Baseballogy
Chicago: Forbes & Company, 1912. Hardcover. First edition. Pictorial paper over boards. Fine in fine dustwrapper. An attractive and uncommon book of humorous verse about baseball, rare both in jacket and in this condition. More
Chicago: Forbes & Company, 1912. Hardcover. First edition. Pictorial paper over boards. Fine in fine dustwrapper. An attractive and uncommon book of humorous verse about baseball, rare both in jacket and in this condition. More
New York: Morrow, 1973. Hardcover. First edition. Fine with a bookplate on the front pastedown in a near fine dustwrapper with very light wear to corners of panels and bottom edge of spine. A guidebook of baseball instructional practice. More
New York: Prentice-Hall, (1947). Hardcover. Second edition. Near fine with light rubbing to the boards; lacking dustwrapper. More
New York: Prentice-Hall, 1939. Hardcover. Second printing with additions and revisions. Forewords by Grantland Rice and Connie Mack. One corner a little bumped, endpapers a trifle age-toned, near fine in spine-sunned near very good dust jacket with tiny nicks and tears. Advice from former Major Leaguer and then coach of..... More
New York: Books, Inc., (1952). Softcover. Reprint. Octavo. 208pp. Pages toned, first leaf with a tiny corner chip and a price label on the verso that has bled through, cover with some creasing, about very good. "Sinister influences try to wreck Westwood's chances for the championship." Mel Martin Baseball Stories..... More
London: Hart-Davis, 1970. Hardcover. First English edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A classic novel of the imagination utilizing baseball as a metaphor for modern life. The English edition has a glossary to American baseball not in the American edition. More
Chicago: Copelin, (July), 1878. Unbound. Stereograph card. Gelatin silver photographs. Image size 6" x 3.75" mounted on slightly larger thick card. Captioned and dated in print below image, photographers mark on front of card ("Copelin, Photographer, 75 Madison St., Chicago, Ill."); penciled date, and a noted collectors small stamp (twice)..... More
Houston, Texas: Piñata Books, 1998. Hardcover. First edition. Foreword by José F. Niño. 159pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Fine in a fine dustjacket. Advance review copy with publisher's material laid in. More
Boston: Atlantic- Little, Brown, (1965). Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated by Paul Galdone. Near fine with a light bump to bottom edge of front board in a very good dustwrapper with a three quarters inch closed tear to the rear panel. An extremely rare copy as the overwhelming majority of copies..... More
San Francisco: Chronicle Press, (1997). Softcover. First edition. Fine in wrappers, with remainder mark to lower page edges. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1959. Softcover. First edition. Uncorrected Proof. Very good in spiral bound wrappers. Small chip on rear wrap and some modest overall wear. Satiric World War II novel with some baseball. More
New York: New York University Press, (2001). Hardcover. First edition. 232pp. Illustrated with black and white plates. A binding flaw on the front pastedown else near fine in a fine dust jacket. More
Alexandria: Redefinition, (1989). Hardcover. First edition. Minor bumping to the corners, a hint of residue near the front top corner, else a near fine copy. More
(New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1994). Softcover. First edition. Stapled wrappers. 21pp. Fine. An excerpt only of the story about how childhood baseball builds hope in the troubled area of Kikuyus in Chicago. More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, (1993 [1994]). Hardcover. First edition. Page margins lightly yellowed, rear gutter starting, near fine in a fine dustwrapper. Childhood baseball builds hope in the troubled area of Kikuyus in Chicago. More
New York: Morrow, 1975. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in a lightly soiled, near fine dustwrapper with a single tiny tear. Raunchy comic satire about a Chinese restaurant tycoon who buys a losing ballclub and tries his hand at building a winning team. Scarce. *McCue p.32.*. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2000). Hardcover. Large print edition. 960pp. A remainder mark on the bottom page edge else fine in a fine dust jacket. More
Evanston IL: Holtzman Press, Inc., (1966, 1974 - but really circa 1984). Hardcover. Two volumes, both reissued in the Sports Classic series, and each with a new introduction by Jerome Holtzman. Fine in red and blue leather patterned cloth, as issued. Each volume is Signed by its respective author. Although..... More
(England): Penguin Books, (1986). Softcover. Reprint. Trade paperback. 443pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Pages age-toned, corners rubbed, very good. Inscribed by the author. More
(New York: Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, 1865). Double-page wood engraving, measuring about 15” x 21” to the inside edges of a mat housed in a plain unglazed wood frame. One four-inch U-shaped tear with minor loss, else good or better with a few scattered short closed tears and two or..... More
Philadelphia: Archway Press, Inc., (1984). Softcover. First edition. Octavo. 75pp. Illustrations inside front and rear covers. Illustrated wrappers. Errata slip laid in. Fine. Signed by the author: "Best wishes, Kit Crissey." More
Boston: American League, (1972). Softcover. First edition. Some soiling on the front wrap and inside pages, else a good copy in wrappers. More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, (1962). Hardcover. First edition. Owner's name inked on the front fly, else very good with the spine and board edges a touch sunned, lacking the dustwrapper. More
New York: Random House, (1950). Hardcover. First edition. Very good, spine and board edges sunned, lacking the dustwrapper. Times sportswriter Arthur Daley's accounts of fifty years of baseball, with over 80 photographs selected by the author. More