Baseballogy (In a Superb Dustjacket) by Edmund Vance Cooke - 1912

Chicago: Forbes & Company, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition. Good+. Paper covered boards show rubbing, edge wear, toning and soiling, with evidence of erased pencil markings to the rear board. Small horizontal crack backstrip. Offsetting from printed images, light toning to pages. A rather nice copy.

Chicago: Forbes & Co, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine-. First Printing of this charming paean to America's pastime, featuring 24 lighthearted and impertinent poems. Small, slim 8vo: 88pp, with baseball-themed spot illustrations from drawings in lower margin of each page. Publisher's pictorial paper-covered boards (showing two hands gripping a baseball bat), mid-brown end papers, pages printed in lime green and black; without the scarce dust jacket. Very minor wear and soiling, but a sound, firmly bound example and clean and bright throughout. From an early review in Baseball Magazine (vol. 9, issue 3, July 1912): "The book contains upward of twenty-five [sic] breezy ballads of the diamond which embrace a widespread field, including many of the leading characters and most stirring events in the recent annals of the game. The book is carefully edited and very artistically illustrated. . . . Whoever spends the price of a seat on the bleachers for this little volume will find himself well rewarded… Read More

Chicago: Forbes and Company, 1912 First edition. 8vo. Publisher's tan boards, titles and border in blue to front board, illustration of two hands holding a bat with green background to front board, small illustrations throughout text leaves; dust jacket with identical layout. Near fine book with previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper and a bit of offsetting from page illustrations; very good dust jacket with some shallow chipping to edges, small closed tear to top of front panel, and some toning. Overall, a bright and sturdy copy. Baseballogy is a collection of 24 humorous poems about America's favorite pastime. In the book's introductory poem, "Preliminary," the author playfully draws parallels between baseball and Ancient Greek philosophy, writing, "Philosophy was much the same / To Greeks as is our later game." Edmund Vance Cooke was an early 20th century Canadian poet known as the "poet laureate of childhood." He published sixteen… Read More

Chicago: Forbes and Company, 1912. First Edition. Small octavo, original illustrated boards and dustjacket. This copy with ownership signature of Harry Neily at front endpaper. Neily was the lead sportswriter for the Chicago American who cast his vote for Babe Ruth to win the American League MVP in 1923. Humorous collection of baseball verse. Near Fine in attractive Very Good plus dustjacket, few short closed tears.

Chicago: Forbes & Company, 1912. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Pictorial paper over boards. Fine in fine dustwrapper. An attractive and uncommon book of humorous verse about baseball, rare both in jacket and in this condition.