The Boys of Summer
by KAHN, Roger
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Row. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1972. BCE. Hardcover. A full-sized book club edition of Roger Kahn's work, which details the players and events of the 1950s-era Brooklyn Dodgers, in one of the best-loved baseball-themed books. With two sections of b&w photos. A small trove of newsclips about Dodger players (mostly obits) is laid in. -§- Covers in tan and grey full cloth, with author facsimile signature on cover & titling on spine, both in silver. With two sections of b&w photos. Jacket with photo of facade of Ebbets Field on the cover. -§- A clean, tightly-bound, bright copy. Dust jacket with creases to back panel, light scuffing to front and back panels, else bright, intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; xxii, 442 pages .
Synopsis
The author and Brooklyn native recreates the magic of Ebbets field and the Dodgers in an inspiring history of the team that culminates with the exciting 1955 season.
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Details
- Seller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 87959
- Title
- The Boys of Summer
- Author
- KAHN, Roger
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- BCE
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1972
- Keywords
- BASEBALL, SPORTS, BROOKLYN, DODGERS
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>Biography, Autobiography, Memoir;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Bluebird Books
Biblio member since 2005
Littleton, Colorado
About Bluebird Books
Bluebird Books is the bookselling business of Eric Mayer, operating from my base in Littleton, Colorado. I specialize in classic fiction and literature, books on birds and natural history, railroadiana, biography, history and many other genres. Bluebird Books features publications by the Modern Library and Everyman's Library. I offer free shipping on books shipped within the US via USPS Media Mail. INTERNATIONAL ORDERS: I recommend that you use Biblio.com for your international orders because they have formed a partnership with Asendia to allow for much more affordable shipping on parcels weighing under 5 lb. (about 2.26 kg).
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.