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It's Only a Game 

by Terry Bradshaw - SIGNED by Bradshaw

Book is in EXCELLENT + condition in Good++ DJ

  • Signed by Bradshaw in Sharpie on the title page 
  • Story of the first quarterback to win four Super Bowls for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
  • Covers not only Bradshaw's life, but also provides an intimate portrait into professional football 
  • Pocket Books, 2001, 257 pages.
  • All pages clean, tightly bound. Dust Jacket has some minor shelf wear along the edges and spine.

 

 

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Mostly Hunting & Fishing 

by Henry Stowers

Book is in VERY GOOD - condition. Paperback

  • Inscribed by author, inside cover 
  • Venture Books, 1976, 176 pages,  
  • Introduction by HOF Dallas Cowboy Bob Lilly.  
  • A collection of the columns of Stowers, who was the Dallas Morning News' Outdoor editor, 
  • He captures the spirit and color of the places he describes visiting, hunting and fishing.  
  • Cover has a bend as shown in the picture.  
  • Clean and unmarked inside, tight binding

 

 

 

 

 

$24.95

 

On Any Given Sunday
by Pat Toomay
 Inscribed / Signed 1st edition

Book is in NEAR MINT condition in Excellent Dust Jacket

    * Hardcover with DJ
    * Inscribed  / Signed by Pat Toomay & also has gift inscription from prior owner in small print (see pic below)
    * This book was the source of the movie by the same name with Al Pacino
    * 1st edition, Donald Fine Press, 1984



$49.95
How to Play Baseball
by M. G. Bonner
1st edition, 1955

Book is in EXCELLENT condition

    * A wonderful book for the young baseball beginner
    * Explains how to get ready to play, and how to play all of the positions on the field
    * Explains batting, running, scoring
    * Has the playing rules and how to get along with your teammates
    * Exceptionally clean pages. Prior owner name on inside front and rear covers, 2" surface scratch to the front cover, along with minimal shelf wear are the only defects
    * Tightly bound
    * 111 pages





$34.95
Byron Nelson 
The Most Remarkable Year In The History Of Golf
By John Campaniotte

Book is in EXCELLENT condition. Dust Jacket in VERY GOOD condition.

  • Chronicle of the 1945 season in which Byron Nelson won 11 PGA Tour events in a row, and 18 wins in the year. A vivid narrative of Nelson's accomplishments during that year, describing each tournament, exhibition matches and personal activities. 
  • Byron Nelson simulated signature on Bookplate to Abilene Christian University - given to the University by the Nelson family
  • Published by Triumph Books, 236  pages. 2006. 
  • Clean pages and tightly bound. Dust Jacket has minor shelf wear. 

 

 

 

$24.95

The Model Railway Encyclopedia
by Ernest F. Carter

Book is in Good + condition for its age overall. Cover is G, insides are Excellent.

    * A comprehensive constructional and operational manual dealing exclusively with the smaller scale railway hobby.
    * Fourth revised edition, 1958 of 1950 copywrite by Burke Pub., Great Britain
    * 480 pages including advertisements at the end
    * Cover is worn, as shown in photos
    * Pages are all clean and bright, tightly bound, no writing, underlining or highlighting
 


$64.95
Amateur Amusements
by Professor Lorento

Book is in Good+ condition for age. No DJ

    * Chapters include subjects on Ghosts and How to Raise Them; chapters on charades / riddles / connundrums / Puzzles, along with chapters with the solutions / answers to them; chapters on magic, palmistry, conjuring, magnetism, ventrloquism, card tricks and much more.
    * Subtitled: "Including almost every kind of play and sport suitable for parties and parlor recreations, giving full directions how to get up shadow pantomimes, gallanty shows, short comic plays."
    * Well yellowed pages and split but well-attached front and rear covers, but everything is still well-attached but should be handled with care. Corners bumped and cover wear as you'd expect from a book this age.
    * 1878, Hurst & Co. , NY, 376 pages + ads, First Edition Thus, Arlington Edition
    * Decorative red boards








$59.95

Autumn's Mightiest Legions

by Harold V. Ratliff

  • Book is in VERY GOOD condition. No Dust Jacket

    First Edition thus. Hard to Find in first edition (or any edition)
    History of Texas Schoolboy Football. The definitive history of Texas' favorite sport.

  • Ratliff played football as a boy and covered it as a sports analyst.

  • Texian Press, 1963, 174 pages 

  • Ex-library book, with cardholder and normal markings. Library binding. Marked as discard. 
  • All pages clean and tightly bound. Four consecutive pages have some minor damage, and there are a small pen marks in the margins of a few pages, none of which impairs reading. Cover is red, very clean and bright with minimal shelf wear.

 

 

 

 

 

$39.95

Next Year's Champions :
The Story of the Dallas Cowboys
by Steve Perkins
Inscribed and Signed


Book is in EXCELLENT condition. DJ has  some yellowing from sun but otherwise VG+.

    * Inscribed & SIGNED,
    * First Printing 1969,
    * World Publishing, 253 pages






$49.95

My Wide World 

By Jim McKay  

Inscribed / Signed by the Author 

Book is in NEAR MINT condition in EXCELLENT Dust Jacket

 

  • From the host of ABC's Wide World of Sports
  • Jim McKay covered more than 100 different sports in 35 countries. In this book, he tells of the summer of 1972, with flashbacks to other memorable moments. Includes deaths at the Indianapolis 500, the U.S. Open and British Open, both decided in the final holes, and Cathy Rigby's slip on the balance beam and the murder of 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. And much, much more. 
  • Published by Macmillan, 1973, 272 pages. Stated First Printing  
  • Clean pages and tightly bound. Price clipped Dust Jacket has tape-closed small tear on back. Front hinge slightly weak.

 

 

$27.95