Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$229.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: owner's ins. to ffep, inner hinges cracked, floral endpaper to rear excised. nice, solid copy!
Seller: Gian Luigi Fine Books, albany, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$280.00 + shipping
Description: 339 pgs. All in all, an attractive copy of Cap Anson's memoirs. First edition. Scarce title. Good copy in illustrated green cloth. Some soiling to covers; front endpaper and title page nicked along edge due to loose front hinge
Seller: Berryville Old Book Shop, Berryville, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: Chicago, IL: Era Publishing. FR/NO DUSTJACKET. 1900. Hardcover. Green boards with black lettering. . 8vo., 339 pp plus appendex and ads., Cover stained, one loose plate .
Seller: Riverow Bookshop, Owego, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Pub by Era Publishing Co., Chicago, same date on TP & CP, NAP, presumed 1st Edition. NOT exLib. VG+ or better cond. hardcover now in archivql grade Brodart, no dj. Green cloth over bds w/ black, white & red pict dec & lettering on cover & spine. Very light exterior soiling & wear. Book has been professionally restored, with new marble inside pastedowns & eps, o/w covers, spine & textblock are all original & intact. P/O's signature & place at top of title page, o/w book is unmarked. Illustrated in b&w. 339 / 3 / viii + 16pp publisher's advts. Square, straight, tight & clean except as noted, overall VG+ or better cond. Same or next day shipping. Please email any questions.
Seller: Rivertown Fine Books, McGregor, IA, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Publisher's cloth; back hinge cracked; very good. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Bound in finely woven green cloth with pictorial decorated front boards with a few touches of light flecking to the edges. Wear and fraying to the top and bottom of the spine ends. A rather worn and used copy with hinges reglued. Charming floral endpapers and some damaged top edges to the inner corners of the preliminary pages. Generally clean and tight throughout with very interesting full-page photos as illustrations. With 16 pages of ads in the back. A serviceable copy of this scarce baseball book. Adrian Constantine Anson (1852 1922), nicknamed "Cap" (for "Captain") and "Pop", was a Major League Baseball (MLB) first baseman. Including his time in the National Association (NA), he played a record 27 consecutive seasons. Anson was regarded as one of the greatest players of his era and one of the first superstars of the game. Anson spent most of his career with the Chicago Cubs franchise (then known as the "White Stockings" and later the "Colts"), serving as the club's manager, first baseman and, later in his tenure, minority owner. He led the team to fiveNational League pennants in the 1880s. Anson was one of baseball's first great hitters, and probably the first to tally over 3,000 career hits.His contemporary influence and prestige are regarded by historians as playing a major role in establishing the racial segregation in professional baseball that persisted until the late 1940s. A 2006 biography of Anson that exhaustively examined 19th-century newspaper reporting related to him on the subject of racism reached the following conclusion: "As far as the nineteenth century, he rightfully should endure as the big leaguer who, until the late 1940s, was involved in the greatest number of reported negative incidents, on the field, relating to blacks." On several occasions, Anson refused to take the field when the opposing roster included black players.[6] The biography states, "But at the same time, his argumentative nature could be readily discounted by those around him. So, the notion that he had 'coattails' in persuading players and officials on other teams to do as he did is rather spurious." A lengthy 2016 essay by the same author focused on claims of Ansons alleged influence on the most noted vote in 19th-century professional baseball in favor of segregation: a July 14, 1887 one by the high-minor International League to ban the signing of new contracts with black players; the essay showed a range of authors as not having observed the line between fact and speculation on that alleged influence.After retiring as a player and leaving the Colts, Anson briefly managed the New York Giants. He ran several enterprises in Chicago, including opening a billiards and bowling hall and running a semi-professional baseball team he dubbed "Anson's Colts". Anson also toured extensively on the vaudeville circuit, performing monologues and songs. Many of his business ventures failed. As a result, Anson lost his ownership stake in the Colts (by then known as the Cubs) and filed for bankruptcy. Anson was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1939. (Wikipedia) First Edition with matching dates of 1900 on the title and copyright pages.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [SPORTS] [AUTOBIOGRAPHY]. 8vo; 339 + [3], [i], ii-viii + [16]pp advertisements for Chicago area businesses; pictorial green cloth over board, vignette of a ball player and bat with mitt on front, lettered spine; brown flowered endpapers; ownership address sticker to half-title; portrait frontispiece of the author plus 27 b&w glazed plates; scuff to board edges, light shelf-wear, abrasion to ffep with loss of ep pattern & small closed tear to edge; very good plus. Adrian Constantine Anson (1852-1922) was an early superstar major league baseball player, beginning his career in May 1872 with the Rockford Forest Citys [Illinois] and ending in October 1897 with the Chicago Colts. The Chicago Colts were a founding member of the National League and became the Chicago Cubs in 1903. Though a baseball phenom, Anson was also a known racist and one of the players forcing racial segregation of the game. Black and white photographic illustrations of A.C. Anson's Billiard Room and Bowling Alleys founded in his retirement, and many portraits of the teams and their international travels. The text is followed by an Appendix of "Some Newspaper Comments" and interesting advertisements from Chicago merchants including major and local railroad routes, mineral water, the Keeley Brewing Company, banks, etc. A treasure for the die-hard Chicago Cubs baseball fan and those interested in the history of the National League.
Seller: Sandra L. Hoekstra Bookseller, Thomaston, ME, U.S.A.
anson, adrian c.. a ball players career. era publishing, 1900.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: green cloth, illustrated cover. Binding solid, clean inside,and unmarked save for previous owner's signature and date (1900). Illustrated w/ photos. cover is "shaded" (somewhat darkened on the far right side). Really nice copy of this rare book.
Seller: Pleasant Street Books, woodstock, VT, U.S.A.
Adrian C. Anson. A Ball Players Career. Era Publishing Company, 1900.
Price: US$795.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine Copy In Green Decorative Cloth. First Edition 1900/1900. Very Rare In This Condition. A Classic Autobiography Of This Great Baseball Player.Gorgeous Fresh Copy. Ownership Stamp.
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA, ILAB, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.