BROUN, Heywood. THE SUN FIELD. Bound in reddish buckram with gold
lettering to front board and spine. Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York City. 1923. 1st edition, hb, 8vo, pp. 204, [ads].

A famed sportswriter, baseball aficionado, and critic, Broun was born in Brooklyn in 1888, and began his newspaper career with the New York Morning Telegraph in 1910. In 1921, he joined the Morning Herald (later New York Herald) where he began his famous column "It Seems to Me". He was a life-long friend of Christy Mathewson and Babe Ruth, and a member of the Algonquin Round Table. He  died in 1939. This is his fourth book, described by Andy McCue in his baseball book bibliography "Baseball by the Books", as "the first novel with serious baseball content aimed at an adult audience. The book is narrated by a former sportswriter, as Broun was, in love with a free-spirited feminist, as was Broun's wife, while she falls for a baseball player who clearly is modeled on Babe Ruth." (p. 25). The bottom edges of the boards are bumped and rubbed. The tail and crown of the spine are rubbed and bumped, and the top edge of the spine has faded considerably. The front free endpaper has been torn out (probably to remove an inscription). There is a small ink name, or word, written upside-down on the bottom corner of the front endpaper. The contents are clean and unmarked. The dust jacket is green with black lettering. The top and bottom of the spine is missing for about 1/2" (corresponding to the bumping and fading). There are also some larger chips at the folds. Despite defects as noted, the book is in good
condition, and the dust jacket in good plus condition.

Price: $750 US/ $1,125.00 Cdn.    #27571
 
 
 
 

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