Rugby Union
19thC
Montague SHERMAN : Atlhetics and Football (1887 Longmans Green Badminton Library)
(Ed) Rev Francis MARSHALL : Football - The Rugby Union Game (1892 Cassell)
1901-1925
C J B MARRIOTT : The Rugby Union Game (1903 Routledge)
D GALLAHER & W J STEAD : The Complete Rugby Footballer (1906 Methuen)
The Book of Football (1906 Amalgamated Press)
F Nevill PIGGOTT : The Springboks - History of the Tour 1906-7 (1907 Cricket Press)
R A BARR : With the British Team to Maoriland (1908 Otago daily Times)
E Gwyn NICHOLLS : The Modern Rugby Game and How to Play It (1908 Health & Strength Ltd)
E H D SEWELL : The Rugby Football Internationals Roll of Honour (1919 Jack)
D R GENT : Rugby Football (1922 British Sports Library - Vol 1)
R J PHILLIPS : The Story of Scottish Rugby (1925 Foulis)
1926-1950
Rowe HARDING : Rugby Reminiscences & Opinions (1929 Pilot Press)
G T ALLEY : With the British Rugby Team in New Zealand (1930 Simpson & Williams)
Ivor D DIFFORD : The History of South African Rugby Football 1875-1932
(1933 Speciality Press)
Arthur C SWAN : History of New Zealand Rugby Football - Vol 1 1870-1945 (1948 Reed)
1951-1970
Terry McLEAN : Bob Stuart's All Blacks (1954 Reed)
O L OWEN : The History of the Rugby Football Union (1955 Playfair)
Bleddyn WILLIAMS : Rugger - My Life (1956 Stanley Paul)
J B G THOMAS : The Lions on Trek (1956 Stanley Paul)
Arthur C SWAN : History of New Zealand Rugby Football - Vol 2 1946-1957 (1958 Reed)
J B G THOMAS : Lions Courageous (1960 Stanley Paul)
Denis LALANNE : The Great Fight of the French Fifteen (1960 Reed)
Alex POTTER & Georges DUTHEN : The Rise of French Rugby (1961 Bailey & Swinfen)
J B G THOMAS : Lions Among the Springboks (1963 Stanley Paul)
Terry McLEAN : Willie Away (1964 Herbert Jenkins)
J B G THOMAS : Lions at Bay (1966 Pelham Books)
Terry McLEAN : All Black Magic (1968 Reed)
J B G THOMAS : On Trek Again (1968 Pelham)
U A TITLEY & R McWHIRTER : Centenary History of the Rugby Football Union (1970 RFU)
John BILLOT : History of Welsh International Rugby (1970 Ron Jones)
1971 - 1990
J B G THOMAS : The Roaring Lions (1971 Pelham)
Terry McLEAN : They Missed the Bus (1973 Reed)
Sean DIFFLEY : The Men in Green (1973 Pelham)
J B G THOMAS : The Greatest Lions (1974 Pelham)
Edmund VAN ESBECK : One Hundred Years of Irish Rugby (1974 Gill & Macmillan)
Terry McLEAN : All Blacks Come Back (1975 Pelham)
J B G THOMAS : Trial of Strength (1977 Pelham)
Terry McLEAN : Mourie's All Blacks (1979 Hodder & Stoughton)
John REASON & Gareth WILLIAMS : Fields of Praise (1980 Wales UP)
Sandy THORBURN : The History of Scottish Rugby (1980 Johnston & Bacon)
J B G THOMAS : WoundedLions (1981 Pelham)
R H CHESTER & N A C McMILLAN : Centenary - 100 Years of All Black Rugby
(1984 Blandford)
Jack POLLARD : Australian Rugby Union - The Game and the Players (1984 ABC)
D J WILLIAMS : 1950 - The Year of the Lions (1988 PP)
Lappe LAUBSCHER & Gideon NIEMANN : The Carolin Papers (1990 Rugbyana £100)
After 1991
Warwick ROGER : Old Heroes (1991 Hodder & Stoughton)
Gareth WILLIAMS : 1905 and All That (1991 Gomer)
(Ed) Ian ROBERTSON : The Official Book of the Rugby World Cup (1991 Stanley Paul)
Greg RYAN : Forerunners of the All Blacks (1993 Canterbury UP)
The Story of the Rugby World Cup (1995 Royston Lamond)
READING
John M JENKINS : A Rugby Compendium - An Authoritative Guide to the Literature
of Rugby Football(1998 The British Library £30)