Last weekend I actually picked up several cool items that fit this criteria. However my favorite is scanned below. It is a circa 1840 chapbook and there are a few kids playing a form of baseball in the woodcut on the cover. This is my second time finding one of these in the last few months for 10.00. The condition is not great but the baseball image is mostly unmarred (the purple is actually not as pronounced as the scan appears). Nice Perkins photo and nice Springfield photo!
Alan
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