Lot 157 - Crawley, Captain Rawdon; The Billiard Book

Crawley, Captain Rawdon; The Billiard Book, Longmans Green & Co, London 1866, illustrated frontispiece, 261 pages plus preliminaries and index, full-page plates throughout, bound in gilt-tooled pictorial green cloth, approx 24 x 15.5cm; together with Davis, Joe; Billiards Up-to-Date, John Long Ltd, London 1929, photographic portrait frontispiece, 222 pages plus preliminaries, bound in red cloth with title to spine; Clifford, W.G.; Billiards through the Centuries, Printing Craft Ltd, London, nd but circa 1930s, 37 pages plus advert and blank end pages, decorative endpapers, bound in gilt-tooled green cloth, approx 24.5 x 18.5cm; Newman, Stanley, How to Play Snooker, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd, London 1936, photographic portrait frontispiece, 81 pages plus preliminaries and index, bound in pictorial boards with identical dustjacket, 18 x 12.5cm; Peall, Athur F.; Billiards and Snooker, Warne's Recreational Books, Frederick Warne & Co, London 1928, softback with illustrated front cover; Davis, Joe; How to Pot a Ball, Wright & Brown, London, nd but circa 1920s,softback with illustrated front cover; and The Billiards Association and Control Council Handbook and Rules 1937–38, softback in gilt-tooled green cover (7)

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