New York: Winchester Press. (1978) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A guide to "how the average angler can design, build and embelish a rod that will reflect his desires and needs." Illustrated with numerous black-and-white photographs, drawings and charts. Includes chapters on glues, reel seats, grips, wraps, finishes and tools. INSCRIBED by the author on the half title page. Index. xiii, 354 pp. ISBN: 0-876912587.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001. First edition - Includes articles on the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas and the story of Americans who were kidnapped in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan by a militant Islamic group, and on athletes Cal Ripken Jr., Dale Earnhardt Jr., Tiger Woods, Joe DiMaggio, and others. Among the contributors are H. G. Bissinger, Charles P. Pierce, Jim Harrison, Rick Reilly, Toure and others. Biographical notes. 368 pp. ISBN: 0-618-086269.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (c 1948) dj. Hardcover - Contains 19 stories of every type of competitive sports written from the point of view of the modern teen-ager . Illustrated with small drawings. Preface by the author. A title in The Teen-age Library. 250 pp.

New York: Prentice-Hall, (1949.) dj. Hardcover - Forewords by Grantland Rice (who calls this the most complete book on playing baseball ever written) and Connie Mack (who describes this as the first book of its kind). Illustrated throughout with photographs and drawings. Index. xxiii, 340 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of her record-breaking swims - across the English channel at ages 15 and 16, through the Straits of Magellan, around the Cape of Good Hope and more.323 pp. ISBN: 0-375-415076.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. First edition - An account of her record-breaking swims - across the English channel at ages 15 and 16, through the Straits of Magellan, around the Cape of Good Hope and more. A rather uncommon advance issue., 321 pp.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004. First edition - Collects 26 essays by sportswriters and journalists - including Gary Smith, Ira Berkow, Susan Orlean, William Nack, Mitch Album, Rick Telander, Robert Draper, Charles P. Pierce and others. Introduction by Richard Ben Cramer and foreword by Glenn Stout, series editor. Biographical notes on contributors. xxiii, 300 pp. ISBN: 0-618251391.

Berkeley, CA: Arrowhead Press, (1981.). First edition - Deluxe color edition. Uncommon look at the A's transformation by Billy Martin in 1980 - from a team which finished in last place in 1979 with only 306,763 fans the whole year. Over 50 illustrations including 8 in three colors. Laid in a thin yellow 33 vinyl "Billy Ball" record. Large format. 96 pp. Note: this was the transformation before that told in the book and film 'Moneyball.'. ISBN: 0-9604152-2x.

Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Co., (c 1930) dj. Hardcover - The eighth book in this series described as 'good clean football at its best - and in addition rattling stories of mystery and schoolboy rivalries.' 216 pp plus 4 pp publisher's ads.

Deerfield Park, FL: Health Communications, Inc. (1999). SIGNED - A title in the very popular inspirational Chicken Soup for the Soul series - SIGNED on the title page by the author Jeff Aubery. Illustrated with cartoons, Notes on contributors. xxiv, 379 pp. ISBN: 1-558746587.

New York: Henry Holt, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The story of a woman's baseball team, the Sweetwheat Sweethearts, in the 40's, told by one member's grown daughter in the 60's - except that things are not quite so simple as they appear. SIGNED on the title page. Author's second imaginative and highly praised novel. 352 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-47379.

New York: Henry Holt, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The story of a woman's baseball team, the Sweetwheat Sweethearts, in the 1940s, told by one member's grown daughter in the 60s - except that things are not quite so simple as they appear. Author's second imaginative and highly praised novel. SIGNED on title page. 352 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-47379.

New York: The Century Company, 1908 (c 1901). Hardcover - Very uncommon young adult book by this historian best known for his work on the American Revolution. While most of French's novels, whether for children or adults were historical fiction, this book, set at a boy's summer camp and school, is a contemporary story of teenage boys and sports. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 12 internal glossy plates by Bernard J. Rosenmeyer. 246 pp.

