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Cobb
A Biography
by Al Stump
ISBN: 0945575645
ISBN-13: 9780945575641
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
Al Stump spent a year with the dying Ty Cobb as ghostwriter of the baseball player's autobiography. The inspiration for the movie "Cobb", this book has remained a sports classic.
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"Cobb: A Biography is the most revealing account we are ever likely to get of the life of a man who is on every sports historian's short list of baseball's greatest players." -- Robert Peterson
-- New York Times Book Review
"The most powerful baseball biography I have read...haunting...memorable...terrifying." -- Roger Kahn
"A frightening, unforgettable image of a demigod gone mad. Stump has resurrected Cobb in all his terrifying malevolence."
-- Washington Post Book World
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Workman Pub Co
Published date: 1994
Size: 6.25 x 9.5 inches
Weight: 1.75 pounds
Publisher's Notes
Al Stump's gripping look at one of America's most famous sports heroes--a man who walked the line between greatness and psychosis.
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Cobb: A Biography
Al Stump
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1994-10. Hardcover. Very Good. This is a gently used former library book with the usual stamps and stickers. Satisfaction guaranteed. ( more information) Offered by bookwebpages (United States)
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Cobb: A Biography
Al Stump
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. Used - Very Good. Hardcover w / dustjacket. Very good condition; edges, corners, and covers of book show minor wear. No underlining; no highlighting; no internal markings. DJ is Very Good. In sealed plastic protection. 1st ed. 1994. Hardcover w / dustjacket. ( more information) Offered by BookZone U.S.A. (United States)
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COBB: A BIOGRAPHY
Stump, Al
Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books. VG in VG pc dj. 1994. 2nd printing. Hardback. Hardback (blue cl spine/blue boards). xx + 436 pp. B&W photos. Appendix. Critical bio of baseball player, Ty Cobb . ( more information) Offered by Wickham Books South (United States)
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Cobb: A Biography
Stump, Al
Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. Hardcover. 0945575645 This book has some shelf wear as well as marks on the jacket and pages. The library stamps and stickers are still on this book. This book is 436 pages on the life of Ty Cobb. . Fair. 1994. Reprint. ( more information) Offered by Cupboard Maker Books (United States)
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Cobb: A Biography
Stump, Al
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A.: Algonquin Books, 1994. Cloth, 436 pps. with index, bibliography. Illustrated. Biography of one of baseball's greatest, and most controversial, players--Ty Cobb. Author Al Stump worked with Cobb in the early 1960s on the player's autobiography and saw and heard much which he could not at the time disclose. Here the gloves come off and Cobb is portrayed in the harsh but fair light that such a complex figure deserves. Fine in fine dust jacket.. Hard Cover. ( more information) Offered by The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ) (United States)
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Cobb
Al Stump
Good. Usually ships same day. Great Bargain ( more information) Offered by UPB Books (United States)
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COBB, A BIOGRAPHY
Stump, Al
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1994. Stated 1st. Very Good+/Very Good+. Hardcover: Clean boards. Nostalgic photos. Nice tight binding. Jacket: Price clipped. Photo illustrated front cover. Movie promo sticker on front.Desirable copy in protective mylar. . ISBN: 0-945575-64-5. ( more information) Offered by Koster's Collectible Books (United States)
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Cobb: A Biography
Stump, Al
First Edition. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A.: Algonquin Books, 1994. Dust jacket has tiny bit of edgewear. The Life and Times of the Meanest Man Who Ever Played Baseball. Hardcover. NrFine/Nr/Fine. ( more information) Offered by Georgia Holt Books (United States)
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Cobb: A Biography
Al Stump
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, A Division of Workman Publishing company, inc., New York, 1994 First edition, first printing. Dark blue cloth spine has gilt lettering. Boards are paper-covered in slightly lighter blue. Tiny stain on lower page edge (exterior). Very, very light shelf wear to board edges. Page 99 has diagonal top corner crease. DJ has very slight wear at top edge. DJ is UNclipped. Front of dj has a round promotional sticker "The book behind the movie starring Tommy Lee Jones", with a black & white picture of Jones in baseball cap filling the center of the sticker. Sticker has one small chip, as if someone started to remove it -- approximately 1mm x 2mm -- I would say not more than that is gone. A very nice clean, crisp copy. NOT a remainder. NOT ex-lib. Please do not hesitate to ask questions or request photos if you would like more information before ordering. I will combine shipping whenever possible, on request.. 1st. HC. VG+/Vg+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information) Offered by White Pine Books (United States)
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Cobb : A Biography
Stump, Al
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1994. First Edition. With a foreword by Jimmie Reese. Illustrations. "Ty Cobb, the greatest off all ballplayers -- and an absolute shit"...Ernest Hemingway, 1948 has promtional sticker for movie on dj. ISBN: 0945575645. Near Fine/Very Very Good Price Clipped. BASEBALL PLAYERS COBB TY 1886 1961 SPORTS RECREATION GENERAL. ( more information) Offered by Mothermacs (Canada)
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Cobb : A Biography
Stump, Al
Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.A.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1994. Pages are tight, bright & clean, very faint edge foxing. Jacket in a crystal-clear polyester protector sleeve. Binding very firm and straight, sewn signatures. Boards, spine, edges and corners good+. If needed for reference, research, analysis, or just enjoyment this is the one, shelf presentable. No apparent reading wear. 436 pages, appendix, bibliography & indexed. B/W photos. . Number Line 3579108642. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good Price Intact. 9 1/4 X 6 1/2. ( more information) Offered by Charles E. Peck (United States)
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Cobb: A Biography
Al Stump
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill , 1994 Life and Times of the Meanest Man Who Ever Played Baseball. The most shrewd, inventive, lurid, detested, mysterious, and superb of all baseball players, if a miserable psychopathic failure as a human being. Illustrated with 20 photographs. A detailed and unblinking look at the darker side of Cobb's life. NF/NF- Quarter-bound blue/dark blue hardcover with gilt on spine. Slightest edgesoiling on page/cover edges and front endpage. DJ has edge yellowing and on dampstain on bottom front edge. Small rip on top backstrip. Intro by Jimmie Reese. Third Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine Minus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information) Offered by Spirit Tomes and Treasures (United States)
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COBB A Biography
Stump, Al
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1994. Stated 1st Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0945575645. Trace wear, if any. Very nice copy. ; B&W Photographs; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 436 pp; The life and times of the meanest man who ever played baseball.. ( more information) Offered by Crazy Horse Books (United States)
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Cobb: A Biography
Stump, Al
good, fair Algonquin Books Chapel Hill, NC 1994 First First 436, bibliography, index, DJ worn, soiled, and chipped at bottom, movie related sticker on DJ Foreword by Jimmie Reese. Al Stump spent a year with the dying Ty Cobb as ghostwriter of the baseball player's autobiography. The inspiration for the movie "Cobb," this book has remained a sports classic. ( more information) Offered by Ground Zero Books, Ltd. (United States)
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