Philadelphia: Hubbard Brothers, Publishers, (1889).
Price: $1,300.00
Hardcover. First edition. Thick small quarto. Pale brown bevelled cloth lettered in gilt. 711pp., illustrated, four color chromolithograph plates. Modest wear, a very good or better with the plates nice and clean. Although the book covers most popular field sports of the era, it is overwhelmingly devoted to baseball, and includes profiles of all the current professional teams, college baseball, and with what would, in another context, be a book-long account of the 1888-9 world barnstorming tour between the Chicago Baseball Club and an opposing all-star squad. Three of the four color illustrations are of baseball (including the wonderful frontispiece view of a baseball game outside London's Crystal Palace), the fourth is of a cricket match. Many black and white illustrations of individual baseball players, as well as of teams and important games. A nice, sound copy of a keystone title for any serious baseball collection.
Item #462917
