Playing For Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made
by Halberstam, David
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine+/No Jacket as Issued
- Seller
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SANDY, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Franklin Library, 1999. Limited First Edition. Full Leather. Near Fine+/No Jacket as Issued. A handsome dark burnt orange leather Limited First Edition signed by the author. One of only 2,000 Limited Signed copies. With gold gilt cover designs and page edges, marbled endpapers and bound-in silk bookmark. Includes the full-page notecard about the author and the book from The Franklin Library. The story of Michael Jordan and his amazing influence on the world of professional basketball and more. 426 pp. The book is in fine condition but with a small mark on the bottom page edge ; overall a beautiful and interesting edition.
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
- Parrish Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1670
- Title
- Playing For Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made
- Author
- Halberstam, David
- Format/Binding
- Full Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine+
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket as Issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited First Edition
- Publisher
- Franklin Library
- Date Published
- 1999
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About the Seller
Parrish Books
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SANDY, Oregon
About Parrish Books
Parrish Books is a full-time on-line dealer in fine collectible books in business since 2002. With specialities in signed limited editions and many favorite authors including Ray Bradbury, Richard Bach, Tom Clancy, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut, Edward Gorey and Maurice Sendak. We specialize in exceptional customer service and quality packaging of all orders.
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- 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...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...