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Sale 257: Fine & Rare Books (#257) 02/10/2003 1:00 PM PST Closed
Starts Ending 02/10/2003 1:00 PM PST

Lot #69 The Babe Ruth Story

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$1,875

Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000

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Description

Title:

The Babe Ruth Story

Author:

Ruth, Babe, as told to Bob Considine

Place Published:

New York

Publisher:

E. P. Dutton

Date Published:

1948

Description:

250 pp. Illustrated with plates from 49 photographs; pictorial and decorative endpapers. 8vo. Gray cloth, lettered and stamped in red, pictorial jacket, custom cloth slipcase. First Edition.

Includes a typed letter signed by the Babe with his signature within inked quotes. Letter dated April 12, 1948 on Babe Ruth's letterhead and envelope with Babe Ruth's name printed on the back. The letter is addressed to Martin H. Levin of the Wilmington Morning News in Delaware and discusses his sending him a copy of his book "The Babe Ruth Story."

Condition:

Short tears and creases to jacket edges, some soiling, mild offsetting to spine verso; light shelf wear to volume, a few tiny insect wear holes to middle of front joint, faint foxing to page edges; contents clean and fine; very good to near fine in a very good and bright jacket.

Item#:

128209
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