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New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1952. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Blue binding (one of three, with no priority). Near fine in price-clipped near fine dust jacket with a small scrape on the front flap fold. A nice copy of the author's first book, perhaps the classic baseball novel, and the basis for the Barry Levinson… Read more about this item

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1963. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First English edition. Small bookstore label and small owner name, both on front fly, near fine in near fine dust jacket that has a very faint erasure on the is front panel. This edition adds a note and glossary of American baseball terms by Malamud for the English edition.… Read more about this item

New York: HarperPerennial, 1991. Softcover. Very Good. First paperback edition. Illustrated wrappers. Pages a little toned, corners a trifle bumped, else near fine. Signed by Bob Feller on the half-title page.

[No place]: Billy Evans, 1926. Softcover. Good. First edition. Quarto. 32 leaves printed rectos only. Top stapled photographically illustrated wrappers. Affixed label signed in facsimile by Evans inside front wrap addressing the new rule about throwing a glove or hat at a batted ball. Stapled oxidized, small split along the top of the spine, some overall wear and… Read more about this item

Nashville, Tenn: Steamboat Johnson / Parthenon Press, 1935. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 141 + ads pp. Green pictorial cloth. A couple of bumps at the bottom of the boards, very good in very good dust jacket. Inscribed by the author on the first blank. "Best Wishes to R. A. Sobel from "Steamboat" Johnson, Umpire… Read more about this item

New York: Dick and Fitzgerald, 1864. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Small octavo. 600pp. Illustrated in both black and white and with four color chromolithographic plates. Green cloth stamped and decorated in gilt, red, and black. Small chips at the edges of a few leaves, one signature a little sprung, moderate wear on the boards, a good copy. A… Read more about this item

Unbound. Near Fine. Sixth plate tintype. Contemporary tooled leather case. Image shows some modest evidence of having been cleaned, but is otherwise fine. The case (which may have been supplied at an earlier date) is separated at the spine and rubbed, the clasp and hook closure are present. Two seated baseball players in identical uniforms, with small neckties… Read more about this item

(New York: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 1865. Good. Double-page wood engraving, measuring about 15" x 21" to the inside edges of a mat housed in a plain unglazed wood frame. One four-inch U-shaped tear with minor loss, else good or better with a few scattered short closed tears and two or three tiny holes. The much sought after… Read more about this item

Chicago: Mussey & Harper, 1888. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. 12mo. [64]pp. Illustrated with woodcuts. Modest offsetting at the edges of the wrappers, small creases on the front wrap, faint staining on rear wrap that encroaches faintly on the pages, and small tear on the edge of the rear wrap, and last few leaves, a very good copy… Read more about this item

Austin, Texas: Old Cardboard, 2006. Softcover. Fine. Issue #6. Slim small quarto. 45pp. Heavily illustrated in color. Fine in stapled self-wrappers with a tiny bit of wear. With the 3-D glasses laid in; prints 12 pages of 3-D images.

New York: Robert M. De Witt, 1873. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Small octavo. 128, [4]pp., with wood-engraved illustrations and diagrams throughout the text, and four pages of advertisements at the back. Publisher's purple cloth stamped in gold on front cover and spine, and in blind on back cover. Spine is toned, head and tail of spine are… Read more about this item

Cincinnati: The Author / (The Press of Johnson and Hardin), 1907. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Tall octavo. 249pp. Photographic plates. Off-white cloth with decorative design of a baseball player stamped in red on the front board. Modest wear at the cloth spine ends, lacking front and rear fly leaf, front hinge restored, very good or better. Inscribed… Read more about this item

Dallas: Heritage Auctions, 2016. Softcover. Fine. Auction catalog. Sports Cards portion only. Quarto. 506pp. Heavily illustrated in color. Front cover and first leaf with a small foredge crease else fine in glossy wrappers. With a computer printout of prices realized laid in. This auction featured the Bobby Murcer collection, the Andy Leff hockey collection, the Walter Spitzmiller collection,… Read more about this item

Dallas: Heritage Auctions, 2016. Softcover. Fine. Auction catalog. Memorabilia portion only. Quarto. 484pp. Heavily illustrated in color. Trifle worn else fine in glossy wrappers. This auction featured the Bobby Murcer collection, the Andy Leff hockey collection, the Walter Spitzmiller collection, and the David Fischer Dream Team collection.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1997. Unbound. Fine. Uncorrected proof. Small octavo. Five unbound gatherings (one of plates) laid into proof glossy wrappers. Fine. It appears that the wrappers of the published version used a similar layout but different color scheme and different photo of "the Kid.

London: Hart-Davis, 1970. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First English edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A classic novel of the imagination utilizing baseball as a metaphor for modern life. The English edition has a glossary to American baseball not in the American edition.

New York: The Library of America, 2010. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition thus. Slim small octavo. Fine in pictorial boards and fine dust jacket. Includes the title essay and a memoir of Williams. A nicely-produced little volume.

New York: Random House, 1992. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected proof. Printed wrappers. Fine.

New York: Random House, 1992. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket modestly tanned at the edges with a very gentle bump at the spine base. In the middle of a pennant race, a star shortstop falls in love with his team's second baseman.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. Softcover. Near Fine. Uncorrected proof. 189pp. Gray printed wrappers. Light stains on page 69, spine and edges sunned, near fine.