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Sixteen sports tales about a wide variety of games by well-known authors deal with greatness in both triumph and defeat
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The Random House Book of Sports Stories
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Random House Children's Books, 1990
ISBN 10: 0394928741
ISBN 13: 9780394928746
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Hardcover
Seller: Better World Books: West, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. Thomas B. Allen (illustrator). Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Seller Inventory # 2312770-75
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The Random House Book of SPORTS STORIES.
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Random House, Inc., New York, 1990
ISBN 10: 0394928741
ISBN 13: 9780394928746
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Thomas B. Allen (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. Picked for their variety and their literary quality, the sixteen unforgettable sport stories collected here range from Ring Lardner's hilarious yarn about a girl-struck rookie pitcher to Bruce Brook's gripping account of racism on a high school basketball court to Gerald Kersh's tragicomic saga of a match between wrestlers born forty years apart. Some of the finest authors of the twentieth century--including Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, John Updike, James Thurber, and William Saroyan--are represented here (as are Toni Cade Bambara, William T. Tilden II, Jay McInerney, Roger Angell, Pedro Juan Soto, Jack London, James D. Houston, and Jay Neugeboren), writing about sports as various as karate, football, boxing, skiing, hunting and horse-racing. Handsome black-and-white drawings by artist Thomas B. Allen bring all the excitement of the action right onto the page. An exemplary, thought-provoking collection, The Random House Book of SPORTS STORIES is a monument to great sports literature. As new, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. 7 3/4" X 11 1/4". Seller Inventory # 4714