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Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY ZINSSER on the front fly leaf. A life-long baseball fan describes spring training with the Pittsburgh Pirates in Bradenton, Florida, in an account filled with interviews, baseball lore, and information on techniques. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge, MIT Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 321 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. In The Springboard in the Pond, Thomas van Leeuwen looks at a familiar hole--the domestic swimming pool--and discovers an icon indispensable to the reading of twentieth-century modernism. The books many illustrations--drawings, plans, and photographs--come from an unusual variety of sources, creating what is surely the most provocative visual archive of the swimming pool ever assembled.

Hardcover. Hamden, CT, Shoe String Press, 1st , 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 168 pages, B&W photos. Hunting bears & wolves in the Arctic. Scarce hunting book. Dust jacket with light edgewear.

Hardcover. New York, C. M. Saxon & Co, 1st, 1856, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 384 pages. Hardcover. Extensive b&w illustrations throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Blind stamp decoration on covers. Includes appendix of books available from the publisher. Edge wear and tearing to spine. Shelf wear to covers. Foxing to top edge and preliminary pages. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Softcover. NY, Tempo Books, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, mass market paperback. 206 pages. Minor shelf wear.

Hardcover. Kansas City, Andrew McMeel Publishing, 2nd, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 159 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY SCOTT HAMILTON ON BOOKPLATE OPPOSITE Title Page. Dust jacket shows light rubbing and edge wear, internally tight and crisp. Color photographs throughout.

Hardcover. NY, PublicAffairs, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 331 pages. Dodger Stadium is an American icon. But the story of how it came to be goes far beyond baseball. The hills that cradle the stadium were once home to three vibrant Mexican American communities. In the early 1950s, those communities were condemned to make way for a utopian public housing project. Then, in a remarkable turn, public housing in the city was defeated amidst a Red Scare conspiracy. Instead of getting their homes back, the remaining residents saw the city sell their land to Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Now LA would be getting a different sort of utopian fantasy -- a glittering, ultra-modern stadium. But before Dodger Stadium could be built, the city would have to face down the neighborhood's families -- including one, the Arechigas, who refused to yield their home. The ensuing confrontation captivated the nation - and the divisive outcome still echoes through Los Angeles today. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, BC Ed., 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 349 pages, b&w photos. One of the most endearing of American heroes, Casey Stengel guided the New York Yankees to ten pennants in twelve seasons. Here is the brilliant manager stripped naked--the person underneath all the clowning, mugging, and double-talking. Robert Creamer shows us Casey at twenty-two, famous from his very first day in the big leagues. We see Casey's playing career fall apart as he is traded, shunted to last-place teams, hampered by injuries, considered finished--until he bats a glorious home run in the 1923 World Series. Here are Casey's managing successes and failures--dismissed by the Yankees, he returns to the limelight with his new and inept New York Mets, the team he single-handedly lifts into the nation's consciousness. Clean copy, like new.

Hardcover. New York, Persea Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 228 page. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR BELTH ON TITLE PAGE AND DATED August 31, 2007. Otherwise, clean, tight copy with minor rubbing on dust jacket edges.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 283 pages, b&w illustrations. An inside study of minor league baseball provides a portrait of the small cities and towns that house the teams and the colorful people--players, owners, coaches, and fans--who contribute to the baseball legend. The author decided to live out a fantasy by dumping his day job, outfitting a second hand pickup truck, camper and setting out on a great circle journey around backwaters of American baseball. Here he found that the hopes of prospects live on and that the game is self perpetuating. Fortunately for us, David Lamb is a first rate journalist whose sketches of the towns and teams are well written and detailed. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Mountain Sports Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 180 pages. Since the 1950's, Stowe has been called the "Ski Capital of the East." Peter Oliver's stunning coffee-table book is the story of Stowe's past and present, the mountain, the village, and the people who helped it grow and made it famous.

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The story of one remarkable summer when Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak captured the imagination and attention of the country. 260 pages, b&w illustrations.

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 2nd pr., 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 212 pages. Small notation on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 179 pages, b&w photos. In the Dominican Republic baseball is not only a game but a national obsession. Exported from the United States and still controlled by it, the game is also a crucial arena of intercultural relations. Sugarball describes how Dominican baseball fosters national pride and competition with the United States while at the same time promoting acceptance of the North American presence in the country. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Santa Barbara CA, T. Adler Books, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. 127 b&w and 100 duotone illustrations. Designed by Tom Adler. Ron Church"s images of surfing's first organized contests-at once mundane and heroic-caught the sport in a time of change.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 2nd pr, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 461 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Biography of boxing legend. Mild fading along spine of dust jacket cover. Black-and-white photographs throughout. Rough-cut edges. Unmarked. A bright and tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Carlton Books Ltd, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 304 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. An illustrated fashion history from the 1920s to the present. Chock full of pictures and information, cataloging our love affair with the swimsuit and beach life in general. This book covers the period from the mid-nineteenth century, when the railways first made the seaside accessible to all, right up to the modern day, with supermodels strutting their stuff on the catwalk for Gucci and Versace. There's tons of info on the chronology of fabrics, from heavy felts and wools, up to modern synthetics. And a wealth of illustrations show bathing machines, 30's lido's, knobbly knees contests - and my favourite of all - dozens of vintage adverts for swimwear.

Hardcover. NY, Bantam Books, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 305 pages, b&w illustrations. First Printing of the First Edition, with complete number row (0987654321) on the copyright page. Illustrated with 16 pages of photos. Appendix (career stats). Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers, 2nd pr., 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 267 pages, color frontispiece, 58 b&w photographic plates. Blue cloth covers with a pastedown photo of fish on front, top edge gilt. Publisher's code of I-T on copyright page indicating a September 1919 printing, 3 months after the June 1919 date on the same page. Spine has darkened and gilt faded so title is barely visible, but covers very good and interior of book is clean and tight.

Hardcover. Portsmouth NH, Dartmouth Outing Club/Peter Randall, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 253 pages, illustrated with b&w photographs. Foreword by David Bradley. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the half title page.

Softcover. Valencia CA, Black Belt Communications, reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 208 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Sunderland UK, Standard Golf Company, 13th Ed., 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. stapled light blue paper wrappers. Housed in mauve cloth covers with a clamshell card folder. Appears to be the original printing of the 1909 catalog with the small 4 lines of the printer on rear cover: Mawson, Swan & Morgan Limited, Newcastle upon Tyne. Near fine, 28 pages with b&w illustrations. All encased in a mauve cardboard slipcase with a reproduction of the cover pasted to front. Clean.

Softcover. Burlington VT, Thistle Books, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 28 pages. Pale green paper wrappers. Illustrated with b&w illustrations. This is a facsimile of the Standard Golf Company's catalogue for 1909, the thirteenth edition. Clean copy.