Baseball: An Illustrated History.

WARD, Geoffrey C. and Ken Burns.

Item Number: 144005

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.

First edition of this companion book to the classic documentary series. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated endpapers, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

"A rich concoction of narrative, essays, and photos [that] dazzles the eye ... In so many ways you are reminded that rooting for baseball is like breathing" (Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times).