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Title: Athletic Sports in America, England and Australia...Including the Famous "Around the World" Tour of American Baseball Teams... Author: Palmer, Harry Clay Place: Philadelphia Publisher: Hubbard Brothers Date: [1889] Description: 711 pp. Numerous illustrations throughout, mostly from photographs (including many group shots of various baseball teams); 4 color plates (3 baseball and 1 cricket related) from lithographs including frontispiece showing a baseball game (audience on ground with no bleachers), with tissue-guards. (8vo) 23x16 cm (9x6¾), publisher's original brown cloth lettered in gilt, beveled edges, decorative endpapers. First Edition. Primarily focuses on American baseball, including a thorough account of the 1888 Baseball World Tour. Other sports covered include: cricket, American football, lacrosse, tennis, rowing and cycling. Lot Amendments Condition: Wear to cloth, rubbing to extremities; hinges cracked, spotting to edges; else very good with bright plates. Item number: 281831