Philadelphia: The Westminster Press [1971], 1971. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], 8-192 pp. Bound in grey cloth with black lettering on the spine. Price of $4.95 on front jacket flap. Barber, who rose to prominence as a baseball broadcaster for the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Yankees, recounts some..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, Inc. [1951], 1951. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 1-295, [3] pp. Blue cloth with orange lettering on the spine. Price of $3.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a frontispiece photograph of Spalding. The history of baseball, centered on one..... More
Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley (1990), 1990. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], x-xiv, [2], 1-357, [1] pp. Bound in black cloth with gilt lettering bordered by a gilt rectangle on the spine, grey endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $19.95 on front flap of dust jacket. An attractive copy of this classic look..... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers [1969], 1969. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 3-246, [2] pp. White pictorial boards with orange and black lettering on the spine, front board replicates the design of the dust jacket; orange topstain. Price of $4.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated..... More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. [1972], 1972. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 7-158, [2] pp. Red cloth with black lettering on the spine. Price of $6.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Illustrated with several black and white photographs of Butkus. Textblock shows a bit of waviness..... More
New York: Stein and Day Publishers [1981], 1981. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [20], 3-269, [5] pp. Quarter blue cloth over grey paper boards with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $14.95 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated with a few black and white photographs. Tiny crease..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons (1984), 1984. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9],10-464 pp. Blue paper over boards quarter-bound in navy blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine, dark blue endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $17.95 on front jacket flap. Illustrated with numerous full-page black and white photographs of..... More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company [1974], 1974. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xii, [2], 1-354 pp. White cloth with orange and black lettering on the spine. Price of $6.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with several full-page black and white photographs. An intimate biography of..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], 2-358 pp. Quarter black cloth over black paper boards with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $25.00 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated with several black and white photographs from Rubin Carter's life. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1965. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], x, [3], 4-252, [2] pp. Dark orange cloth over boards quarter-bound in red-orange cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Pictorial dust jacket with price of $4.95 on the front flap. Illustrated by eight unnumbered pages of..... More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company [2006], 2006. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [13], 14-299, [3] pp. Quarter black paper boards over white paper boards with yellow lettering on the spine. Price of $24.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Basis for the well-received film. More
Englewood Cliffs, N.J. Prentice-Hall, Inc. [1963], 1963. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 7-299, [5] pp. Orange cloth with black lettering on the spine. Green endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $5.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. With several full-page and in-text black and white photographs by Roger Riger..... More
New York: The Dial Press, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], ix-xi, [4], 2-208, [2] pp. Orange paper boards with black lettering on the spine. Black endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $7.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with two black and white photographs. The autobiography of..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons (1984), 1984. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 11-232 pp. Blue paper over boards quarter-bound in navy blue cloth with silver lettering on the spine, red endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $14.95 on front jacket flap. The story of Yankees third baseman Graig Nettles with..... More
New York: Random House (1973), 1973. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], vii, [7], 3-421, [13] pp. Bound in light blue cloth with author's inittials stamped in dark blue on the front board, gold lettering on the spine, light blue endpapers and pastedowns, light blue topstain. Price of $7.95 on front..... More
New York: Arbor House [1981], 1981. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], 8-256 pp. Quarter black cloth over blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated with a color frontispiece and several black and white photographs. Warmly inscribed by Dave Newhouse on the free front endpaper. The autobiography of Plunkett..... More