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Published by Rudolph Field Publisher, NY, 1949
Seller: Clausen Books, RMABA, Colorado Springs, CO, U.S.A.
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair (in mylar). B&W Photographs (illustrator). Former owner's ink inscription on ffep, address label on fep, age toned end papers, else textblock is clean and tight. Light sunning to the top edges, bumped head and foot of spine, bumped corners. Unclipped dust jacket, front fold-in detatched but present, heavily edge worn, several chips and tears, soiling, mylar sleeved for safe-keeping; 320p. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Green covers with black titles on somewhat sunned spine. Light edge and corner wear but square and securely bound. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 320 pages; Profiles of "colorful: baseball personalities, including Casey Stengel, Dazzy Vance, Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Al Schacht, and many more both great and not so great.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. First Edition. Magic marker ink-out of previous owner name to rear pastedown.
Published by Rudolph Field, 1949
Seller: Mike's Baseball Books, Chula Vista, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Jimmy Powers was a famous Sports Columnist for the New York Daily News. Here are some of his stories about Feller, Berra, Hornsby, Paige, Ruth, Frisch, McGraw, Cobb, Rabbit Maranville, Lefty Gomez, Jackie Robinson, Ted Williams, Mathewson, Wagner and many more. Green boards with black lettering on the spine. A First Edition in very good condition. The Dust Jacket has numerous small chips and tears is in good condition. I have more than 2525 books written by and about sportswriters and over 100 publications on the Best of Baseball in stock. Discounts are available when you purchase multiple items on the same order.
Published by Rudolph Field, 1949
Seller: Archives Books inc., Edmond, OK, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No jacket. No markings. Minor stains on foredge. Historic Oklahoma Bookstore on Route 66. Packages shipped daily, Mon-Fri.
Published by Rudolph Field, NY, 1949
Seller: Bruce Davidson Books, Arlington, MA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Very good in like dj that is missing about a 1" triangular piece of the bottom front panel. Forward by Casey Stengel (in Stengelese! Just kidding, he's actually quite articulate!). Profiles of some of baseball's wildest players including Babe Herman, Babe Ruth, Dazzy Vance, Dizzy Dean, John McGraw, and 17 others, Great stuff!.
Published by Rudolph Field, NY, 1949
Seller: Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABAA, ILAB), Bordentown, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First. First printing. Hardcover, 327 pps. illustrated with photos. Foreword by Casey Stengel. Famed New York Daily News sportswriter Jimmy Powers provides stories of "the darlings and the hated" of baseball from the early days of John McGraw, Christy Mathewson and Ty Cobb through the era of Babe Ruth and into the then-modern-day stars such as Williams and Jackie Robinson. Anecdotes of the big names are here as well as tales of lesser known characters such as Babe Herman, Al Schacht, Bobo Newsom and Dazzy Vance. A tight copy, genearlly fine with just a trace of wear at the spine ends, prev. own. sig. front pastedown under the jacket flap. In clean dust jacket with the usual shallow chipping about the egdes.
Published by Rudolph Field; 1st edition (January 1, 1949), 1949
Seller: Tacoma Book Center, Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket included. First Edition. ISBN . B000P9DID2 Hardback. No statement of Later Printing on the Copyright page, assumed first printing. Book is a tight sound unmarked copy in Very Good condition. Dustjacket is in Very Good condition with slight edgewear. $ 3.00 original price is present and unclipped on front dustjacket flap. The dustjacket has been placed in a Brodart protective cover by us to protect it and it looks much better than described. . This does not affect the dustjacket in any way, as all taping is done on the outside of the protector. No Signature.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.05.
Published by Rudolph Field, 1949
Seller: Blotto Von Sozzle Rare Books, Hampstead, NC, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The book itself is in undeniably fine condition. Clean bright pages bereft of inscription, firm binding, tight square boards, etc. The dust jacket, unclipped, is in good+ condition. Vibrant covers. Staining to covers. Heavy tanning to spine. A few small tears.
Published by Fields, Osgood, 1949
Seller: Austin Book Shop LLC, Richmond Hill, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Worn DJ. First Edition. Small tear at top of backstrip. Colorful profiles, by the guy who would write his own stuff when Dick Young was on vacation. 320pp. Illus. (loc bb/1+2).
Published by Rudolph Field, New York, 1949
Seller: MARIE BOTTINI, BOOKSELLER, Cotati, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition. Vivid stories of more than 50 of the most colorful ball players of all time (Williams, Berra, Robinson, Ruth, Stengel, Cob, etc.) by the sports columnist of N. Y. Daily News. Book is like new under a bright, only lightly worn jacket with $3.00 price on flap.
Published by Rudolph Field Publisher, Place_Pub: New York, 1949
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Condition: fair to good, as is. 320, illus., some discoloration inside hinges, sticker residue ins front flyleaf, DJ torn in two pieces, most of DJ spine missing. DJ worn and somewhat soiled: edges torn and pieces missing. Foreword by Casey Stengel. The author was the sports editor and columnist of the New York Daily News. Vivid stories of more than 50 of the most colorful ball players of all time, including Honus Wagner, Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Dizzy Dean, Leo Durocher, Satchel Paige, Ted Williams, Jackie Robinson, and Yogi Berra; illustrated with 32 full-page photographs.