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One Last Strike: Fifty Years in Baseball, Ten and a Half Games Back, and One Final Championship Season
by Tony La Russa
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0062207385
- ISBN 13
- 9780062207388
- Seller
-
Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
William Morrow, 2012-09-24. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x1x9. Signed by Author. Flatsigned by LaRussa on title page in black felt pen. First edition stated with full number line. Hardbound book in very good condition with mild shelfwear bumping to head and tail of spine. Book is clean throughout with faint beginnings of age toning to edges of text block. Dust jacket in mylar is crisp and glossy. Please see our photos.
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- Bookseller
- Chaparral Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- CHAPlarONE
- Title
- One Last Strike: Fifty Years in Baseball, Ten and a Half Games Back, and One Final Championship Season
- Author
- Tony La Russa
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0062207385
- ISBN 13
- 9780062207388
- Publisher
- William Morrow
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2012-09-24
- Size
- 6x1x9
- X weight
- 22 oz
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Chaparral Books
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About the Seller
Chaparral Books
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Portland, Oregon
About Chaparral Books
Chaparral Books is located across from Elephant's Deli on S Corbett Avenue in Portland. We have a well rounded collection of subjects, including an extensive core collection in Western Americana and Native American Literature including Western Writers.
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- Title Page
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- Tail
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- Flatsigned
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- Spine
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Text Block
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- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Number Line
- A series of numbers appearing on the copyright page of a book, where the lowest number generally indicates the printing of that...
- First Edition
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