Yankee Doodles by Gross, Milton / Stanley "Bucky" Harris (foreword) / Dinty Dugan (illusts.)

Milton Gross who started as a New York City sportswriter covering the Yankees in the 1930's writes about some of the Yankees he covered in the first fifteen years of his career. In this first edition from 1948 he writes about Joe Dimaggio, Yogi Berra, Tommy Henrich and Charlie Keller among others. Condition book very good dust jacket good plus.

House of Kent Publishing Company, 1948. Hardcover. Good++/Fair. Hardcover in dust jacket. Tan and grey tweed boards with title in red on spine. Corners and spine ends rubbed. Boards tanned. Previous owner's name on inside paste down. Endpapers foxed and tanned. Text pages are clean. Tired blue photo illustrated dust jacket is tattered, chipped, rubbed and worn throughout. Soil and tanning. Three inch piece missing from upper spine. Looks better in new protective mylar. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase.

Boston: House of Kent Publishing Company. Very Good- in Fair dust jacket. 1948. Hardcover. The DJ has a few small tears with paper loss. The back cover of the DJ is soiled. .

Boston: House of Kent Publishing. 1948. Hardcover. Very Good in a Fair dust jacket. Scuffing to panels. Tears to crown and heel. Chips to upper and lower page edges to front and rear panels. Bumped corner. Fading and scuffing to spine. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .