Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World he Made
by Halberstam, David
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine to Fine/Fine
- Seller
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SANTA BARBARA, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1999. Nice copy of first printing. Light crimping at base of spine. Basis for the documentary done last year to great acclaim. Halberstam was a great writer and this is the best book on Jordan I have read. In mylar.. First American Edition. Cloth. Near Fine to Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
David Halberstam is the author of fifteen books, including The Best and the Brightest , The Powers That Be , The Reckoning , The Breaks of the Game , Summer of '49 , October 1964 , and The Amateurs . He has received every major journalistic award, including the Pulitzer Prize, and is a member of the Society of American Historians.
Reviews
On May 5 2007, Hazelwood_Booksellers said:
Author David Halberstam brings to the reader the perspective of a great historian, the inside knowledge of a dogged sportswriter, and the love of a fan to bear on one of the most mythic of players in basketball -- or any other game -- in this penetrating bio of Michael Jordan.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Timothy Norlen Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014852
- Title
- Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World he Made
- Author
- Halberstam, David
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine to Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1999
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern First Editions; Sports Books;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Timothy Norlen Bookseller
Biblio member since 2019
SANTA BARBARA, California
About Timothy Norlen Bookseller
I am a internet based bookstore that specializes in Modern First Editions, film sources, Mystery and Detective fiction and Western Americana. I have approximately 10,000 books, primarily first editions with about 1300 of them signed by the author. I try and stock only books that are sound, clean and attractive.
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