New York: American Sports Publishing Company, 45 Rose Street, 1923. 1st printing thus. [4], 265,[19], 96 pp. Last section "Official Base Ball Rules". Numerous b/w half-tone photographic images. Drawing of baseball diamond. 8vo. 6-3/4" x 5". Red, blue & yellow paper wrappers with white lettering. More
New York: American Sports Publishing Company, 21 Warren Street, [1908]. Ca 1908. [12], [3] - 44, [42] pp Photographic frontispiece of Spalding. Text illustrated with b/w photographic images, many from the World Championship Series. 12mo. 6-3/4" x 5-1/8". Blue wrappers with white lettering/design. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. 1st edition. 310 pp. 8vo. Hardback. Dust jacket. More
St. Louis, Missouri: The Bethany Press, (1976). 1st Edition. INSCRIBED & SIGNED by the 3 authors. [10], 79, [3]. Profusely illustrated, primarily from b/w photographs. 10" x 7". White paper covers, printed in red & blue. "Stanley Frank Musial, nicknamed Stan the Man, was an American baseball outfielder and first..... More
Waco, Texas: Word Books, (1967). 1st Printing. [12], 154 pp. Illustrated from photographs. 8vo. Tomato red cloth binding with gilt stamping to spine. Dust jacket. More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1916. 1st edition. xxv, [1 (blank)], 627, [5] pp. Adverts last 4 pages. Illustrated. 12mo. Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine. Sports covered include baseball, basket ball, field hockey, football, golf, handball, ice hockey, lacrosse, etc. More
Oakland, California: 1948. An archive of 15+ vernacular hand-inked documents of Oaks games & players, 1947 - 1950. Includes 4 page Oakland Tribune memorial publication, which duplicates the newspaper's front page for September 27th 1948 [announcing the Oaks as Champions], an interior photographic spread of the team members & last..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1860). Early printing. 81, [1] pp. Illustrated with woodcuts, including one of boys playing baseball on p. 15. 12mo. 7-1/4" x 4-3/4". Green cloth spine over printed paper-wrapped boards. More
(n. p.): 1892. 1st printing thus, i.e., for this season. Printed, recto only, on white card stock paper. Oblong format: 2-1/4" x 3-7/8". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. "Piedmont Grounds" presumed to the be the baseball field in Oakland, the site of many a ball game for Stanford..... More
Philadelphia: Globe Ticket Company, [1925]. 1st printing thus, i.e., for this season. Booklet with 3 unused tickets, Games 17 - 19. Oblong format: 2" x 4-1/2". Black cloth spine over printed yellow paper covers. A rare survivor from Princeton's 1925 baseball season, purchased by W. Fisher, Class of '25... More
NY: Ballantine Books, 1991. 1st ed. 351 pp, 8vo. Creme cloth spine with white paper-wrapped boards. Dust jacket. More
1919. ~ 190 pp [last 15 or so leaves blank], 2 printed days per page, of which through August 5 have mss entries. ~ 1500 lines, ~ 6000 words. Commercial German 'Agenda' book, brown cloth spine over black flexible leather covers, with silver stamped 'Agenda' to front cover. Red edgestain..... More
Philadelphia: The John C. Winston & Company, (1915). Early printing, ca 1915. 270, [2 (blank)] pp. Inserted frontis & 3 internal illustrations by Charles Paxson Gray. 12mo. Yellow linen cloth stamped in black & red. Red & black printed buff paper dust jacket, which replicates binding design. NB. This buff..... More
Chicago: M. A. Donohue, (n. d.). Ca mid-1930s. 212, [4] pp. Adverts at rear. Frontis + 2 internal full-page illustrations, included in the pagination. NB. Mattson incorrectly lists the work as containing 3 internal illustrations. 12mo. Tan linen cloth lettered in black. Dust jacket (which shows a football scene, per..... More
Cincinnati: The MacGregor Co., [1959 - 1960]. Unpaginated, though 126 pp [3 pages of adverts at front/rear & one page how-to, "Simplified Scoring System"]. Laid-in are 9 sheets of owner-created scorecards, for 8 July 1960 games. Oblong format: 7-3/4" x 12". Pale green card-stock covers, printed in silver, spiral bound..... More
New York: Cupples & Leon, (1912). Later printing, ca 1932. [4], 246, [6 (adverts)] pp. Frontis on coated paper. 12mo. Grey cloth binding with dark blue lettering (Mattson Style #3). Pictorial eps. Red topstain. Color pictorial dust jacket. More
(n. p.): Major League Baseball, 1984. 1st edition. 94 pp. Color & b/w photographic images and illustrations throughout, including 3 panel fold-outs showing all the All-Star players. 11" x 8-1/2". Color printed paper wrappers. Front wrapper with drawing of 3 SF Giants All-Stars: Mays, Marichal & McCovey. More
New York: Harry M. Stevens, Inc., [1950]. 1st edition. Unpaginated, though 20 pages. Blue and white photographic images and many illustrations (blue, white & red) throughout. 9-7/8" x 6-1/2". Red, blue & white printed paper wrappers. More
(n. p.): A. G. Spalding & Bros. [1934 - 1936]. Unpaginated, though 48 pp. "How to Score a Base Ball Game", p. 48. Paste-downs Spalding adverts. Oblong format: 5-1/2" x 7-3/8". Original publisher's pebbled blue cloth binding, with gilt title stamping to front board. This scorebook from the mid-30s, and..... More
New York: Street & Smith Corporation Publishers, 1901. 1st printing. Series advert lists through #283. 29, [3] pp. Text double column. 10-3/4" x 8-5/8". Color pictorial wrappers, stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. 10 institutional holdings found on OCLC. More
Washington: National Publishing Company, 1962. 1st edition. Unpaginated. B/w photographic images and illustrations throughout, blue and white illustrations to wrappers. 11" x 8-1/2". Stiff white printed paper wrappers, stapled. More
New York: Harry M. Stevens, Inc., 1949. 1st edition. Unpaginated, though 16 pages. Blue and white photographic images and many illustrations (blue, white & orange) throughout. 9-7/8" x 6-5/8". Orange, blue & white printed paper wrappers. More
(n. p.): Baseball Hall of Fame, 1992. 16" x 1-1/8" The 6 signatures on this bat not only include the girls' nicknames, but their team as well as the active years they played. Each also include the day of the Baseball Hall of Fame Initiation - November of 1988... More
(Boston): 1957. 1st printing thus. Unpaginated. Intratextual blue & white illustrations / photographic images. Orange & blue lettering throughout. 9-7/8" x 5-7/8". Scant. Color printed self-wrappers, stapled. Centerpiece scorecard for two day games, August 14 & August 15, the Redsox vs. the Yankees.... the first won by Boston, 6-4, with..... More
(San Francisco): Stevens California Enterprises, Inc, (1960). 1st edition. 26 pp. Intratextual b/w illustrations / photographic images. Orange & black lettering throughout. 9-3/4" x 6-1/2". Orange, white & black illustrated/printed paper wrappers. Stapled. More
