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Hardcover. Condizione: Fine condition. Fine dust jacket. New York & California: Savas Beatie, 2006. A gorgeous copy of the Limited Edition, this being #386 of 500. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR directly on the title page. SIGNED by him again on the half title page, where the ILLUSTRATOR (Val Laolagi), PUBLISHER REP (Ted Savas) and a contributor (Toby Moore) have also signed. Fine condition in a bright and shiny Fine dust jacket NO chips, tears or creases. NO rubbing or fading. NOT price clipped ($29.95). Sharp corners. Clean, square and tight. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked -- apparently never read. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. First printing with "First Edition" so stated, and complete number row (10 987654321) on the copyright page. Laid-in is a baseball card-like ephemera from the publisher promoting the book. WINNER, NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR, 2006, MILITARY WRITERS SOCIETY OF AMERICA. Illustrations by Val Laolagi. Introduction by John C. Skipper. Foreword by baseball legend Jim Morris, former Major League pitcher with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Bound in the original black boards, stamped in bright gold on the spine. From the dust jacket: "It was true in the 1940s, and it is still true today: if you have talent, someone will notice. In Gene Moore's case, that someone was the Brooklyn Dodgers. Gene Moore was a farm boy living with his family in Sesser, Illinois, a town so small even map makers ignored it. As a teenager, when he wasn't in school or helping his Pop on the farm, slopping the hogs and doing other chores with his older brother Ward and five sisters, Gene was playing baseball with the guys on the town team. Some were twice his age. The older fellows didn't mind having the Moore kid on their team because he could hit the ball farther than anyone else, he was the best catcher anyone had ever seen, he could throw men out from his knees, and not a ball ever got past him. Gene was 15 years old. Word quickly spread across the United States about the country boy who could hit the ball a country mile. The Dodgers wanted to take a look at this farm kid, barely old enough to shave and still awaiting his first kiss, but brash enough to call the pitches from behind the plate and motion to the infielders and outfielders as to how they should position themselves for certain hitters. Headed for baseball stardom with the Brooklyn Dodgers, Gene's destiny was interrupted by Pearl Harbor. After playing ball for the Navy in the Azores and North Africa, Gene and his team were sent to the States for a special -- and top secret -- mission: guarding German sailors captured from U-505. Unable to field a team, Gene convinced his commander to allow him to teach the enemy how to play baseball while he and his teammates waited for the war to end so they could be called up into the Major Leagues. But Gene's future changed irrevocably in Louisiana. His life . . . and maybe our national pastime . . . was forever altered. Inspired by true events, PLAYING WITH THE ENEMY is the riveting story of a depression-era youth and his brush with destiny. Author Gary Moore, Gene's son, did not learn of his father's remarkable odyssey through World War II and the hardships of minor league baseball until the day before Gene's death. Confronted with evidence of a possible career in baseball, Gene finally broke his decades of silence and spent the next several hours relieving himself of the heavy burden he had been carrying. The stunning news sent the author on his own odyssey as he researched his father's life and interviewed dozens of people. The astonishing story of Gene Moore's life in and out of baseball is an exciting and often heart-wrenching saga that will capture the heart of every red- blooded American who can still smell the fresh-cut summer grass or remember how it felt to tie on the cleats while dreaming of making it to the big leagues. Jammed with memorable characters from an extraordinary time in our country's history, PLAYING WITH THE ENEMY is a story that will be read a. NOT a library discard (illustratore).…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. binding tight, clean, 150 pages. S1 3.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. 14 volumes. Cabbages and Kings x+266 pages with frontispiece, 3 illustrations and signed by the publisher and illustrator; The Four Million x+225 pages with frontispiece and 3 illustrations; The Trimmed Lamp by viii+244 pages with frontispiece and 3 illustrations; Heart of the West viii+323 pages with frontispiece and 3 illustrations; The Voice of the City viii+228 pages with frontispiece and 3 illustrations; The Gentle Grafter iv+180 pages with frontispiece and 3 illustrations; Roads of Destiny ix+402 pages with frontispiece and 3 illustrations; Options iv+261 pages with frontispiece and 3 illustrations; Strictly Business viii+300 pages with frontispiece and 3 illustrations; Whirligigs viii+321 pages with 3 illustrations; Sixes and Sevens viii+267 pages with frontispiece and 3 illustrations; Rolling Stones xx+289 pages with frontispiece and 3 illustrations; Wind of Destiny iv+111 pages with frontispiece and 3 illustrations; Waifs and Strays viii+308 pages with frontispiece, 3 illustrations and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's half Vellum-backed matte blue paper-covered boards with spines stamped in gilt Top edges of text blocks trimmed and gilt in blue cloth dust jackets, spine panes stamped in gilt. Memorial Edition; Edition de Luxe, limited to 1,075 numbered copies, of which this is 533. Signed by the publisher and illustrator. An extremely popular and prolific writer, O Henry is noted for his sentimental, semi-realistic stories dealing with the lives of modest people and his mastery of the surprise ending. A North Carolinian by birth, Porter moved to Texas, where he became the editor and publisher of the humorous magazine The Rolling Stone. When he was charged with embezzling funds from a bank, he fled to Central America, subsequently the scene of Cabbages and Kings (1904). He later returned and, although there has been much debate over his actual guilt, served over three years in the federal penitentiary. While in prison, he published the first of his O Henry stories-Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking (1899). Stories he heard in prison were the germs of many of his narratives. But his work is most identified with New York City, which he liked to call 'Baghdad-on-the-Subway.' Condition: Cream cloth toned; boards somewhat worn at edges, particularly at ends of spine. Dust jackets mildly soiled, discolored with some spot staining, most noticeable at spine panel of tenth volume; some fraying at spine ends. Free end-papers toned from exposure to dust jacket flaps. Ungilt edges of text block mildly toned, numerous gatherings roughly opened. Occasional thumb soiling scattered throughout interior of text block. Very good. Fourth and sixth volume completely unopened; eighth through eleventh mostly unopened; seventh and twelfth through fourteenth partially opened; first through third and fifth volumes opened but for the last two to four leaves else a better than very good set in like jacket. Signed by Illustrator(s).…

