Viking penguin inc canada (7 risultati)

Hard Cover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Book Club Edition. Jacket has light edgewear. Boards have minor shelfwear. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Size: 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

Hardcover. Condizione: Like New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Like New. 420 pp. Clean, fresh copy and dj with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text. Jasmine Lee (Jacket Design); Teru Kuwayama (Front Jacket Photo); Sarfraz Khan and Greg Mortenson (Back Jacket Photos); Elke Sigal (Design) (illustratore). …

Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 12th Printing, August 1985. 362 pp. Previous owner's name inscribed on first front-end page. Slightly slanted and creased spine. Light foxing around edges of pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st American Edition/1st Printing. 212 pp. Solidly bound copy and dj with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Damage to front top corner of book and dj. Paul Buckley (Jacket Design); Sean Sexton Collection/ CORBIS (Jacket Photo); Jerry Bauer (Author Photo) (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Like New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Like New. 19th Printing. 335 pp. Clean, fresh copy and dj with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text. Amy King (Jacket Design); PoodlesRock/Corbis (Jacket Illustration); Sigrid Estrada (Author Photo); Francesca Belanger (Design) (illustratore). …

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Edition. As new condition dark gray boards with a textured white spine and gold front cover and spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes Praise for Orr: My Story; Author Dedication; Foreword by Royce Tennant; Introduction; Epilogue; Appendices: Some Awards and Recognitions: A Personal Perspective, Contracts, Career Statistics and Records; Afterword; Acknowledgments; Sources; Photo Credits and Index. Illustrated with three sections of both black-and-white and color photographic plates plus photographic front and rear endpapers. "One of the greatest sports figures of all time breaks his silence in a memoir as unique as the man himself. Bobby Orr is often referred to as the greatest ever to play the game of hockey. From his rookie year in 1966 through the mid-1970s, he could change a game just by stepping on the ice. No defenseman had ever played the way he did, received so many trophies, or set so many records, several of which still stand today. "Too bad they don't have another league for him to go to. He's too good for the NHL," said one of his opponents. "I don't know that there has ever been anybody that so completely dominated a team sport," said another. "There's stars, superstars, and then there's Bobby Orr." But all the brilliant achievements and accolades leave unsaid as much as they reveal. They don't tell what inspired Orr, who taught him, what drove him, what it was like for a shy small-town kid to suddenly land in the full glare of the media. They don't tell what it was like when the agent he regarded as a brother betrayed him and left him in financial ruin at the same time his battered knee left him unable to play the game he himself had redefined. They don't tel what he thinks of the state of the game of hockey today: training, fundamentals, coaches, agents, money, or - most important - passion. He is speaking out now because "I am a parent and a grandparent, and I believe that I have lessons worth passing on." Orr: My Story is more than a book about hockey - it is about the making of a man." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.…

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Light foxing on top text block edge and 2nd FEP.; 12.2 X 11.2 X 1.1 inches; 178 pages.