[Rarebooks] FS: Henry Chadwick: the FIRST OFFICIAL BASEBALL RULE BOOK, 1867

[Charles Agvent]

CHADWICK, Henry. HANEY'S BASE BALL PLAYER'S BOOK OF REFERENCE CONTAINING 
THE REVISED RULES OF THE GAME FOR 1867, WITH AN EXPLANATORY APPENDIX TO 
EACH RULE, TOGETHER WITH FULL INSTRUCTIONS FOR UMPIRES AND SCORERS, AND 
ALSO FOR PITCHING, BATTING AND FIELDING. THE WHOLE FORMING A STANDARD 
AUTHORITY ON ALL POINTS OF THE NATIONAL GAME. [The first official 
baseball rule book]. New York: Haney & Co., 1867. First Edition. Small 
octavo (3-3/4" x 5-7/8") in the original green wraps depicting three 
ballplayers on the front holding a bat and examining the rule book; 
[ii], 139, [iii] pages, plus covers. The issue published just nine years 
earlier in 1858 was the FIRST OFFICIAL BASEBALL RULE BOOK. Its author, 
Henry Chadwick, was the sport's first great journalist and a leading 
figure in the development of the game. Illustrated with about a dozen 
engravings in the text including full-page depictions of a regulation 
baseball field and a baseball pitcher. Includes not just rules but much 
advice on how to form and manage a club as well as specific hints on how 
to field, pitch, and bat. With several pages on how to play baseball on 
the ice! Owner name of E. S. Hughes of South Trenton, New York in light 
pencil on the top of the front cover and title page. Light foxing to 
some pages, heaviest on the bulked fore-edge of the text and the first 
few pages. Small tears at the spine tips. The front cover has a small 
stain and a few neat, professional repairs. Still a Near Fine copy of a 
scarce and important baseball book. (#013613)        $8,500.00

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