Babe Ruths Own Book Of Baseball

[yanks12025]

Thanks
But on this one web site i have it has the price to be $1500 and mine is different from yours.

[baseballart]

How is your book different? Here is my book that sold on ebay (that is, without the dust jacket)



As I mentioned in the first post, this book without a dust jacket is worth much less than a copy with a dust jacket.

I'm not sure what you mean when you say "But there is a book listed for $1500 on the web". People can list an item for whatever they want; it doesn't reflect market value unless there is a willing purchaser at that price. I have seen virtually dozens of copies of this book sell on ebay, the internet book sites and sports memorabilia auctions in the last 15 years of book collecting. $1500 is not a realistic price.

There is a signed limited edition of this book that does have increased value due to Ruth's signature and I'm assuming your copy doesn't have a signature of Ruth (noting that many of these signed books have forged or at least secretarial signatures)

As I mentioned in my first post, the book is very common and is in virtually every advanced baseball book collector's library. If you can post photos of your book, I can give you my assessment as to whether there is anything particularly special about it.

As for the Burt reprint edition from 1928, there is a book listed for sale on the internet for $39.99. A dust jacketed copy of the Burt edition is fairly rough shape is listed for sale at $275.

Hope this helps.

Max

[yanks12025]

This is what mine looks like and heres the web site that says its $1500.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Ruth-George-Herm...QQcmdZViewItem

[vintagesportscollector]

Yanks12025, it(yours) looks to be a $50 Putnam 2nd edition, but I know very little about books. I believe Max answered your question...he knows best. The seller can say the book is worth $1 Million if he wants....that doesn't mean anything.

[baseballart]

The Princeton Antiques listing is not a $1500 book. If someone pays that, all I can say is that they've spent at least $1400 too much that they could have saved by doing some internet research or waiting a few weeks or a couple of months for another copy to show up on ebay without the high bid price.


Max