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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. s4 6"x9"; 350 pages; The binding and pages are clean, tight and square. There is no underlining, highlighting or margin notes. A used copy with normal reading wear. If you order multiple titles, I will combine them in order to reduce postage costs. If you have any questions, contact me before ordering for details. Contains the following essays: "Foreword" by Bill Littlefield; "Pre-Game Warm-up: Who's on First?"; "There's No Place Like Home!" by Joe Kraus; "Minnesota's 'Homer Hanky Jurisprudence': Contradiction, Ethics, and the Twins" by Paul Horan and Jason Solomon; "Should Cubs Fans Be Committed? What Bleacher Bums Have to Teach Us about the Nature of Faith" by Thomas D. Senor; "Taking One for the Team: Baseball and Sacrifice" by Willie Young; "There Are No Ties at First Base" by Ted Cohen; "Taking Umpiring Seriously: How Philosophy Can Help Umpires Make the Right Calls" by J. S. Russell; "Baseball, Cheating, and Tradition: Would Kant Cork His Bat?" by Randolph Feezell; "There's No Lying in Basebal (Wink, Wink)" by Mark J. Hamilton; "Democracy and Dissent: Why America Needs Reggie Jackson:" by Eric Bronson; "Baseball and the Search for an American Moral Identity" by William J. Morgan; "The Negro Leagues and the Contradictions of Social Darwinism" by Alex Ruck and Bob Ruck; "We're American Too: The Negro Leagues and the Philosophy of Resistance" by Pellom McDaniels III; "The Zen of Hitting" by Gregory Bassham; "Japanese Baseball and It's Warrior Ways" by Michael Brannigan; "The Numbers Game: What Fans Should Know about the Stats They Love" by Jay Bennett and Aryn Martin; "Women Playing Hardball" by Leslie Heaphy; "Walking Barry Bonds: The Ethics of the Intentional Walk" by R. Scott Kretchmar; "Socrates at the Ballpark" by Heather L. Reid; "Baseball and Ethics: Should Pete Rose Be in the Hall of Fame?" (Yes) by Aeon J. Skoble (No) "Baseball and Political Philosophy: Does A-Rod Deserve So Much Money?" (Yes) by by Albert Duncan (No) by Joel Shuman; "Baseball and Metaphysics: Does Superstition Help Performance?" (Yes) by Steven Streeter (No ) by Neil Feit; "Baseball and Legal Philosophy: Should Steroids Be Banned?" (Yes) by Michaelm J. McGrath (No) by Simon Eassom; "Baseball and Aesthetics: What's the Best Baseball Movie?" (The Natural 1984) by Vincent L. Toscano (It Happens Every Spring 1949) by Larry Raful; "Baseball and Education: Were Baseball Players Better Role Models Then or Now?" (Then) by Edward A. Sullivan (Now) by Graham Harman.…

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

First edition (as stated upon copyright page). xiv, 380 pages. Hardcover: H 23.25cm x L 15.5cm. White dust jacket rubbed and toned; mild nicking at spine head and flap fold ends; front flap is not price-clipped. Blue cloth with silver stamping; light bumping at spine ends. Pages are bright and clean. Binding remains fairly crisp. A very good+ copy in a very good+ dust jacket. Introduction by Willie Morris. Features the following essays: "You Can't Eat Magnolias" by H. Brandt Ayers; "My Grandfather and the Cyclone" by Reese Cleghorn; "Beyond the Briar Patch" by Curtis M. Graves; "The Southern Consciousness: A Source for National Renewal" by Ronald S. Borod and W.J. Michael Cody; "The End of Reconstruction" by Richard N. Goodwin; "Dodo, Phoenix, or Tough Old Cock?" by Reynolds Price; "Are the Bozarts Blooming?" by Roger Griffin Hall; "Religion in the Land of Cotton" by Wallace M. Alston, Jr., and Wayne Flynt; "Glory Hallelujah, While They're Trying to Sock It to You" by Maynard Jackson; "Beyond Race Politics: Electing Southern Populists in the 1970s" by James Clotfelter and William R. Hamilton; "Southern Governors and the New State Politics" by Edwin M. Yoder; "The Southern City: Northern Mistakes in Southern Settings" by Joel L. Fleishman; "Making Dixie's Land Livable" by Frank E. Smith; "Southern Education: A National Perspective" by Norton L. Beach; "Human Resource Development in the South" by F. Ray Marshall and Virgil L. Christian; "Expanding Ownership in the Developing South" by Stewart Gammill; "Hunger? Let Them Eat Magnolias" by Jack Bass; "The Southern Historical Perspective" by James S. Ferguson; "Reflections on Southern Society" by Frank A. Rose; "The End of the Myths: The South Can Lead the Nations" by Terry Sanford; "Why Go Back South?" by Luther Munford; "A Southern Strategy" by Thomas H. Naylor; and "Appendix: Excerpts From the Inaugural Addresses of Five Southern Governors." ISBN 0070026351.…

