Sport.- Presentation Copies

A large collection of 86 miscellaneous volumes on sport, including 17 inscribed by the authors to Paul Gallico:

The Twelfth Man, compiled by The Lord’s Taverners, signed by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, to the half title, dust jacket, 1971; The Guinness Book of Records, fourth impression, inscribed to the front free endpaper: ‘To Paul W. Gallico, Norris McWhirter, “Queen Elizabeth” - eastbound May 1956, 1955; Vinson (Maribel Y.) Primer of Figure Skating, inscribed: ‘Please don’t say farewell to this sport!’, 1938; Nadi (Aldo) On Fencing, inscribed: ‘To my pupil Paul Gallico in grateful friendship, Aldo Nadi’, with a foreword by Paul Gallico, New York, 1943; Menke (Frank G.) All Sports Record Book, 1931, 32, 35, with a duplicate of the 1935 edition and an Encyclopedia of Sports inscribed to a Jack Wiley, New York; Jacons (Helen Hull) Gallery of Champions, inscribed: ‘For Paul Gallico - with my best wishes [...] one of the “galloping Virgins” Helen’, New York, 1949; with further volumes inscribed by: Lord Morys Aberdare; Lena Young de Grummond; John Kieran; L. V. Fildes; Joseph Vince; Ed Vebell; Grantland Rice; and other uninscribed volumes, including Gallico’s copy of the Press Guide to the 1936 Berlin Olympics and 14 vol. of The World Almanac, some duplicates; original cloth or paper wrappers, mixed condition with some tattered and stained, surviving dust jackets generally in poor condition, v.s. (86)