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Durand's Marvelous Merchants: A Tale of Small-Town Life and Big-Time Softball
by Mike Waller (AUTHOR SIGNED)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1933466499
- ISBN 13
- 9781933466491
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Item Price
A$24.32A$17.03
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About This Item
Kansas City, MO: Kansas City Star Books , 2007 Kansas City Star Books, Kansas City, MO. 2007. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Inscribed by the author on the half title page. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; trace wear to head, tail, and tips. DJ: Near Fine; NOT Price Clipped (19.95); light edge bumping. Slate gray boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine; gilt baseball bats on the front board. 192 pp 8vo. In the 1950s, the town of Durand built a softball field, named themselves the Durand Merchants, and got players (mostly WWII vets) from farms, ranches, retailers, lineman, and workers to play fast-pitch softball. The team, the region's greatest took on all comers, and managed to beat most of them. This book is the story of the Merchants players, their families, their town, and their times. A clean very presentable copy.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015408
- Title
- Durand's Marvelous Merchants: A Tale of Small-Town Life and Big-Time Softball
- Author
- Mike Waller (AUTHOR SIGNED)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1933466499
- ISBN 13
- 9781933466491
- Publisher
- Kansas City Star Books
- Place of Publication
- Kansas City, MO
- Date Published
- 2007
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- fast-pitch softball, Durand Illinois, Durand Merchants, fast-pitch softball team, American Legion, Legion Field in Durand Illinois,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Baseball; Americana;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Title Page
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- First Edition
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- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Price Clipped
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