THE UNIVERSAL BASEBALL ASSOCIATION, INC.: J. Henry Waugh, Prop
by Coover, Robert
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- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Middletown, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, (1965). First edition. His second novel. About a fantasy baseball league powered by the roll of the dice. 8vo silver-stamped quarter red cloth, tan paper boards stamped in red; top edge blue. Very good or better with page top and board edges faintly foxed, flattened crease in paper on front board (production error), and few light finger smudges to margins; in very good price-clipped dust jacket with faint foxing along upper edge, spine lettering slightly toned, few tiny edge nicks, and few small tears with tiny tape repairs on verso. From the collection of sports writer Paul "Dr. Z" Zimmerman with his penciled notations about the text on rear endpaper and corresponding passages marked lightly in pencil in margins.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quill & Brush (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 54065
- Title
- THE UNIVERSAL BASEBALL ASSOCIATION, INC.: J. Henry Waugh, Prop
- Author
- Coover, Robert
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- (1965)
- Bookseller catalogs
- BASEBALL;
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- Cloth
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- Foxed
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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- Verso
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