[Rarebooks] FS: Signed Babe Ruth Story

[Charles Agvent]

One of 65 exceptional books from our new Spring Catalog recently posted 
on our website: http://www.erols.com/agvent
Also included are a bevy of Signed Presidential books (J. Q. Adams, Van 
Buren, Buchanan, Fillmore, Cleveland, Taft, McKinley, Wilson, both 
Roosevelts, Eisenhower family copies, Kennedy, etc.), wonderful letters 
by Martin Luther King, Jr. and Virginia Woolf, a signed copy of ON THE 
ROAD, a McKenney and Hall INDIAN TRIBES folio volume, a 1609 
hand-colored herbal, a 1621 edition of Agricola's DE RE METALLICA with 
wonderful woodcuts, early baseball and aviation, scarce signed modern 
first editions, and more.

RUTH,  Babe  and CONSIDINE, Bob. THE BABE RUTH STORY. New York: E.  P.
Dutton  &  Co., Inc. 1948. First Edition. First Printing in red  cloth
in  a  dustwrapper  from  the thirteenth  printing.  Illustrated  with
photographs.  Boldly  INSCRIBED  and  SIGNED by  the  bambino  on  the
half-title  page:  "To Robert and Pual  Krogh/From/Babe  Ruth/6-2-48."
Minor  wear  to  head of spine which is  lightly  sunned.  Dustwrapper
complete  and bright with just a bit of wear. Very Good in a Very Good
dustwrapper.                                                $10,000.00

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