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Heading: (DiMaggio, Joe)
Author: Whittingham, Richard, ed.
Title: The DiMaggio Albums: Selections from Public and Private Collections Celebrating the Baseball Career of Joe DiMaggio
Place: New York
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's
Date: [1989]
Item # : 126180
Sale Number   257
Lot Number   22
Sale Name    
Fine & Rare Books
Sale Date   02/10/2003
Price realized   $ 690
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Description:
2 vols. 400; [401]-800 pp. Edited by Richard Whittingham. Introduction and Commentaries by Joe DiMaggio. Illustrated throughout from photocopied newspaper articles including their original photos, other photographs, facsimiles, paintings, etc., including some plates in full-color. (4to) 10-7/8x9, original full modern dark blue morocco, spines lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, original cloth slipcase with Yankee's pinstripes fabric design on both sides with one side being DiMaggio's uniform number 5 and the other with NY overlapping symbol. No. 99 of 700 copies. First Edition.
Signed by Joe DiMaggio on the limitation page. The ultimate DiMaggio reference compiling numerous articles, stories and commentaries from various sources including Joe DiMaggio himself just for this handsome edition. Volume I covers the years 1932 to 1941; Volume II covers the years 1942 to 1951.
Condition:
Very faint soiling to slipcase, otherwise in fine condition.
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