CASEY AT THE BAT

by Phineas. Groesbeck Thayer, Dan Sayre, illustrations by

$575 · Offered by Johnnycake Books

First edition

Chicago: A. C. McClurg, 1912. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Scarce first illustrated edition and first stand-alone book edition of the American classic, mock-heroic poem, printed at The Caslon Press in Chicago. Very nice condition with a new, paper backstrip applied, matching the green background of cover with pictorial of a bat draped in a big, black bow. Corners moderately worn, a short closed tear bottom of page in front

• Binding: Hardcover

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