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Lot 28.  Very rare 1845 Boy's and Girl's Book of Sports. Historic little (5" x 3 1/2") rarely seen pamphlet. Published by Geo. P. Daniels in Providence. Mentioned in Barry Slote's extensive coverage of pre 1900 Historical Baseball Books published in a 1995 Vintage & Classic Baseball Collector at a value of $3-$4,000. The cover notes "Embellished with Cuts" and on page 18 of the 24 page booklet, an article entitled "BALL" commences, with a woodcut, describing an early version of baseball. The back cover is missing and the front cover has a stain. The inside pages are in excellent condition.
Minimum Bid $300.


Lot 29.  Our Base Ball Club And How It Won the Championship by Noah Brooks. This well known book is baseball's first (1884) work of fiction and has beautiful chro-lithographic color covers. The back portrays the 1882 Chicago White Stocking team with Cap Anson. The cover shows some wear at the corners and spine but is otherwise in very good condition and excellent + interior. It comes with a transparent plastic dust jacket.
Winning Bid $250.


Lot 30.  1885 Official Baseball Record. A very obscure two year periodical devoted entirely to baseball. Offered here is a bound Volume 1 (the first year) including the first issue of July 15, 1885 to Issue 63, dated October 1, 1885. Four page, 12 1/4" x 9 3/4" issues came nearly every day. Each issue had standings for the National League and American Association, batting records, a delightful "Baseball Notes" section and baseball related advertisements. Forty six issues featured a woodcut of a ballplayer with biographical information. The impressive list included 9 HOF'ers (Kelly, Spaulding, Keefe, Connor, Radbourn, Ward, Ewing, O'Rourke, Brouthers) and other prominent players like Joe Start, James Mutrie and Tony Mullane. A detailed list of the 46 woodcuts is available on request. The pages are on a good quality paper and are easily readable. The cover is loose, but otherwise all is in excellent condition.
Winning Bid $1,331.


Lot 31.  A History of the Boston Base Ball Club 1871-1897 by George V. Touhey. One of the rarest and most important baseball books of the 19th Century. Written in 1897, this classic covers the history of the Boston Baseball Clubs since the inception of the National Association in 1871 (through 1875), the beginning of the National League in 1876, the American Association and Players League and the National League through 1897.The book is 242 pages and heavily illustrated with Boston's great players and teams..The first half of the book covers the history of the team while the balance has over 50 articles on individual players. In excellent condition.
Winning Bid $1,419.


Lot 32.  A Ball Players Career by Adrian Anson and The Washington Senators by Morris Beale. The somewhat one-sided life and times of Baseball's greatest player in the 19th Century by that player. Published in 1900 and an excellent source of first hand information covering Anson's experiences with Marshalltown, the Forest Citys, the Philadelphia Athletics and the Chicago White Stockings. Excellent + condition. The difficult to find Beale book is the definitive work on the Washington Senators chronicling their history to the 1860's. Excellent condition with a very good dust jacket.
Minimum Bid $400.


Lot 33.  "The Garry" 1904 Cartoons by J.F. Collins dedicated to August "Garry" Hermann. An incredibly rare large format volume (I've never seen or heard of it before) featured daily humorous cartoons, each referring to that days Cincinnati Reds Game, from April 18th (one undated before) until October 9th, beautifully presented, one to a page. The back of each page is blank, though it appears clippings (probably pertaining to the specified game on the page) may have been attached to the blank backs and removed. The title page states "A Book Of Humorous Cartoons. Pickings from the Diamond by Collins 1904". Excellent condition with note to the removed clippings.
Winning Bid $879.


Lot 34.  Interesting lot of six items -two rare guides , 3 rare pamphlets and a St. Paul scorecard. The scorecard dates to the 1880's. The 2 3 1/4" x 4 1/4" preprinted halves with lineups are taped together and show the Bloomington team and the St. Paul team, the latter's players are almost completely in the N172 Old Judge series. A very rare Tim Murnane 1904 Guide of the National Association and the same guide 3 years later, Edited by Murnane, had become part of the Spalding Athletic Library. Both front covers of the guides are loose, otherwise very good. Finally three booklets- a 1922 Billy Evans Rule Book with Evans on the cover, compliments of the Oshkosh Baseball Association (ex), A Goldsmith's Baseball Diamond Dope with full page pictures inside of Mathewson and Johnson and others. (ex) and finally a Dizzy Dean "How to Pitch".
Winning Bid $400.


