early sports pastimes new jersey de weiss harry grace (6 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Fair. FAIR/WITH NO JACKET, 145 pp. Text clean with usual library treatments. Floral boards with gold text on spine. Binding stitched and tight.

hardcover. Etat : Good. No dust jacket. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

HC. B&W illustrations (illustrateur). 148pp Varied types of sports and diversions that occupied people's attention from colonial times until about 1860. Chapters include: Frolics, Bees and Other Rural Recreations; Fairs and Balloon Ascensions; Mechanical Shows and Museums; Waxworks, Acrobats, and Magicians; Wild Beasts, Animal Baiting, and Cockfighting; Equestrian Shows, Menageries, and Circuses; Sea Bathing, Public Gardens, and Steamboat Trips; Celebrations, Dancing, Theatres, Lectures and Concerts; Horse Racing; and Miscellaneous Sports and Divisions. good+, black spine (hardcover) faint edgewear.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. First edition. 148pp. Illustrated in black and white. Decorative papercovered boards, cloth spine. Ex-library with stamps on page edges and title page canceled with white-out, remnants of pocket removal on rear flyleaf, boards chipping at edges and corners, about very good. Includes chapters on: Frolics, Bees and Other Rural Recreations; Fairs and Balloon Ascensions; Waxworks, Acrobats, and Magicians; Wild Beasts, Animal Baiting, and Cockfighting; Menageries and Circuses, and more.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good+. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. vii, 148 pages. Entomologist Harry Weiss and his wife Grace were avid New Jersey folklorists, who applied their considerable skill as researchers to the subject of the history of sports and other pastimes in their state. The result was this book, an at once scholarly whle still readable examination of everything from cricket to cockfighting in New Jersey. Signed on the front free endpaper by Harry Weiss and inscribed by him to fellow entomologist Dr. Hugo Hartnack. The book is in very good condition: clean nad bright, with a hint of wear at corners. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SIGNED. Book.

WEISS, HARRY B., and GRACE M. WEISS. Early Sports and Pastimes in New Jersey. Trenton: Past Times Press, 1960. vii, 148 p. Illus. Cloth-backed boards. One of the most popular Weiss books, treating all types of recreations from fairs, balloon ascensions, and magicians, to theatres, dancing, and horse racing.