Billy Pearson Stephen Longstreet (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good -. 1st Edition. Binding tight, interior clean other than previous owner's name blacked out on ffep. Gray boards with moderate wear to edges and corners. Slight fading to spine ends. Brown lettering on spine. Top page edges black tinted. Dust jacket somewhat worn to edges, missing about two inches from the top and bottom of spine. Preserved in mylar wrap. Not price clipped ($4.50). The memoir of eccentric jockey Billy Pearson. 370 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Stated First Edition. 8vo. - over 7¾ in. - 9¾ in., 370pp. Light shelfwear, tight binding, light toning to lower end of endpapers, interior text clean. Dust jacket covers lightly worn but clean, mild chipping to edges, $4.50 price remains intact. Very Good copy in Very Good dust jacket. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Prize-winning thoroughbred-racing jockey turned bit-part actor, turned art connoisseur, turned quiz show winner, becoming only the fourth person to win on the popular 1950s' game show, "The $64,000 Question." In 370 pages + 16 pages of black-and-white photos in front. A FIRST EDITION, First Printing, from 1958, SIGNED by Pearson with a personalized inscription to ffep. Introduction by film director John Huston, who had become a friend of Pearson & helped him open his art gallery in La Jolla, California. Hardcover small octavo has gray cloth-covered boards covered in darker gray paper, blind-stamped with an image of a jockey on horse on front cover, blue title box & lettering to spine. Black topstain. Condition is Near Fine: completely clean, binding strong & straight, pages creamy white with a hint of tanning, but completely unmarked. Page 273-274 has a vertical tear ascending from bottom about halfway up the page. The unclipped DJ.(with orig. $4.50 price intact to front flap) is Fair, downgraded due to a 3" vertical unclosed tear descending from spine-side edge of front cover, along with small chips & rubbing to extremities, light soil. Nicely protected in new clear mylar cover Free! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received Weekdays by 2 pm Pacific time; later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. 2nd printing. Book has light shelf wear. Interior clean. DJ has price intact with moderate wear, a few tiny closed tears, a few small chips.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable. First Edition, first printing . Inscribed by Pearson on the FFEP. The binding is tight, bottom corner of the front panel lightly rubbed. Light handling on the boards and spine. Text unmarked. The dust jacket has chips out at the ends of the spine; taped repairs at the tail of the spine, small tears, edgewear, light soiling, clipped, in a mylar cover. 8vo. xi, 370pp. Signed by Author.…