Mar 26, 2009 - Sale 2174

Sale 2174 - Lot 36

Price Realized: $ 390
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(BASEBALL--19TH CENTURY.) Boy's and Girl's Book of Sports. Profusely illustrated with woodcuts. 24 pages. 12mo, original pictorial wrappers with only a short tear on the fold; very minor foxing. Providence: Geo. P. Daniels, 1843

Additional Details

Fourth Providence edition, an attractive copy in original condition. One illustration, heading the "Ball" section, shows two boys playing catch. "Another important chapbook that reprints the rules of baseball (called ''Base, or Goal Ball''), including the diamond-shaped diagram, from Carver''s Book of Sports"--Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, page 199.