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The Halls of Fame: Featuring Specialized Museums of Sports, Agronomy, Entertainment and the Humanities
by Jones, Thomas C. (Ed); Kay Smith (Watercolor illustrations by)
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- vg
- Seller
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: J. G. Ferguson Publishing Company, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Large quarto. 464pp. Original cranberry colored handcrafted mission leather boards with illustration and embossed title on front, and gold lettering on spine. Speckled fore-edges. Illustrated endpapers. Book housed in its original artistically decorated box. In every field of endeavor, certain individuals stand out - be it sports, music, history, business or art. These individuals have been honored in Halls of Fame across the United States and Canada. This work tells the complete story of 41 Halls of Fame, covering every sport from Football to Lacrosse, as well as Great Americans, Country Music and others. The absorbing text contains a list of members of each Hall of Fame, and spotlights on the most famous members of each. Artist Kay Smith provides illustrations of these famous men and women of history, to add to many photographs throughout the book. Box in very good, binding and interior in fine condition.
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- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 34756
- Title
- The Halls of Fame: Featuring Specialized Museums of Sports, Agronomy, Entertainment and the Humanities
- Author
- Jones, Thomas C. (Ed); Kay Smith (Watercolor illustrations by)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - vg
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- J. G. Ferguson Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1977
- Keywords
- Celebrities in sport, Hall of Fame in sport, Illustrated, First edition, Reference
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Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
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About the Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
Biblio member since 2009
Santa Monica, California
About Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
We offer a broad selection of rare, out-of-print and antiquarian books with an emphasis on photography, architecture, art, Judaica, Bibles, Weimar Germany and the Third Reich, modernism, Olympic Games, erotica and foreign-language works, especially German, Hebrew, Polish and Yiddish. We also provide appraisal, auction, consulting and rental services.
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- G
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- Quarto
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