Title: Billiards Without a Master; Illustrated by Fifty Fine Copperplate Diagrams,...The Work Contains, Also, A Full and Complete Set of Rules for the Government of the Game of Billiards, and the Various Games of Pool, &c... Author: Phelan, Michael Place: New York Publisher: D.D. Winant Date: 1850 Description: 127 pp. Steel-engraved frontispiece and 50 copper-engraved diagrams. (8vo) 23x14.5 cm (9x5¾"), period full calf, rebacked to style, red leather title label. First Edition. The first American book on billiards. The author was "one of the first players in this country, and of long experience, both as a keeper of a saloon and a practical player." Includes a "treatise on the origin rise, and progress of the game of billiards" compiled by D.D. Winant. Lot Amendments Condition: Boards a bit worn, hinges repaired, early gift inscription and later bookplate; foxing throughout; very good. Item number: 233231
Title: Billiards Without a Master; Illustrated by Fifty Fine Copperplate Diagrams,...The Work Contains, Also, A Full and Complete Set of Rules for the Government of the Game of Billiards, and the Various Games of Pool, &c... Author: Phelan, Michael Place: New York Publisher: D.D. Winant Date: 1850 Description: 127 pp. Steel-engraved frontispiece and 50 copper-engraved diagrams. (8vo) 23x14.5 cm (9x5¾"), period full calf, rebacked to style, red leather title label. First Edition. The first American book on billiards. The author was "one of the first players in this country, and of long experience, both as a keeper of a saloon and a practical player." Includes a "treatise on the origin rise, and progress of the game of billiards" compiled by D.D. Winant. Lot Amendments Condition: Boards a bit worn, hinges repaired, early gift inscription and later bookplate; foxing throughout; very good. Item number: 233231
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