THE BOYS OF SUMMER by Kahn, Roger - 2003

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2003. Hardcover. Fine. Collector's Edition, signed by Roger Kahn. A masterpiece of sports literature, chronicling the mid-20th-century Brooklyn Dodgers, the team of Jackie Robinson and Duke Snyder and Hodges and Reese, a team of great triumph and historical import composed of men whose fragile lives were filled with dignity and pathos. Roger Kahn, who covered that team for the New York Herald Tribune, makes understandable humans of his heroes as he chronicles the dreams and exploits of their young lives, beautifully intertwining them with his own, then recounts how so many of those sweet dreams curdled as the body of these once shining stars grew rusty with age and battered by experience. Octavo. Full blue leather binding, with elaborate gilt stamping, four raised bands, moire silk endpapers, and a ribbon marker. A fine copy - as new, still sealed in the original shrink wrap.