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Autographs of Baseball Players, Yankee Stadium 1931

Autographs of Baseball Players, Yankee Stadium 1931 by BABE RUTH; LOU GEHRIG; et al.

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Seller: The Manhattan Rare Book Company
Title
Autographs of Baseball Players, Yankee Stadium 1931
Author
BABE RUTH; LOU GEHRIG; et al.
Seller
The Manhattan Rare Book Company (United States)
Description
Yankee Stadium, Bronx, New York: np. first edition. card wrappers. SIGNED BY BABE RUTH, LOU GEHRIG, CHARLIE GEHRINGER, EARLE COMBS, TONY LAZZERI, JOE MCCARTHY, LEFTY GOMEZ, ET AL. Autograph book lovingly assembled by a young baseball fan in 1931 at Yankee Stadium, with over 40 autographs of players, including Ruth and Gehrig and eight other members of the Baseball Hall of Fame. –––––––––– Imagine being a kid in 1931 and you’re a baseball fan. This was during the glory days of baseball, when players were national heroes, and big games were national news. You also happen to live in New York, the center of the baseball universe, with a heated rivalry between three local teams every year. If you were lucky enough to go to a few games, perhaps you could get close to one of your heroes, maybe even get an autograph. Young Seymour Kessler did much better than “get an autograph” – he carried a little booklet with him to games at Yankee Stadium in 1931 and collected over forty autographs of players, including the biggest stars of the day – Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig – along with eight other Hall-of-Famers including Charlie Gehringer, Lefty Gomez, Earle Combs, Tony Lazzeri, and others. He carefully and lovingly curated his autograph collection, pasting pictures from newspapers beneath the signatures (whenever he could find them) and writing in clean block letters the position and team of the player. He titled his booklet on the cover “Autographs of Baseball Players / Yankee Stadium / 1931 / Property of Seymour Kessler” and on the first page added, with great care to make the writing neat: “An autograph collection of American League Baseball Players. The autographs were obtained during the 1931 season at the Yankee Stadium, The Bronx, New York. Property of Seymour Kessler. 1858 West 5th Street Brooklyn, New York.” It’s a remarkable collection of names and autographs – a snapshot of many of the stars of the American League – and so lovingly curated by Kessler. He brings us right back to being a kid and a baseball fan, sharing the magic of meeting your heroes. 1931, by the way, wasn’t all wonderful for young Seymour. The Yankees only finished in second place, and it must have been challenging for him living in Brooklyn and being a Yankees fan (although in 1931 the Brooklyn team was called “The Robins”, only becoming the Dodgers in 1932). Kessler was able to find newspaper pictures of many of the players, but not all of them. Generally, if they were minor players or out-of-town players he had difficulty finding pictures. The booklet contains the autographs of: The Baseball Hall-of-Famers: –Babe Ruth
 –Lou Gehrig 
–Charlie Gehringer (Tigers Hall-of-Fame Second Baseman)
 –Earle Combs (Yankees Hall-of-Fame centerfielder)
 –Tony Lazzeri (Yankees Hall-of Fame Second Baseman) 
–Joe McCarthy (Yankees Hall-of-Fame Manager)
 –Vernon “Lefty” Gomez (Yankees Hall-of-Fame Pitcher) 
–Herb Pennock (Yankees Hall-of-Fame Pitche r)
–Joe Sewell (Yankees and Cleveland Hall-of Fame shortstop and third baseman, famous for his ridiculously few times striking out) 
–Charles “Red” Ruffing (Yankees Hall-of-Fame pitcher)
 as well as: –Ken Strong (NFL Hall-of-Famer, College Football Hall of Fame, baseball minor leaguer)
 –Lyn Lary (Yankees Shortstop) 
–Lou McEvoy (Yankees Pitcher, no picture, signed on two pages)
 –Luke Sewell (Cleveland Catcher) 
–Henry “Hank” Johnson (Yankees Pitcher)
 –George Pipgrass (Yankees Pitcher)
 –Arndt Jorgens (Yankees Catcher)
 –Jim Weaver (Yankees Pitcher) 
–Sam Byrd (Yankees Outfielder) 
–Gordon “Dusty” Rhodes (Yankees Pitcher) 
–Art Fletcher (Yankees Coach and Former Shortstop)
 –Lu Blue (White Sox First Baseman) –Billy Sullivan (White Sox)
 –Art Herring (Tigers Pitcher)
 –Bob Kline (Red Sox Pitcher, no picture) 
–Earl Webb (Red Sox Outfielder, no picture) 
–Hal Rhyne (Red Sox Shortstop, no picture) 
–Joe Boley (Athletics, Shortstop, no picture)
 –Eddie Bennett (Yankees Mascot, picture and obituary) 
–Ben Chapman (Yankees Outfielder) 
–Roy Sherid (Yankees Pitcher, no picture) 
–Jimmie Reese (Yankees Second Baseman, no picture)
 –Red Rolfe (Yankees Infielder)
 –Charlie Sullivan (Tigers Pitcher, no picture) 
–Bob Fothergill (Tigers Left Fielder, no picture) 
–Butch Henline (White Sox Catcher, no picture)
 –Bennie Tate (White Sox catcher, no picture)
 –John Kerr (White Sox Second Baseman, no picture)
 –Roy Johnson (Tigers Outfielder, no picture) 
–Lin Storti (St. Louis Browns, no picture) 
–John Stone (Tigers Outfielder, no picture) 
–Hank Garrity (White Sox Catcher, no picture) 
–Bill Norman [?] (White Sox Outfielder, no picture) 
–Al Van Camp (Red Sox Outfielder, no picture) 
–Tom Oliver (Red Sox Outfielder, no picture) Size: approx. 3.5 x 5.75 inches (closed). Signatures in pencil. Original card wrappers; housed in custom box. Only minor general wear; overall in a remarkable state of preservation.
Five titles from the series Escritores Latinoamericanos, published by Ediciones Nuevo Mundo

