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Hardcover. xii, 256p. + 8p. photos, very good first edition, first printing stated in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dj. Autobiography by an openly gay baseball player.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine condition. Very Good dust jacket. First Printing of the First Edition. New York: Marlowe & Company, 2003. SIGNED by the AUTHOR directly on the half title page. "Autographed" copy sticker on the jacket's front panel. Fine condition in a bright, shiny Very Good dust jacket. Sharp corners. Clean, square and tight. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. NOT a remainder. Pages are fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked. 2003. First printing of the First Edition with complete number row (987654321) on the copyright page. Photo illustrated. Bound in the original blue boards with a dark blue spine, lettered in bright gold. From the publisher: "Billy Bean is the first major league baseball player to publicly discuss his homosexuality and the first athlete in a professional American team sport to do so since all-pro football player Dave Kopay came out in 1975. By 1996, when Bean retired at age thirty-two from the game he loved after ten years as a pro ballplayer for the Tigers, Dodgers, and Padres, he had become disillusioned by the sport that had defined his life. Bean found himself forced to choose between his love of baseball and the man he loved. It was an agonizing end to a career in which he struggled to make the most of his role as a utility player in America's most physically and emotionally demanding sport. But out of the premature demise of his career, Bean came to see what the game had taught him and helped him to understand what could be done to improve the major leagues for the next generation of young athletes, so they can navigate the challenges and rewards of the game on their own terms. Bean recently starred as himself on HBO's popular Arli$$ and appears frequently as a commentator on sports and politics on national TV." . SIGNED by the AUTHOR. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. xiii, 256pp. + 8 pages of photos. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. NOT a library discard (illustratore). …

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. 254 pp, index, b/w photos. Front wrap has an outer edge curl. creased corners. Leaves yellowed. Remainder mark bottom edge.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY JOHN AMAECHI: "TO KATHY, NICK, & TIARRA, BEST WISHES.". INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR.

Trade paperback. Condizione: Very good. The format is approximately 7.5 inches by 9.5 inches. 304 pages. Illustrated cover has flaps. Illustrations. Bibliography. Appendix. Index. Vesa Nenye followed his family's illustrious military tradition and served his country, Finland, as a Tank Commander and an Arms & Munitions NCO. Upon leaving the armed forces, he became a member of the Panssarikilta the armored core heritage society in Finland. A veteran of historical and strategy gaming in Finland, Peter Munter founded a play-by-mail business before internet and worked extensively as a writer and translator of roleplaying supplements in the late 80s. Peter is an ex-Marine from the Finnish Navy and currently works as a Managing Director in a games retail chain that he established with Vesa Nenye in 1997. After graduating from high school with the highest grades, Toni Wirtanen served in the Kymi Jäger Battalion of the Karelian Brigade as an infantry anti-tank specialist. He was discharged with honors as a lance corporal, and has been active ever since with the reservist corps. Toni is best known for his work as the singer and songwriter in the rock band Apulanta, founded in 1991. Chris Birks moved from England to Bergen, Norway, at the age of 13. He went on to study geology at the University of Bergen. Whilst studying, he developed a keen interest in military history and was instrumental in the development of the hobby scene for strategy wargaming in Norway. Chris now works as a teacher of mathematics and natural sciences, and splits his free time between family trips to the mountains, wargaming and different historical research projects. The story of the "Winter War" between Finland and Soviet Russia is a dramatic David versus Goliath encounter. When close to half a million Soviet troops poured into Finland in 1939 it was expected that Finnish defenses would collapse in a matter of weeks. But they held firm. The Finns not only survived the initial attacks but succeeded in inflicting devastating casualties before superior Russian numbers eventually forced a peace settlement. This is a rigorously detailed and utterly compelling guide to Finland's vital, but almost forgotten role in the cataclysmic World War II. It reveals the untold story of iron determination, unparalleled skill and utter mastery of winter warfare that characterized Finland's fight for survival on the hellish Eastern Front. Now publishing in paperback, Finland at War: the Winter War 193940 is the premiere English-language history of the fighting performance of the Finns, drawing on first-hand accounts and rare photographs to explain just how they were able to perform military feats that nearly defy belief. First Paperback Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Peter Bull (Maps) (illustratore).…