Apr 19, 2007 - Sale 2110

Sale 2110 - Lot 9

Price Realized: $ 1,200
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Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(BASEBALL.) Boy's and Girl's Book of Sports. Woodcut illustrations of various games and activities. 24 pages. 16mo, publisher's pictorial orange wrappers, scattered light wear, 3-mm split at head of spine; scattered foxing and faint dampstaining throughout contents to upper outer corner. Providence, 1839
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one of the earliest recorded descriptions of the game of baseball. A chapbook for children that explains various games such as marbles, leap frog, blind man's bluff, and sports including archery, running and, most interesting, a recognizable and fairly full explanation of the rules of baseball. Based on William Clarke's The Boy's Own Book, London, 1829 and Boston, 1829, a few similar versions appeared in New Haven (S. Babcock) in the early 1830s under the title The Boy's Book of Sports. The first Providence printing was by Cory and Daniels in 1835; this is the second printing of this work (the first was in 1835) after they changed to Geo. P. Daniels. Yale is the only institution to hold a copy of this printing. See Henderson, Early American Sport, page 26.