Bill, this type of thing can be found, and the price you could be asked to pay would be a very wide range, probably 10 to thousands of dollars. My suggestion would be to try to do the research yourself, prepare a want list, check the various book and online auction websites, and/or let others know what you are looking for and work with them. To begin I strongly suggest getting a copy of this book: Block, Baseball Before We Knew It. This is a good historical read, and best of all has a yearby year list of books about baseball with an explanation of why they are important. Just as valuable is a title index that can be checked once you think you may have found a potential purchase. While I think these are important there are no price guides, or registry’s etc. I am old and have doing this for along time so my finds have not cost me much at all. If you have more resources you can find very nice important books right now, but you will pay a premium for the work someone else did. I think I helped a board member purchase a very important early woodcut already and would be happy to help you. In any case, I hope this is a start in your quest.
There is another board member here who specifically collects all baseball woodcuts and I think he would be helpful.
Good luck
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