Leather bound. Condizione: Very good. Limited Edition. Octavo, 474pp. Publisher's full deluxe morocco, raised bands, title in gilt on spine. All edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Complete with 35 illustrated plates, frontispiece with tissue cover. Dampstain along fore-edge, affecting frontispiece portrait and occasional leaves throughout. This copy is signed on the limitation page by George Edward Graham and the publisher, W.B. Conkey, being number 29 of 50 copies. Winfield Scott Schley (1839-1911) was a rear admiral in the United States Navy, known as the controversial hero of the Battle of Santiago and rescuer of the Franklin Bay Expedition of Adolphus Greely. Schley wrote two books, The Rescue of Greely in 1885, and Forty-five Years Under the Flag which was an autobiography of his military career. Signed limited edition of Schley And Santiago by George Edward Graham, signed by Graham and the publisher on the limitation page. (illustratore). Signed.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Limited Edition. Octavo, xiv, [2], 96pp, [4]. Brown hardcover, title printed on paper label affixed to green cloth spine. Fine condition, appears unread. With the original clear dust jacket, fine condition. Housed in the matching slipcase, near fine with light rubbing along edges. One of the publisher's reserved copies, so stated on the colophon, and signed by Clark Kimball. Vox was published in 1989, two-weeks before Edward Abbey's passing. Clark Kimball was a Santa Fe antiquarian bookseller and fine-press publisher who revived the Rydal Press name in the mid-1980s, publishing limited Southwestern and literary editions. Vox later appeared commercially from St. Martin's Press as "A Voice Crying in the Wilderness.". Limited edition of Vox Clamantis in Deserto: Some Notes From a Secret Journal by Edward Abbey, signed by the publisher, Clark Kimball of Rydal Press. (illustratore). Signed.…

Leather bound. Condizione: Very good. Limited Edition. Oblong folio, 159pp. Book measures 17" x 12". Bound in full morocco, title in gilt on spine and front cover. Illustrated endpapers. Some light wear from handling, slight bow to the covers due to the weight of the book. Complete with 70 full page color illustrations, all with tissue covers. This copy does not include the portfolio clamshell case. From a limited edition of 1250 copies signed by the publisher, John F. Richardson, this being number 197. A stunning book, with exceptional artwork and illustrations. The Directors' Collection of The Kill: Wildlife Encounters, from a limited edition, signed by the publisher, John F. Richardson. (illustratore). Signed.…

Leather bound. Condizione: Near fine. First Edition, First Impression. Octavo, 253pp, [3]. Full maroon calf, title stamped in gilt on the front cover and spine. Stated "First Published 1953" on the copyright page. Light spotting along top edge of the text block, internally clean. This copy is signed by the publisher, Frederick Cannon on the front free endpaper. Also signed by Alan Patton and dated 28/8/53, the month the book was released to the public. No other known copies of this presentation are recorded. The second novel by the author of Cry, the Beloved Country, set in apartheid-era South Africa and centered on a respected Afrikaner police officer whose violation of the country's racial laws brings private and public ruin. Special presentation copy of Too Late The Phalarope by Alan Paton, the first impression, signed and dated the month of publication by Alan Patton and the publisher, Frederick Cannon. (illustratore). Signed.…

Leather bound. Condizione: Very good. Deluxe Limited Edition. Folio, 206pp. Bound in full blue morocco, title stamped in gilt on spine, raised bands. Embossed metal plates on both covers with gilt overlay, sculpted by Antonio Cocchioni. Full piece measures 19.5" x 14.5" x 3.5". total weight is 22lbs. This work is in English, translated by David Giggins. Complete with 12 color tables by Dante Ricci, printed on white Tintoretto paper, manufactured by Cartigere Fedrigoni & Company. Housed in custom blue silk silk slipcase, notable wear due to the weight of these piece. Light rubbing to gilt on front cover of metal plate. From a limited edition of 999 copies, titled the "Golden Series," all signed by the publisher. This is number 633. The deluxe limited edition of Ronald Reagan: The President of Courage, signed by the publisher, Salvatore Dino. (illustratore). Signed.…

Hard Back. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Yes. First edition by publisher. Like New. SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER. Limited edition of 200, as issued. Beautiful oversized coffee table book, for the difinitive collector / cipher. Quality Hardback : hard cover edition in very good condition, some slight wear to edges, as normal for age of book; in Dust Jacket also in very good condition. Overall good / nice copy of this scarce title. Excellent reading on the subject. A good book to enjoy and keep on hand for yourself, or would make a GREAT GIFT for the fan / reader in your life. Reading is one of the great pleasures in life. Full Color Illustrations (illustratore). SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER. Book.…