Author: EARL, John Prescott
Title: The School Team on the Diamond
Description: Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing, 1911. Hardcover. Illustrations by Ralph L. Boyer. Small 8vo. Olive green cloth with ivory lettering and black, brown and ivory pictorial stamping. 339pp. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, 6 called-for full-page plates, decorative endpapers. Good plus. Edgeworn and rubbed, with ivory lettering heavily flaked as usual; ownership signature on front pastedown; lacks front flyleaf; rear inner hinge bears discreet old brown cloth tape reinforcement, thus strong. A decent, handleable first edition of the final title in the 4-volume baseball-theme "School Team Series" published between 1908 and 1911. Follow the adventures of Bob Farrar and his chums at Standham Academy. Earl was actually a pseudonym of Beth Bradford Gilchrist (1879-1957). .

Keywords: Children's


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