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Born in Purkersdorf near Vienna shortly after the Second World War into a family of noble descent, Peter Fadanelli moved to Stockholm, Sweden as a young man immediately after finis-hing his university education. He soon became an avid collector of books and manuscripts from many fields, eventually forming the largest known collection of so-called ‘Exilliteratur’ – books published abroad by the German and Austrian cultural elite who had been forced into emigration worldwide by Nazi persecution. His library included the greatest rarities by the most eminent German authors, printed in the Netherlands, Scandinavia, Shanghai, and the U.S. It was disper-sed through our company in the early 1990s, and some of the books and the unique manuscript material found a new home in the German National Library, Frankfurt am Main, while the re-mainder went to the Österreichische Exilbibliothek im Literaturhaus, Vienna, where it still forms the nucleus of their collection.

A true football fan since his early youth (his favourite club is Rapid Wien, whose matches he still attends regularly when visiting his hometown) and himself an amateur player for most of his life, Peter Fadanelli was a regular buyer of books on football, as well. He maintains residences in Austria, Sweden, Spain and Italy and travels a good part of the year, which has presented him with some unique opportunities to acquire truly outstanding rarities, some of which are not to be found in any other private or institutional collection worldwide. To our knowledge the library of Peter Fadanelli is the only one of its kind to boast a complete collection of all editions of the earliest monograph on the game of football (Nos. 1 f.), the breathtakingly rare earliest manuscript record of an actual team lineup (No. 4), and all important early depictions of the game, including Zocchi’s monumental print of a 17th century football field (No. 7). The Football League (No. 23), published annually by the chief editor of FC Arsenal’s programme in only 25 complete copies, is a veritable treasure trove of information, but is neither recorded in the British Library nor held in any other institution. Also, the Fadanelli Collection is home to virtually all the early standard reference works on the history of the game (Nos. 13, 16, 17, 25, 26 and 31), the principal training manuals (Nos. 15, 24, 43 and 51), some of the very rare annual programmes of English football clubs (Nos. 20 and 22, inter alia), and a few unique signed copies (Nos. 41, 59 and 70). Altogether the collection comprises a little more than 100 volumes of books, and nearly double that figure in autographs, prints and manuscripts.

Due not only to the uniqueness of the collection and to the many rarities included, but also because of the fact that the owner divides his life between so many countries, it proved a diffi-cult task to obtain all the export licenses necessary to dispose of this collection. With this issue resolved only recently (all licenses were finally granted in early 2017), we have been entrusted by the collector to find a new home for his library and are proud now to offer his collection for sale. For this purpose we have added but a small number of items so as to close a few minor gaps in the Fadanelli corpus (including some of the official World Cup publications, now forming a complete set from 1950 to 2014, cf. Nos. 65 through 82; an original photograph of Qatar’s first football stadium, No. 55; and a collection of more than 160 autographs by famous football play-ers of the last decades, No. 53).

An Outstanding Collection of Books About FootballRemoved From the Library of Peter Fadanelli

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The first book entirely devoted to football: a complete collection of all editions ever published

1 Bardi, Giovanni de’. Discorso sopra il giuoco del calcio fiorentino: a collection of all editions of the first monograph on football. Florence, 1580–1688. Includes the first (1580), second (1615), third (1673), and fourth and definitive edition (1688), the latter in two different copies.

A rare opportunity to acquire the entire publishing history of this incunable of football literature and to investigate the editorial treatment of this crucial text throughout a century of political developments.

This is the earliest treatise (and only early monograph) on the historical precursor to the modern game of association football. Florentine “calcio” developed as an aristocratic sport practiced by the youths of the city’s great noble families – a rough game for young men bred in the old chivalric ‘condottiere’ tradition but living in an age of relative peace and affluence. Much more than a mere pastime, “calcio” was linked to important festivities, such as the exuberant Carnival season that preceded the period of religious fasting, but also great celebrations and weddings. Held in the central Piazza di Santa Croce, the games served the Florentine elite as a means of self-display and to strengthen civic virtues – and at the same time provided a welcome emotional outlet to the frenzied masses who flocked in tens of thousands to see the matches.

The collection comprises:

a [Bardi, Giovanni de’]. Discorso sopra il giuoco del calcio fiorentino. Del puro Accademico Al-terato. Florence, nella Stamperia de’ Giunti, 1580. 4to. 36 pp. With armorial woodcut on t. p. and folding engraved plate. 19th c. half calf with marbled covers and giltstamped spine on four raised bands. Occasional browning; a single underlining. In all a charming copy of the very rare edition princeps.

The detailed description of the game was written by Giovanni de’ Bardi and first published anonymously in 1580 with a dedication to Francesco I de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany. It contains a remarkable large engraved plate showing the Piazza with the players on the field immediately before kick-off.

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b (Bardi, Giovanni de’). Discorso sopra ’l giuoco del calcio fiorentino. Del puro Accademico Alterato. Di nuovo ristampato. Florence, appresso Co-simo Giunti, 1615. 4to. 48 pp. With armorial woodcut (Medici arms) on t. p. and folding engraved plate. 19th c. half calf with marbled covers and giltstamped spine on four raised bands.

The book was reprinted in 1615 without major changes, save for a new dedication and preface by the printer, Cosimo Giunti, who also reveals the author’s name as Giovanni de’ Bardi, Conte di Vernio. The book was now dedicated to Archduchess Maria Maddalena of Austria, Grand Duchess of Tuscany as wife of Cosimo II de’ Medici. The fact that all editions were dedicated to the Grand Ducal family underlines how closely the game of “calcio” was interwoven with the prestige of the ruling house of Tuscany and the Florentine elite.

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c Bardi, Giovanni de’. Giovanni de’. Discorso sopra il giuoco del calcio fiorentino. [...] Nuovamente ristampato coll’ aggiunta de’ capitoli del me-desimo giuoco. Florence, all’ Insegna della Stella, 1673. 4to. (4), 36 pp. Title page printed in red and black. With 2 folding engraved plates and large armorial engraving on t. p. Contemporary half vellum with coloured paper boards. Some browning and brownstaining throughout, with an unobtru-sive waterstain to the first two leaves. Binding rubbed.

The rare 1673 edition, prepared by Orazio Capponi and dedicated to Co-simo III de’ Medici, was the first to include the set of rules, condensed to 33 “capitoli”, inserted before the text. As befits an edition apparently concerned with formalizing the game’s regulations, it also included a new engraving with a top-view diagram of the participants in starting position.

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c (Bardi, Giovanni de’/Bini, Pietro di Lorenzo [ed.]). Memorie del calcio Fiorentino tratte da diverse scritture. Florence, nella Stamperia di S. A. S. alla Condotta, 1688. Large 4to. (12), 118 pp. With 2 folding engraved plates (one signed by Alessandro Cecchini), large armorial engraving on t. p. (with figures, the coat of arms of the dedicatees, and other elements, engraved by Francesco Nacci), woodcut initials, and type ornaments. Con-temporary marbled boards. All edges sprinkled in red. Flyleaf and title page show stamps of historical collections (one monogrammed “MD”). Preliminaries loosened; slight browning throughout as common. Some chipping to spine.

d (The same). Bound in contemporary full vellum with giltstamped spine label. All edges sprinkled in red. Slight browning throughout as common, but a beautiful copy overall.

