[Rarebooks] baseball item from the Norman Kane collection (FS)

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BASEBALL / A Documentary History in Chronological Presentation from 
the personal collection of  Norman Kane (a fan for over 75 years)
(with a very few additions) Norman Kane attended his first game in 
1932. He began to read about baseball in the pulps of the 1940s.  He 
bought them, in order to read them. He has been an antiquarian 
bookseller for more than 50 years, a member of ABAA.  He did not sell 
his baseball collection until his retirement.


1859 
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Express. /  EXTRA /  WILLIAMS AND AMHERST BASE BALL AND CHESS! Muscle 
and Mind!! / July 
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and 2d, 1859.

             Amherst, Mass: [Express Job Printing Office], 1859. 
Broadside, 17 1/8" x 12", printed on both sides. Old folds, splits at 
the edges in folds, old light stains, very good, under the 
circumstances.  First edition.  Generally thought to be the first 
separately printed account of a baseball game. An account of the 
chess match is printed, verso.  Copies are held by Amherst, the 
Library of Congress, and the New York City Racquet & Tennis Club 
Library; one other copy, recently discovered, was auctioned at Swann, 
December 4, 2003, sold recently by James Cummins (ABAA). Norman 
Kane's would be the fifth copy known to us.   $15,000.00



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