DALY, Maurice. Daly’s Billiard Book [A. C. McClurg & Co., 1916]

DALY, Maurice. Daly’s Billiard Book.

Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1916. Third Edition. 7.5" x 5.25". 276pp. Illustrated with more than 400 diagrams, 30 technical photographs, and 3 “strategy” maps. Publisher’s green cloth, upper board with printed white title panel, spine lettered in white. Light rubbing to extremities, mild toning to spine, a few small scuffs to cloth; text clean and bright. Front hinge starting. Very Good.

A comprehensive instructional manual by three-time world champion Maurice Daly, edited by William Welton Harris. The work includes detailed mechanical instruction, positional strategy, illustrated shot diagrams, and photographic demonstrations of stance and stroke. A substantial early 20th-century technical treatment of carom and balkline billiards, issued during the height of Daly’s professional prominence.