Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc.. Very Good in Very Good dj. 1950. Later Printing. Hardcover. [good solid copy, light shelfwear, age-tanning to edges of text block, fading to spine cloth, a handful of randomly-distributed light faded spots on rear cover; jacket quite browned at spine and along top edge of rear panel, a bit of wear to top of spine, small scraped spot (with tiny hole) on rear panel]. A comic novel about college football, featuring "one of the most charming, most engaging characters to appear in recent fiction -- a creature of rare good humor and sanity -- the man from Wittemberg, Professor Fodorski, [who] precipitated himself upon the New World with a hundred-odd dollars and an English grammar as his only possessions." A friend lands him a job in the Engineering Department of Southern Baptist Institute of Technology, where his "exposure to football and his subsequent mad espousal of it is a beautiful thing to watch." .

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Bookseller: ReadInk (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 25815
Title: Professor Fodorski (A Politico-Sporting Romance)
Author: Taylor, Robert Lewis
Illustrator: (dj) John Groth
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good in Very Good dj
Edition: Later Printing
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.
Place of Publication: Garden City NY
Date Published: 1950
Keywords: Football, College, Comic Novel, Professors, Dust Jacket Art 1950s

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Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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