[New York]: Viking (1988), 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 1-358 pp. Quarter red cloth over red paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $19.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with four leaves of black and white photographs. Signed and dated by the..... More
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
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: Simon and Schuster [1984], 1984. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], 10-349, [3] pp. Quarter navy cloth over light blue paper boards with silver lettering on the spine. Light blue-grey endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $16.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with four plates of..... 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
Chicago: A.L. Glaser, Inc., 1937. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], x-xvi, [2], 1-179, [3] pp. Navy cloth with yellow lettering on the spine. Price of $2.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a frontispiece and with twenty-three plates. A biography of a beloved coach of the..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company [1962], 1962. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], ix-xviii, [2], 3-234, [2] pp. Red cloth with a gold decoration on the front board, gold and black lettering on the spine. Price of $5.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. With drawings by Tom Lea..... 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
Philadelphia: Universal House [1950], 1950. First edition / Salesman's Sample. Hardcover. Slim 8vo. [6], 1-227, [1] (page of publisher's advertisements), [6] (pages of publisher's forms) pp. Red cloth with blue, white, and yellow lettering on the boards. Decorated endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with several black and white photographs. A salesman's..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster [1988], 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 11-286, [2] pp. Quarter brown cloth over yellow paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $17.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with several plates of black and white photographs. The autobiography..... 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
New York: A.S. Barnes & Company [1954], 1954. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], ix-xvi, [2], 3-368 pp. Black cloth with gold and red lettering on the spine. Price of $5.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design by Philip Fiorello. Illustrated with a frontispiece and with several..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons [1972], 1972. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 9-287, [1] pp. Navy cloth with 'JR' in gilt on the front board, spine lettered in gilt. White and grey patterned endpapers and pastedowns. Jacket designed by Tony Greco. A presentable copy of Robinson's autobiography, as told..... More
Washington DC: National Bibliographical Society, Inc., 1928. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [6], vii-xi, [1], 1-964, [2] pp. Navy leather with gold lettering on the front board and spine, a gilt decoration on the front board. Illustrated with numerous full-page photographs. A large ledger of American athletes, listed in alphabetical..... More