The Celebrant
by Eric Rolfe Greenberg,
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/fine
- ISBN 10
- 0896961710
- ISBN 13
- 9780896961715
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York,: Everest House, 1983. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Octavo. 272 pages, clothbacked boards
Jackie Kapp, a Jewish immigrant, finds baseball as his path to assimilation into America. Christy Mathewson becomes his hero. Later his faith in the purity of the game is shattered by the Black Sox Scandal. "A scarce book with a big following - Tuff Stuff's Baseball Memorabilia Price Guide, 2001." Winner of the first Casey Award, for the best baseball book, in 1983.
Jackie Kapp, a Jewish immigrant, finds baseball as his path to assimilation into America. Christy Mathewson becomes his hero. Later his faith in the purity of the game is shattered by the Black Sox Scandal. "A scarce book with a big following - Tuff Stuff's Baseball Memorabilia Price Guide, 2001." Winner of the first Casey Award, for the best baseball book, in 1983.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Thomas J. Joyce And Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0009506
- Title
- The Celebrant
- Author
- Eric Rolfe Greenberg,
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0896961710
- ISBN 13
- 9780896961715
- Publisher
- Everest House
- Place of Publication
- New York,
- Date Published
- 1983
- Keywords
- FICTION, BASEBALL, CHRISTY MATHEWSON, JEWISH IMMIGRANTS, BLACK SOX SCANDAL, Casey Award, 0896961710, 9780896961710,
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About the Seller
Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Biblio member since 2005
Chicago, Illinois
About Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...