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[GENTLEMEN’S FASHIONS & BASEBALL]

Currency:USD Category:Everything Else / Other Start Price:NA Estimated At:200.00 - 300.00 USD
[GENTLEMEN’S FASHIONS & BASEBALL]

<b>730. [GENTLEMEN’S FASHIONS & BASEBALL]</b>
<hr align=left size=5 width=33% color=#778899>Original 1913 Spring and Summer US Fashion & Sample Book from Jos. Knopf and Son of Knopf Clothes, in Rochester, NY, 16½"x22½". In addition to cloth samples and fine full-page drawings of men’s fashions accomplished by some of the finest graphic illustrators of the day, many with color tint, there are included five different pages [plus two duplicates] featuring vintage images of prominent baseball players of the day in various poses. Interspersed with samples and illustrations of English model sack suits and evening wear, are printed photographs of Chicago’s <b>Christy Mathewson</b>, <b>Marquard</b>, <b>McGraw</b>, <b>Tris Speaker</b>, the Athletics’ <b>J. Franklin ‘Home Run’ Baker</b>; ‘<b>Chief’ Bender</b>; plus a photo of <b>Ty Cobb</b> teaching his toddler son the “<i>art of batting</i>,” plus Boston manager <b>Stahl</b> and NY manager <b>McGraw</b>, and others. This cloth and leather bound book is intact with crisp text and drawings. Pages evidence scattered foxing; light general toning; two cloth samples missing. Generally in very nice condition.

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