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[BASEBALL]. Our National Game. [New York:] Liebenroth Von Auw & Co., 1887. 4to. Scrap-book illustrated with all six color lithographs (including title-page) and 14 blank leaves (four pages with lithographed advertising cards). Publisher’s full cream cloth, front board decoratively stamped in gilt, black, and red, spine stamped in gilt, rear board decoratively stamped in blind. Some wear, toning, foxing soiling to boards, title-page re-attached at gutter with later tape, first blank leaf (with advertising cards) loose, lithographs and blank leaves toned. Still, a very good copy; this scrapbook has some of the earliest color lithographs of baseball to appear in book form. FIRST EDITION. From the Mark Rucker Collection.