Search Results: Sports from Harpo Speaks Books

1970 Peters Print first edition, first printing. Limited edition, number 898 of 1200.Condition of the book is Very Good. The binding is straight and sound. Inside pages are complete and unmarked. The top edge of the text block shows light soil. The prior owner's name is written on the front free endpaper.Condition of the dust jacket is Good. The DJ for this book is uncommon, and not many survived due to the fragile paper that was used. The DJ also features a cut-out to display a graphic on the front board.. The DJ for this copy shows some chipping. It is protected in a new mylar cover.Please message me with any questions.

1981 Knopf first edition.
Condition of the book is Very Good Plus. The binding is straight and sound. Inside pages are complete and unmarked.
Condition of the dust jacket is Very Good Plus. The DJ is complete, not price clipped.
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1941 A.S. Barnes first edition.
Condition of the book is Very Good. The binding is straight and sound. Inside pages are complete and unmarked.
Condition of the dust jacket is Very Good. The DJ is complete, not price clipped. It is protected in a new mylar cover.
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1972 Coward, MacCann & Geoghegan first edition.
Condition of the book is Very Good Plus. The binding is straight and sound. Inside pages are complete and unmarked.
Condition of the dust jacket is Very Good Plus. The DJ is complete, not price clipped. It is protected in a new mylar cover.
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1975 Random House first edition, second printing. $10 price on the dust jacket.Condition of the book is Near Fine. The binding is straight and sound. Inside pages are complete and unmarked.Condition of the dust jacket is Very Good Plus. The DJ is complete, not price clipped. The front DJ flap has a vertical crease. The DJ is protected in a new mylar cover.Please message me with any questions.

1951 Greenberg first edition, second printing.
Condition of the book is Good. The binding is sound. Inside pages are complete. The book shows moderate wear from age and storage.
Condition of the dust jacket is Acceptable. The DJ is a facsimile, a full color photocopy of an original DJ. The original DJ appears to have had some edge wear and chipping, which displays as white areas on the photocopy. The DJ displays well in a new mylar cover, but I am grading it as Acceptable since it is a facsimile.
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2002 Johns Hopkins University Press first edition.Condition of the book and dust jacket is Fine, with no significant condition issues.Please message me with any questions

1951 Coward McCann first editionCondition of the book is Very Good. The binding is straight and sound. Inside pages are complete and unmarked.Condition of the dust jacket is Very Good. It is protected in a new mylar cover.Please message me with any questions.

1955 Simon and Schuster first edition, first printing.Inscribed to sportswriter Red Smith by Rocky on the front free endpaper ('To Red Smith - a real guy'). Walter "Red" Smith was one of the most admired sportswriters of the 20th Century. Smith and Graziano were well acquainted. Ira Berkow's biography of Smith notes that the two men were occasional dinner companions, with Smith regularly picking up the tab. Smith was also one of the strongest defenders of Graziano during Rocky's suspension by the New York State Athletic Commission.The book was acquired from the library of journalist Harry Rosenfeld, who was a colleague of Smith's at the New York Herald Tribune.Condition of the book is Good only. The binding is straight and sound. Inside pages are complete and unmarked. The main condition issue is old damp exposure. The bottom edge of the boards shows some loss of paper and discoloration. The spine cloth has some residual stiffness, and the text block is also slightly stiff. See the listing… Read More

1946 Knopf first edition.
Condition of the book is Very Good. The binding is straight and sound. Inside pages are complete and unmarked.
Condition of the dust jacket is Very Good. The DJ is complete, not price clipped. It is protected in a new mylar cover.
Please message me with any questions.