Play Ball. Stories of the Diamond Field
by Mike Kelly of the Boston Base Ball Club by Mike Kelly
$7,500 · Offered by B & B Rare Books
First edition
Original Wraps. Boston: Press of Emery & Hughes, 1888. First Edition. Good. First edition, first printing of Kelly's baseball memoir. Rebound in black cloth with titles in gilt to spine, olive endpapers, publisher's front wrapper bound in, wrapper lettered and illustrated in burgundy, with an engraved portrait of the author. A good copy, lacking the rear wrapper, front wrapper
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