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New York: Harper & Row, 1986.
Illustrated by Marc Simont. 40 pages,. Hardcover & dustjacket very good, DJ under fused mylar though ex-library typical pastings & markings, front free endpaper cornerclipped where library removed its barcode. Pages clean & tight. Digital image available upon request. more information
Price: 20.00 USD
Chicago, IL, U.S.A: Triumph Books, 1997.
Oversized hardcover fine in fine dustjacket. Appears unread. Dustjacket now under mylar. Digital image available upon request. more information
Price: 20.00 USD
New: St. Martian's Press, 1994.
Price: 8.00 USD
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1896.
First edition. 425pp., line drawings. Early, neat owner name, page edges a little soiled, some soiling to the boards, a very good copy. An early book on football issued to help the development of the game. Camp was the Coach of the Yale football team and probably did more than anyone else to popularize the game and to shape the rules as they now stand including cutting the number of players to 11 (from 15), instituting the quarterback position, creating a scrimmage to institute play (rather than a "scrum") and designing the "gridiron" pattern of the field. Additionally, he was... more information
Price: 750.00 USD
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1891.
First edition. Front fly lacking, a little rubbing on the boards, still a handsome, else near fine copy. Camp was the Coach of the Yale football team and probably did more than anyone else to popularize the game and to shape the rules as they now stand, including cutting the number of players to 11 (from 15), instituting the quarterback position, creating a scrimmage to institute play (rather than a "scrum") and designing the "gridiron" pattern of the field. Additionally, he was probably the first national figure to promote personal physical fitness, especially during the First World War. Generally regarded... more information
Price: 500.00 USD
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911.
First edition. Ownership signature and small stamp of William Cooper Marsh, front hinge repaired competently but with a little bleed-through from the glue employed, a couple tiny spots on the front board, a nice, else about fine copy. A history of college football with an examination of important rivalries. Inscribed by the author: "Victory is of no importance. The real zest in football is a hard game, fairly and cleverly played. Parke H. Davis." more information
Price: 400.00 USD
New York: Moffat, Yard, 1916.
First edition. Introduction by Walter Camp. A couple of small holes on the spine, else very good. Signed by the author. Part history of the early game, part memoir by the Captain of the Lawrenceville and Princeton football teams. This copy with a gift inscription: "Roswell E. Davis from Dickson Q. Brown '91. November 1916". Davis was the Curator of Grounds and Buildings at Princeton from 1912 - 1919, and as such was responsible for all of the athletic fields there. Dickson Q. Brown donated his great collection of drawing and illustration by Thomas Rowlandson to Princeton where it still... more information
Price: 200.00 USD
Hollywood: House-Warven, 1951.
First revised edition. Near fine with very slight rubbing to the extremities, in very good or better dustwrapper with small edge nicks. History of college football from 1889 through 1950, compiled by Walsh, a long-time sportswriter who founded the All America Board of Football. more information
Price: 250.00 USD
Garden City: Doubleday, 1964.
First edition. Fine in good plus, lightly waterstained dustwrapper with short edge tears. The first seventy years of football in the Lone Star State, as explained by "The Voice of Texas Football." more information
Price: 30.00 USD
Hollywood: House-Warven, 1951.
First revised edition. Very good plus with a small scrape to the front board, in very good dustwrapper with a corresponding scrape and a dampstain along the rear flap fold. History of college football from 1889 through 1950, compiled by Walsh, a long-time sportswriter who founded the All America Board of Football. more information
Price: 130.00 USD
3" x 5" index card Signed by the football great: "Amos Alonzo Stagg." Fine. Stagg, the "grand old man" of college football, was a charter inductee into both the College Football Hall of Fame (as both a player and a coach, the first person thus honored and for several decades the only person thus honored) as well as the Basketball Hall of Fame (he played in the first official basketball game and was influential in the college sport as well). He died in 1965 at the age of 102, and the signature shows, slightly, the infirmities of age. more information
Price: 300.00 USD
New York: Moffat, Yard, 1916.
Second printing. Introduction by Walter Camp. Spine-lettering dull, and small tears at the corners of the crown, a very good copy lacking the rare dustwrapper. Part history of the early game, part memoir by the Captain of the Lawrenceville and Princeton football teams. Heavily illustrated and very interesting. more information
Price: 25.00 USD
New York: William Sloane Associates, 1953.
First edition. Fine in very good plus dustwrapper that has been price-clipped, and with a (presumed publisher's) rubberstamped price, and with a couple of modest tears, the longest on the edge of the front panel. An attractive copy of this expose of college football, and the threats it poses to the institutions that support them. more information
Price: 55.00 USD
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1968.
First edition. Fine in just about fine dustwrapper with a touch of soiling, and a couple of light scratches on the front panel. A much nicer than usual copy. more information
Price: 30.00 USD
Philadelphia / New York: J.B. Lippincott, 1953.
First edition. Fine in very near fine, price-clipped dustwrapper that is slightly shorter than the book and has a couple of tiny tears. The coach of the Princeton football team's tips for watching the game live. A lovely copy, and scarce thus. more information
Price: 40.00 USD
Harrisburg PA: J. Horace McFarland, 1951.
First edition. Fine in fine, very lightly rubbed dustwrapper. A complete record of the school's exemplary football team, most famously represented by Olympian Jim Thorpe. A lovely copy. more information
Price: 100.00 USD
Harrisburg PA: J.Horace McFarland, 1951.
First edition. Fine in near fine, lightly rubbed dustwrapper. A complete record of the school's exemplary football team, most famously represented by Olympian Jim Thorpe. A lovely copy. more information
Price: 100.00 USD
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911.
First edition. Illustrated. Slight wear to the boards, still just about fine. A history of college football with an examination of important rivalries. more information
Price: 300.00 USD