Pietro Bini’s definitive 1688 edition was greatly expanded and better illus-trated with newly engraved plates. Dedicated to Fernando de’ Medici and Violante Beatrice of Bavaria, it was published on the occasion of their marriage festivities in December and January 1688/89, in which at least one calcio match figured. The engraved title page shows the arms of the dedicatees flanked on one side by a figure holding a football and on the other by a player or match official holding a flag, and with the open tents used as “goal posts” behind. This edition introduces a new rule no. 32 (thus raising the total number of official rules to 34), a sort of “offside” rule concerning the alfiere (flag-bearer). Much in the manner of a pro-gramme book, the contents are a typically Baroque, highly erudite miscel-lany: apart from Bardi’s “Discorso”, it includes a learned disquisition in Latin by the Jesuit Giambattista Ferrari on the game’s ancient antecedents; a Greek poem about the sport by Giorgio Coresio, a Pisan Greek scholar who enjoyed the patronage of the Medici (previously published separately in Venice in 1611), along with its translation into Tuscan dialect; notices of the game in ancient as well as in 16th century Italian sources, and several records of historical games played. While the first copy, in contemporary marbled boards, is fairly unsophisticated, with stamps of several historical collections on the title page, the second is a tighter copy, appealingly bound in contemporary full vellum with a giltstamped spine label.

¶ Parenti 54 f. Cicognara 1570. Gamba 98 f. Libr. Vinciana 127. Moreni I, 84. Inghirami I, 60. Piantanida 127. Melzi II, 388. Bascetta I, 129. Olschki, Choix 2566.

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The definitive edition, from the library of a noble enthusiast of the game

2 (Bardi, Giovanni de’/Bini, Pietro di Lorenzo [ed.]). Memorie del cal-cio Fiorentino tratte da diverse scritture. Florence, nella Stamperia di S. A. S. alla Condotta, 1688. Large 4to. (12), 118 pp. With 2 folding engraved plates (one signed by Alessandro Cecchini), large armo-rial engraving on t. p. (with figures, the coat of arms of the type ornaments. Fine 19th c. green morocco binding, spine and covers elaborately gilt with title to upper cover and crowned monogram to lower cover.

First edition thus (and fourth overall): the present, greatly expanded and bet-ter-illustrated edition is dedicated to Fernando de’ Medici and Violante Be-atrice of Bavaria, as it was published on the occasion of their marriage fes-tivities in December and January 1688/89, in which at least one calcio match figured. Much in the manner of a programme book, the contents are a typi-cally Baroque, highly erudite miscellany. This edition with fine and newly en-graved plates and edited by Bini includes, apart from Bardi’s “Discorso”, a learned disquisition in Latin by the Jesuit Giambattista Ferrari on the game’s ancient antecedents; a learned Greek poem about the sport by Giorgio Core-sio, a Pisan Greek scholar who enjoyed the patronage of the Medici (previ-ously published separately in Venice in 1611), along with its translation into Tuscan dialect; notices of the game in ancient as well as in 16th century Italian sources, and several records of historical games played. The first of the two double-page plates depicts the beginning of a match in the Piazza Santa Croce, and the second is a diagram of participants in starting position. As in all cop-ies, a colophon on p. 64, naming Piero Matini as printer, has been cancelled with a slip printed with woodcut decoration.

An elaborately bound, large copy on strong paper with the ownership stamp of “Prince” Dimitrios Rhodocanakis (1840–1902), one of the most colourful characters of the learned Greek world in the 19th century. Born into a wealthy family of merchants, Rhodocanakis styled himself the 15th lineal scion of the last Byzantine emperors. All his life striving to substantiate his claims to descent from the Palaiologoi, he forged citations, invented entire books and falsely ascribed existing anonymous ones. One of the books he did write, how-ever, was an “Essay on the life and writings of Georgius Coressius”, pub-lished in Athens in 1872: his mother Argentou (Henrietta) was the daughter of Theodoros Coresio. It is therefore perhaps little surprise that on the spine and cover of his sumptuously bound personal copy of Bardi’s football book, Rhodocanakis chose to ascribe the authorship to his relative Coresio, in fact a mere contributor and long dead in 1688.

After his own passing, Rhodocanakis’s vast library was auctioned off by Rossi in Rome in 1904. It almost exclusively comprised books which were of in-terest to him historically or for his genealogy, and for most of them he had commissioned splendid bindings by the foremost French and British binders of his age (cf. Kekule, p. 196 f.). The present volume is a particularly fine and characteristic example.

¶ Cicognara 1570. Libr. Vinciana 127. Moreni I, 84 (note). Inghirami I, 60. Piantanida 127. Gamba 99 (“assai più copiosa di ogni altra”). Rossi p. 190, no. 1194 (this copy). Cf. Parenti 54 f. For Rhodocanakis and his collection cf. Kekule.

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An ode to football3 Rinuccini, Ottavio. Lodi de’ giocatori di pallone. Florence, Zanobi

Pignoni, 1619. 4to. (24) pp. With printer’s woodcut device on title page. Contemporary limp vellum with traces of ties. Stored in cus-tom-made half morocco case with gilt title to spine.

An ode composed in celebration of “calcio”, the early form of football played by young aristocrats in Florence since the Renaissance. The author Rinuccini (1562–1621) is famous as the librettist of “Euridice”, the first opera in the his-tory of music.

The work is dedicated to Matteo Botti (1570–1621), marchese di Campiglia, an influential Medici ambassador to the court of France who had returned to Flor-ence in 1615 and likely was a football enthusiast and himself a former player. The long poem (consisting of no less than 69 six-line verses) is preceded by the printer’s dedication to the Grand Duke, Cosimo II de’ Medici, and two sonnets to the same, composed for the “Ballo de’ Cavalli”, a ball held in the Piazza Santa Croce in honour of the ladies of the court during the Carneval of 1615/16 (cf. Solerti). Football matches played an important role in the Florentine Carneval, forming the traditional climax of the season as the youths of the city’s noble families would compete in the rough sport on Giovedì Grasso (Fat Thursday). “Sembra, che allora su Piazza di S. Trinita fusse il luogo destinato per il giuoco del Pallone [...] bellissimi, e bizzarrissimi versi del Rinuccini” (Moreni). – Slightly browned and stained; sewing professionall repaired. Very rare; a single copy in Italian libraries (Biblioteca sportiva nazionale di Roma).

¶ Libr. Vinciana 2611. Quadrio III, 177. Biblioteca Sportiva Nazionale, p. 21. Solerti, pp. 102, 148. Moreni II, 258. ICCU RMRE\002897.

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All the players of both teams of a 17th century football match: the earliest surviving manuscript of an actual team lineup

4 [The Florence Match of 1673]. “Calcio bal [?] di 9 Feb. 1672 a fin di Giovedì Grasso.” Florence, 9 February 1672 (i.e., 1673 – in Florence the New Year began on 25 March until 1749/50). Folio (207 × 298 mm). Manuscript on paper in brown ink. 1 page on bifolium.

