CASEY AT THE BAT. Illustrations by Dan Sayre Groesbeck by THAYER, Phineas - 1988

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Kessinger Publishing, LLC. hardcover. New. 8x0x11. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

Kessinger Publishing, LLC. hardcover. New. 8x0x11. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

Chicago:: A. C. McClurg & Co.,, 1912.. First hardcover edition.. publisher's printed green boards. . There are a few slight smudges to the text and the top 1-1/2" of the spine is absent, with a few other small chips to the backstrip. . 12mo,. Illustrations by Dan Sayre Groesbeck..

Chicago: A. C. McClurg, 1912. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Scarce first illustrated edition and first stand-alone book edition of the American classic, mock-heroic poem, printed at The Caslon Press in Chicago. Very nice condition with a new, paper backstrip applied, matching the green background of cover with pictorial of a bat draped in a big, black bow. Corners moderately worn, a short closed tear bottom of page in front of book. Contemporary owner signature ffe. "Casey at the Bat" was first published in The Daily Examiner in San Francisco on June 3, 1888. A month after the poem was published, it was reprinted as "Kelly at the Bat" in the New York Sporting Times.

Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1912. First Illustrated Edition. Hardcover. Previous owner's name on half-title page in a child's hand; faint ink marks on endpapers; front hinge partly split but covers tight. Boards quite nice with a 2-1/2" split along front spine edge and the bottom inch of the spine chipped with loss. Still Very Good for this fragile piece. Dan Sayre Groesbeck. Small octavo (5-1/4" x 6-7/8") in original decorated green rough paper boards with gilt lettering and a yellow bat with a thick black ribbon tied around it; [31] pages. First Illustrated and First Separate Hardcover Edition of this classic piece of Americana, the most famous poem about baseball. Illustrated in orange and black by Dan Sayre Groesbeck with full-page cartoons in orange and black facing a stanza of the poem with a black-and-white cartoon figure below. “Casey” first appeared in a San Francisco newspaper in 1888 as a featured piece of humorous doggerel. Its ascension to immortal status was due primarily to actor… Read More

Chicago; New York:: A. C. McClurg & Co; John H. Eggers, New Amsterdam Book Co.,, 1901; 1911; 1912.. First book edition; first hardcover edition, and early illustrated edition, the three enclosed in a custom drop-back folding box.. publisher's illustrated wrappers printed in red and green (1901); publisher's illustrated green boards printed in gold and black (1912); and publisher's wrappers illustrated in colors. . Expert tissue reinforcement of the first edition at the spine, replacing some paper lost at corers and along the spine; bookplate inside front wrapper. Lower corners of the first hardcover edition slightly rubbed; an extremely attractive set of three rare editions of this title.. 12mo and 8vo,.