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CAPTAIN CRAWLEY'S HANDBOOK OF BILLIARDS & BAGATELLE
Publisher Ward, Lock & Co. 11TH Edition 1876, Hard cover, no dust jacket. Olive green boards with black lettering and decoration. Billiards its theory and practice with the scientific principle of the side-stroke, the spot stroke, & the rules of the various games, hints on betting and a chapter on Bagatelle. Eleventh edition, thoroughly revised. Illustrated by forty diagrams. 154 pages plus advertisements. Publisher Ward, Lock & Co. Edition , Hard cover, no dust jacket. Olive green boards with black lettering and decoration. Hints on betting and a chapter on Bagatelle. Illustrated by forty diagrams. 154 pages plus advertisements.
THE BILLIARD BOOK by CAPTAIN CRAWLEY & COOK
Ward Lock, London, 1877. Original Pictorial Cloth. John Proctor (illustrator). 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. xvi, 344 pages, 54 steel plate engravings and many woodcuts. A much extended edition with chapters on all aspects of the game including manufacturers of tables, balls, etc. Also a bibliography of works on Billiards. A very desirable book on billiards.
KENTFIELD ON BILLIARDS 6TH EDITION 1886
Edwin Kentfield
The Game of Billiards; Scientifically Explained and Practically Set Forth, in a Series of Novel and Extraordinary, But Equally Practical, Strokes.
Published by The Proprietors, Thurston and Co., 16 Catherine Street, Strand, London Sixth Edition 1886. London 1886.
Hard back binding in publisher's original green cloth covers, gilt lettering, two cues and three balls to the spine, lemon end papers with Thurston advertisement to the front. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains xvi, 94 printed pages of text.
FUN ON THE BILLIARD TABLE...BY STANCLIFFE
FUN ON THE BILLIARD TABLE...BY STANCLIFFE...
Rare Book on amusing tricks & games for amateurs with diagrams.
Good photographic images of trick shots etc.
Published by C.Arthur Pearson Limited .London un-dated but believed to be 1905.
114 pages plus some interesting advents.
BILLIARDS THEORY & PRACTISE BY CAPTAIN CRAWLEY
BILLIARDS THEORY & PRACTISE BY CAPTAIN CRAWLEY...
Ward Lock and Tyler, 1876. Purple Cloth, 10th edition.
