Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Allen, Lee. The Cincinnati Reds: An Informal History. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1948.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover with DJ. Red cloth over boards with black lettering along spine. Cloth is clean overall, though there are very faint tidelines along bottom edges of covers; some remnants from DJ are attached to bottom front corner. Clipped DJ is now protected by Brodart sleeve, but also has tidelines along bottom edges and a fair bit of creasing along edges -- it's clearly protected covers well though. Old booksellers' price and note on front free endpaper in pencil. Title page not dated. Black and white frontispiece of 1939 Reds photo. Copyright page dated 1948. 302 pages. A bit of red staining from cloth to rear free endpaper -- pages otherwise are free of marks throughout. Binding is strong. A good reading copy overall.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Allen, Lee. The Cincinnati Reds: An Informal History. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1948.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover with DJ. Red cloth over boards with black lettering to spine. Cloth is a bit discolored at foot of spine, but otherwise remains bright and clean. Red and black DJ is creased and chipped along edges, but is now protected by Brodart sleeve, and has clearly protected covers well. Corners of front flap of DJ have been clipped, but original price of $3.00 remains. Old booksellers price and note on front free endpaper. Title page not dated. Copyright page dated 1948. 302 pages, free of marks, with a few black and white photographs. Binding is strong.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Allen, Lee. Cincinnati Reds - An Informal History, The. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1948.
Price: US$38.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 302 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with 15 pages of black & white photographs. Moisture wrinkling to top half inch of spine cloth. A few pages with light moisture staining to very top edges. Dust jacket with chipping along edges, staining, previous owners repair with paper at top of spine. Clean, unmarked text. Record # 614199
Seller: Monroe Street Books, Middlebury, VT, U.S.A.
Allen, Lee. The Cincinnati Reds. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1948.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: Red cloth hardcovers are clean, light rubbing to edges. Heavy pencil name and address on front free endpaper, else interior clean and secure. Dustjacket edgeworn, few small tears and creases, in new mylar cover. . 8vo Professional bookseller for twenty years. Orders shipped daily in cardboard bookfolds.
Seller: Commonwealth Book Company, Inc., Lynchburg, OH, U.S.A.
Allen , Lee. The Cincinnati Reds. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1948.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This an excellent copy of the book . The interior is clean , no marks of any kind . The hinges are tight . The red color on the boards is clean and bright . The graphics on the spine are bright . The dust shows considerable wear . Dust jacket is protected with a mylar cover .
Seller: The History Place, Palestine, TX, U.S.A.
Allen, Lee. the Cincinnati Reds :. NY G.P. Putnam's sons.1948 first edition., 1948.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: cloth hard cover.8Vo Illustrated.302 PP.very good copy.light chipping on spine and corners, very good Dust Jacket.original price in tact.scarce.
Seller: The Compulsive Collector, New York NY, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition. Original cloth. Near Fine, in very good+ dust jacket (price-clipped, but very little wear, tearing, fading, etc.). No internal markings. Putnam Sports Series. The subtitle 'An Informal History' appears only on the jacket. 'First published in 1948, Lee Allen's history of the Reds, like Franklin Lewis's history of the Cleveland Indians, was originally published by G. P. Putnam's Sons. Allen narrates the historic organization's success, beginning shortly after the Civil War with baseball's rising popularity among Cincinnati's elite. Eventually, as interest increased, America's first professional baseball team was established in 1868--Cincinnati's Red Stockings. The Cincinnati Reds chronicles each season from the organization's early years, most notably the 1882 American Association pennant and the 1919 and 1940 National League pennants and World Series championships, including the infamous Chicago White Sox scandal. Allen retells many of the early Reds stories likely forgotten or unknown by today's fans. This book is as thorough as it is absorbing and will be enjoyed by those interested in the early days of America's favorite pasttime' (Web site of Kent State University Press, which reprinted the book in 2006).
Seller: Ted Kottler, Bookseller, Redondo Beach, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: cloth hard cover.square 8vo. illustrated.302 PP.very good copy.chipping on corners of the spine a good Dust Jacket.original price present.scarce.
Seller: The Compulsive Collector, New York NY, NY, U.S.A.