. Nick and the Golfer,” “Caddie Macree of Lynn,” “A Sonnet to Golf,” “Poetical Putts,” and “Ye Ancient Boston Golfer,” among others. With additional material from the papers of the frst regularly published golfng poet in the United States: 2. Golf in Verse: A Series of Poetical Putts. [Boston, n.d., ca. 1910]. Original manuscript (carbon typescript; a typed and revised version of Golf: Poetical Putts?). 4to. [35] pp., rectos only, title-page, table of contents page, and 30 of Bonnelle’s long poems, each with a golfng theme; laid in are small printed broadsides (proofs?) of 15 of the poems included in the collection, a manuscript list of titles for inclusion, and two Bonnelle golfng poems clipped from a periodical. Very good. Original brown printed wrappers (spine worn). 3. Manuscript statement by Bonnelle (un- signed) concerning his work in the print- ing trade and newspaper business from apprenticeship at 15 in Iowa to his desk at the Boston Herald (8vo, six pages), on Boston Herald stationery. 4. Manuscript, signed, of Bonnelle’s golfng poem “A Reformed Golfer” (4to, one page, fve stanzas of four verses each), edgeworn.