The American Boy's Book of Sports and Games: A Repository of In-and-Out-Door Amusements for Boys and Youth. Illustrated with over Six Hundred Engravings
New York: Dick and Fitzgerald, (1864).
Price: $450.00
Hardcover. Early printing. Thick octavo. 599pp. Heavily illustrated. Publisher's beveled purple cloth nicely decorated in gilt. Tiny early owner name and small clip to one corner, both on front fly, tiny contemporary San Francisco bookseller's stamp ("J.C. Beach... Montgomery St. S.F.") light general wear, a very near fine copy. A compendium of sports for boys with illustrations of baseball, town ball, and many other sports. A particularly nice copy of this decorated cloth binding.
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