Baseball Joe Captain of the Team or Bitter Struggles On the Diamond
New York: Cupples & Leon, (1924. Hardcover. First edition. Gray cloth boards with blue lettering. Owner name else near fine in near fine dustwrapper. More
New York: Cupples & Leon, (1924. Hardcover. First edition. Gray cloth boards with blue lettering. Owner name else near fine in near fine dustwrapper. More
New York: Cupples & Leon, (1926). Hardcover. First edition. Gray cloth boar98869ds with blue lettering. Owner name else very good plus in a very good minus dustwrapper with a large tear up the first half of the front panel (dustwrapper lists 14 titles). More
New York: Cupples & Leon, (1915). Hardcover. First edition. Gray cloth boards with blue lettering. Owner name, some light foxing, the front bottom corner heavily frayed else very good in a very good plus dustwrapper lacking the front flap. More
New York: Cupples & Leon, (1912). Hardcover. First edition. Gray cloth boards with blue lettering. Owner name, small stain on the foredge else very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper with some light wear to the edges. More
New York: Cupples & Leon, (1928). Hardcover. First edition. Gray cloth boards with blue lettering. Owner name, boards stained else very good in a very good plus dustwrapper with light chipping to the crown. More
New York: Cupples and Leon, (1922). Hardcover. Trifle soiled on the front cloth pictorial board else fine lacking the dustwrapper. Eighth book in the "Baseball Joe" series, the first major series devoted to a central character who was first, last and foremost, a baseball player, as well as the first..... More
Chicago: Laird and Lee, (1910). Softcover. First edition. Paperback original. Preface by Charles A. Comisky. Small bookstore label on the front wrap and the title page, cheap pulp paper quite browned, a couple of very small chips to the page edges and a couple of tiny chips to the wrappers..... More
[Philadelphia: Macrae Smith Company, 1965]. Unbound. Original pen and ink drawing of a baseball player (9 ½” x 13”) mounted on artists board (15” x 22”). Signed by Chauncy. A small area of the drawing has been touched in white watercolor. Light glue stain along the top edge, modest toning..... More
Hardcover. Small archive of material related to the short-lived American Baseball Academy founded in New York City by Malcolm Child and Phil Rizzuto in 1951. Child was apparently a bit of a hustler, and pitched the concept as part of a program to combat juvenile delinquency in Manhattan. The Academy..... More
New York: American Baseball Academy, (1951). Unbound. One leaf of pink paper gate-folded to make six pages. Faint vertical crease, near fine. Illustrated. States the purpose of the Academy and announces the faculty: Rizzuto, Roy Campanella, Gil Hodges, Ralph Branca, Monte Irvin, Gene Woodling, and Sid Gordon. illustrated with pictures..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (1997). Unbound. Uncorrected proof. Small octavo. Five unbound gatherings (one of plates) laid into proof glossy wrappers. Fine. It appears that the wrappers of the published version used a similar layout but different color scheme and different photo of "the Kid." More
Boston: Little, Brown, (1975). Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated by Byron Goto. Fine in very good dustwrapper with short edge tears and light sunning to the spine. More
[No place]: Sports Publishing, (2004). Hardcover. First Edition. 205pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Co-written with Steve Springer. Foreword by Orel Hershiser. Fine in a fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author. More
Hicksville, NY: Exposition Press, (1979). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in very good, rubbed dustwrapper. More
(Cohoes, New York: 1860-75). Hardcover. Small quarto. Contains approximately 50 manuscript pages numbered in ink: (9-60). The first nine manuscript pages (9-17) are pasted over with clippings, with additional clippings on the final leaf and back pastedown. Quarter leather and marbled paper over boards, printed green glazed paper label on..... More
(Berkely, Ca. The Figures, 1976). Softcover. First edition. Illustrated by the author. Small quarto. 73pp. Pictorial wrappers. Light foxing on wraps and page edges, very good. Contains player statements with illustrations of the author's paintings of several players including: Jesus Alou, Lou Brock, Dock Ellis, Rollie Fingers, Reggie Jackson, Mike..... More
Largo: Snibbe Publications, Inc., 1972. Softcover. First edition. A fine copy in wrappers. More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, (1950). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in a very good, price-clipped jacket showing moderate wear and soiling. A chronicle of the inside strategies and techniques of the greatest baseball managers ever. More
Louisville: J.F. Hillerich & Son Co., [Circa 1910's]. Rare 1910's Ty Cobb Louisville Slugger miniature decal baseball bat. Measures 14" long. Some wear to the decal, the wood darkened in a few spots, with a bit of white spotting on the surface. The decal reads "Ty Cobb Has Led The..... More
New York: Herder & Herder, (1971). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in a fine dustwrapper. A scholarly study of baseball's role "as an integral and perhaps central part of America's epic lore." More
New York: Herder & Herder, (1971). Hardcover. First edition. Faint crease in some pages, binding cocked, spine faded, very good in a very good in a very good dustwrapper with some internal dampstains on spine. More
New York: Scholastic Book Services, (1971). Softcover. First edition. Mass market paperback. 176pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Pages age-toned and a few with light soil, covers with shallow chipping and edgewear, very good. A biography of Hank Aaron's baseball life. More
Old Tappan, New Jersey: Chosen Books, (1976). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with the slightest of edgewear. Colson's autobiographical account of his conversion from Nixon-era dirty trickster to born-again Christian. Inscribed by New York Yankee second baseman Bobby Richardson (himself a born-again Christian and reportedly a deeply religious..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1953. Hardcover. First edition. Slight stamped mark on second blank, else fine in slightly spine-faded, else near fine dustwrapper. Uncommon title in nice condition. Collection of stories. More