soccer

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY SIS on copyright page with bird sketch. Madlenka has a brand-new soccer ball and aspirations to be a soccer star. As she dribbles it around her urban neighborhood, she encounters plenty of opponents willing to play with her: A mailbox, a dog, and a parking meter. She plays with a group of cats at the local park with a tree acting as a goal, of which she easily scores. Goal!! The crowd goes wild! She meets of with Cleopatra who also wants to play. "Are you ready?" Madlenka asks and off they go. The author's thin black line illustrations give a an overhead perspective of the soccer field surrounded by tall buildings as other neighborhood children come to join the game.In the back of the book, Sis gives a history lesson about the early versions of soccer along with how soccer is pronounced by countries all over the world because "The whole world wants to play soccer!"

Softcover. US, Top Shelf Productions, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. 285 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. As the NATO bombs fell on his hometown of Pancevo in 1999, Serbian cartoonist Aleksandar Zograf used his diary comics and e-mail to reach out to the world and offer a glimpse at the effects of the attacks. Over the weeks and months of the war, Zograf documented not only how the bombings shattered the lives of his friends and neighbors, but also how the routine of daily life remained unchanged. The most recent attacks on Pancevo's oil refinery are contrasted with the latest local soccer matches -- and American propaganda flyers are as likely to fall from the sky as American comics are to arrive in the mail.

Softcover. US, Top Shelf Productions, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. 285 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. As the NATO bombs fell on his hometown of Pancevo in 1999, Serbian cartoonist Aleksandar Zograf used his diary comics and e-mail to reach out to the world and offer a glimpse at the effects of the attacks. Over the weeks and months of the war, Zograf documented not only how the bombings shattered the lives of his friends and neighbors, but also how the routine of daily life remained unchanged. The most recent attacks on Pancevo's oil refinery are contrasted with the latest local soccer matches -- and American propaganda flyers are as likely to fall from the sky as American comics are to arrive in the mail.

Softcover. San Francisco, Rip Off Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 32 pages plus color wraps. Staple bound, $2.00 cover price. Black and white art by Selton inside. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. San Francisco, Rip Off Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 32 pages plus color wraps. Staple bound, $2.00 cover price. Black and white art by Selton inside. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 416 pages. The essays, speeches, and opinion pieces assembled in Step Across This Line, written over ten years, cover an astonishing range of subjects. The collection chronicles Rushdie's intellectual odyssey and is also an especially personal look into the writer's psyche. With the same fierce intelligence, uncanny social commentary, and very strong opinions that distinguish his fiction, Rushdie writes about his fascination with The Wizard of Oz, his obsession with soccer, and the state of the novel, among many other topics. Most notably, delving into his unique personal experience fighting the Iranian fatwa, he addresses the subject of militant Islam in a series of challenging and deeply felt responses to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The book ends with the eponymous "Step Across This Line," a lecture Rushdie delivered at Yale in the spring of 2002, which has never been published before and is sure to prompt discussion.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Castel Di Sangro is a tiny town in the Abruzzo region of Italy, whose soccer team became an international sensation by winning promotion to the highest levels of national competition. For the team from this tiny village to be playing against the teams of Genoa and Venice was more than a dream come true, it was inconceivable. But the truth can be stranger than dreams, as Joe McGinniss discovered when he arrived in Castel Di Sangro. A recent convert to soccer, he wanted to experience life in a town turned upside down by the game. What he found was a cavalcade of euphoria, betrayal, grief, and euphoria again, an entire town living in an emotional frenzy unlike anything since the local battles of World War II. McGinniss lost himself totally to the team, a boisterous collection of characters whom readers will grow to love, and found a story whose depth and power enthralled him. Like Field of Dreams, Hoosiers, and The Secret of Santa Vittoria, this is a masterpiece of storytelling that transcends sports to embrace universal emotions. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. US, Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 144 pages, 81 color images. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. In 1999, the fashion and advertising photographer Thomas Hoeffgen (born 1968) flew to Nigeria for a story on soccer. He became so interested in the culture around the game there that he spent the next several years making unusual photographs of players and spectators in Nigeria, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, Malawi and South Africa. Hoeffgen"s pictures record the frequently improvised playing fields alongside the stadiums.

Hardcover. US, Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 144 pages, 81 color images. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. In 1999, the fashion and advertising photographer Thomas Hoeffgen (born 1968) flew to Nigeria for a story on soccer. He became so interested in the culture around the game there that he spent the next several years making unusual photographs of players and spectators in Nigeria, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, Malawi and South Africa. Hoeffgen"s pictures record the frequently improvised playing fields alongside the stadiums.

Hardcover. Great Britain, The Observer, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Decorative endpapers. In excellent shape. Binding tight, clean inside and out.