Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Axelson, G W. Commy. Reilly & Lee Co, Chicago, 1919.
Price: US$12.50 + shipping
Description: covers are moderately waterstained, pages clean
Seller: Robert S. Brooks, Bookseller, Bristol, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$22.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1919 date on title page & copyright page. No indication of later printings. Red cloth with black titles. Boards with some age darkening and staining along spine. Moderate shelf wear. Binding with light crack at p 32 & a few other light breaks; remains sound with no missing or loose pages. Gift inscription at upper corner of front paste down, else unmarked and clean. Text block age toned. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Seller: Small World Books, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
G.W. Axelson. Commy. Reilly & Lee, 1919.
Price: US$23.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Reilly & Lee Co January 1919 Binding: Hardcover some discoloration to boards no dust jacket
Seller: Visible Voice Books, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Bookplate front pastedown, and pencil name, spine a little tanned, a very good copy lacking the dustwrapper. Early and important baseball biography.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Pencil name, and slightly soiled, an about fine copy lacking the dustwrapper. Early and important baseball biography.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
g.w. axelson. Commy: the Life story of charles a comiskey. reilly and lee, 1919.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 2021
Seller: Hollywood Canteen Inc., Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$115.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Brief gift inscription, else fine lacking the dustwrapper. Early and important baseball biography.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$115.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Short tear to base of spine, wear to one corner of front board and discolaration to small area of rear board, otherwise an about fine copy lacking the dustwrapper. Early and important baseball biography.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The "Veteran Sporting Writer" whitewashes the stingy old bastard. 350pp. Illus. (loc bbr/1)
Seller: Austin Book Shop LLC, Richmond Hill, NY, U.S.A.
AXELSON, G. W.. Commy. Reilly & Lee, Chicago, 1919.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Contemporary biography of the Hall of Fame owner of the Chicago White Sox. Comiskey, a player of some repute in the 1880s and 90s, became one of the game's leading magnates and was influential in the formation of the American League. Ironically, this biography was published mere months before the downfall and disgraceof his team when eight players were banned forever from baseball for consiring to throw the 1919 World Series. Despite the laudatory tone of this biography, Comiskey's cheapness and ill-use of his players, such as Shoeless Joe Jackson, Eddie Cicotte, Chic Gandil and Swede Risberg, are thought to be a prime cause of the Series fix. Illustrated with photos. This is a tight, bright, clean copy (far better than usually found) whose only fault is a pair of light moisture spots on the spine. Lacking the rare dust jacket.
Seller: Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABAA, ILAB), Bordentown, NJ, U.S.A.
Axelson G.W.. Commy. Reilly Lee, 1919, 1919.
Price: US$265.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: One of the toughest books to find in dustjacket. Dust jacket nice with foxing on the edge and a couple of small chips. Email for photos. Written just before thew Black Sox Scandal about one of the pioneers of the game.
Seller: LSQ Books, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Axelson G.W.. Commy. Reilly Lee, 1919, 1919.
Price: US$290.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: One of the toughest books to find in dustjacket. Dust jacket, very nice, close to vg+ condition with one small chip in lower right. Email for photos. Written just before thew Black Sox Scandal about one of the pioneers of the game.
Seller: LSQ Books, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in a somewhat tattered, good pictorial dustwrapper with some chipping, mostly along the upper extremities. Early and important baseball biography, rarely found in jacket.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
G.X. Axelson. Commy". the Reilly & Lee Co., 1919.
Price: US$595.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine Copy In a Near Fine Jacket First Edition. The Life of Charles A. Comiskey Scarce in This Condition Excellent Fresh Copy.
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA, ILAB, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$1363.75 + shipping
Description: "COMMY" THE LIFE OF CHARLES A. COMISKEY, Reilly & Lee, 1919, first edition, fine in near fine pictorial dust-wrapper with some slight wear. Illustrated. Had this "glowing" biography been written a year later, it perhaps might not have been so favorable! A gorgeous copy and quite scarce thus.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.