Author: BARBOUR, Ralph Henry
Title: Left Guard Gilbert
Description: New York, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1916. Hardcover. Illustrations by E.C. Caswell. Small 8vo. Blind-embossed brown cloth with white lettering. 310pp. Frontispiece, 3 full-page plates (as called for). Very good. Faint edgewear, with white spine lettering heavily rubbed as usual and front board lettering partial. A tight and nice first edition of the third title in the "Football Eleven" boy's series, internally fine, with blind-embossing depicting alternating footballs and cheerleader's megaphones. Internal list cites only the first two titles in this short series ("Left End Edwards" and "Left Tackle Thayer").Charming front flyleaf pastedown of Bayard Livingston Kilgour Jr. noted Cincinnati collector of Russian first editions -- and apparently of juvenile series books as well. .

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