The current offering at Classic Auctions features the holy grail for hockey book collectors
From the listing:
“The Trail of the Stanley Cup" is a definite prerequisite to any important hockey library. Author Charles L. Coleman's complete history of hockey and Lord Stanley's trophy from 1893 to 1967 is contained within these three books. Only 1,000 copies of the special leather- bound editions of the first and second volumes were produced and presented to important hockey figures, while the third was limited to 1,500 copies We have a three volume matched set of the leather-bound editions, with each originally presented to hockey writer and historian Bill. Fitsell. Each numbered "819", stamps with Fitsell's address in Kingston are also found on the first page of Volumes I and II. All three volumes show light handling wear, with each accompanied by their original attractive black slip cases with gilded images of the. Stanley Cup (there is some wear to the slip cases). We should also note that there are some handwritten notations in Vol I, and a number of bookmarks and small paper notes inserted into Vol II, and we have left them in place as presented to us."
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