John Michael Lang Fine Books
[email protected] (206) 624 4100 5416 – 20th Avenue NW Seattle, WA 98107 USA 1. [Baseball] Holway, John. Voices From the Great Black Baseball Leagues. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, (1975). 9" x 6". 363pp. Orange cloth, in dust wrapper. Fine condition. Nice VG+ jacket. With many photo illustrations. A collection of accounts of playing ball in the Negro Leagues. Players covered include Rube Foster, Oscar Charleston, Smokey Joe Williams, Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, etc. One particularly intriguing chapter covers Mrs. Effa Manley, the business manager for the Newark Eagles. $35.00 2 Buechel, Eugene. A Grammar of Lakota. The Language of the Teton Sioux Indians. Saint Francis, South Dakota: St. Francis Mission, 1939. 8.5" x 5.25". 374pp. Red cloth, gilt lettering. Spine a little rubbed, else near fine condition. A detailed work with chapters on orthography, parts of speech, formation of words, syntax, etc. $40.00 TITANIC SURVIVOR”S FIRST BOOK 3. Candee, Helen Churchill. How Women May Earn a living. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1900. First edition. Small 8vo. 342p, plus 2pp. publisher ads. Red cloth, with a new leather spine and label replacing the original perished leather spine. Institutional gift bookplate on front pastedown, light and unobtrusive 3/4" circular stamp on title leaf. A very good to near fine copy in an attractive restoration. The story of the great liner Titanic and its tragedy is really a story about the people who built her and those who were on board for her first and only voyage. Among the most interesting of the passengers was a middle-aged divorced American woman, Helen Churchill Candee.