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[BILLIARDS]. STEIN, Victor and RUBINO, Paul. The Billiard Encyclopedia. An Illustrated History of the Sport. New York: The Billiard Encyclopedia, 1994. 4to. Profusely illustrated throughout. viii, [500] pp. Publisher’s deluxe binding of black top grain leather backstrip over Imperial binding cloth, spine stamped in gilt, publisher’s clamshell case bound in full green Simonis 300 billiard cloth with black gilt morocco labels on front lid and spine and publisher’s illustrated labels on inner surfaces, as issued (case sunned, bumped, and soiled, label on case spine sunned). A fine book in a good slipcase. THE RARE FIRST EDITION, #331 OF 350 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE TITLE-PAGE AND WITH THE PUBLISHER’S NUMBERED BOOKPLATE WITH THE SUBSCRIBER’S NAME IN CALLIGRAPHY (as issued).