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Posted By: Max Weder

Looking for early baseball fiction and non-fiction. The following is a partial list of wants, email what you have that is odd or unusual. Trade list follows.

Wants
Fiction
Chance, Frank, The Bride and the Pennant in dj
Mathewson, Christy, First Base Faulkner, Pitcher Pollock, Dodd Mead editions in dj
Mathewson, Won in the Ninth in dj
Scott, Everett, Third Base Thatcher, Dodd Mead in dj
Everett, William, Thine Not Mine
Barbour, Ralph Henry, many in dust jacket
Heyliger, William, many in dust jacket
McLaughlin (pub), Baseball ABC
Lardner, You Know Me Al, 1st in dj

Non-fiction
Thuoey, Boston Base Ball Club 1871-1897
Ward, Base Ball (hardcover)
McGraw, My Thirty Years in Baseball in dj
Asenback, Humor Among the Minors in dj
Evers, Touching Second in dj
Flood, The Splendid Splinter in dj
Cobb, Busting Em, with or without dj

For Trade (or sale in certain circumstances)
Anson, A Ball Player's Career
Palmer, Athletic Sports in England, America and Australia
Church, Seymour, Base Ball (two copies, one inscribed by George Wright)
Ruth, How to Play Baseball (in dust jacket, 1931)
Roff, Base Ball and Base Ball Players
Everett, Changing Base, 1868
Ruth, Home Run King in dj
Peverelly, American Pastimes
Spink, National Game
Evers, Baseball in the Big Leagues, dj
Spink, One Thousand Sports Stories (3 volumes, great vintage bb photos)
Richter, History of Baseball--signed by Nat Fleisher, for you boxing fans
Johnson, 1933 Who's Who, beautiful copy without dust jacket
Claudy, The Battle of Baseball
Cochrane, Baseball the Fan's Game
Evers, Touching Second, no dj
Spalding, America's National Game
Spalding, America's National Game-- beautiful presentation edition for 40th anniversery of National League

Other more common titles, please inquire.

As always, Vancouver, Victoria and other early Western Canada baseball ephemera : Obaks, T4s, programs, photos, trophies, postcards.
Thanks,

Max


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