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BLOCKADE BILLY
by KING, STEPHEN
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New./As New
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Forest Hill, MD: Cemetery Dance Publications, 2010. The book remaines in shrink-wrap as issued. Baseball card is present wrapped over rear cover, original condition!. This first printing was limited to 10000 copies and released to coincide with the opening of the 2010 MLB season. 112pp. King's novella about a baseball catcher named William "Blockade Billy" Blakely during the 1957 baseball season. As usual, there is a dramatic twist in the story. A very fine, never opened copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New./As New. Thin Octavo.
Synopsis
From New York Times bestselling author Stephen King comes the haunting story of Blockade Billy , the greatest Major League baseball player to be erased from the game. Even the most die-hard baseball fans donâÈçt know the true story of William âÈêBlockade BillyâÈë Blakely. He may have been the greatest player the game has ever seen, but today no one remembers his name. He was the first--and only--player to have his existence completely removed from the record books. Even his team is long forgotten, barely a footnote in the gameâÈçs history. Every effort was made to erase any evidence that William Blakely played professional baseball, and with good reason. Blockade Billy had a secret darker than any pill or injection that might cause a scandal in sports today. His secret was much, much worse... and only Stephen King, the most gifted storyteller of our age, can reveal the truth to the world, once and for all. Originally published through Cemetery Dance Publications on April 20, 2010 as a $25.00 limited-edition hardcover, Stephen King and Cemetery Dance have made an arrangement with Scribner to make available a less expensive hardcover edition of Blockade Billy , with an on-sale date of May 25th, the same date the audiobook goes on sale. The Scribner edition will be available in all U.S. and Canadian retail outlets. Both the Scribner book and the Simon & Schuster audiobook will feature a bonus short story ("Morality").
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015376
- Title
- BLOCKADE BILLY
- Author
- KING, STEPHEN
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New.
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Cemetery Dance Publications
- Place of Publication
- Forest Hill, MD
- Date Published
- 2010
- Size
- Thin Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Stephen King, Baseball, Fantasy
Terms of Sale
Glenn Books
All books are subject to prior sale. Books are guaranteed as described and may be returned to us within 10 days with immediate notice of intent to return the item.
About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
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