[Rarebooks] FSl Baseball depicted in an 1846 school reader

[Bob Petrilla]

Sanders, Charles W. THE SCHOOL READER: FIRST BOOK -- Early appearance of
baseball. NY: Ivison & Phinney..., 1846 . Early edition. 120pp; woodcut
illustrations in text. Copyright 1840; publisher's ads dated 1846. One-inch
piece torn from rear free-endpaper. 6.25" x 4"  Very Good. Cloth-backed
pictorial boards.
The cover shows kids on a school playground, several boys playing with a
bat and ball.  [Block, Baseball Before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots
of the Game, page 204, cites this book.  WorldCat finds only three holdings
of this edition with the baseball illustration on the cover: Princeton,
Florida, Buffalo State.  Picture on request.]   $150.00


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