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Games, Asterisks, and People: Memoirs of a Lucky Fan - Fifty Years of Behind-the-Scenes Anecdotes and Experiences by the Former Commissioner of Baseball
by Frick, Ford C
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0517503468
- ISBN 13
- 9780517503461
- Seller
-
Kutztown, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Crown Publishers, 1973. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Red 1/4 cloth, tan paper covered boards, lettered in black. Very slight shelf wear, text block edges mildly foxed, otherwise nearly as issued. Dust jacket somewhat toned by age with price clipped front flap, now in archival mylar. x,244 pp., illus. w/ b&w plates..
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- Bookseller
- Saucony Book Shop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 032594
- Title
- Games, Asterisks, and People: Memoirs of a Lucky Fan - Fifty Years of Behind-the-Scenes Anecdotes and Experiences by the Former Commissioner of Baseball
- Author
- Frick, Ford C
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0517503468
- ISBN 13
- 9780517503461
- Publisher
- Crown Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1973
- Bookseller catalogs
- Sports;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
Saucony Book Shop
Terms of Sale: All orders are processed on a first-come, first-served basis. Full refund on any misrepresented item(s) within 30 days of purchase date. Returned books must arrive in the same condition as they were sent. We use standard ABAA grading and terminology, and we will gladly respond to pre-purchase queries. Payment: Visa, MasterCard, PayPal, check, money order, cash. Happy hunting!
About the Seller
Saucony Book Shop
Biblio member since 2005
Kutztown, Pennsylvania
About Saucony Book Shop
The Saucony Book Shop, located in the heart of scenic rural Berks County, epicenter of Pennsylvania German folk culture (our shop specialty), offers a full range of gently used, rare, and antiquarian books, with many volumes of scholarly merit and an unabashed emphasis on the quaint, the curious, and the utterly obscure. We make no attempt to be a general-service book shop. Our inventory is highly selective, individually chosen from among the hundreds of thousands of books to which we have access annually at auctions, library and estate sales, and through individual scouts and vendors. We do not handle material that does not meet our expectations in terms of condition or interest to our specialized, idiosyncratic customers. Despite maintaining a browsing inventory of more than 15,000 volumes, we have minimized our carbon footprint by maintaining our entire operation in a cozy ca. 1890 barn and lean-to adjacent to an historic creamery in rural Maxatawny Township. Our shop is available for browsing by appointment and occasionally, in temperate weather, by chance, so email or call ahead to peruse the eclectic selection gracing our shelves, or ask our ferociously over-read staff for recommendations. Selling antiquarian books of merit since 1981. Full search and appraisal services; always keenly interested in purchasing quality used books, whether by the piece or by the bushel. Thanks for reading about us! Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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