The Babe: A Life in Pictures
by Ritter, Lawrence S. (and Mark Rucker)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 089919768X
- ISBN 13
- 9780899197685
- Seller
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Lukeville , Arizona, United States
Item Price
A$308.92A$262.58
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About This Item
New York, Ticknor and Fields, 1988, large format hardcover (9" x 12"), 282 pp, First Edition, First Printing by numberline, Very Good in Very Good dustjacket, Association Copy, Signed by the author and inscribed to the American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science Stephen Jay Gould on the title page. Inscription reads "For Stephen Jay Gould with all good wishes - Larry Ritter". Straight, tight and clean with no markings, spine-end and corner bumps. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, light spine-end and corner nicks and bumps. The premier sports historian and author of The Glory of Their Times, often called 'the greatest book about baseball ever written presents what has been described as "easily the best pictorial biography of the Sultan of Swat...from boyhood days in his father's saloon in Baltimore, his formative years at St. Mary's, his early playing days in Baltimore and Providence, his rise to stardom as a member of the Boston Red Sox, the legendary years with the Yankees and beyond." Profusely illustrated throughout with period black-&-white photographs and reproductions including a 16-page, full-color section depicting Ruth memorabilia. Appended: Babe Ruth's Record, Index, Sources, Picture Credits. ISBN 9780899197685
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- Bookseller
- West of Eden Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11081
- Title
- The Babe: A Life in Pictures
- Author
- Ritter, Lawrence S. (and Mark Rucker)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing by numberline
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 089919768X
- ISBN 13
- 9780899197685
- Publisher
- Ticknor & Fields
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- October 1988
- Keywords
- 1900-1949; Baseball; Biography; Biography & Autobiography; General; History; Photography; Reader's Catalog; Ruth, Babe; Sports; Sports & Recreation; United States
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