Unique document of a historical football match played in Baroque Florence, listing the complete lineup of both teams, “Rosino” (light pink) and “Mavì” (sky blue). All the players of the 1673 match recorded in this manuscript are members of the famous noble families of Florence: Alamanno and Averardo Medici (as Blue forward and Pink midfielder, respectively), as well as Tommaso Alamanni, Amerigo Antinori, Ferdinando, Luigi, Piero, and Vincenzio Capponi (likely sons and nephews of Orazio Capponi, the editor of the 1673 edition of Bardi’s book, cf. No. 1 c above), Francesco Corsini, Carlo Frescobaldi, Fran-cesco Gherardini, Giuseppe and Jacopo Marucchelli, Clemente Pazzi, Francesco Strozzi, and Luigi and Pier Francesco Del Turco, to name but a few. The second fullback on the pink team was Piero Bini, and it is tempting to speculate that he is the same man who fifteen years later, in 1688, would publish the definitive edi-tion of Bardi’s work, with much additional material and a new rule introduced to the regulations (cf. Nos. 1 d/e and 2 above).

The big game of February 9th, 1673 formed the climax of the traditional Shrovetide festivities: the competition regularly held on “Fat Thursday” (the last Thursday before Lent). The rules of Renaissance Florentine football, or “calcio”, were somewhat different from those of the modern game: specifically, players on each team numbered no fewer than 27 (with a 28th man in the role of “alfiere”, a non-participating captain, or flag-bearer). Also, the game was noticeably more aggressive, as each team consisted of 15 forwards (“innanzi”), five midfielders (“sconciatori”), four halfbacks (“datori innanzi”), and three full-backs (“datori addietro”), who doubled as keepers.

Florentine “calcio”, the original model on which Association Football is based, developed as an aristocratic sport practiced by the youths of the city’s great no-ble families – a rough game for young men bred in the old chivalric ‘condottiere’ tradition but living in an age of relative peace and affluence. Much more than a mere pastime, “calcio” was linked to important festivals, such as the exuberant Pre-Lenten Season that preceded the period of religious fasting, but also great weddings. Held in the central Piazza di Santa Croce, the games served the Flo-rentine elite as a means of self-display and to strengthen civic virtues – and at the same time provided a welcome emotional outlet to the frenzied masses who flocked in tens of thousands to see the matches.

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While in 1673 the power of the Medici, Grand Dukes of Tuscany, was gradually waning, this was an important time for Florentine football: in this year, the aristocrat Orazio Capponi published his new edition of Giovanni de’ Bardi’s classic 1580 book on “calcio”, for the first time including the regulations of the game in 33 rules.

While player lists such as these must have been a common thing – indeed, such a “lista” is mentioned explicitly in rule number seven, and Bini publishes a very similar lineup at the end of his book – they constituted ephemera in the truest sense of the word: indispensable for their purpose at a given time, and casually discarded after the event. Very few can have survived; this is the only specimen we could trace in the trade or in collections. – Traces of old folds; a few slight edge flaws with minor loss to the final line; minor duststaining, otherwise finely preserved.

The great value placed on this unique survival by its former owner is evident from the elaborate case in which it is housed: a massive, 45 × 70 cm storage portfolio fashioned out of a precious 17th century Italian light-coloured leather binding over wooden boards, showing a fine blindstamped design of meshed quatrefoils, with 24 brass open-work fittings and bosses accented by underlaid red leather, incorporating striking “football” fittings on both covers and enclosing a red satin casing for the manuscript.

5 Merian, Matthäus. Football players inflating a ball. No place, 1620s? Engraving. 110 × 85 mm. Matted.

An uncommon scene of two gentlemen inflating a ball before the walls of a Renaissance city, with several children playing football in the back-ground and a lady looking on. The image is captioned in Latin and Ger-man: “Ecce tumescentem follem quae caussa tumoris? Cum spiritu in-fusus liquor. / Wiltu den Ballon schlagen gschwind, Must sehen das du habest Wind.” The scene’s double entendre becomes obvious when one considers it in the context of the Dutch book of emblematic riddles (“Incogniti scriptoris nova Poemata”, 1624) in which it was used.

Well-preserved with generous margins.

¶ Cf. Praz p. 381. De Vries 110. Landwehr 380.

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6 Callot, Jacques. Parterre du Palais de Nanci. Taille en eau forte et dedié à Madame la Duchesse de Lorraine. Nancy, 1625. Etch-ing with engraving. 430 × 300 mm. Matted.

The great ball game as played under Charles IV of Lorraine, in the for-mal garden of the Palace of Nancy. The view is peopled by a multitude of figures: at bottom centre, watching the match, are the Duke and his wife Nicole, the daughter of Henry II of Lorraine, holding a parasol, surrounded by members of the court, soldiers and a crowd of onlookers.

Slight browning and foxing, with tiny marginal tears. A fine impression in good condition.

¶ Lieure 566/I. Meaume 622 (“A very fine piece”).

Monumental view of a 17th century football field7 Zocchi, Giuseppe. Veduta della Chiesa, e Piazza di S. Croce

con la festa del Calcio fatta l’anno 1738 alla Real Presenza de Regnanti Sovrani. Florence, Carlo Gregori, [1744]. Etching with engraving, 700 × 537 mm. Matted.

Lively scene showing the Piazza di Santa Croce in Florence with a foot-ball (“calcio”) match in progress. Among the noble spectators is the Viceroy of Tuscany, Marc de Beauvau, Prince of Craon, who admin-istrated the Grand Duchy from 1737 to 1754 for Francois de Lorraine (later Emperor Francis I), who had been declared successor of the last Medici ruler Gian Gastone.

This was issued as the final plate in the famous series entitled “Scelta di XXIV Vedute delle principali contrade, piazze, chiese, e palazzi della Cit-tà di Firenze”, a set of engravings after the drawings of famous Floren-tine landmarks which Zocchi had been commissioned to record by the Marchese Andrea Gerini (his drawings now rest in New York’s Pierpont Morgan Library). Occasional reinforcements and repairs; a few marginal tears. A masterpiece by Giuseppe Zocchi, considered an important doc-ument of eighteenth century Florence.

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8 [Oriental football]. Jeux des Bandarois. No place, 17th/18th century. Engraving, coloured by a later hand. 186 × 147 mm. Matted.

A scene of oriental ball players, removed from an unidentified French travel book: a circle of players in local costume, using two balls, one in the air, another pictured in the act of being kicked. Western onlookers are seen in the lower corners.

Traces of folds. A charming view showing an early game of football as practised in the East.

A famous 19th century team in full team dress9 [Corinthian Football Club]. Photograph of the Corinthian Football

Team. N. p., 1896–1897. Sepia photograph with hand-tinted blue background (325 × 235 mm). Framed and glazed.

Team photograph of the Corinthian Football Club, the most successful amateur team of all time, which was founded in London in 1882 and supplied a large number of players to the England Football team. This photo includes famous players such as Bertie Oswald Corbett, Arthur George Henfrey, A. T. B. Dunn, Gilbert Oswald Smith, known as “the first great centre forward”, and Charles Wreford-Brown, a leading figure in the Amateur Football Alliance and coiner of the term “soccer” for association football.

Some creases and spots to photograph. Very good condition.

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A monumental lithograph in the style of Toulouse-Lautrec10 [Juventus F.C.]. Turin, Pietro Cassina, ca. 1900. Lithograph,

700 × 1000 mm. Rolled.

