Who’s Who in American Sports. (1928, publisher’s presentation copy)
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First edition and inscribed and signed by the publisher: “To my friends — Neville and Cortland Smith From L. Filbert Crawford the Publisher.” A well-illustrated and comprehensive compendium of leading American sports figures. Numerous featured personalities are profiled with full-page photographic portraits, including Porter Hartwell Adams (aeronautics) and Caleb S. Bragg (aviation), pioneers of flight; Grover C. Alexander, Ernest Barnard, and Sydney P. Clark (baseball); Penelope Anderson, Thomas C. Bundy, and Dwight F. Davis (tennis); Forrest C. Allen (athletics); Mark Aerie (trapshooting); Sherman Badger (skating); Robert T. Barnett and Charles J. Evans (golf); George Bothner (wrestling); John McEntee Bowman (hunting and racing); William Lawson Bruce (rifle shooting); Henry Penn Burke (oarsman); Carleton Phillips (sports); Sabin W. Carr (pole vault); Glenna Florence Collett [Glenna Collett-Vare] (golf); J. Cheever Cowdin (polo); William H. “Jack” Dempsey (boxing); Gertrude Caroline Ederle (swimming); and Hamilton Fish Jr. (football).
Description: Who’s Who in American Sports. (1928, publisher’s presentation copy)
Washington, D.C.: National Biographical Society, Inc., 1928. Quarto (11 x 8 inches). 964 pages. Original publisher’s dark blue cloth with gilt decoration to front cover. Spine gilt dulled; light rubbing to lower joint; rear hinge expertly strengthened. A sound clean copy.
[3736007]Price: $125.00