Who's Who in Major League Base Ball (Baseball) by Johnson, Harold (Speed) - 1933

Buxton, Chicago, 1933. 1st Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition. Boards discolored from dampness, a few crayon marks on eps, half-title, and Intro. 544 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Sports & Pastimes; Baseball; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 21742. .

Chicago: Buxton Publishing Co, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Large (quarto) format in textured red cloth stamped in gilt. (This, the first edition, came in both red and in violet cloth, priority undetermined). 544 pp. Illustrated with sepia portraits of every major league baseball player of 1933 as well as league officials, umpires, coaches and club officials, journalists and an old-timer's section. One of the cornerstone baseball titles, this first issue of Who's Who was the only edition published in this deluxe size and quality (in subsequent years it was produced in smaller format and eventually went to digest size). Each player had his own page which included his personal date, statistics and an extensive biographical entry, as well as the studio-quality sepia portrait. The current-player section included Ruth , Gehrig, Foxx, Hartnett, Grove, etc. The extensive old-timer's section has individual, illustrated pages on Mathewson, Cobb, Delehanty, Plank, Joss and all the… Read More

Chicago IL: Buxton Publishing Co, 1933. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. 544 pages. small former owner's name on first page. introduction by Henry P. Edwards. sections on Kenesaw M. Landis, biographies of Baseball Officials and Immemoria, Sketch on James Iovino and Introduction to Players, Umpires, Hank O'Day, History of Baseball etc. light scuffs to covers, with some light spots. light foxing to inside front and rear covers. very bottom edge of last page has bottom one inch mended with clear tape and on page 543 & 544 at bottom are light brownish spots (dissimilar to foxing). red cloth covers with gilt titles. spine a little dulled. shipping will be extra for this book, please inquire. ; 8 3/4 x 11 1/4

Chicago: Buxton Publishing Company, 1933 First edition. Inscribed by the book's publisher, Grover C. Buxton, on front free endpaper: "To 'Bobby' / from / Grover / Sept. 27, 1933", and signed again by Buxton on p. 11. Original red cloth, baseball design and title in gilt to front board, titles in gilt to spine, frontispiece photograph of High Commissioner of Baseball, Kenesaw Mountain Landis. A good copy with a rectangular patch of fading to front board, a bit of wear and soiling to exterior, hinges slightly loose, fairly large chip to p. 47, pages otherwise intact and very clean, offsetting and residue from removed bookplate to front free endpaper. Overall, a presentable copy of a classic baseball book. Who's Who in Major League Baseball, compiled by the sportswriter Harold (Speed) Johnson, is a directory that includes biographical sketches and statistics for the professional baseball players around the time of its publication. It also includes sections with biographies on… Read More

Chicago:: Buxton Publishing Co.,, [1933].. First edition.. publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket.. 1944 ink gift inscription; otherwise very near fine in a jacket with numerous long splits and tears neatly reinforced with tissue on verso; and a number of one-inch+ chips.. Folio,. Illustrated from photographs throughout..