A charming and very rare football poster, lithographed by Cassina in Tu-rin in the early twentieth century: a dynamic scene, completely focused on the action that takes place in the foreground with two players com-peting for possession of the ball. The players may be members of Juven-tus (in red – actually, pink – and black home kit) and Internazionale F.C. Torino (in their white away colours). The teams of Turin (and Genoa) are usually credited with first bringing Anglo-Saxon style football to Italy.

A few horizontal and vertical fold marks; very well preserved.

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11 Tunmer, N. G./Fraysse, Eugene. Football (Association). Paris, Armand Colin et Cie., 1897. 12mo. XV, 129, 10 pp. Illustrations and diagrams in the text. Original limp cloth.

First edition. – Published in the “Petite Bibliotheque Athletique” series, edited by M. G. de Saint-Clair. “L’art de vivre, c’est l’art de jouer pour se fortifier et de se fortifier pir bien travailler”. A short history on both the Association and Union game.

Corners slightly dogged, contents yellowed and rather spotted. A scarce-ly seen French football history. Rare.

12 Smith, G. O. Football (Association). London, Ward, Lock & Co., 1898. Small 8vo. 60, (4) pp. Original pictorial wrappers with photo of Smith.

Extremely rare little volume by the great Corinthians centre forward G. O. Smith in the New Penny Handbooks series. Mainly instructional, with chapters on Modern Forward Play, Captaincy etc, he also includes sections on Growth of Professionalism, Some Famous Players and The International Matches.

Pages age-toned but generally in remarkably good condition. Very rare. Not listed in Seddon. The only copies traced are in the Bodleian and the National Library of Scotland. No copies have been offered for sale in recent years at any major auction house.

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Essential for any serious student of the game13 Catton, James Alfred Henry. The Real Football. A Sketch of the

Development of the Association Game. London, Sands, 1900. 8vo. (6), 215 pp. With portrait frontispiece (C. W. Alcock) and 7 plates. Rebound in half green goatskin over marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine, raised bands, gilt devices. New endpapers.

First edition. One of the key early books on the game, charting the rise of football from the 14th century, through the Public Schools, to the formation of the Football Association in 1863. One of the high notes of football literature. “Certain of the more substantial early works stand out as essential for any seri-ous student of the game’s history. This is one such work” (Seddon).

Occasional spotting to early and later pages. A very impressive copy. On the fly-leaf is the ownership inscription “Allan MacLean, President Vale of Leven F.C. From 1895 to June 1902”.

¶ Seddon A19.

14 Shearman, Montague. Football. London and Bombay, Longmans, Green, 1901. 8vo. XII, 379 pp. With photographic frontispiece, 18 full-page illustrations and 35 illustrations in the text. Original pictorial brown cloth.

An essential work of reference, split into three parts: history, the Association Game, the Rugby Union game. Contributors incude W. J. Oakley, G. O. Smith, Frank Mitchell, MC Kemp, and others. A volume in The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes, edited by by The Duke of Beaufort and Alfred E. T. Watson.

Head and tail of spine slightly rubbed. A fine copy.

¶ Seddon A17, A35.

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15 Jones, J. L. Association Football. London, C. Arthur Pearson, 1904. 8vo. 112 pp., including diagrams and tables plus publish-er’s adverts to rear. Original illustrated cloth.

First edition. – Early footballing instructional from Jones, then captain of Tottenham Hotspur. In the year that FIFA was formed and interest in the game really began to take off.

Pages a little browned but clean. In the original bright yellow illustrat-ed boards, a little rubbed and with small ink scribble to upper. Internal hinges cracked and lower portion shaken else very good copy of this exceedingly scarce early title.

One of the most desirable sets in football literature16 Gibson, Alfred/Pickford, William. Association Football and the Men

Who Made It. London, Caxton Publishing Co., 1906. 4 vols. Large 8vo. VIII, 224 pp. VIII, 215 pp. VIII, 216 pp. VIII, 200 pp. Each volume with portrait frontispiece and numerous illustrations and dia-grams throughout the text, and an index in vol. 4. Original blue cloth, each with an illustration in 3 colours, by John Hassall, of a footballer standing with hands on hips with a football at his feet, repeated on each spine. Titles in white and black lettering to front.

Superb and indispensable work on the birth and development of football, in four volumes. The authors trace football’s origins, the foundation of the pro-fessional clubs in England and Scotland, and the pioneers of organised football. According to Seddon, this publication is “generally regarded as the most sought after set of books in football literature”.

Minor shelf wear, including some rubbing to heads and tails of spines and cor-ners bumped. A good set.

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The history of the game explained17 Wall, Frederick J./Alcock, Charles William (et al.). The Book of Foot-

ball. London, Amalgamated Press, 1906. Folio. XII, 292 pp. With frontispiece, showing England-Scotland match, Bramall Lane, Shef-field, 1903. Numerous illustrations in the text. Half vellum over pur-ple boards, top edge gilt.

First edition of this important early work that traces the history of the game and the foremost clubs of the time. With contributions from C. W. Alcock, F. W. Wall, William McGregor, A. J. Gould and many others, it traces the history of the game and the foremost clubs of the time. Amongst a hatful of gems are a feature on the new Chelsea FC, founded the previous year; a discussion of the famous 1905 All Blacks rugby team; and an article on American football. All the major clubs of the day are covered by a brief history over at least three pages with an accompanying team photograph. Without doubt, one of the classics of football literature, originally published in 12 monthly parts in 1905. “A vital contribution to football history” (Seddon).

Contents thumbed in places, a couple of very short closed tears. A superb copy of one of the great football books.

Includes: The same. Facsimile edition. Basildon, Association of Football Statisticians, 1987. 4to. 292, (16) pp.

18 [Leng, John]. Leng’s Football Handbook 1910–11. London, John Leng, 1910. 8vo. 94 pp. Disbound.

Twelfth year of issue. This annual lasted from 1905–06 to 1915–16 and continued “The Football Handbook”. Without the final leaf.

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19 Divorty, Patrick. Patrick Divorty on Football. Glasgow, G. & J. Maclachlan, 1914. 8vo. 49 pp. With 10 colour lithograph illus-trations. Original wrappers.

Subtitled “Being evidence given before the Royal Commission appointed to enquire into the value of Football as a factor making for International Peace and the Abolition of Armaments”. Divorty was an Irish Glaswe-gian comic and, in this rare little book, he communicates his views on football. The book was published by the G. & J. MacLachlan and the book also served as a promotional tool for their drinks business. Con-tains ten fine colour lithograph illustrations.

Small chips to paper wrapper. Bookplate to inside of front cover and from the collection of Robin Marlar (Sussex cricketer), with his small bookplate slipped in. Very scarce.

20 [Post Football Guide]. Post Football Guide 1920–21 to 1939–40. Nottingham, “Football Post” Office, 1920–39. Issues 12–31, making twenty in all, 1920/21 to 1939/40. Each 16mo. Original printed wrappers.

Highly collectable Nottingham football annual that began life in 1905–06 and covers both football and rugby union, a complete run from 1920 to 1939.

Spines slightly rubbed on all issues. Generally very good copies through-out, apart from 1920–21, which has tape to spine and corners knocked off.

