Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Berndt, Walter. Smitty At the Ball Game. Cupples & Leon, NY, 1929.
Price: US$39.99 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Cloth backed pictorial boards. Covers rubbed/worn and edges frayed. Back cover has clear tape over a bend or break vertically. PO name and small paper affixed to ffep. Title page cartoon is colored with crayon. Some small gashes to rear cover have affected leaves leaving tiny holes. One cartoon has been colored, and there are occasional tears to leaves. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Berndt, Walter. Smitty at the Ball Game. Cupples & Leon, 1929.
Price: US$64.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition, Cupples & Leon 1929. Good plus hardcover boards with original black cloth backstrip. Previous owner's names to flyleaf. Some general soiling, stain to corner of rear corner.
Seller: Bradley Ross Books, Auburn, CA, U.S.A.
Berndt, Walter. Smitty at the Ball Game. Cupples and Leon Co., 1929.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Green cloth backed illustrated boards. Soiling to rear panel, less so to front panel, still a very good, tight copy with front panel illustration unrubbed in custom mylar cover.
Seller: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Berndt, Walter. Smitty At The Ball Game. CUPPLES & LEON COMPANY, NEW YORK, 1929.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Color illustrated cover. Major wear on cover boards and some soiling. Cover pictorial paste label with scratches and chips. Major wear on spine, edges and corners. Some images crayoned. Black and white illustrations. DATE PUBLISHED: 1929 EDITION: 86
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Walter Berndt. Smitty at the Ball Game [Babe Ruth]. Cupples and Leon Co., New York, 1929.
Price: US$190.00 + shipping
Description: 7" x 8 3/4", pictorial paper over boards with blue cloth spine. First Edition. Comic strips featuring Babe Ruth and other circa 1929 baseball stars. Color cover illustration features Babe Ruth and Smitty. This copy in Very Good to Very Good Minus condition. See photo enlarged. Front board doesn't look bad, despite soiling/rubbing, bumped and worn-through corners, a few stains on the Babe's cap, and a 1933 World's Fair black-and-gold sticker to left of Ruth; back board has overall soiling/rubbing and the same bumped and worn corners. Internally free of writing but with finger soiling here and there. Not a bad copy of this rather scarce title. See photo.
Seller: Seacoast Books, Portsmouth, NH, U.S.A.
Baseball - Berndt, Walter. Smitty At The Ball Game. Cupples and Leon Co, New York, 1929.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First softbound edition of this book of cartoons set in the world of baseball. Cover has "Smitty" talking to Babe Ruth. A superb near fine copy, staplebound with cloth strip at spine. Uncommon edition.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
[BASEBALL] BERNDT, WALTER.. Smitty At The Ball Game. New York: Cupples & Leon, 1929, 1929.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition of this collection of cartoons from the Chicago Tribune. Pictorial boards; minor stain to the back cover; some edge wear, else an excellent copy in the rare dust jacket, which has a large chip in the back panel (not affecting the illustration or lettering) and some other minor chips and tears. Some jacket splits have been strenghtened with archival tissue on the verso. The front cover depicts Smitty approaching Babe Ruth. Aside from Ruth, Smitty also runs into Grover Cleveland Alexander and Rogers Hornsby (in his 1928 Boston Braves uniform). 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$950.00 + shipping
Description: 86 pp. Illustrated comic strips. 8vo, publisher's cloth-backed boards illustrated in color, in dust jacket. A bright, almost fine copy with slight use at the extremities of the boards; in aslightly dust-soiled jacket with several small chips at corners, including a coin-sized one at the top of the spine. Smitty meets Babe Ruth.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.