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The Short Season: A Boston Celtics Diary, 1977-1978
by John Powers
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0060134518
- ISBN 13
- 9780060134518
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Harper and Row, 1979 Harper and Row, New York. 1979. Hardcover. Stated First Edition/First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; light soiling to textblock fore edge; light shelfwear to board edges. DJ: Very Good: NOT Price Clipped ($8.95); light wear to head, tail, and tips; small closed tear on top of front panel. Green boards and spine with bright silver lettering on the spine. 228 pp 8vo. The author was a sports reporter assigned to cover the Boston Celtics for the 1977-78 season where he was traveling, eating, and almost living with the squad. Based on his diary, he takes the reader inside the locker rooms, restaurants, hotels, and players' homes recording their feelings, problems, jokes and relationships. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012583
- Title
- The Short Season: A Boston Celtics Diary, 1977-1978
- Author
- John Powers
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0060134518
- ISBN 13
- 9780060134518
- Publisher
- Harper and Row
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1979
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Boston Celtics, National Basketball League, Boston Globe, 1977-78 Basketball season, Red Auerbach, Tommy Heinsohn, JoJo White, John Havlicek, Dave Cowans,
- Bookseller catalogs
- 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
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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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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
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