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Condition: Very Good. V8 N4, April; 25c cover price, distributed by ID, 96pp, b/w/color throughout, side-stapled perfect bound. Vintage magazine devoted to sports, mostly baseball. Three pages on cockfighting, or game fowl, and its associations with prominent historical figures, its legal and moral issues, recent vice raids, and images of dueling cocks, spectators/participants. Casey Stengel front cover (ph. Ozzie Sweet), boxing referees, Eddie Waitkus, John McGraw, Detroit hockey, Leo Durocher, Slammin' Sam Jackson Snead, boxer Joann Hagen, Kyle Rote, Andy Pafko, horse racing, Grover Cleveland Alexander, golf fashion, smoking Kirk Douglas rear cover. This issue with variant covers, all changing the white banner headlines on the front cover, this being the only one crediting Lardner's cockfighting. Very Good, light rubbing, small tears and bruises, rear panel creased.
Published by London, Jordison & Co, [c.1888]:, 1888
Seller: Louella Kerr Books, Petersham, NSW, Australia
pp16, 8 b/w illus. Oblong 8vo (18x13cms). Original printed wrappers. A little tanning, else fine, with no tears or chips. 8 satirical cartoons attacking Gladstone, Parnell, & the Irish Home Rule Bill.