[RECREATIONS] A group of 18 titles. Including: The Boy?s Bo...

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Winter Magic Auction

By Potter & Potter Auctions

Dec 11, 2021

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Our December sale features the collection of Bob Rossi. While Mr. Rossi was an ardent collector of books and manuscripts, his main focus was memorabilia from the career of Joseph Dunninger, the "master mind of modern mystery." Prices Realized Potter & Potter Auctions info@potterauctions.com

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  [RECREATIONS] A group of 18 titles. Including: The Boy?s Book of Sports, Games, Etc. London: Ward, Lock, & Co. Frontispiece, illustrated. Publisher?s red cloth stamped in black and gilt (crude repairs, rubbing to extremities). -- The Boy?s Treasury of Sports, Pastimes, and Recreations. New York: Clark, Austin, & Co., 1850. Frontispiece, illustrated. Modern red cloth (publisher?s original cloth pasted over). FOURTH AMERICAN EDITION. Toole Stott 119. -- The Boy?s Treasury of Sports, Pastimes, and Recreations. London: D. Bogue, 1847. Modern green cloth. Toole Stott 117. -- STRUTT, Joseph. The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England. London: Thomas Tegg and Son, 1834. Illustrated. Contemporary blue cloth (spine partially detached at rear, soiling). Provenance: Isabelle Brown (bookplate). -- All 8vos, 4tos. Condition generally fine to good.
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