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Sat, Apr 18, 2020 12:00PM EDT
Lot 286

Babe Ruth?s Own Book of Baseball, signed.

Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000

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Ruth, George Herman (?Babe?). Babe Ruth?s Own Book of Baseball, signed. New York/London: G.P. Putnam?s Sons, 1928. Limited to 1,000 signed copies, this being No. 434 (in pencil) and Signed by Babe Ruth on limitation page. Publisher?s blue cloth stamped in gilt, panoramic endpapers of Yankee Stadium. Photographic frontispiece of Babe Ruth + 30 plates from photographs. 8vo. Spine sunned with fraying at ends, corners rubbed, front interior joint cracked and starting, pale foxing to endpapers and preliminaries, early gift inscription to page facing signature. A clean and bold signature of one of the most desirable signatures in baseball.