Harry paxton (56 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Hardcover. No DJ. Ex-library with usual markings. Text unmarked. Covers show edge wear with rubbing/scuffing and bumped corners. Spine edge wear. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Book has a slight musty smell from basement storage.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.…

paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Dustjacket edgewear.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. Moderate discoloration throughout, wear to DJ with some paper loss and tears along edges.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No dj covers have smudging and some fading, interior is clean with owners name.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. 1st Edition. A.S. Barnes and Company, New York. 1955. Hardcover. First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for a gift inscription on the FFFP dated January 17, 1956. Book Condition: Very Good; light wear to head, tail, and tips; small sunfade to head; light foxing and soiling to the textblock top edge. DJ: Fair; NOT Price Clipped ($4.00); missing small pieces at head, tail, and tips; chipping along top edge of DJ. Clean internals. Inner hinges are sound and not split. 242 pp 8vo. This autobiography tells the story of one of the greatest female athletes of all time who inspired a generation of women and girls. Born in Port Arthur, Texas in 1914 to Norwegian immigrant parents, Mildred Ella Didrikson was a natural at many sports, including basketball, track, and golf. She said that she got her nickname "Babe" (after Babe Ruth) when she started hitting home runs during childhood baseball games. She came to the world's attention when she won two gold medals and one silver medal for track and field at the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles. She later went on to become America's first female golf celebrity. In 1938 Babe married professional wrestler George Zaharias, whom she met while playing as the only woman competing in a men's golf tournament. Didrikson became America's first female golf celebrity and the leading player of the 1940s and early 1950s. In 1953 Zaharias was diagnosed with colon cancer, had surgery, recovered only to have the cancer reoccur and take her life in 1956. A very presentable copy in a brodart mylar jacket. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Hardcover with dust jacket. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show minor shelving wear. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Dust jacket shows edge wear. Ex-library with usual markings.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Book has a musty odor Moderate edgewear on the boards. Binding is so loose that the book will stay open to any given page. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Condizione: New.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good +. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good -. 1st Edition. 1st Edition in the Stated 1st Printing with price-clipped dustcover in a Brodart cover (1962, ©1961.) A pleasant vintage copy: sound, reasonably bright, and unmarked with excellent color throughout. Bit of chipping to dustjacket edges; still 98% present. Octavo. 254 pp. All in all, a VG+ in VG-.…

Condizione: New.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. . . . . Op. No dj. Spine lightly soiled, bumped top and bottom. Otherwise vg condition. 258 pp.

Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: n/a. First Dell printing. Covers show edge wear and rubbing, with a small chip at the top right corner of the front panel. Spine is uncreased but shows rubbing at the head and foot. Binding is firm. Pages are significantly toned throughout but remain clean and unmarked. No previous owner signatures or inscriptions.…

Condizione: New.

Paperback or Softback. Condizione: New. This Life I've Led: An Autobiography. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Book club edition. Fine in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with modest chipping and little soiling. A collection of sports-themed articles from *The Saturday Evening Post*, including images of variou covers by such artists as Norman Rockwell and J.C. Leyendecker.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 242 pages with index and Babe Zaharias' recod in rear of book; Preface by Harry Paxton; 18 chapters. Pages tight; clean minor page wear; previous owner name on book sticker pasted on front inside covers; Three sections in book of several pages of photos and captions. Faded gild and dark green covers with white lettering on spine; Minor rubbing on cover ends, corners, and spine ends. Spine extremely faded. Few smudges and rubbing on covers. VINTAGE COPY.…

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Frayed, Chipped DJ. Book Club Edition. 463pp. Illus. "The Best From The 'Saturday Evening Post'" Many reproductions of Rockwell covers (among other artists).

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condizione: New.

HARDCOVER. GOOD dj. First Edition. iv. + 256pp. iv. + 256pp. Blue boards & white cloth back. Blue, red, orange lettered spine. Pictorial endpapers. Front matter printed on coated paper. First Edition. First Printing so stated. VG+/GOOD dj. All outer edges only foxed. Interior clean/tight/bright: no names or writings. Covers clean, no spine creasing. Jacket complete/clean. Multiple edge tears, foxed on reverse.…

Magazine. Condizione: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. ; Unbound, neatly trimmed & in mylar with a stiff backing board. Please note: This is NOT A BOOK, but from a vintage journal. "Hammonds Books" is NOT written on the item but only on the scan. The scan may not illustrate the complete image. ; Illustrations; 10x14; 3 pp pages. …

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Worn, Good DJ. 463pp. Illus. "The Best From The 'Saturday Evening Post'" Many reproductions of Rockwell covers (among other artists).

Vintage black-and-white studio still photograph from the 1975 television movie. With MGM front folding snipe attached to the verso. Based on the autobiography of famous female athlete Babe Didrikson Zaharias, who competed in the 1932 Olympics and won two gold medals in track and field. The film won a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture made for Television. Babe is played by actresses Susan Clarke, pictured in the studio still. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.…

Hardback or Cased Book. Condizione: New. This Life I've Led: An Autobiography. Book.

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. First Edition. Near fine in original wrappers. A tear on an unreleated ad page. Interview based article with Stan Musial as he is about to have his 3,000th hit.

Condizione: New.

Magazine. Condizione: Very Good-. This is an advertisement/article from a Vintage Journal and not a book but a magazine article, pages are clean; ; 4 pages.

Condizione: New.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. Paxton, Harry T. CASEY AT THE BAT: THE STORY OF MY LIFE IN BASEBALL New York: Random House 1962 Fair/Fair 254 pp. 8vo. Blue boards of book are faded at all edges with multi-coloured titles on white publishers of spine. Light wear to extremities. Dust jacket is soiled, scuffed, worn, and chipped at various places with one longer closed tear at back edge of spine. Dust jacket is price clipped. Front hinge is just beginning to crack. Spine is cocked but binding holds pages well. Text is clear but top outer corner of pages are soiled and wrinkled from water damage. Edges of text block are also slightly soiled.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear commensurate with age and use. Clean unmarked copy. Light bumping visible to corners of boards and ends of spine strip. Light scuffing and smudging to boards and spine strip. Secure packaging for safe delivery.…