first edition Hardcover
1912 · Garden City
by ADAMS, Franklin P.
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1912. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Green cloth. Spine gilt a little tarnished, very good or better, lacking the dustwrapper. Humorous verse, including several on baseball, most notably "Baseball's Sad Lexicon" that begins: "These are the saddest of possible words: 'Tinkers to Evers to Chance'". Adams's second book. (Inventory #: 441405)