[Rarebooks] fs: First 'Casey at the Bat' book appearance

[Back Creek Books]

Greetings All,

For your consideration, at a special discount for today only:
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(No. 7281 )  [Thayer, Ernest Lawrence] Frederic Lawrence Knowles, Editor.
CASEY AT THE BAT [IN] A TREASURY OF HUMOROUS POETRY; BEING A COMPILATION OF
WITTY, FACETIOUS, AND SATIRICAL VERSE SELECTED FROM THE WRITINGS OF BRITISH
AND AMERICAN POETS.
Boston: Dana Estes & Company, (1902). First thus, Full cloth, Octavo, xxiv,
407 pages, 15 black & white tissue-guarded plates. Very good.
      Surely the mighty Casey holds a place beside Paul Bunyan in American
folklore, and here is the first appearance of this most famous baseball poem
in a hardcover anthology, published in October, 1902. First state of the
first printing, with "Casey" wrongly attributed to Joseph Quinlan Murphy.
Bound in green cloth with gilt-stamped upper board featuring the faces of
two jesters, a border-ruled title block, and winged horse's head. Top edge
gilt. Prior owner bookplate on front pastedown and prior owner name,
address, and date (10/27/1902) on half title. Some mild extremity rubs and a
few scattered spots to lower board. Rear endpaper splitting along hinge and
some separation at binding between frontispiece and preceding leaves. Pages
are lightly age toned. An old newspaper clipping laid in has resulted in
some acidic browning to pages 150 and 151 (not near "Casey" which begins on
page 297). All in all a very handsome copy.    $500 (online at $1250)
See photo: http://www.backcreekbooks.com/bookphotos/7281.jpg

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