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The Rigor of the Game: Stories of Harvard Athletics
by Pier, Arthur Stanwood
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Omaha,, Nebraska, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1929. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Lassell, Charles. Bound in red cloth with titles stamped in white. First edition, with corresponding 1929 dates to the title and copyright pages. With four illustrations on coated paper, all present. The cloth shows a touch of edgewear with a small bump to the upper front corner and mild rubbing to the spine lettering. Hinges solid; binding square. A clean, tight, unmarked copy. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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- Bookseller
- Friendly Used Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 125470
- Title
- The Rigor of the Game: Stories of Harvard Athletics
- Author
- Pier, Arthur Stanwood
- Illustrator
- Lassell, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1929
- Keywords
- HARVARD SCHOOL COLLEGE UNIVERSITY SPORTS JUVENILE FICTION SHORT STORIES
- Bookseller catalogs
- juvenile; Antiquarian and Collectible Books; Essays & Short Stories;
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Glossary
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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