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Cooke, Edmund Vance. Baseballogy. Forbes & Company, Chicago, 1912.
Price: US$240.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Chicago: Forbes & Company, 1912. Hardcover without a dust jacket. First edition. Pictorial boards with mild soiling to the front board and dot stains to the rear. Still a nice copy in very good condition.
Seller: Bad Animal, Santa Cruz, CA, U.S.A.
Cooke, Edmund Vance. Baseballogy. Forbes & Company, Chicago, 1912.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Good+. Paper covered boards show rubbing, edge wear, toning and soiling, with evidence of erased pencil markings to the rear board. Small horizontal crack backstrip. Offsetting from printed images, light toning to pages. A rather nice copy.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
COOKE, Edmund Vance (1866-1932) or cooks. Baseballogy. Forbes & Co, Chicago, 1912.
Price: US$326.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Printing of this charming paean to America's pastime, featuring 24 lighthearted and impertinent poems. Small, slim 8vo: 88pp, with baseball-themed spot illustrations from drawings in lower margin of each page. Publisher's pictorial paper-covered boards (showing two hands gripping a baseball bat), mid-brown end papers, pages printed in lime green and black; without the scarce dust jacket. Very minor wear and soiling, but a sound, firmly bound example and clean and bright throughout. From an early review in Baseball Magazine (vol. 9, issue 3, July 1912): "The book contains upward of twenty-five [sic] breezy ballads of the diamond which embrace a widespread field, including many of the leading characters and most stirring events in the recent annals of the game. The book is carefully edited and very artistically illustrated. . . . Whoever spends the price of a seat on the bleachers for this little volume will find himself well rewarded by having at his disposal many snatches of real life from the national game." N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).
Seller: Fine Editions Ltd, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Cooke, Edmund Vance. Baseballogy. Chicago: Forbes and Company, 1912.
Price: US$2250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. 8vo. Publisher's tan boards, titles and border in blue to front board, illustration of two hands holding a bat with green background to front board, small illustrations throughout text leaves; dust jacket with identical layout. Near fine book with previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper and a bit of offsetting from page illustrations; very good dust jacket with some shallow chipping to edges, small closed tear to top of front panel, and some toning. Overall, a bright and sturdy copy. Baseballogy is a collection of 24 humorous poems about America's favorite pastime. In the book's introductory poem, "Preliminary," the author playfully draws parallels between baseball and Ancient Greek philosophy, writing, "Philosophy was much the same / To Greeks as is our later game." Edmund Vance Cooke was an early 20th century Canadian poet known as the "poet laureate of childhood." He published sixteen volumes of poetry in his lifetime, and is best known for his inspirational poem, "How Did You Die?"
Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Small octavo, original illustrated boards and dustjacket. This copy with ownership signature of Harry Neily at front endpaper. Neily was the lead sportswriter for the Chicago American who cast his vote for Babe Ruth to win the American League MVP in 1923. Humorous collection of baseball verse. Near Fine in attractive Very Good plus dustjacket, few short closed tears.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
COOKE, Edmund Vance. Baseballogy. Forbes & Company, Chicago, 1912.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Pictorial paper over boards. Fine in fine dustwrapper. An attractive and uncommon book of humorous verse about baseball, rare both in jacket and in this condition.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.