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The American Boy's Book of Sports and Games
de Anonymous
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Librería
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Warwick, New York, United States
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Dick & Fitzgerald, New York, 1864. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. ANONYMOUS. The American Boy's Book of Sports and Games, New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1864. Octavo, first edition, pp. 600, brown cloth boards with gilt, black and blue lettering and decoration in a sporting vein, beveled edges, 600 illustrations including four color plates, gift inscription on free front endpaper. With an early discussion of baseball and its rules in 11 pages, plus a chromolithographic plate by W. Dickes that is considered to be the first-ever color illustration of the new sport. (Porter's Spirit of the Times, a sporting weekly, produced the first black-and-white illustrations of baseball, and was also the first widely issued publication to publish the rules, which tended to vary by region). In addition to the color, there are 6 monochrome illustrations of baseball here. Very scarce; Worldcat shows no copies of this edition in the U.S.; there is one in Britain at Oxford. Condition of this book: Rubbing and wear at extremities but overall very good; clean inside, chromos bright. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Sports & Pastimes; United States; 19th century; Antiquarian & Rare. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 54348. .
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 54348
- Título
- The American Boy's Book of Sports and Games
- Autor
- Anonymous
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good Condition
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Dust Jacket
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Dick & Fitzgerald
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1864
- Palabras clave
- BZDB17 Sports & Pastimes; United States; 19th century; Antiquarian & Rare. Anonymous The American Boy's Book of Sports and Games
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Worldcat
- Worldcat is a collaborative effort produced by OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) and supported and used by 72,000 libraries...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
