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The Game That Was
by Cope, Myron
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Book Fair: water damaged, especially to rear board, rear of text block. toning/offset to endpapers, text clean, binding tight, w/DJ Fair: water damage, edge wear, not clipped
- Seller
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Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
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About This Item
New York: World Publishing Company, 1970. first edition. hardcover. Book Fair: water damaged, especially to rear board, rear of text block. toning/offset to endpapers, text clean, binding tight, water damage to boards and spine. Reading copy only./DJ Fair: water damage, edge wear, not clipped. 8vo 294pp. stated first printing. from front flap: "Back in the days when teh grass was real and the only dome above the field was the sky, there were pro-football players who "played sixty minutes of a game, convinced that to be removed, even because of injury, amounted to personal disgrace." They frequently went without medical attention and sometimes without a paycheck. They were the men who established pro football and theirs was The Game That Was. To capture teh flavor, the spirit, and the nostalgia of those remembered but often unrecorded yesterdays, Myron Cope took a year away from his reporting for Sports Illustrated and made a sentimental journey to visit twenty men who passed, punted, and pummelled their way to football fame in those early days." #02232.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Matthew's Books LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2167
- Title
- The Game That Was
- Author
- Cope, Myron
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Book Fair: water damaged, especially to rear board, rear of text block. toning/offset to endpapers, text clean, binding tight, w
- Jacket Condition
- DJ Fair: water damage, edge wear, not clipped
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition
- Publisher
- World Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1970
- Keywords
- sports, history, football, nonfiction
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About the Seller
Matthew's Books LLC
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Chattanooga, Tennessee
About Matthew's Books LLC
small online used bookstore based in Chattanooga, TN. Little bit of everything, but lots of modern first editions.
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