Search Results: Baseball from Charles Agvent

[Los Angeles], [1992]. Letter. Creases from folding. Near Fine. Scarce one-page handwritten letter on Biltmore Hotel stationery by the late Hall of Fame pitcher best known for his career with the New York Mets where he was the pitching ace on the 1969 World Series winning team. Addressed to journalist Richard Tobin. In full: "Thanks for your note. I'm sorry we missed base at Riverfront Stadium. I got your note from one of our players just before the game started and was unable to make contact with you. I've sent the picture off to the young lad and he should have it ina day or two-- Hope all is well-- Very Best, Tom Seaver." With the envelope addressed in Seaver's hand.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 27 July 1878. Print. Some edgewear but an at least Very Good example of this fragile item. Folio (11" x 16") extracted from an 1878 issue of HARPER'S WEEKLY, the woodcut image is quite likely the first depiction of blacks playing AmericaÂ’s game.

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

(Hoboken, NJ): John Wiley & Sons, Inc., (2002). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. The host of NPR's "Weekend Edition" on the Hall of Famer.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Front endpaper neatly removed to allow easier display of the signature, otherwise Very Good in a Good dustwrapper with chips and tears. Illustrated with photographs of the Hall of Famer. INSCRIBED "To Nick/Best wishes" and SIGNED by the star centerfielder on the half-title page.

Fort Worth, TX: The Summit Group, (1991). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper, lacking the slipcase. Folio (10" x 12-1/4") in blue boards and dustwrapper. Illustrated with many photographs, mostly color, of the Hall of Famer. A brief foreword by then Texas Rangers Managing General Partner George W. Bush. SIGNED by the all-time strikeout king (Ryan, not Bush) on a special certificate mounted on the front free endpaper, one of 5308 numbered copies as such, each representing one of Ryan's strikeouts. This particular copy, ironically, is victim 2329, Lee Stanton, on 25 July 1977. Ryan, incredibly, was the 295th player selected in professional baseball's first amateur draft in 1965. Selected by the New York Mets, Ryan would stay with that team until 1971 when he was traded along with three other players, including Lee Stanton, for infielder Jim Fregosi. Though Ryan set many records and pitched seven no-hitters, he never won the coveted Cy Young Award. Publisher's Certificate of… Read More

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1992). First Edition. Hardcover. Small snag at bottom margin of text and dampstain slightly affecting first part of the book. Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper. Cloth-backed boards (8-1/2" x 11"). Illustrated with b&w photographs of Phillies baseball legends complementing a narrative history of the club that dates back to the 1870s. This copy has been SIGNED by more than 20 former Phillies, including some more than once. Autograph highlights include Robin Roberts (twice), Richie Ashburn (three times), Dick Allen, Jim Bunning (twice), Greg Luzinski, Mike Schmidt, Jim Lonborg, Pete Rose (twice), Steve Carlton, Tug McGraw, Joe Morgan, Von Hayes, Jerry Koosman, Lenny Dykstra, Cookie Rojas, Gene Mauch, Bill Robinson, Dave Cash, and more.

New York: [Wm. Porter & George Wilkes], 1856-1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Minor foxing, some pages browned, some unopened, lacking pages 69-72 and 81-84 (there is no baseball information on those pages). Binding quite nice. Overall Near Fine. Folio (10-3/4" x 16") in the original cloth rebacked with a recent brown morocco leather spine, lettered in gilt, and corners; original morocco label with the name "James Burnside" in gilt on the front cover; 416 (of 424) pages. Illustrated with a color frontispiece of a racing horse, "Flora Temple." The debut volume with 26 issues of this important sports newspaper containing accounts of horse races, billiards, cricket matches, chess, and some of the earliest reportage of baseball games including printed box scores (developed by Henry Chadwick in 1856) and rule changes. The National Association of Base Ball Players was the first baseball organization to extend beyond a single club, and its birth coincides neatly with this first volume of PORTER'S. The first… Read More

Yonkers: Photo File Inc., 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Small rubbed spot, about the size of a dime, in the right blank margin with some paper loss. Very Good. Photograph (10" x 8") with statistics commemorating Carlton's induction into the Hall of Fame on 31 July 1994. SIGNED by the left-handed legend.

New York: Random House, (1960). First Edition. Hardcover. A previous owner has pasted the edges of the front and rear dustwrapper flaps to the pastedowns. Still Very Good in a Very Good dustwrapper. Illustrated with eight pages of black-and-white photographs. This copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by both authors, Rowan on the front endpaper and the Hall of Famer on the half-title page: "6-10-60/To Jim Sramek with/best wishes. I hope you/enjoy 'Wait Till Next/Year'/Jackie Robinson."

New York: Pequod Press, 1981. First Edition. Wraps. Fine. Printed wraps. A meditation on Willie Mays's famous 1951 throw from deep centerfield to throw a runner out at home. IIllustrated with a frontispiece by James Kearns.