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(BASEBALL.)
Group of 39 annual guides from Spalding and the Sporting
News.
Various sizes, in publisher’s color pictorial wrappers with minor to moderate wear
except as noted.
New York, 1902-24; St. Louis, 1920-40
[600/900]
Includes the octavo Spalding guides for the 1902 (lacking wrappers), 1906, and 1908-24 seasons
(the 1920 and 1921 editions being bound in cloth)—the bulk of the Dead Ball Era and the arrival of
Babe Ruth * plus the pocket-sized Sporting News Record Books for 1920-22 and 1924-40.
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(BASEBALL.)
Group of 47 early guides and instructional manuals.
Mostly
8vo in publisher’s pictorial wrappers, various conditions. Vp, 1891-1940
[1,000/1,500]
Includes 22 baseball instructional volumes from the Spalding Athletic Library, including “How to
Bat,” “How to Play the Outfield,” “How to Pitch,” and more, 1905-40 * 11 editions of John
McGraw’s annuals, 1904-13 * Prindle, The Art of Batting (Reach, 1888 copyright but later) *
Spalding’s Official Indoor Base Ball Guide, 1916-18 * Spalding’s College Base Ball Annual, 1911
and 1931 * Rawlings Base Ball Record Book, 1932 * Wright and Ditson’s 1910 Base Ball
Guide * Napoleon Lajoie’s 1907 Base Ball Guide * Sporting Life 1891 Base Ball Guide * Bull
Durham 1911 Base Ball Guide * Constitution and Playing Rules of the National League
(Spalding, 1905) * Police Gazette Sporting Annual, 1896 * The Reach Art of Curve Pitching,
1904.
WITH
—bound photocopies of 20 similar guides.
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(BIBLE IN ENGLISH.)
The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus
Christ.
[463] pages. 8vo, lacking boards, needs binding; moderate wear, foxing, cello tape
repairs to flyleaf and final leaf; early owner’s inscription on flyleaf. Evans 20968; Felcone,
New Jersey Printing 483; Hills 17.
Trenton, NJ: Isaac Collins, 1788
[400/600]
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(BIBLE IN ENGLISH.)
The New
Testament of our Lord and Saviour
Jesus Christ.
[334] pages plus final blank.
12mo, contemporary calf, minor wear;
tightly trimmed, minor wear to endpapers,
contents clean.
New York: Hugh Gaine, 1790
[1,000/1,500]
Hills calls this the second New Testament published
in New York, after Gaine’s apparently unique
1789 edition held only by the New York Public
Library. The 1789 edition is not recorded in
ESTC, Wright, or Ford’s Journals of Hugh
Gaine; Evans lists it with no examples traced and
the wrong printer. The present 1790 edition carries
over the same typographical errors and was
apparently printed from the same setting of type
except for the title page. Wright calls this 1790
edition “the first Testament printed in New
York,” adding that “it is considered rare by Bible
collectors” (page 101). Hodge & Campbell
published a complete Bible in New York two years
later. Evans 22359; Hills 26.
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