Where Is He Now? Sports Heroes of Yesterday -- Revisited
by Jack Drees, Jim Mullen
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0824601459
- ISBN 13
- 9780824601454
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Item Price
€18.76€13.13
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About This Item
Middle Village, NY: Jonathan David Publishers, 1973 Jonathan David Publishers, Middle Village, NY. 1973. Hardcover. Stated 2nd Printing. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light bumping to head and tail; light shelfwear to head, tail, tips, and board bottom edges. DJ: Very Good; NOT Price Clipped ($7.95); light suntoning to spine; light shelfwear to head, tail, tips, and spine. Blue buckram boards and spine with dark blue lettering on the spine and front board. 246 pp 8vo. This book goes back to another age when sports figures served as healthy and helpful models for the young. These stories recreate the glory of the times of the athlete and bring to life for the young, a segment of the past that deserves to be remembered. Some of the athletes featured are; Archie Moore, Hank Greenberg, Enos Slaughter, Sammy Baugh, Eddie Arcaro, Bronko Nagurski, Don Hutson, and Mickey Owen. 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 #
- 016377
- Title
- Where Is He Now? Sports Heroes of Yesterday -- Revisited
- Author
- Jack Drees, Jim Mullen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0824601459
- ISBN 13
- 9780824601454
- Publisher
- Jonathan David Publishers
- Place of Publication
- Middle Village, NY
- Date Published
- 1973
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- sports writing, major league athletes, professional athletes, star athletes, Major League baseball stars, major league football stars, former sports greats, Archie Moore, Hank Greenberg, Enos Slaughter, Sammy Baugh, Eddie Arcaro, Bronko Nagurski, Don Huts
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana;
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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.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...