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Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Inscribed by the book's publisher, Grover C. Buxton, on front free endpaper: "To 'Bobby' / from / Grover / Sept. 27, 1933", and signed again by Buxton on p. 11. Original red cloth, baseball design and title in gilt to front board, titles in gilt to spine, frontispiece photograph of High Commissioner of Baseball, Kenesaw Mountain Landis. A good copy with a rectangular patch of fading to front board, a bit of wear and soiling to exterior, hinges slightly loose, fairly large chip to p. 47, pages otherwise intact and very clean, offsetting and residue from removed bookplate to front free endpaper. Overall, a presentable copy of a classic baseball book. Who's Who in Major League Baseball, compiled by the sportswriter Harold (Speed) Johnson, is a directory that includes biographical sketches and statistics for the professional baseball players around the time of its publication. It also includes sections with biographies on coaches, umpires, statisticians, and other figures in the world of baseball. Each biography includes a sepia portrait alongside it. This is the first edition of the first book, which was issued annually afterwards until 1955.
Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Johnson, Harold (Speed). WHO'S WHO IN MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL. Buxton Publishing, Chicago, IL, 1933.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: 544pp Illus Signed by HOF's Earle Combs, Bill Dickey, Frankie Frisch & Joe Sewell; also signed by Charlie Grimm. Signatures are blue ink with a fountain pen; Frisch in red ink with a fountain pen. Rebound in red cloth with new endpapers. First 9 pages are chipped and tattered; title page and half-title page are been incorrectly re-inserted. Library stamps throughout. Numerous tears and tapings. PP 256 and 257 have been roughly separated. Signatures have been checked against PSACARD and SCD's BB Autograph Handbook (2nd edition.) Size: Oversized
Seller: Austin Book Shop LLC, Richmond Hill, NY, U.S.A.