THE BOYS BOOK OF SPORTS AND OUTDOOR LIFE.

New York:The Century Co. 1886. 1st edition. xiv+352pp. Illustrated, with decorated end-papers. Hardcover.  Decorated tan boards soiled, rubbed and shelfworn, with wear to edges, spine ends and edge points bumped and worn to boards. Internally end-pages decorated with swimming turtles in very good condition. Pages clean, free of previous owners marks or signatures, but with occassional smudges scattered throughout. The top of page 269/270 has a small tear to the margin, not impacting print. Three quarters of the book has an old damp stain to the lower outer edges of pages. The binding is tight with hinges intact, but cracked between the 2nd free end-page and the frontispiece.  *Includes chapters on baseball, archery, fishing, boating, camping as well as others.  Overall a near very good copy.