Spiral bound. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. first edition,1p"; 1st Printing". VERY GOOD CONDITION IN VERY GOOD CLIPT(NO PR ICE) DUST JACKET; WHITE SPINE TITLES ON GREEN CLOTH OVER BLACK PLASTIC COMB BINDING.WITH A VERY NICE GREEN & BLUE DUST JACKET OVER THAT. White& Blue Banjo cover art ; Sheet Music; COVER ART; professional singers; composers. indexed quite a few B&W publicity photos of personalities.Has elvis, but not dylan.INdex.THIS COPY SAYS IT IS THE" FIRST PRINTING, FIRST EDITION".NOT THE HarperCollins reprint.…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. 32 pages. Features: Tour of Distant Lands via Camera; The Cause of Nervous Breakdown; Socialism through the Eyes of the Churchman; What Books are Worthwhile - and Why?; The Scientist is the Most Effectual Agent for Democracy, Says Edwin E. Slosson; Certain Fundamental Safeguards are still needed in Our Cort-Martial System, so says a former Sergeant Major of the American Expeditionary Forces; The Scholar Analyzes the different Versions of the New Testament; Henry Ford's Page - prosperity has not arrived until the last family enjoys it; Editorials - Senate-nominee William S. Vare, Gertrude Ederle is the first woman ever to swim the English Channel, Rapid decline in prestige of Premier Baldwin, interfering in Mexican affairs; The Old-Time Revival - Is it good enough for us?; The Cry of the Crippled Children - is greater than that about which a Barrett Browning wrote; Lower California - Land of Mystery - Where American Filibusters once sought to establish a republic; The Truth About France - Lesson of Touraine and the Woolen Stocking; If Shakespeare Came to London - would he be able to find may of his old haunts?; The Lure of Lofty Places - There are thrills on the mountain tops and fascination in finding them - article with photos of/on Mount Rainier, Washington; Barefoot Dave - Son of Nature, Mute Throreau of the Woods - David Dugden of Les Cheneaux Islands; Child Welfare and Conscience - Judge Franklin Chase Hoyt sits in the world's largest juvenile court; Chats with office callers - drunks in Montreal, Schools taking on more and more responsibility for child-rearing, Dr. George Byron Gordon, labor strife on the streets of New York; Can You Tell Me?; I Read in the Papers - Great Britain's financial problems, Citrate acid in drinks makes us thirsty, forged manuscripts of famous authors, Lots of gangsters being killed in Chicago; Briefly told. Photos of unusual trees of the world; Soiling to front cover near spine. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; The Dearborn Independent - Chronicler of the Neglected Truth, September (Sept.) 18, 1926 - Socialism Through the Eyes of the Churchman Tour of Distant Lands via Camera; The Cause of Nervous Breakdown; Socialism through the Eyes of the Churchman; What Bo. Illustrated by Clarke, W.W.; Fitzgerald, William O.; Briggs, AustinEugene; Graham, J.C. (illustrator). …

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1876 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 172 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 172 Language: English.…