New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1914.
Price: $225.00
Hardcover. First edition (possibly second printing, with A-O code indicating February 1914 and publication date listed as January 1914). Red cloth with applied illustration. Frontispiece and three additional photographic illustrations. Small tear on front fly, long tear on p.21 but with no loss, a couple of small stains in the text, else an attractive, very good copy of this young adult novel, purportedly based on the career of Ed Walsh. The novel stars an over-the-hill alcoholic pitcher who salvages his career by developing the spitball. The author, a Carmel, California native, was friends with Jack London, George Sterling, and others of their circle. *Grobani* 12-37a; *McCue* pp.54-55.
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