The Book of Sports by Robin Carver
Boston: Lilly, Wait, Colman, and Holden, 1834.

Hardcover in blue cloth. 5 X 6 inches. Paper stamp on front board with woodcut and title. Expertly rebacked.
This was the first book printed in America to explain the rules of baseball. An extremely collectible item.
Contains 15 chapters each describing the rules and techniques of games and sports that include
Blind Man's Bluff, Foot-Ball, Cricket, Marbles and Treading Water. Contains a woodcut of baseball being
played in front of Boston's State House in the Boston Common. Woodcuts throughout. Slight foxing and a
few previous owner markings. In a beautiful collector's slipcase with a leather spine, blue title stamp
and four raised bands and blue cloth.

Fine in Very Good ....$12,500.00