Noel Sainsbury, Jr. CRACKER STANTON Vintage and similar items

CRACKER STANTON by Noel Sainsbury, Jr. Frontispiece illustration (on plain paper) by an unidentified artist. New York: Cupples Leon Company, Publishers, (1934). Circa 1942 later issue with dust jacket listing to the last book in the series. Maroon textured composition binding with lettering and a small baseball illustration in black, decorated endpapers; in pictorial dust jacket. Wartime pulp paper tanned with chipping to the lower corner tips of the first one-third of the pages, else a near fine, bright copy; in a mildly rubbed pictorial dust jacket with a pale stain to the lower rear panel, and a small chip to the upper front panel and one also at crown of the spine at the rear. Dust jacket illustration (by H. Leeming) of a player in white preparing to swing at a pitched ball, 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. 202 pages. First 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. "Boy whose father's death left the family in straitened circumstances rescues a girl and wins a scholarship to Clarkville [a Connecticut prep school] where he must grind at the books to prepare for a West Point entrance exam. He is eventually persuaded to go out for baseball and proves a star"--McCue. A relatively common book in much better than usual condition. 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.