Five titles from the series Escritores Latinoamericanos, published by Ediciones Nuevo Mundo

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Seller: Arthur Fournier Fine & Rare
Title
Five titles from the series Escritores Latinoamericanos, published by Ediciones Nuevo Mundo
Seller
Arthur Fournier Fine & Rare (United States)
Description
First Edition. Set of five books, from 95 to 160 pp. each. Letterpress on commercial stock, stapled text blocks glued into stiff illustrated wrappers printed offset. All five books held in publisher's original printed bellyband, and housed in non-original custom slipcase. 8vo. Good overall. Yapped edges of covers bumped, some general minor toning, spotting, and wear endemic to tropical climates, but overall notably clean and intact considering age and quality of materials. [2136] A very attractive set of five books, with uniform design and trim size, packaged together by the publisher with printed bellyband (here present and intact). The books were published in 1961 as part of Ediciones Nuevo Mundo's series "Escritores Latinoamericanos." The individual books are: [1] Las Crónicas: Poesía Bajo Consigna by Félix Pita Rodríguez (Cuban author, poems of the Cuban Revolution); [2] Sub-Terra by Baldomero Lillo (Chilean author, about the lives of Chilean coal miners); [3] La Serpiente de Oro, by Ciro Alegría (Peruvian author, accounts of those who live and work on the banks of Peru's rivers); [4] En Este Lado, by José Luis González (Puerto Rican author, "stories against injustice, oppression, and racial discrimination"); [5] Cuentos Negros de Cuba, by Lydia Cabrera (Cuban author, stories and legends from Afro-Cuban culture). A lovely set of books by a range of Latin American authors.
International News [22 issues]

International News [22 issues]

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Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
Title
International News [22 issues]
Seller
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description
Chicago: International Contact Commission for the New Communist (4th) International; Provisional International Contact Commission; Demos Press, 1947. Newsletter. Twenty-two issues of the newsletter in somewhat varying formats, all around 8.5x11 inches; some toning, occasional handling wear but generally very good condition. Issues present are vol. 2 no. 10, vol. 3 nos. [1], 2, [3], 4, 5, 7; vol. 4 nos. 1, 3; vol. 6 nos. 4, 9; vol. 7 nos. 4, 6, 7, 9, 10; vol. 8 nos. 1-5, and 9 (this issue printed in New York rather than Chicago). In 1935 those in the Workers Party who opposed the French Turn split off to form the Revolutionary Workers League. It split into two RWLs in 1938. One faction was led by Tom Stamm, while this group based in Chicago was led by Hugo Oehler and Sid Lens. These issues are full of discussion of the situation leading into WWII, the RWL's critiques of other Left groups' positions, and analysis of the postwar situation.
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The Art Journal. Volume II ONLY LACKING title page

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$200.00
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Seller: James Cummins Bookseller
Title
The Art Journal. Volume II ONLY LACKING title page
Seller
James Cummins Bookseller (United States)
Condition
Bound in full brown pebbled morocco, front hinge split and off, a.e.g.. Internally fine
Description
[New York: D. Appleton & Co., Publishers, 1876. Illustrated. 380 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Bound in full brown pebbled morocco, front hinge split and off, a.e.g.. Internally fine. Illustrated. 380 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Illustrated with 32 engravings on Steel after F. Leighton, Landseer (10), Birket Foster, & Bougereau. 4 engravings after Sculpture and 3 full-page wood engravings.
Speech of the Hon. Daniel Webster, Delivered in the House of Representatives... on a Bill Making further provisions for filling the ranks of the Regular Army..

Speech of the Hon. Daniel Webster, Delivered in the House of Representatives... on a Bill Making further provisions for filling the ranks of the Regular Army.. by WEBSTER, Daniel

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Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Title
Speech of the Hon. Daniel Webster, Delivered in the House of Representatives... on a Bill Making further provisions for filling the ranks of the Regular Army..
Author
WEBSTER, Daniel
Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Alexandria: Printed by Snowden & Simms, 1814. Softcover. Very Good. Octavo. 13pp. Removed. A couple of faint horizontal bends, but still very good.
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The Crackers: Tuckertown. Second Novel in the Cracker Series. by Tucker, Michael Cahoun.

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Title
The Crackers: Tuckertown. Second Novel in the Cracker Series.
Author
Tucker, Michael Cahoun.
Seller
Lighthouse Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
Published by the Author, 2019. Signed by the Author. Octavo, softbound (slick, full-color illustrated stiff wrappers), 296 pp. Fine. Tuckertown is the second novel in The Crackers series. The Legend of Jessie B. Tucker began the story of how Jessie fought in and survived the Civil War with the help of his new-found Creek Indian family and then drove cattle across the wilderness. Paid for cattle in gold, Jessie bought up the land surrounding his homestead, fearing the carpetbaggers from the north would purchase his land. Traveling to Georgia for ex-slaves to help him build his empire, Jessie unknowingly begins an unstoppable force that will end in Tuckertown. With men to share crop the land, a preacher, a new church, a blacksmith and new commissary, the seeds of this new town are planted. All the new families will come to depend on Jessie and his wisdom to help them grown and prosper...

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