FOOTBALL DAYS: MEMORIES OF THE GAME AND OF THE MEN BEHIND THE BALL
by Edwards, William H
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+/No Jacket
- Seller
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Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Moffat, Yard and Company, 1916. With Introduction by Walter Camp (Yale 1880). Author is from Princeton University Class of 1900. "There is no sport in the world that brings out unselfishness as does this great gridiron game of ours." Over 50 illustrations and photographs throughout book. 463 pp. Blue cloth covers with gilt title lettering and illustration of football on front cover, faded gilt lettering on spine. Cover corners and edges are bumped and rubbed, scuffing and wear to cover faces, spine is very faded from sun exposure, joints are thin, spine ends are bent and fraying. Side and bottom page edges are uncut with tears from pages being printed together. Endpapers are foxed, interior pages are tanned with some foxing. Many interior pages were uncut and improperly opened, causing chipping and some small tears to edges, other pages remain uncut. Book in Good+ to VG- condition.. Hard Cover. Good+/No Jacket. Illus. by Photographs. Size: Approx. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2". Football.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bee Creek Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007439
- Title
- FOOTBALL DAYS: MEMORIES OF THE GAME AND OF THE MEN BEHIND THE BALL
- Author
- Edwards, William H
- Illustrator
- Photographs
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Moffat, Yard and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1916
- Keywords
- Football, Sports, Ivy League, Princeton University
- Bookseller catalogs
- Education; Sports;
- Size
- Size: Approx. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2"
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About the Seller
Bee Creek Books
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Princeton, New Jersey
About Bee Creek Books
Welcome to Bee Creek Books! We specialize in rare and out of print books in a variety of subjects (fiction to fishing, the arts to agriculture), old government documents, rare periodicals, vintage journals, no longer printed reports and quarterlies, classic maps and charts, photos, and much more!
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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