An Outside Chance: Essays on Sport (Signed 1st Printing) by Thomas McGuane - 1980

Farrar Straus Giroux, 1980. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1980. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 243 pages. A collection of eighteen essays on sports from the author numerous terrific books like "Ninety Two in the Shade"and "The Sporting Club. An about very good copy in paper covered boards with a cloth spine with some foxing to the page edges and in a very good dust jacket that has some light wear to the spine and some other tiny edge tears and chips. Despite the flaws a solid copy of this terrific book.

NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1980. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1980, first printing. 8vo. Light soil, faint foxing speckle along edges, else very good plus, clean, bright, in very good plus dust jacket with light fray at the crown.. 1st. Hard. Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus. 8vo.

NY: FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX. VG. Hardcover. First Edition. 1980.

Douglas & McIntyre, 0000-00-00. 1st. hardcover. Used: Good.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux [0-374-10472-7] 1980, 1st edition. (Hardcover) 243pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. The dust jacket is lightly rubbed and the top edges of the boards are ightly sunned. (Sports, Sports).

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1980. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 243 pages. A collection of eighteen essays on sports from the author numerous terrific books like "Ninety Two in the Shade"and "The Sporting Club. A close to near fine copy in paper covered boards with cloth spine and in a near fine dust jacket with a tiny chip and a tear to the base of the front panel and some other minor wear. Signed by McGuane on the title page.

NY: FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX.. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1980. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0374104727 . First edition. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. (Edges lightly foxed. A few tiny nicks in jacket. ) ; 5 1/4" x 8 1/2"; 243 pages .

New York:: Farrar, Straus, Giroux,, 1980.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine copy with a remainder stripe on the bottom edge in a Near Fine, bright unclipped dust jacket. This collection of 18 essays reflects on the subjects of hunting, fishing, sailing, cowboying which includes roping steers and cutting horses. By sport, McGuane means one-on-one Hemingway stuff: fishing and shooting, mostly. And the self-aware dovetailing of writer/predator Papa as model is never far from our minds, either. The studied elegance of this sort of writing if often quite dandy and entertaining. Also, oddly, when McGuane is at his most adolescent, he's the most charming: ""Me and My Bike and Why""--the confessions of an ex-motorcyclist--is funny; and in reading a piece about a difficult horseback trail-ride in winter, you realize that McGuane pleases more when he's recounting failure than success. But a McGuane characteristic from his fiction--snobbery--shows up here, too; and it threatens to sour you on… Read More

Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1980-01-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!