‘But there is no joy in Mudville’
Casey at the Bat.
New York: New Amsterdam Book Co, [1901].
Price: $10,000.00
About the item
First edition. Illustrations printed in sepia. 1 vols. 8vo. Original publisher's illustrated wrappers. Some archival mending, some waterstaining, and slight offsetting from an old clipping especially to copyright and dedication pages; overall, a very good copy of a fragile and rare book. Enclosed in a quarter-leather slipcase.
Item #374798
The famous baseball poem, one of the most celebrated of all American popular poems, was first published in The San Francisco Examiner in June 1888. This is its first appearance in book form, which is now extremely scarce, especially in its fragile original wrappers.
