A Sense of Where You Are - A Profile of Princeton's Bill Bradley (Signed)
by MCPHEE, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- VG++/Near Fine
- Seller
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1965. Endpapers professionally restored. The top of the spine of the book shows a tiny bit of discoloration. But, overall, a tight, clean copy of the first edition of this, McPhee's first book. Just a little darkening to extremes of dustwrapper (but no fading to spine). Price of $3.75 on front flap of dust jacket has a pen line across it -- but still readable. Scarce in this protected condition. A book about Bill Bradley at Princeton. Signed by the author (John McPhee) on a bookplate affixed to the half-title page. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. VG++/Near Fine.
Synopsis
When John McPhee met Bill Bradley, both were at the beginning of their careers. A Sense of Where You Are , McPhee's first book, is about Bradley when he was the best basketball player Princeton had ever seen. McPhee delineates for the reader the training and techniques that made Bradley the extraordinary athlete he was, and this part of the book is a blueprint of superlative basketball. But athletic prowess alone would not explain Bradley's magnetism, which is in the quality of the man himself—his self-discipline, his rationality, and his sense of responsibility. Here is a portrait of Bradley as he was in college, before his time with the New York Knicks and his election to the U.S. Senate—a story that suggests the abundant beginnings of his professional careers in sport and politics.
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- Bookseller
- abookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011550
- Title
- A Sense of Where You Are - A Profile of Princeton's Bill Bradley (Signed)
- Author
- MCPHEE, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1965
- Keywords
- Biography, New Jersey, Basketball, Politics
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed; Biography; Addbooks03;
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