STRIVING TO BE CHAMPION: Babe Didrikson Zaharias/Bookshelf for Young Americans
by Miller, Helen Markley
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good
- Seller
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Chicago/Philadelphia and New York: Kingston House/Distributed in Association with J. B. Lippincott Company (1961) 192 pp. Original blue cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Binding very bright and clean. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down. DJ lightly soiled w/ modest edge wear; approx. 1/2" closed tear at top edge of rear panel. Illust. w/ drawings. Contents very nice.. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good. Illus. by Richard Mlodock. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Shoemaker Booksellers
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10424SPG
- Title
- STRIVING TO BE CHAMPION: Babe Didrikson Zaharias/Bookshelf for Young Americans
- Author
- Miller, Helen Markley
- Illustrator
- Richard Mlodock
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Publisher
- Kingston House/Distributed in Association with J. B. Lippincott Company
- Place of Publication
- Chicago/Philadelphia and New York
- Keywords
- SPORTS GOLF HISTORY BASKETBALL TRACK AND FIELD GOLFING WOMEN GOLFERS PLAYERS BIOGRAPHY ZAHARIAS MILDRED ELLA BABE DIDRIKSON 1911 1913 1956 ATHLETES WOMENS STUDIES OUTDOORS RECREATION CHILDRENS BOOKS JUVENILE LITERATURE CHILDREN STORIES AMERICAN HISTORY UN
- Bookseller catalogs
- Sports; Sports - Golf; Sports - Misc; Sports - Basketball;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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About the Seller
Shoemaker Booksellers
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
About Shoemaker Booksellers
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- New
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- Bookplate
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- Soiled
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Gilt
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