[Rarebooks] fs: Casey at the Bat, 1st appearance in boards

[Back Creek Books]

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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.    $750.00
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