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The Yachtville Boys

The Yachtville Boys

by Davis, Caroline

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Boston: Henry Hoyt, 1869. First Edition. cloth. Very good. 1st edition of the 3rd baseball novel ever, preceded by Oldfellow's Uncle Nat (1865), and Everett's Changing Base (1868), but The Yachtville Boys cuts some path too. It's the first baseball novel written by a woman, and the first one with a frontispiece illustrating the game being played, although the plate was engraved by an artist who had never seen baseball, so the view looks more like a deformed cricket match, even though the detailed account of the game, as played out in the text, leaves no doubt that the boys are contesting American baseball and no other sport. The Yachtville Boys is also the scarcest of the 3, with just a single defective 1st edition sold at auction in the last 50 years (1993). OCLC verifies that scarcity, locating only 7 copies in libraries worldwide (Wisconsin, Notre Dame, Kansas, Brown, Yale, U. C. L. A. and The American Antiquarian Society). Publisher's cloth, some rubs and wear to the spine tips and corners, (see… Read More
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Yellow Submarine Drawings
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Yellow Submarine Drawings

by [The Beatles]

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United Artists, 1968. Very good. 6 original production drawings for the animated feature film, Yellow Submarine. All 6 show The Beatles in their Sgt. Pepper band uniforms, Paul, and John with beards, each on an individual 16" X 12 1/4" sheet of 16 field paper, all in black graphite, and 5 of the 6 with parts of the drawings or the numbering in red. All are very good. 1. George: The image (head and shoulders) is 4 1/2" tall, in black, his beard has not been added but space has been left for it, there are 4 numerical notes in the margins, another by the image, his tuba is behind him, and a borderline is in red. 2. Paul: The image (half length) is 9" tall, in black and red, with 6 numerical notes in the margins, one of them deleted (2 pieces of clear tape on the reverse). 3. Paul: The image (half length) is 9" tall, in black and red (he is saluting), with 4 numerical notes in the margins. 4. John: The image (head) is 2 1/2" tall, in black, with 2 numerical notes and a scale in the margins, and another… Read More
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