[Rarebooks] For sale:Yale/Princeton Baseball Souvenir, 1896

[Norman Kane]

We can offer the following rarity:

OFFICIAL SOUVENIR PROGRAM OF THE YALE-PRINCETON BASEBALL GAME, YALE 
FIELD, MAY 23, 1896. New Haven, [1896].  Oblong 8vo, approx. 5 1/2 X 
8 inches, original color-printed textured heavy paper wrappers, light 
wear & moderate marginal stain to advt. inside front cover, light 
marginal stain to bottom edge of title, otherwise excellent.  In 
addition to baseball statistics, &c, there are pictures of the 
teams  and a few  players, campus scenes including the ball field, 
score cards (filled in in pencil), and numerous advts: Northern 
Steamship Co., Old Dominion Line, Brooks Bros, Collars, Waverley 
Bicycles, Richmond Straight-Cut Cigarettes, Canada  Atlantic & Plant 
S.S.Line, Marlin Repeater Rifles, Spalding Baseballs, &c.   RLG lists 
only a copy of the June 23d program at Yale; this May 23d program is 
not in RLG or OCLC.  $350.00

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