Add this copy of Changing Base; Or What Edward Rice Learnt at School to cart. $195.00, very good condition, Sold by Bradley Ross Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Auburn, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1891 by Roberts Brothers.
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Very Good. Book Roberts Brothers 1891. Very good blue cloth hardcover. Previous owner's vintage inscription to endpaper. Small area of soiling to top of cover. Contains a new preface by Everett, who had since become a "preacher of the Gospel and the master of a boys' school." He explains his decision to reprint the book without revisions, notwithstanding that it was "full of crudities and inconsistencies" and received criticism on moral grounds.
Add this copy of Changing Base, Or What Edward Rice Learnt at School to cart. $200.00, very good condition, Sold by Printed Garden, Booksellers rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Sandy, UT, UNITED STATES, published 1874 by Lee and Shepard Publishers.
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VG. Duodecimo. Green cloth covered spine and boards with gilt outline lettering and black decoration on both the spine and front board. Fair amount of bumping at the head and tail of the spine and at the tips of the four outside corners. Some rubbing at the head and tail of the spine and at the tips of the corners, and all along the outside edges of the spine. A trace of rubbing around the outside edges of the boards. Very light facial rubbing. Lettering on both the spine and front board is all clear and easy to read. Yellow endpapers. Front hinge is starting in a few places, each very short. Binding is tight. Pages have a few age spots here and there, but are clean and crisp throughout. 282 pages. As far as I can tell, one illustration on page 247 and a second one on the frontis page, protected by a tissue. No dust jacket, possibly as issued, given the illustrated nature of the boards.
Add this copy of Changing Base to cart. $750.00, like new condition, Sold by Jeff Bergman Books ABAA/ILAB rated 1.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Flemington, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1898 by Roberts Brothers.
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Fine. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Fine copy in Brown Boards. Second Edition.1898 First was 1879. Rare Copy. One of First novels on Baseball. Excellent Copy.
Add this copy of Changing Base; Or What Edward Rice Learnt at School to cart. $1,250.00, very good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1869 by Lee and Shepard.
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Very Good. Scarce early printing; first published in 1868. 12mo. 282pp. Four plates. Publisher's green cloth with gilt title and baseball decorations on the spine. A little mottling on the boards, modest wear at the spine ends and corners, an attractive, very good copy. Although Shannon refers to this as "The first known novel incorporating baseball activity" (p.39), we have handled one earlier (*Uncle Nat; or, The Good Time Which George and Frank Had, Trapping, Fishing, Camping Out, etc. * by Alfred Oldfellow. New York, 1865). Thus this is the second novel to feature a substantial amount of baseball activity (two and a half chapters, with an extended description of a schoolboy game), and the first to feature an obvious reference to the game in the title. The author, son of the famous orator Edward Everett and cousin of the author Edward Everett Hale, also served in Congress. An attractive copy.
Add this copy of Changing Base; Or What Edward Rice Learnt at School to cart. $1,695.00, good condition, Sold by Bradley Ross Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Auburn, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1868 by Lee and Shepard.
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Good+ Book First edition, first printing Lee and Shepard 1868. Good plus brown cloth hardcover with gilt lettering and decoration to spine. Mild wear to corners and spine ends. Binding overall is square and firm. Very faint previous owner's vintage inscription to flyleaf, some foxing to tissue guard which is starting to pull away. Second known book containing baseball fiction content (two and a half chapters). Quite scarce.
