[Rarebooks] FS: Baseball in the 1840s - Sanders' 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.]     $125.00

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