New York: Hyperion, (2009.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A behind the scenes look at what is considered perhaps the greatest baseball game of all time - an extra-innings thriller. SIGNED on the title page. Illustrated with photographs. Appendix & index 406 pp. ISBN: 9781401323103.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1965. dj. Hardcover first edition - Informal profiles by this former sportswriter of some of the stars of the "Golden Decade" of the 1920s - in boxing, tennis, baseball, football, golf - including Bobby Jones, Babe Ruth, Gertrude Ederle, Gene Tunney, Helen Wills, Ty Cobb, Jack Dempsey, Knute Rockne and many more. Illustrated with many photographs. 315 pp.

Los Osos, CA: Sea Challengers, 1981. Illustrated with full color photographs and maps. Printed on heavy glossy stock. 96 pages. ISBN: 0-930030-311.

New York: David Mckay Co. (1965.). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Foreword by Arnold Palmer. Illustrated with many two-color line drawings by Lea Gustafson. 110 pp.

Chelsea, MI: Sleeping Bear Press, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - One of a series of informative and attractive alphabet books produced by this publisher - in addition to the simple rhyme for younger children ("A is where soccer is played, all over the world... B is for ball.."), each page also contains expository text for older readers which gives specific details about goaltending, referees, the World Cup, and many other aspects. Illustrated with detailed and realistic full-color paintings by Rose-Popp. INSCRIBED by Herzog on the title page ("To ..., hope you get a 'kick' out of this") Large oblong format, bound in glossy illustrated boards. Accompanied by a 19.5 by 17 inch poster, folded, which reproduces the cover illustration and has the alphabet rhymes in the margins. ISBN: 1-585361305.

Nashville: Thomas Nelson Inc, (1996) dj. Hardcover - Autobiography of this boxer who was three times the world heavyweight boxing champion, focusing on his youth as he learned to box, his Olympic bronze medal, and his eventual triumph at becoming the champion, as well as the values he held which led to him being called "the real deal." Photographs. 241 pp. ISBN: 0-785276939.

New York: Atria Books, (2008). First edition - The story of his rise from poverty to four time world heavyweight boxing champion, told in his own words. Includes an appendix with his professional fight record. Cover praise from President Bill Clinton who says "Passion, drive and athleticism shine through on every page of this absorbing memoir." 273 pp.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A "thriller about baseball, sex slavery and trade agreements." Boldly INSCRIBED on the half title page to the late noted collector Larry Owens and dated in the year of publication. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-312855532.

New York: Forge / Tom Doherty Associates, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The US is hosting the soccer World Cup, and two players are gunned down outside the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. James Burlane, ex-CIA, now private investigator and soccer afficionado, is hired to investigate. INSCRIBED on the half title page to noted Oklahoma book collector, Larry Owens, and dated Jan 28, 1998 at Long Beach, Washington (underneath the date, Hoyt wrote "my 57th birthday." 253 pp plus a list of the 1994 World Cup teams. ISBN: 0-312-855540.

San Diego: DreamGrinder Press, (2017). First edition - Autobiography of a two-time World Series champion who reached the pinnacle of Major League Baseball before retiring at age thirty-six in 2012, but who balanced these victories with the crippling demons of addiction, divorce, anxiety, depression, and feelings of inferiority. v, 257 pp. ISBN: 978-1944903176.

New York: True, the Man's Magazine, 1950. Includes Frank Leahy's 1950 football forecast and many articles on football by regions and a section with the official 1950 football schedule. 89 pp.

New York: Macmillan, 1927. Hardcover first edition - Uncommon first edition of this comprehensive book on the making of bows starting with cutting the wood. Illustrated with drawings by G. P. Haynes and a glossy photographic frontispiece and two internal glossy plate. x, 173 pp.

New York: Random House, 1992. Hardcover first edition - Autobiography of the great basketball player - and also the story of his discovery that he had AIDS.

New York: Anchor Books, (2001). A novelist's look at "a sport that represents the ultimate confrontation with death: bullfighting. . . matadors (literally "killers") are men and, increasingly, women who, not unlike the Roman gladiators before them, provide a spectacle to the crowd, a dance in which their own death is as present as that of the bull.. " Glossary, brief bibliography. 164 pp.