The Seventh Babe by Charyn, Jerome - 1979

HarperCollins Publishers, 1979. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

HarperCollins Publishers. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

New York. 1979. May 1979. Arbor House. 1st Edition. Compliments of B. Dalton Bookseller' in Front, Otherwise Very Good in Dustjacket. 0877952205. 347 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Janet Halverson. keywords: Literature Baseball America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In the Babe Ruth era Babe Ragland, a gangly orphan from Baltimore, walks into a tryout for the Boston Red Sox, wins a spot as third-baseman, and becomes the league's seventh Babe. But as he rises to superstardom, Jerome Charyn gives the novel a magical turn that sets Babe in a new direction and transforms a conventional story line into something rich and wonderful. Upon discovering The Seventh Babe by chance or through the recommendations of friends, readers have devoted their energies to removing it from American literature's short list of best kept secrets. Place The Seventh Babe beside the sports fiction of Irwin Shaw, Mark Harris, Bernard Malamud, and W. P. Kinsella. It's one of the overlooked masterworks of the genre.… Read More

New York: Arbor House, 1979. In the tradition of Bernard Malamud's "The Natural"; 347pp. By the author of "Once Upon a Droshky". . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Arbor House, 1979. Hardcover. Good.

New York:: Arbor House,, (1979). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. "It is 1923, and the Boston Red Sox are down in the cellar after trading their best players - including Babe Ruth - to the Yankees. Along comes Babe Ragland, a 17 year old left handed third baseman who looks like a scarecrow and plays like a wonder." INSCRIBED on the half title page to the noted Oklahoma book collector Larry Owens. 347 pp.