101 Signed By 65 Baseball Players, Including Joe DiMaggio And Whitey Ford 146 DIMAGGIO, Joe; HONIG, Donald. The New York Yankees. An Illustrated History. New York, 1981. Quarto, original half black cloth, dust jacket. $5500 First edition of Honig’s profusely illustrated history of the New York Yankees, signed by 65 baseball players including Joe DiMaggio, Whitey Ford, Catfish Hunter, Dave Righetti, Sparky Lyle, and many more. With hundreds of blackand-white photographic images, many full page. Very nearly fine. “I Was No Worse Off Than The Other Kids With Whom I Played” 147RUTH, Babe. Babe Ruth’s Own Book of Baseball. New York, 1928. Octavo, original blue cloth gilt, dust jacket. $4200 First trade edition of Babe Ruth’s impressions of baseball and its strategic play, with frontispiece portrait and 30 candid photographs. “Millions of words have been written about Babe Ruth since he first donned a major league uniform in 1914.” This is his own take on the game. Issued the same year as a signed limited edition of 1000 copies, no priority established. Text clean, cloth nearfine, evidence of old tape repairs to jacket flaps and pastedowns. Scarce original dust jacket with mild spine toning, clean with little wear. Extremely good. Signed By Five Members Of The 1953 Everest Expedition 148 HUNT, John. Our Everest Adventure. Leicester, 1954. Square octavo, original pictorial cloth, dust jacket. $2800 First edition, signed by five members of the 1953 Everest expedition: John Hunt, Edmund Hillary, George Band, Michael Ward, and George Lowe. With over 130 photographic illustrations. The 1953 British Expedition to Mount Everest was the eighth in 30 years to attempt Everest. On May 29th, 1953 Sir Edmund Hillary and guide Tenzing Norgay at last stood at the summit; a culminating moment in mountaineering history. Price-clipped dust jacket with chip to spine head, affecting author’s name. Extremely good. “The Next Bound I Expected To Take Me Over A Cliff In A Terrible Drop That Would Finish It All” 149HOUSTON, Charles S. and BATES, Robert H. K2. The Savage Mountain. New York, 1954. Octavo, original half red cloth, dust jacket. $1350 First edition of this story of the disaster-struck Third American Karakoram Expedition, signed by four members of the 1953 expedition. Standing at 28,238 feet, second only to Everest in height, K2 is generally considered to be the most difficult and dangerous peak in the world. Signed by Dee Molenaar, Charles Houston, Robert Craig, and Peter Schoening. Near-fine.
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