The Sunlit Field by Kennedy, Lucy - 1950

New York: Crown Publishers, 1950. Cover is lightly worn and sunned. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. . Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex Libris.

NY: CROWN PUB. OWNER'S NAME TO TITLE PAGE; TINY CHIP TO CROWN AREA OF DJ. . VG. Hardcover. First Edition. 1950.

Crown Pub, New York, 1950, 1950. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo, hardcover, near fine in VG yellow pictorial dj (wrapped in plastic protection). Baseball in Brooklyn circa 1860 in this romantic tale about an Irish colleen and her strapping ball player. Walt Whitman is also a character in what most people believe is the first baseball novel written by a woman for an adult audience. 333 pgs. A novel about the golden days when America was just coming of age, and of a time when baseball was getting its start in Brooklyn.

Crown Publishers, 1950. First Edition. $3.00 Price to the dust jacket. Very Good book in a Very Good dust jacket.

New York: Crown, 1950. Bound in gray cloth; sans DW; 333pp.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket.

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1950. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The first novel written by a woman about baseball, not that you can tell it from the dj illustration. If they'd asked me, I could've given them some advice on how to illustrate the dust jacket, but alas. (I wasn't even around then!)Very good in raggedy dust jacket.

New York: Crown Publishers. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1950. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends of the book covers have some light bumping. The text pages are clean and bright. There are several spots of foxing on the foredge of the text block. The dust jacket has several edge tears, nicks, small chips and some spots of ground-in dirt. The spine of the dust jacket has noticeable fading. "Romance, adventure, and the maturing of a boy and girl -- all to the rhythm of baseball in the latter part of the 19th century. Brooklyn was the meeting place for Larry, run-away from a domineering mother in New England, and Po, refugee from her father's home after his death. But the love story bats second to the rivalries between the Brooklyn ball club and their staid neighbors in manhattan, and the final cessation of hostilities when Brooklyn… Read More

Crown Publishers, New York, 1950. First edition (no additional printings indicated). First novel. (Said to be the first baseball novel written by a woman.) Baseball. Book fine except for focal, slight, inconspicuous discoloration/staining, covers. Dustcover very good (modest rubbing; few closed tears, the longest being 1 inch, upper left front panel; modest chipping, spine ends, largest 1/4 x 3/16 inch; spine mildly sunned). Dustcover quite attractive; bright yellow front panel. Gray cloth-covered boards, 8 x 5 3/4 inches, 333 pp. (1722RO068). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good.

First edition. Very Near fine & the dust jacket condition is met fine & retains original $3.00 price. Fine gray cloth covered board. 333 pages. Tight binding - no loose pages. Book does not appear to have been read. No writings on pages. Almost new condition, except book has an old book- musty smell. Book was found in an old vacant house. 8 1/8 x 5 3/4"

New York: Crown Publishers, 1950. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition.. New York: Crown Publishers, 1950. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good+. Very clean light gray cloth boards with blue-black lettering on cover and spine. No fraying or wear, corners are sharp and not bumped. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 333 pgs. Clean bright color illustrated dustjacket is not price clipped, has hint of slight wear at top and bottom of spine edge. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. A novel about the golden days when America was just coming of age, and of a time when baseball was getting its start in Brooklyn. 8vo. Fiction..