Raceball; How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game
by Ruck, Rob
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0807048054
- ISBN 13
- 9780807048054
- Seller
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Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Beacon Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2011. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0807048054 . B&W Photographs; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 288 pages; [SIGNED] 2011 Beacon Press. HC/DJ. 1st printing. Inscribed and signed by the author on the front endpage. Snugly bound and clean in original color pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $25.95 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Light feel of prior reading and superficial shelf evidence to jacket edges. VG+/VG+; Signed by Author .
Synopsis
Rob Ruck teaches at the University of Pittsburgh. Author of Sandlot Seasons: Sport in Black Pittsburgh and The Tropic of Baseball: Baseball in the Dominican Republic, he made the Emmy Award–winning documentary Kings on the Hill: Baseball’s Forgotten Men . He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, Maggie Patterson, his coauthor for Rooney: A Sporting Life .
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Details
- Bookseller
- DogStar Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46642
- Title
- Raceball; How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game
- Author
- Ruck, Rob
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0807048054
- ISBN 13
- 9780807048054
- Publisher
- Beacon Press
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 2011
- Keywords
- 0807048054
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
DogStar Books
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Lancaster, Pennsylvania
About DogStar Books
DogStar Books is an open-shop used and rare book store located in historic Lancaster PA. We have been buying and selling scholarly, antiquarian and better books, images, and paper since 1991. We maintain a large general collection of over 40,000 titles on premises to serve our local book loving clientele. Out of town visitors and buyers are always welcome. Our online inventory at Biblio began in 2020 and we will be increasing our inventory here on a regular basis.
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- Good+
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