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Broun, Heywood. The Sun Field. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1923.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" First edition of the author's scarce second boko - a baseball novel. Original red cloth stamped in gilt (shelfwear; gilt flaked; some spotting).
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Broun, Heywood. The Sun Field. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1923.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Although internally the book is in very good condition. there has been damage to the front cover. This was apparently due to water and has left 2/3 of the front cover with ripplers and loss of the gold lettering.
Seller: Chester Creek Books, Duluth, MN, U.S.A.
Broun, Heywood. Sun Field. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1923.
Price: US$124.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition gently read clean pages, 204 pages, good condition hard cover spine lettering rubbed away as usual as is with the cover lettering . nicks to bottom spine end no dust jacket tight binding clean pages gently read no owner marks. 4 pages of ads . Early baseball book .
Seller: Ocean Tango Books, North Hollywood, CA, U.S.A.
Broun, Heywood. The Sun Field. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York City, 1923.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: pp. 204, [ads]. 8vo. Bound in maroon cloth with gold lettering to front board & spine. The bottom edges of the boards are bumped and rubbed. The tail and crown of the spine are rubbed and bumped, and the top edge of the spine is discolored. The original plain endpapers have been professionally replaced with endpapers of similar material, colour and texture. The contents are clean and unmarked. The dust jacket is green with black lettering. The top and bottom of the spine is missing for about 1/2' across and 1/4' to 1/2' down (corresponding to the bumping and fading). There are also some noticeable chips at the folds. Despite defects as noted, both the book and dust jacket are in good condition. A famed sportswriter, baseball aficianado, and critic, Broun was born in Brooklyn in 1888, and began his newspaper career with the New York Morning Telegraph in 1910. In 1921, he joined the Morning Herald (later New York Herald) where he began his famous column 'It Seems to Me'. He was a life-long friend of Christy Mathewson and Babe Ruth, and a member of the Algonquin Round Table. He died in 1939. This is his fourth book, described by Andy McCue in his baseball book bibliography 'Baseball by the Books', as 'the first novel with serious baseball content aimed at an adult audience. The book is narrated by a former sportswriter, as Broun was, in love with a free-spirited feminist, as was Broun's wife, while she falls for a baseball player who clearly is modelled on Babe Ruth.' (p. 25).
Seller: BISON BOOKS - ABAC/ILAB, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Heywood Broun. The Sun Field. G.P. Putnam, 1923.
Price: US$385.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine Copy In Like Jacket The Second Printing Oct 1923. First Was Same Month.Early Novel On Baseball. Very Scarce Gorgeous Fresh Copy.
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA, ILAB, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$575.00 + shipping
Description: Hard Cover. No Jacket. First Edition. HBNODJ, 1923, 1st edition, 1st Issue, Interior Nice, tight Clean light wear with small possible silver fish holes 1st 20 or so pages, Pgs only slightly darkened from age, Reddish Burgundy buckram Cloth with Rub & Wear Scuff Extremities & Cover, Spine Darkened Cover & small tears top spine & edges, VG+/VG-, AS-IS, NODJ, 204 pgs + ads, tiny specks here & There Cover,
Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$635.00 + shipping
Description: Hard Cover. No Jacket. First Edition. HBNODJ, 1923, 1st edition, 1st Issue, Interior Nice, tight Clean light wear & couple pgs with light brown stain from article, Pgs only slightly darkened from age, Reddish Burgundy buckram Cloth with slight Rub & Wear Scuff Extremities & Cover, Spine Darkened Cover, F-/NF-, AS-IS, NODJ, 204 pgs + ads, tiny chips Extremities Cover,
Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.
Broun, Heywood. THE SUN FIELD. G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1923.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "The first novel with serious baseball content aimed at an adult audience. The book is narrated by a former sportswriter, as Broun was, in love with a free-spirited, intellectual feminist, as was Broun's wife, while she falls for a baseball player who is clearly modeled on Babe Ruth. Numerous players of the 1920s appear by name" (Andy McCue, Baseball by the Books). Octavo: 204 p. with publisher's ads at the rear. Original burgundy cloth binding, with gilt titles. A bit of rubbing to the gilt stamping on the spine, with some minor edgewear to the boards. In the scarce dust jacket, which especially bright with shallow chipping to the tips and a small spot to the spine; otherwise very good.
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
BROUN, Heywood. The Sun Field. G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1923.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Owner name in pencil on the front fly, a couple of small splash marks and a small sunned patch near the front gutter, a very good or better copy in near fine dustwrapper with a few very small nicks at the corners. According to McCue's *Baseball by the Books: A History and Bibliography of Baseball Fiction*: "The first novel with serious baseball content aimed at an adult audience. The book is narrated by a former sportswriter, as Broun was, in love with a free-spirited, intellectual feminist, as was Broun's wife, while she falls for a baseball player who is clearly modeled on Babe Ruth. Numerous players of the early 1920s appear by name." Broun was a noted wit and a member of the Algonquin Round Table along with Dorothy Parker, Alexander Woollcott, and Robert Benchley. He was also close friends with the Marx Brothers. Exceptionally uncommon in any sort of reasonably attractive dustwrapper.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.