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Lou Gehrig: Pride of the Yankees
by Paul Gallico
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good +/Very Good
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Item Price
€23.36€16.35
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About This Item
New York, NY: Grosset and Dunlap, 1942 Grosset and Dunlap, New York. c1942. Hardcover. Later Printing. Madison Square Book. Promotion edition for the 1942 movie of the same name starring Gary Cooper. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for a gift note scotch taped to the frontispiece photo verso dated December 25, 1943. There is also a wartime paper restriction notice on the title page which forced Grosset and Dunlap to use cheaper pulp paper which toned over time beginning in 1942. Book Condition: Very Good +; light bumping to tail; light shelfwear to bottom board edges; toning to pages; price sticker remnant on the FFFP. DJ: Very Good; light suntoning to spine; shelfwear to head, tail, and tips. Orange cloth boards and spine with bright black lettering on the spine. Frontispiece photo of Gehrig. Clean internals. Interior hinges are not split. This is the smaller wartime book that measures 7.5" x 5.25". 185 pp 12mo. This is the story of the NY Yankee star first baseman Lou Gehrig from his beginning in NYC and Columbia University to his long career with the Yankees to his demise and death from ALS. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016578
- Title
- Lou Gehrig: Pride of the Yankees
- Author
- Paul Gallico
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Grosset and Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1942
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Lou Gehrig, Eleanor Gehrig, New York Yankees, The Iron Horse, The Pride of the Yankees, First Baseman, Professional Baseball, ALS, Lou Gehrig Disease, AmyotrophicLateral Sclerosis, Yankee Stadium, Joe McCarthy, Miller Huggins,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Baseball; Biographies;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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