[Rarebooks] FS: First Illustrated Edition of CASEY AT THE BAT, 1912
Charles Agvent
charles at charlesagvent.com
Thu Mar 28 11:40:09 EDT 2019
From our new catalog of 85 new arrivals with several early baseball items:
https://www.charlesagvent.com/agvent/images/pdfs/SPRING19.pdf
[BASEBALL] THAYER, Phineas. CASEY AT THE BAT. Chicago: A. C. McClurg &
Co., 1912. First Illustrated Edition. Small octavo (5" x 6-7/8") in
original decorated green rough paper boards with gilt lettering and a
yellow bat with a thick black ribbon tied around it; [31] pages. First
Illustrated Edition and First Separate Hardcover Edition of this classic
American poem. Illustrated in orange and black by Dan Sayre Groesbeck
with full-page cartoons in orange and black facing a stanza of the poem
with a black-and-white cartoon figure below. Minor smudges from
handling, text block cracked between two pages but text still firm, 1916
owner name and inscription on front endpaper. Very light wear to spine
tips and corners. Near Fine and scarce in this condition. (#019202)
$2,000.00
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