DE WITT'S BASE-BALL GUIDE. FOR 1874. Containing the New Rules of the Game, as Revised at the Professional Convention of 1874. With an Explanatory Appendix for Umpires.

Original pictorial yellow wraps (4" x 6-1/4"); 99, (1) pages; with pages 63/64 misbound after page 42. Illustrated with frontispiece, as well as charts and tables. A very scarce and early guide to baseball, by the "Father of Baseball," Henry Chadwick (1824-1908). Published annually from 1868 to 1885, De Witt's baseball guides were the official publication of both the Professional and Amateur National Associations, and contain a flurry of information on the game's rules, scoring, player statistics, advice on pitching and hitting, game records, and more. Wear and small losses along spine and extremities, old faint pencil notations on front and rear wrappers; all edges trimmed; old pencil scrawl on verso of frontispiece; ownership signature in pencil on final text leaf. About Very Good.