Harry Smith

This is the start of a series of articles looking at some of the less common areas of Billiard book collecting. Harry Smith is an avid collector of many of the books that you will see referred to in these articles, so look forward to sharing his experiences.

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Harry Smith’s Articles

  • Collecting books on Carom Billiards

    Collecting books on Carom Billiards INTRODUCTION Most British Billiard Book collections stick to English books, because apart from the odd Canadian, Indian, Australian and American (Phelan’s game of Billiards, for example) books. All others are about the Carom or cannon game played on pocket-less tables. The number of people in the UK who collect overseas…

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