Today's Game: A Baseball Novel
by Martin Quigley
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/near fine
- Seller
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Bordentown, New Jersey, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Viking Press, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Fine in bright, crisp dust jacket with a couple very minor faults. Hardcover. Second printing stated. viii+176 pp. The fictional story of a major league baseball game played in hot mid-July; while just a regular season game, it's crucial to Blue Jays manager Barney Mann. Mann is perilously close to losing his job, made more crucial because he had traded away the National League's best pitcher for a promising but untested young Negro outfielder, the first of a number of deals Mann contemplates as he tries to youthen his roster.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ) (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- E28297
- Title
- Today's Game: A Baseball Novel
- Author
- Martin Quigley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1966
- Keywords
- baseball, fiction, sports,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Baseball;
Terms of Sale
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
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About the Seller
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
Biblio member since 2005
Bordentown, New Jersey
About The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown is a general used/rare bookshop open to the public Tues.-Sunday 11AM to 5PM (8 PM on Fridays). 10,000 books on premises with another 25,000 in stock. Areas of speciality include baseball, New Jersey, American literature, mysteries. Member, ABAA, ILAB,Antiquarian Booksellers of New Jersey. Located in historic Bordentown City, New Jeresy (est. 1682).
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- First Edition
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- Fine
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