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21 Wodehouse-Temple, C. D./Knight, A. E. (eds.). Captains of Football. London, Amalgamated Press, 1921. 8vo. 109 pp. Illus-trated covers.

Contains photographs, personal accounts of their footballing careers and facsimile autographs of 52 captains of English Football League clubs from the 1921 season, from Arsenal to Watford. While billed as a first edition, from March 1921, this is probably an only edition. A. E. Knight was captain of Portsmouth at the time.

Covers lightly creased to edges. Some light staining but generally a very good copy of a scarce book.

22 [Tottenham Hotspur Football Club]. Tottenham Hotspur Football Club Handbook 1930–31. Tottenham, C. Coventry, 1930. 32mo. 48 pp. With 7 cameo portraits. (And:) Hand-book 1938–39. Tottenham, Crusha & Son, 1939. 32mo. 60, (4) pp. With 7 cameo portraits. Both in original printed wrap-pers.

Two rare 1930s issues of the Spurs’ official annual handbook, pub-lished from 1897–98 to date (with no issues produced for 1915–18 and 1941–47). Contains portraits of players and functionaries, lists of players, statistics and match records, goal scorers, rulebook (“Laws of Association Football”, an interesting comparison with those published in the 17th century by Capponi and Bini, Nos. 1 c and 1 d/e), and all the year’s fixtures for the team.

Wrappers rubbed and slightly stained, staples of 1938–39 edition re-moved. Still good copies.

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The “black tulip” of football books, the only complete set known23 Johnston, W. M. The Football League. The Competitions of the Sea-

son 1931[–1939]. London, [for the author], 1932–1940. 8vo. 8 vols. Original red cloth, title gilt to the spines of all but the first year, and the upper boards of all, blind panel to the front board of the last five volumes.

First editions, extremely rare. Only 25 sets can possibly exist, and we can trace no set, not even single individual annual copies, institutionally. “For eight sea-sons during the thirties Billy Johnston, editor of the Arsenal FC programme for many years, kept his own hand-written records on a season-by-season basis. He then privately published them in eight volumes, each limited to forty copies – results, scorers, transfers and much else of interest is presented in these unique and extremely scarce records, later published in facsimile by the Association of Football Statisticians” (Seddon). The limitation was in fact variable through the publication’s brief history. No limitation is stated for the first year; 1932–33 has a label mounted on the front pastedown to the effect that “The Edition is limited to Twenty-Five Presentation Copies”, and 1933–34 has a similar label to the front free stating that “This Book is confined to 35 Presentation Copies”; 1934–35, 1935–36, and 1936–37 have stated limitations of “40 Presentation Copies”, which in 1937–38 and 1938–39 becomes “50 Presentation Copies”. Evidently the outbreak of the Second World War ended production for the duration, and it was never resumed.

Somewhat sunned, rubbed, soiled, spines starting to split and chip head and tail, all hinges sound, endpapers browning and contents lightly toned, but still an excellent set of this highly desirable “black tulip” of football collecting: one of only 25 such sets printed and likely the only complete set to have survived.

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24 Jack, David. Soccer. Experiences of the game with practical instruction on training and on play in each position. London, Putnam, 1934. 8vo. VIII, (4), 336 pp. With portrait frontispiece, 15 other plates and 2 dia-grams. Original pale green cloth lettered in red on spine and front board with dust jacket.

First and only edition of one of the first football personality technique books. Born in Bolton in 1899, David Jack played first for Plymouth Argyle, the club that his father managed. In 1920 he signed for Bolton Wanderers where he spent eight seasons, forming a partnership with Joe Smith, scoring 300 goals between them. Jack made history with the first goal at Wembley Stadium in the 1923 FA Cup Final when Bolton beat West Ham 2–0. In 1928, with Bolton in financial trouble, he was signed by Herbert Chapman for Arsenal for £10,890. The fee was twice the then record, but considered a bargain by Chapman, who often recounted the tale of his getting the Bolton directors drunk, while he himself drank gin-free gin and tonics. Jack was a great success at Highbury and was the club’s top scorer through one of its most prolific periods, winning the 1929–30 FA Cup and Championships in 1930–31, 1932–33, and 1933–34. He scored 124 times in 208 matches, making him the eighth highest scorer in the history of the club.

Jacket somewhat rubbed and with a few minor chips, price-clipped but textually and pictorially largely complete, a very good copy. An extremely uncommon book, very rarely encountered in the jacket.

The first football encyclopaedia25 Johnston, Frank (ed.). The Football Encyclopaedia. London,

Associated Sporting Press, 1934. 8vo. 320 pp. With frontispiece and 28 plates. Original red cloth. Dustjacket.

First edition. – The first attempt to publish a comprehensive handbook to the game, for the first time laying out in alphabetical order the technical terms, major names of clubs and competitions and other football jargon so vital to under-standing the game. Includes references to many little-known clubs and players of lesser profile. With a preface by George Allison, the former Arsenal manager. “A gem of a volume likely to yield an unknown snippet or two even to the most knowledgeable historian.”

Rubbed with chips to head and tail of spine. A very good copy, very unusual to find in original wrapper.

¶ Seddon J1.

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26 Who’s Who in Football. London, Amalgamated Press, 1934. 8vo. 96 pp., including the pictorial stiffened paper wrappers.

One of the earliest Who’s Whos, comprising more than 1000 biogra-phies of famous football players. Front cover features a picture of Ever-ton and England star striker, Dixie Dean. Subsequently published in fac-simile by the Association of Football Statisticians.

Staples rusted away leaving areas of rust staining. Wrappers slightly rubbed in places.

¶ Seddon 764.

27 [Norwich City Football Club]. Norwich City Official Handbook 1935–36. Norwich, Jarrold, 1935. 12mo. 120 pp. Illustrated, mainly portraits of players. Original printed wrappers.

Includes history of the club, first team results from season 1934-35, plan of new ground, fixtures for season 1935–36.

Wrappers slightly foxed and soiled, spine splitting near the top. A good copy of this rare pre-war annual.

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28 Johnston, Frank. The Football Who’s Who. London, Associat-ed Sporting Press, 1935. 8vo. 320 pp. Portrait frontispiece, 20 plates, full-page text illustrations. Original green cloth.

First edition. – Potted biographies of the players and officials of the day plus list of Cup winners in England and Scotland. With a preface by Wagstaffe Simmons.

Cloth lightly rubbed. Foxing to page edges. A good copy of a keynote book in early football reference.

29 Motherwell Football Club. Motherwell Football Handbook 1936–37. Motherwell, D. J. Love, 1936. 32mo. 64 pp. Illustrat-ed, mainly player portraits. Original illustrated wrappers.

Wrappers slightly soiled, staples rusty. A good copy.

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30 [Arsenal Football Club – Official Handbook]. Arsenal Foot-ball Club History and Fixtures 1937–38. [London], Arsenal FC, 1937. 12mo. 144 pp. Original wrappers.

Contains history of the club, review of 1936–37 season, and fixtures for 1937–38.

Internally good with some light handling marks and some pencil marks Original red printed wrappers, slightly rubbed, tanned and extensive light creasing. A good copy.

“Eagerly sought as a collector’s item”31 Sutcliffe, Charles Edward/Brierley, J. A./Howarth, F. The Story of

the Football League 1888–1938. Preston, Football League, 1938. 4to. 300 pp. Profusely illustrated with team group photographs and por-traits of players and officials. Original green cloth, with dustjacket.

