BABE RUTH : A Daughter's Portrait ( signed )

Beim, George; Stevens, Julia Ruth

ISBN 10: 0878339957 / ISBN 13: 9780878339952

Published by Taylor Trade Publishing, Dallas , TX., 1998

About this Item

1st. Edition , 1st. Printing 1998 , Red cloth hardcover with the dust jacket , 192 page book . Illustrated with black & white images of Babe Ruth from his daughters collection. This copy a tipped on book plate signed by Julia Ruth Stevens on the first blank page. Condition : Fine. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.

Seller Inventory # 091522-A

Bibliographic Details

• Title: BABE RUTH : A Daughter's Portrait ( signed )
• Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing, Dallas , TX.
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0878339957
• ISBN 13: 9780878339952
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: author
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed Editions
  • History Sports

About this title

Synopsis

is a family photo album filled with over 200 new, never-before-published images of Ruth. Each photo is accompanied by a caption by Julia Ruth Stevens in which she identifies and reflects on the event.

Review

There's something about the Babe. He continues to mesmerize long after the retiring of #3, and it's his enduring familiarity that makes this spruced-up family album assembled by his daughter such alluring fun. The Bambino was certainly one of the most willingly photographed individuals of his time, but A Daughter's Portrait goes beyond the staged and hyped--though the staged and the hyped are displayed in full glory--to offer some lovely images of a man of minimal privacy just being himself: fishing and hunting with the guys, missing a putt, reading the paper, at ease with his family. Some of the photo captions suffer from saccharine overdose, and others are factually incomplete or inaccurate, but that only conspires to make this whole seductive enterprise more personal, endearing, and folksy. --Jeff Silverman