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421pp. 8vo Blue wrappers "Advance uncorrected proofs" [1st Edition] Light general rubbing and wear.
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The Hammer: Confessions of a Hockey Enforcer [*SIGNED*]
Published by Summit Books (c.1981), New York, 1981
Seller: ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Association Member: ABAA ILAB IOBA
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine dj. Illustrated by (dj design) Ken Braren (illustrator). 4th printing. [minimal shelfwear, thin black marker line (remainder mark) on bottom edge of text block; the jacket has just a bit of faint soiling to the front panel and some light surface wear (essentially invisible inside its mylar covering)]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED ("With all my love to my favorite hockey fan") and SIGNED by the author (just "Dave") on the front endpaper. Memoir by the famous hockey "enforcer" -- basically a guy whose primary job on the ice was to get into fights -- who played most notably for the Philadelphia Flyers (from 1971 to 1976), and to this day holds the all-time NHL record for most penalty minutes in a single season (472). He had been retired as an active player for about a year when this book was published, but went on to coach a number of minor-league teams. In 1982 he famously published an op-ed piece in the sports section of The New York Times -- written as a letter to his then 6-year-old son -- in which he expressed regret about his contribution to the level of violence that had come to characterize the game of hockey: "I wanted desperately to be a good, clean player just as I had been in junior hockey," he wrote, "but it was not to be. I was branded a goon [and] there was no turning back." Signed by Author.
