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Lot 194
Sale 2065 - Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana
Nov 14, 2024
9:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$600 -
800
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$699
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THAYER, Ernest L. (1863-1940). Casey at the Bat. Chicago: McClurg, 1912.
8vo. Printed in orange and black throughout, illustrations by Don Sayer Groesbeck. Original green pictorial boards (a touch of rubbing at spine ends and fore-corners). Provenance: Penciled gift inscription dated 1918.
FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF BASEBALL'S GREATEST POEM. William Randolph Hearst hired Thayer as a humor columnist for The San Francisco Examiner, where he worked from 1886 to 1888. "Casey" was his last piece for the publication, which he signed "Phin," and which ran on 3 June 1888. A BRIGHT COPY.