A fifty year history of the F. A. which includes rare photographs of every Cham-pionship-winning team and Second Division Championship-winning team since the inception of the Football League in 1882. “An essential work of reference [...] this classic of football literature is eagerly sought as a collector’s item” (Sed-don).

Small nick to back panel. A very good copy.

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32 Allison, George. The Inside Story of Football. London, Quaker Oats Ltd., 1938. 128 pp. 14 pages of illustrations. Original printed wrappers.

The famous 1930s radio commentator and Arsenal director gives an in-sider’s view of 1930s football. A very good copy.

32 Adrian, Alec. Football Thrills. London, Ilfracombe, 1944. Small 8vo. 64 pp. Stapled.

The author recalls some of his memories of football, including the 1944 War Cup Final between Charlton and Chelsea, the great Arse-nal side of the 1930s and, most significantly, Tottenham Hotspur. A full chapter, including photographs, is dedicated to Spurs’ tour of the Channel Islands in 1932. The author played for Torquay United at the time.

Staples rusty and small closed tear to front cover. A good copy of a very rare and interesting little booklet.

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34 Whitcher, Alex. The Voice of Soccer. London, Southern Pub-lishing, 1946. 8vo. 232 pp. With frontispiece, 4 plates & numer-ous text illustrations. Original blue cloth. Dustjacket.

An erudite review of several of the major issues in the football of the day, with special reference to Brighton & Hove Albion FC. With a pref-ace by B. Howard-Baker, the famous Corinthian.

Dust-wrapper a touch rubbed and knocked, but clean. Scarce.

35 Allen, Roland. All the FA cup finals. London, Mark Goulden, 1947. 8vo. 112 pp. Original illustrated wrappers.

Accounts of each of the FA Cup finals from 1922. Tom Webster’s car-toons were drawn specially for this book and are perhaps the main rea-son for its publication.

Spine a little creased with 3 cm split to head of spine. A good copy.

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36 Bastin, Cliff/Glanville, Brian. Cliff Bastin remembers. An auto-biography in collaboration with Brian Glanville. London, Ettrick Press, 1950. 8vo. 211 pp. With 32 plates. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket.

First edition. – Bastin was spotted playing for Exeter City by the legendary Arsenal boss Herbert Chapman, who signed him in 1929. He became one of the most exciting forwards of the 1930s, winning FA Cup, League Cup and League Championship medals, plus an England cap, by the age of 19. He retired from the game in 1947 to run a truckers’ cafe on the North Cir-cular, which is where tyro reporter Brian Glanville tracked him down. This is Glanville’s first book.

A very good copy and uncommon. Signed Best Wishes from Cliff Bastin on the front free endpaper. – Dust-wrapper slightly rubbed and chipped at edges with loss to head and foot of spine.

¶ Seddon C52.

37 Peskett, Roy (ed.). Daily Mail Football Guide 1950–51. London, Associated Newspapers, 1950. Small 8vo. 128 pp. Il-lustrated. Pictorial wrappers.

This annual started in 1950–51 and continued into the 1970s. Light signature to front cover, otherwise very good.

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38 Gribble, Leonard. The Arsenal Stadium Mystery (A Replay). London, Herbert Jenkins, 1950. 8vo. 224 pp. Original red boards.

A detective story set around Arsenal Football Club and featuring the 1950 FA Cup winning team.

Some light foxing to endpapers. A very good copy.

39 Young, Percy Marshall. Football Facts and Fancies or The Art of Spectatorship. London, Dennis Dobson, 1950. Small 8vo. 95 pp. With 8 plates. Dustjacket.

“Of all the games men have played and witnessed, Association Football is peculiarly British, and British it will remain”. One of the best-written books on the game, the author’s other passions include music and liter-ature.

A good copy of this delightful book.

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40 Ross, Gordon (ed.). Playfair Football Annual 1951–52. London, Playfair Books, 1951. Small 8vo. 128 pp. With 16 plates and many photographs in the text. Original pictorial wrappers.

Fourth year of issue. – A review of the 1950–51 season, including Spurs’ League title and Newcastle United’s FA Cup triumph.

Signed by the author and his team mates, champions of 1950s football

41 Ramsey, Alf. Talking Football. London, Stanley Paul, 1952. 8vo. 114 pp. With frontispiece and 10 pp. of photographs. Original red cloth. Dustjacket.

Football autobiography of the Spurs and England defender who went on to manage the 1966 England World Cup winning team. – Signed to front endpaper by Ramsey and no fewer than 29 of his Spurs team mates of the early 1950s: these include Nicholson, Withers, Burgess, Medley, Marchi, McClellan, Stokes, Ditchburn, Brittan, Hopkins, Duquemin, King, Clarke, Baily, Walters, Willis, Baker, Bennett, Wetton, Reynolds, Brooks and Rawlings.

Dust-wrapper rubbed to edges with chips to head and tail of spine.

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42 Arlott, John. Concerning Soccer. London, Longmans, Green & Co., 1952. 8vo. 186 pp. Original wrappers.

First edition. Volume on football by the great cricket and football jour-nalist. Contains notes on the history of the game plus analysis of the England v Austria international and much more. A very good copy.

43 Winterbottom, Walter. Soccer Coaching. London, The Naldrett Press, 1952. 8vo. 248 pp. Blue cloth with dustjacket.

Instruction book by Walter Winterbottom (1913–2002), British associ-ation football manager and coach who was the first and longest-serv-ing full-time manager of England’s national football team (from 1946 to 1962) as well as the Football Association’s director of coaching.

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44 Green, Geoffrey. Soccer. The World Game. London, Pelham, 1953. 215 pp. 16 pages of photos. Original boards with dust-jacket.

First edition. A history of the birth and rise of football in Britain.

Slightly rubbed but clean and bright dustwrapper. Very good condition. Previous owners ink inscription to front free end paper.

45 Blanchflower, Danny. Soccer My Way. London, Vane, 1955. 8vo. 48 pp. With 8 photographs. Yellow cloth with illustrated dust-jacket.

First edition of Danny Blanchflower’s instruction book. Blanchflower (1926–93) was a former Northern Ireland international footballer and football manager, and journalist who captained Tottenham Hotspur during its double-winning season of 1961. He was ranked as the greatest player in Spurs history by The Times in 2009.

In good condition.

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46 Glanville, Brian. Soccer Nemesis. London, Secker & Warburg, 1955. Small 8vo. 189 pp. 8 plates. Original green cloth. Dust-jacket.

First edition. Important study of the decline of British football from its position of pre-eminence and the rise of continental football. A con-troversial book designed to shake British football out of its insularity. Includes a chapter on the 1950 World Cup.

Some foxing to page edges. A good copy.

47 Churchill, Reginald Charles. English League Football. London, Kaye, 1958. 8vo. 303 pp. Original boards with dustjacket.

First edition. – A history of the Football League, together with facts and figures on each League club, League tables, and a short bibliography.

Minor edgewear. A very good copy.

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48 Glanville, Brian. Soccer Round the Globe. London & New York, Abelard Schuman, 1959. Large 8vo. 100 pp. Original green cloth with dustjacket.

