Childhood of Famous Americans, Lou Gehrig, Guernsey Van Riper Jr, 1st Ed, 1949

A wonderful story about the childhood of the MLB legend and New York Yankees star! Great for an aspiring baseball player or, being a first edition, for a NY Yanks fan or sports collector!

Hardcover book with dust jacket, deckled edge pages, vintage 1949, stated first edition, The Bobbs-Merrill Company

Dust jacket has some small edge tears, some wear, and some light scuffing and scratching. Price is clipped. Hardcover is very good condition with small bumped corners. Inside pages seems to be unread. There is slight waving at the top of the first few pages and a slight bump on the top corner of some pages.

Lou Gehrig by Guernsey Van Riper Jr, 1st Edition, 

Childhood of Famous Americans Series, Illustrated by Paul Laune