BASEBALL IN BLACKVILLE from HARPER'S WEEKLY
New York: Harper & Brothers, 27 July 1878. Print. Folio (11" x 16") extracted from an 1878 issue of HARPER'S WEEKLY, the woodcut image is quite likely the first depiction of blacks playing America’s game.
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SIGNED INDUCTION DAY POSTER PHOTOGRAPH
Yonkers: Photo File Inc., 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Photograph (10" x 8") with statistics commemorating Carlton's induction into the Hall of Fame on 31 July 1994. SIGNED by the left-handed legend.
DE WITT'S BASE-BALL GUIDE. FOR 1874. Containing the New Rules of the Game, as Revised at the Professional Convention of 1874. With an Explanatory Appendix for Umpires...
New York: Robert M. De Witt, (1874). First Edition. wraps. Original pictorial yellow wraps (4" x 6-1/4"); 99, (1) pages; with pages 63/64 misbound after page 42. Illustrated with frontispiece, as well as charts and tables. A very scarce and early guide to baseball, by the “Father of Baseball,” Henry.....
THE PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES. An Illustrated History
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1992). First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards (8-1/2" x 11"). Illustrated with b&w photographs of Phillies baseball legends complementing a narrative history of the club that dates back to the 1870s. This copy has been SIGNED by more than 20 former Phillies, including some more than.....
PORTER'S SPIRIT OF THE TIMES. A Chronicle of the Turf, Field Sports, Literature and the Stage. Volume I, Nos. 1 - 26
New York: [Wm. Porter & George Wilkes], 1856-1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio (10-3/4" x 16") in the original cloth rebacked with a recent brown morocco leather spine, lettered in gilt, and corners; original morocco label with the name "James Burnside" in gilt on the front cover; 416 (of 424) pages.....
PORTER'S SPIRIT OF THE TIMES. A Chronicle of the Turf, Field Sports, Literature and the Stage. Volume III, Nos. 1 - 26
New York: [Wm. Porter & George Wilkes], 1857-1858. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio (11-1/4" x 16-1/4") in modern leather-backed marbled boards with leather corners. Includes 26 issues (5 September 1857 - 27 February 1858) of this important sports newspaper containing accounts of horse races, billiards, cricket matches, chess, and some of.....
PORTER'S SPIRIT OF THE TIMES. A Chronicle of the Turf, Field Sports, Literature and the Stage. Volume II, Nos. 1 - 26
New York: [Wm. Porter & George Wilkes], 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio (11-1/4" x 16") in early leather-backed cloth-covered boards with leather corners and marbled endpapers. Includes 26 issues (7 March 1857 - 29 August 1857) of this important sports newspaper containing accounts of horse races, billiards, cricket matches, angling.....
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