1884 Spaldings Official Athletic Library Baseball Guide is complete with front and back cover. There is masking tape along spine showing on both front and back cover. Front cover has wear but the color and overall appearance shows great original color creasing in center cover does not appear throughout guide, Corners and edges show wear. The back cover has larger amount of creasing and several burn hole at its side. Interior pages exhibits some folding but there is no true loss observed on the inside, but the spine appears to not be visible under the tape - a extremely important note. Overall in good condition. Content focuses upon the games, statistics, university records as well as rules and definitions of the game's verbiage. The interior pages have two signatures from the same gentleman (and apparent owner of this guide) Stewart Everett Rowe d.1944 Mayor of Portsmouth. Appears he signed it prior to his political position and then again with stamping of that title.

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