Important study of the growth of world football from the distinguished writer, Brian Glanville.

A very good copy. Dust jacket has old sellotape marks on the inside flaps but is otherwise very good.

49 Appleton, Arthur. Hotbed of Soccer. The Story of Football in the North East. London, Hart-Davis, 1960. 8vo. 219 pp. 16 pages of photographs. Original blue cloth. Dustjacket.

The history of professional football in the north-east covering Newcas-tle United, Sunderland and Middlesbrough, Darlington, Hartlepool and other clubs in the region. With a preface by John Arlott.

Wrapper lightly rubbed. Very good.

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50 Edelston, Maurice/Delanay, Terence. Masters of Soccer. Lon-don, Naldrett Press, 1960. 8vo. 209 pp. Small ink inscription to front endpaper. Original orange cloth. Dustjacket.

Includes chapters on many of the great footballers of the time, includ-ing Matthews, Mercer, Edwards, Greaves, Blanchflower, Charlton and Haynes.

A good copy.

51 Allison, Malcolm. Soccer for Thinkers. London, Pelham, 1967. 8vo. 154 pp. Blue cloth with illustrated dustjacket.

First edition of Malcolm Alexander Allison’s instruction book. Allison (1927–2010) was an English football player and manager. Nicknamed “Big Mal”, he was one of English football’s most flamboyant and intrigu-ing characters, known for his panache, fedora and cigar, his controversies off the pitch and outspoken nature.

Very scarce.

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An early study of the phenomenon52 Harrington, J. A. Soccer Hooliganism. A preliminary report. Bristol,

John Wright & Sons, 1968. 8vo. 57 pp. Original wrappers.

Report into football violence presented to Denis Howell, then Minister of Sport in Harold Wilson’s government.

More than 160 original signatures53 Collection of players’ autograph cards and signed photographs.

Various places, 1972–2014. 162 autograph cards, signed team and portrait photographs of football players and coaches. Various sizes (from 305 × 205 mm to 150 × 100 mm).

Fine collection of autograph cards and photographs signed by various stars of international football, including Ronaldinho, Wayne Rooney, David Beckham, Franz Beckenbauer, Lionel Messi, and Cristiano Ronaldo. The collection com-prises snapshots, among them one from the final match of the 1974 FIFA World Cup at Olympiastadion in Munich beetween West Germany and the Nether-lands, showing the opening goal for the Dutch by Johan Neeskens, signed by the goal scorer and goalkeeper Sepp Maier. Team photographs show the German national teams of 1972, 1974, 1990, 2014 and the team of AC Milan in 2006, 2007 and 2008. The team cards show portraits of players for Werder Bremen, AC Milan, Bayern München, and other football clubs.

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54 Dougan, Derek/Young, Percy M. On the Spot. Football as a Profession. London, Stanley Paul, 1974. 8vo. 172 pp. Illustrated in black and white. Original orange cloth, titles to spine gilt. With pictorial dust jacket.

First edition, first impression. Former PFA chairman Derek Dougan and scholar Dr Percy Young take a look at the daily life of footballers in the mid-1970s.

An excellent copy in a lightly toned jacket.

The early days of the Khalifa Stadium55 Qatar – Khalifa International Stadium. Press photo of the Khali-

fa Stadium. Doha, late 1970s. Black and whilte gelatin silver print, 176 × 129 mm. Printed caption in Arabic pasted to reverse.

An aerial view of the just-opened Khalifa Stadium in the Doha Sports City complex, showing a game in progress. The caption on the reverse reads: “The Khalifa Sports City Stadium which can hold an audience of some 40,000 peo-ple”. The stadium, named after His Highness the Emir, Sheikh Khalifa bin Ha-mad Al Thani, was opened in 1976 with an official capacity of 20,000 spectators but a maximum capacity of twice this figure. It was subsequently renovated for the Asian Games in 2006, and before its most comprehensive renovation, be-gun in 2014, up to 50,000 viewers were admitted. The National Stadium is the stadium of Qatar national football team and will be the host for the 2019 IAAF World Championships in Athletics, as well as for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. It is slated to re-open in the first half of 2017 with 40,000 seats. Its impressive arched roof and canopy make it the tallest stadium in Qatar.

A sharp, crisp image.

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56 Mason, Tony. Association Football & English Society. 1863–1915. Sussex, Harvester Press, 1980. 8vo. X, 278 pp. Brown cloth with illustrated dustjacket.

First comprehensive study of the formative period of Association Foot-ball in England and a valuable contribution to the history of popular culture and leisure.

57 Thompson, David. Those We Have Loved Vol. 2. No place, for the author, [1988?]. Oblong 4to. 174 pp. Stapled.

Includes full league histories of 14 ex-league clubs, including Accrington, Barrow, Bradford Park Avenue, Leeds City, New Brighton and South-port.

In very good condition.

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58 Green, Mike. The Origin and Development of Football in Leeds. Cookridge, for the author, [1990]. 8vo. 40 pp. Original wrappers.

An interesting look at the development of all three codes of football (Rugby Union, Rugby League and Association Football) in the Yorkshire city.

The covers are a little rubbed with two small areas of surface loss. A good copy.

A unique copy signed by the Manchester United players59 Nawrat, Chris/Hutchings, Steve. The Sunday Times Illustrated Histo-

ry of Football. [Signed]. London, Hamlyn, 1994. 4to. 352 pp. Original cloth signed with dustjacket.

Standard illustrated history of the sport. Signed to the front endpapers by many Manchester United players, including Best, Law, Foulkes, Stepney, Crerand, Sadler, Buchan, Bobby Charlton, as well as Kenny Dalglish and Alan Hansen of Liverpool. Further signed to the title-page by World Cup winners Greaves, Stiles, Hunt, Ball, Banks, Cohen, Bobby Charlton and Hurst. To the rear endpa-per Ian Rush has drawn a cartoon titled “Up The Reds!” and signed it. Signed throughout the book by Hunt, Wilson, Ball, Hurst, Jack Charlton, Bobby Charl-ton, Dalglish, Hansen, Best, Sadler, Law, Pat Jennings, Ian St. John etc. Signed to original green boards (under dust-wrapper) by 14 Man City and Liverpool players, including Corrigan, Callaghan, Dalglish, Hansen, Rush, Neal and Lee. In all Bobby Charlton, Hansen and Dalglish have signed at least 4 times, Best, Law etc. twice each. Some signatures to the yellow endpapers are a little smudged as the surface is shiny.

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60 Thomas, Jason. Soccer Czars. Edinburgh and London, Mainstream, 1996. 8vo. 192 pp. Black boards with dustjacket.

Published in 1996, the author examines the lives of the tycoons then running the UK’s biggest clubs and their influence on the game.

61 Nannestad, Ian (ed.). Soccer History. Issues 1–25. London, Soc-cer History, 2002–2010. Original wrappers.

A run of the first 25 issues of this scholarly quarterly journal devoted to football history.

Very good condition.

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62 [World Cup – History]. Glanville, Brian/Weinstein, Jerry. World Cup. London, Robert Hale, 1958. 8vo. 226 pp. Black cloth with illustrated dustjacked.

An account of the early days of the World Cup from its inception in 1904 and the first competition in 1930 to the year 1954.

