The Base Ball Player's Pocket Companion: Containing Rules and Regulations for Forming Clubs, Directions for the "Massachusetts Game," and the "New York Game," from Official Reports

First edition. 16mo. 35(1)pp. Original flexible cloth-covered boards with a gilt illustration of a ball player. Old library stickers removed from the endpapers, small nicks at the extremities, a very good example in a custom quarter leather and cloth clamshell case. A rare book -- the first book exclusively devoted to baseball. According to a recent baseball auction (at which an 1861 third edition sold for $8500 plus premium) fewer than ten examples of this first edition are known.

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