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Lyon, Mississippi: Derrydale Press, 1993. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Adrian Eliot Hodgkin. Signed by Author. SIGNED by Glenn St. Charles, Commissioner of the Legends of the Longbow Library and Founder of the Pope and Young Club. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Green textured leather covers with gilt lettering and illustration to front and spine, all edges gilt quite finely. Decorated endpapers. Replete with black-and-white illustrations, facsimile and photographs. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Apparently unread, spine still crackles. Frontis matter, 2-222 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Lyon, Mississippi: Derrydale Press, 1994. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Signed by Other. SIGNED by Glenn St. Charles, Commissioner of the Legends of the Longbow Library and Founder of the Pope and Young Club. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Green textured leather covers with gilt lettering and illustration to front and spine, all edges gilt quite finely. Decorated endpapers. This valuable tome identifies U.S. and British library-located copies for all the scarcer, more rare volumes circa 1974, this being a reprint of the 1974 reprint of the original true First Edition of 1971 by Frederick Herbert Lake (born in 1929) and Harold Francis Wright (born in 1927). Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Apparently unread, spine still crackles. xvii,… Read More

Schenectady, NY: Frank Keetz, 1988. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Scarce in the trade, there being only a single additional copy available of this title, another of the five volumes by the author of the social history of professional baseball in the Schenectady, New York area. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the brown card stock covers, staple-bound. 96 pp. Replete with black-and-white period photographs of baseball players and fans.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Lyon, Mississippi: Derrydale Press, 1994. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by Glenn St. Charles, Commissioner of the Legends of the Longbow Library and Founder of the Pope and Young Club. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Green textured leather covers with gilt lettering and illustration to front and spine, all edges gilt quite finely. Decorated endpapers. Replete with black-and-white illustrations, facsimile and photographs. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Apparently unread, spine still crackles. Frontis matter, 2-320 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: E.P. Dutton / Seymour Lawrence, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped.Stated First Edition, with "1" in number line present. xv [4], 219 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1998. Second Printing. Hardcover. As New. 4to 11" - 13" tall. A. Saladini and P. Szymezak. Scarce in the trade, there being no additional copies available on-line currently. Massively heavy, oversized volume, bound handsomely in bright red cloth over boards, bright and sharp gilt lettering to front cover and spine. Lavishly illustrated in both black-and-white and full-color throughout, including full-page. 324 [2] pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Louisville, Kentucky: The Louisville Times, 1956. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. Elephant Folio 23" tall. No Runs, No Hits, No Man to Even Reach First!" Uber-scarce in the trade, there being currently no such copies available to the trade. Housed in stiff folded Mylar sheet is a copy of the "Red Flash" edition of The Louisville Times for the day after Don Larsen's "perfect game" pitched for the New York Yankees, that is, October 8, 1956, being Volume CXLV, #136, pp. 1-2, 15-16, unfolded, and in quite fine condition just a bit toned. Measures 22 1/2" x 15" tall and wide, respectively. To that date there had been only seven perfect games pitched in the history of baseball, but none during the World Series. Other stories covered that day on the first page included a bus-use feasibility study, Mamie Eisenhower's cold and flu symptoms and the negotiations over the Suez Canal. pp. 15-16 also cover world affairs.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the… Read More

York, Pennsylvania: Strength & Development Publishing Company, 1979. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear beyond a very short closed tear to rear panel top. This is the infamous Arnold Schwartzenegger issue, with his beefcake on the front cover, after a pic by John Balik. Articles by John DeCola, John Teriazzo, John R. McKean, Gilbert III, Bob Hoffman, Tony Chikes, Bill Dobbins, Terry Todd, Dennis B. Weis, Stan Warren and others. 72 [2] pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Schenectady, New York: Self-published, 1993. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 4to 11" - 13" tall. The fourth volume by the author of five proposed volumes about the history of baseball in Schenectady, New York. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor to moderate wear of covers and text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. Blue card stock wraps, stained and soiled a bit on rear panel, but interior fresh, bright, and replete with black-and-white illustrations. 190 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: Physical Culture Publishing, 1915. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 12mo 7" - 7. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and internally quite sturdy. Edges of blue softpaper wraps are sunned a bit, short splits to front joint, else clean and unmarked of interior. Facsimile signature at the end of the author's Preface. 259 pp. and with publisher's ads following. Plentiful black-and-white photographs of both a man (him) and an unnamed woman in exercise positions including serially so. Bernarr Macfadden (born Bernard Adolphus McFadden, August 16, 1868 – October 12, 1955), according to his Wikipedia entry, "was an American proponent of physical culture, a combination of bodybuilding with nutritional and health theories. He founded the long-running magazine publishing company Macfadden Publications." Born in Mill Spring, Missouri, he changed both first and last names to give the appearance of greater strength and masculinity.… Read More

Dallas, Texas: Taylor Publishing Company, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Signed by Other. Uber-scarce in the trade, there being no additional copies available on-line currently in this state and condition. Certificate of Authenticity laid in, signed by the publisher, Jack Smith, and another signature (of co-publisher, Bruce Corey) at Page of Limitation. Bound quite handsomely in blue crushed leather, gilt-stamped "NY" and gilt lettering to spine. Brilliant, fresh, bright interior. Several hundred illustrations and photographs. 227 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Lyon, Mississippi: Derrydale Press, 1994. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Exceedingly scarce in the trade, being a consecutive run of seven volumes, an extremely handsomely produced set of the reprinted editions of the first seven volumes of Ye Sylvan Archer, which began publication in 1927 in Corvallis, Oregon (Go Beavers!). Printed beautifully by Douglas C. Mauldin of Derrydale Press, SIGNED by Glenn St. Charles, Commissioner of the Legends of the Longbow Library and Founder of the Pope and Young Club, in a special Limited Edition of 1,250 copies only. Sterling condition hardcover copies, with unbruised tips, tight bindings, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Green textured leather covers with gilt lettering and illustration to fronts and spines, all edges gilt quite finely; one small patch of rubbed gilt to one top edge. Decorated endpapers. Double-column texts and… Read More