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The Real Book about Baseball: Tips for Players and Fans and Lively Tales about Big-Leaguers
by Lyman Hopkins
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+/Fair
- Seller
-
Independence, Missouri, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
From back cover: "REAL BOOKS offer something unique in the world of reading for young people. They are original, authoritative and stimulating books that harness the reader's natural appetite for fun and excitement to an equally natural curiosity about the real world we live in. Written by fine authors, illustrated by highly competent artists, carefully checked by experts, and set in a handsome format, each book introduces the reader to an exciting new field of interest."
Book - Good+ condition. Tan cover has green & black images and black text. Covers show some edge wear especially at spine. Bottom of closed book pages have some spots, top has a green tint. Text is clean - no marks. Binding is tight.
Dust Jacket - Fair condition. Color is good, but there are many tears and chips. Please see photos.
191 pages including Index.
Book - Good+ condition. Tan cover has green & black images and black text. Covers show some edge wear especially at spine. Bottom of closed book pages have some spots, top has a green tint. Text is clean - no marks. Binding is tight.
Dust Jacket - Fair condition. Color is good, but there are many tears and chips. Please see photos.
191 pages including Index.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Blue & Grey Book Shoppe
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1310
- Title
- The Real Book about Baseball
- Author
- Lyman Hopkins
- Illustrator
- Bill McHale
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Garden City Books
- Date Published
- 1958
- Weight
- 1.00 lbs
- Keywords
- children, children's book, young adult, baseball, rules, umpire, batting, base running, shortstop, outfield, catcher, pitcher
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children; Children - History; Sports; Reference; Games; Books - Vintage;
Terms of Sale
Blue & Grey Book Shoppe
EXCEPT as noted in description. 30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Blue & Grey Book Shoppe
Biblio member since 2005
Independence, Missouri
About Blue & Grey Book Shoppe
The Blue & Grey Book Shoppe specializes in Civil War, Local History, other American History, and all variety of non-fiction books - plus Music, Fine Art, Maps, Gift Items, Doll Clothes, and Much More!
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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