The Sportsman [A substantial run of the magazine and its successor, The Sportsman - The Spur, Country Life & The Sportsman]

Concord, N.H. [and] Philadelphia, Pa: The Sportsman Publishing Co. [and] Country Life - American Home Corp, 1938. Numerous illustrations. 19 vols. 4to. Variously bound in red three quarter morocco and cloth covered boards, gilt spine; green cloth, gilt spine; blue cloth, gilt spine. With 58 issues of the magazine, loose, as issued (some duplicates). Numerous illustrations. 19 vols. 4to. A truly marvellous sporting periodical that covered the gamut of American sport. Among the sports covered are lawn tennis, much on polo, yachting, cheese, bridge, hunting, steeplechase, football, angling, dogs, auto sports, horse racing, squash, field hockey, motor boats, archery, billiards, guns, aviation, soaring, boxing, much on golf. There is apparently no sport that the editors have missed. The cover art was executed by the most prominent sporting artists of the time. The cover of the very first issue, and indeed many subsequent issues, was executed by Guy Arnoux. The advertisements are alone worth the price of these volumes. Eugene V. Connett (Derrydale Press) was among the contributing editors, Harry Worcester Smith was among an advisory board that included Admiral Byrd. Its first editor was Richard E. Danielson who remained editor until The Sportsman merged with Country Life, at which time Jean Austin became editor. There is a series entitled “The Gallery of American Sportsmen,” which are portraits by Professor Richard B. Adam of great sportsmen and includes such notables as: Devereux Milburn, Esq., Harry Worcester Smith (in his library), Louise Hitchcock, Foxhall Keene, Henry G. Vaughan, Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Charles Blair MacDonald and Thomas Hitchcock.

A detailed list of the volumes and issues is available.