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5 Pioneering Sports Collector Guides - the First Printing of Beckett’s First Book.
Lot 484. 5 Pioneering Sports Collector Guides - the First Printing of Beckett’s First Book. In 1979, Dr. James Beckett and Dennis W. Eckes published their first “Sport Americana Baseball Card Price Guide.” Later copies of this guide with the familiar “Baseball Card” typeface are scarce. An earlier first printing is downright rare. Designated ISSN 0190-1389, a copy of the first printing is offered here in ex-m+ condition. It contains a color insert not included in the later version, ISBN 0-529-05689-5. Accompanying this copy are: 2. “Sport Americana Baseball Card Price Guide No. 2,” 1980, third printing, vg-ex. 3. “The Sport Collectors Bible” by Bert Randolph Sugar, 1977, second edition, third printing, vg-ex. 4. “Sports Collectors Digest Baseball Card Price Guide,” 1987, first edition, unused in the original shrink wrap from Toys R Us. 5. “Beckett Monthly Baseball Card Price Guide,” Vol. 1, No. 2, with cards of Mickey Mantle and Cal Ripken on the cover. Clean ex copy.
Winning Bid $83.
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