Noel Sainsbury, Jr. Clarkville's Battery and similar items

CLARKVILLE'S BATTERY or "Baseball versus Gangsters" by Charles Lawton [pseudonym of Noel Sainsbury, Jr.] Frontispiece illustration (on plain paper) by E.A. Furman. New York: Cupples Leon Company, Publishers, (1937). Circa 1942 later issue with dust jacket listing to the last book in the series. Red textured composition binding with lettering and a small baseball illustration in black, decorated endpapers; in pictorial dust jacket. Wartime pulp paper tanned but not brittle, ownership page filled in, else a near fine, bright copy; in a mildly rubbed pictorial dust jacket with a mild foxing to the rear panel, and light shelf wear with nicks. Dust jacket illustration of a player in white pitching a ball in flight to his catcher, with a red diamond background, all surrounded in blue with titles in white. According to Mattson Davis this copy is a later (circa 1942) issue. Octavo. 203 pages. Fourth book, in the eight book series, Champion Sports Stories, by the author of various children's adventure and mystery novels during the late 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. The boys from Clarkville outwit gangsters and rescue folks in a flood as distractions while preparing for try-outs for battery positions. "The main plot involves four boys struggling to be the team's pitcher and catcher"--McCue. For protection the dust jacket has been placed in a new clear (easily removable) Brodart sleeve. FREE SHIPPING TO THE USA PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT BOOKS THANKS! Created by Seller's Assistant Basic.