63 [World Cup – History]. Godsell, Andrew. The World Cup. Alton, Nimrod, 1990. 8vo. (6), 500 pp. Green cloth with dust-jacket.

First edition. Providing a history of the world’s leading football compe-tition from 1930 to 1986.

In very good condition.

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64 [World Cup – History]. Matthews, Tony. The World Cup Who’s Who. 50 Years of England World Cup Football 1950–2002. West Midlands, Britespot, 2002. Folio. 131, (5) pp. Wrappers.

Comprehensive Who’s Who on England’s World Cup players from 1950 to 2002.

In very good condition.

All the official World Cup publications from 1950 to 2014: a complete collection

65 [World Cup 1950]. Standard Oil Company of Brazil. Copa do mundo 1950. N. p., Esso, 1950. 175 × 125 mm. 44 pp. Pictorial covers.

World Cup tournament brochure, in Spanish, issued by Esso. It is regarded as the main 1950 World Cup publication, as no official guide was produced.

Covers show extensive light foxing; further foxing to some internal pages. Generally a very good copy of a rare brochure.

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66 [World Cup 1954]. Finn, Ralph L. World Cup. London, Panther, [1954]. 8vo. 112 pp. With 15 black and white photo-graphs. Original wrappers.

First edition. – A day-by-day record of the 1954 World Cup held in Swit-zerland from 16th June to 4th July.

Wrappers rubbed.

67 [World Cup 1958]. Camkin, John. World Cup 1958. London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1958. 8vo. VIII, 210 pp. Green cloth with dustjacket.

Record of the sixth staging of the World Cup, hosted by Sweden from 8th to 29th June and won by Brazil.

Dustjacket rubbed.

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68 [World Cup 1962]. Jeffery, Gordon/Smith, Stratton/ Becker, Freidebert. World Cup ’62. The Report from Chile. London, Soccer Book Club, 1963. 8vo. 176 pp. 20 pages of photographs. Original red cloth with illustrated dustjacket.

The story of the FIFA World Cup in Chile 1962, won by Brazil, who beat Czechoslovakia 3-1 in the final.

Back wrapper somewhat soiled, good.

69 [World Cup 1966]. Mayes, Harold. The Football Association World Cup Report 1966. London, Heinemann, 1967. 4to. 309 pp. Profusely illustrated. Original gilt green cloth with dustjacket.

A spectacular copy of The Football Association’s official report of the 1966 World Cup, including full reports of all 32 matches in the finals supported by 130 photographs from every stage of the tournament.

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Signed by the entire English team70 (Another copy). Mayes, Harold. The Football Association World

Cup Report 1966. London, Heinemann, 1967. 4to. 309 pp. Profuse-ly illustrated. Original gilt green cloth with dustjacket. Signed by the English team.

A spectacular copy of The Football Association’s official report of the 1966 World Cup, including full reports of all 32 matches in the finals support-ed by 130 photographs from every stage of the tournament. – Signed to the front end paper by Alf Ramsey. Page 17 with a plate of the trophy has been signed by Banks, Hunter, Hurst, Flowers, Jack Charlton, Bobby Charl-ton, Ball, Moore, Bonetti, Wilson, Stiles, Hunt & Cohen. Elsewhere, match reports have been signed by Cohen (twice), Ball (3 times), Hunt (6 times), Wilson (3 times), Peters (3 times), Moore (3 times), Jack Charlton (3 times), Bobby Charlton, Hurst (4 times) and Banks (3 times). The team photo on p. 275 has been signed by all the team members plus Alf Ramsey, Harold Shepherdson, Jimmy Armfield and Peter Bonetti. Finally, the rear end paper has been signed by George Cohen.

71 [World Cup 1970]. Finn, Ralph L. World Cup 1970. London, Robert Hale, 1970. 8vo. 164 pp. 16 plates. Original brown cloth. Dustjacket.

The story of the 1970 World Cup in Mexico. – Dustjacket (priceclipped) has a 1 cm closed tear to top of spine. A good copy.

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72 [World Cup 1974]. World Cup 74. Munich, World Cup Organising Committee, 1974. 2 vols. 4to. Profusely illustrated throughout in colour. Original turquoise boards.

The official report of the 1974 Football World Cup held in West Ger-many. In two volumes, with text in German, English, Italian and French. A very good set.

73 [World Cup 1978]. Conrad, Derek. World Cup ’78. The Game of the Century. Fontana, Derek Conrad, 1978. 4to. 168 pp. Illus-trated wrappers.

Copy signed on the front endpaper by the co-author and England goalkeeper Bob Wilson. In excellent condition.

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74 [World Cup 1982]. Keith, Nicholas. World Cup ’82. A Complete Guide. London, Park Lane Press, 1982. 128 pp. With colour map and numerous portraits (some in colour). Original pictorial wrappers.

Slight wear to lower cover; contents unaffected.

75 [World Cup 1986]. Soar, Phil. Mexico 86. A Pictorial Review of the 1986 World Cup Finals. Leicester, Windward, 1986. 4to. 240 pp. Blue cloth with dustjacket.

First edition. Lavishly illustrated record of the 1986 World Cup in Mexico.

76 [World Cup 1990]. Sewell, Albert. The World Cup 1990. N. p., Book People, 1990. Original pictorial boards.

77 [World Cup 1994]. Arnold, Peter. World Cup USA ’94. The Official FIFA Book. San Francisco, Collins, 1994. 80 pp. Illustrated. Original pictorial boards.

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78 [World Cup 1998]. Palmer, Mark. Lost in France – The Story of England’s 1998 World Cup. London, Fourth Estate, 1998. 8vo. (6), 214 pp. Blue cloth, with dustjacket.

Record of the 16th staging of the World Cup, hosted (and won) by France from 10th June to 12th July 1998 June.

79 [World Cup 2002]. The Official England World Cup Book 2002. London, Carlton, (2002). 95 pp. Illustrated. Original pictorial boards.

This book takes a comprehensive look at the England team, how they managed to get to the World Cup finals in Korea and Japan, and whom they played. The focus is very much on the possible stars of the team, but also includes a guide to the opposing teams, the venues at which they played, as well as offering information on England’s record in the World Cup and providing a full schedule of matches throughout the tourna-ment. Fully illustrated with colour photographs of all the players, and with an exclusive foreword by the England manager himself, this is the guide to England’s campaign in the World Cup of 2002.

80 [World Cup 2006]. 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany official pro-gramme. N. p., FIFA, 2006. 4to. 176 pp. Paperback.

Official pre-tournament brochure for the 2006 World Cup finals in Ger-many. – In very good condition.

81 [World Cup 2010]. Radnedge, Keir. 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa Official Book. London, Carlton, 2010. 4to. 128 pp. Orig-inal wrappers.

Preview of the 19th staging of the World Cup, hosted by South Africa from 11th June to 11th July 2010. With photographs and expert analysis of each team, its star players and its prospects in the finals, a guide to each of the stadiums and host cities, a history of the World Cup and a tour-nament progress chart that can be filled in as the competition progresses. – In very good condition.

82 [World Cup 2014]. McDermott, Andrew. 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil Official Book. London, Carlton Books, 2014. 4to. 128 pp. With 150 colour & black & white photographs, artworks & maps. Original pictorial boards.

Comprehensive preview of the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil.

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