[Rarebooks] fs: Casey at the Bat, early appearance

[Back Creek Books]

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We are pleased to offer:
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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, in slipcase.
      Baseball's most famous poem, appearing here for the first time in an 
anthology and for ony the second time in book form. First state of the first 
printing, published in October, 1902, with correct binding points and 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 housed in a custom-made slipcase. 
$500.00
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