Lot 35.  1905 Sporting Life. 48 of the 52 issues for the year. Includes 10 major league team composite covers with the NL and AL Champion Giants and A's and 7 Minor League Champions. The balance have pictures of major leaguers including 5 Hall of Famers (George Davis, Duffy, Evers, Crawford and Flick). Some issues show some separation at the spine and on some the cover has become detached near the spine. All pages are present. Good-very good.
Winning Bid $533.


Lot 36.  A rare Privately Printed edition of "Old Boston Boys and the Games They played" by James D'Wolff Lovett. Published in 1906 the book recounting sports in Boston in the 19th Century, especially Boston. This is a numbered copy (#96) from a limited edition of 250. Over 25 one sided b&w plates including better baseball of Mort Rogers, George Wright , the Lowell and Harvard baseball nines., The book is inscribed Edward C. Johnson from his friend Thomas Worthy June 6th 1906" in pencil.
Winning Bid $303.


Lot 37.  1906-1908 Napoleon Lajoie Guides. Complete group of the Lajoie Guides which were produced by American League Publishing, a Cleveland Company that Lajoie was believed to have an interest in. The Guides offer nothing substantially new but do feature the photography of Boston's Horner Studio and Louis Van Oeyen. The 1906 and 1908 books have small pieces of 1 or 2 corners missing and all 3 have minor faults. Essentially in good-very good condition.
Winning Bid $300.


Lot 38.  Two rare Ty Cobb hard cover books "Ty Cobb The Idol of Baseball Fandom by Sverre O Braathen and "Busting Em" by Ty Cobb. The Braathen book is a very rare, privately printed biography by a Wisconsin lawyer in 1928. The book, which was authorized by Cobb, is 268 pages including several coated blank backed plates of Cobb and is in ex-mt condition. "Busting 'Em" is presented as an autobiography, but was actually ghost written. Not quite as rare as the Braathen book but a very tough book to find. Published in 1914 with 282 pages.
Winning Bid $750.


Lot 39.  Extremely rare Paperback original of "The Bride and The Pennant" by Frank Chance, 1910 by Laird and Lee. Preface by Charles A. Comisky. Very rare Pulp paper novel apparently written by Frank Chance but speculation is it was actually written by Hugh Fullerton, who was instrumental in breaking the 1919 scandal. The book is romantic fiction and contains a full page plate of Chance in front. The covers are nearly all intact but are loose. The rest of the 182+ page book is excellent.
Minimum Bid $500.


Lot 40.  Run of 29 Sporting News Record Books from 1909 (2), 1910, 1912-1934, 1938-1940. A very popular run of TSN guides that most believe started in 1910. The two versions of the 1909 guides are very rare and weren't known to collectors until about 15 years ago. The small books, measuring 5 1/2" x 3" feature a photo of a player or players on the cover. Highlights: 1909 (ex, cover loose), other 1909 (ex), 1910 Cobb & Wagner (vg-ex), 1917 Joe Jackson (vg-ex), 1920 Ruth (gd, faded), 1921 Ruth & Sisler (vg), 1925 Johnson (ex, piece of tape), 1928-Gehrig (ex, piece of tape), 1929 Ruth & Gehrig (ex, but persons signature), Balance: To 1922, gd-vg with some tape, 1923 on, vg-ex.
Winning Bid $1,418.


Lot 41.  1910 and 1911 Bull Durham Guides. A complete set of the Durham Guides published by the Baseball Co. in Boston. The 1910 Guide has a minor problem at the spine and is otherwise very good. The 1911 has some staining and the paper at the spine is worn away, fair-good. The contents are in excellent condition and complete.
Winning Bid $250.


Lot 42.  The Home Coming. A leather covered, gold leaf titled book covering the 1914 World Tour, which was 1888 Chicago great Fred Pfeffer's own copy. 64 pages of photos, sketches and articles relating to the Giants and White Sox World tour with a panoramic of the Polo Grounds in the centerfold.
Winning Bid $400.
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