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Blockade Billy
by Stephen King
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1587672286
- ISBN 13
- 9781587672286
- Seller
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Carrollton, Texas, United States
Item Price
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About This Item
Blue boards with silver writing on spine; top of book spine rumpled. Top corner of rear board bumped; pictures of front and back of William Blakely baseball trading card on back dust jacket; dust jacket is in Fine condition. ISBN and cover price of $25 on front dust jacket flap; tight binding and pages look in excellent condition.
Cemetery Dance First Edition, Second Printing as indicated by "First Edition, Second Printing" and number line of "3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2" on copyright page.
Stephen King's novella about a baseball catcher named William Blakely. Hardcover and original un-clipped dust jacket protected by archival Mylar cover.
Synopsis
From New York Times bestselling author Stephen King comes the haunting story of Blockade Billy , the greatest Major League baseball player to be erased from the game. Even the most die-hard baseball fans donâÈçt know the true story of William âÈêBlockade BillyâÈë Blakely. He may have been the greatest player the game has ever seen, but today no one remembers his name. He was the first--and only--player to have his existence completely removed from the record books. Even his team is long forgotten, barely a footnote in the gameâÈçs history. Every effort was made to erase any evidence that William Blakely played professional baseball, and with good reason. Blockade Billy had a secret darker than any pill or injection that might cause a scandal in sports today. His secret was much, much worse... and only Stephen King, the most gifted storyteller of our age, can reveal the truth to the world, once and for all. Originally published through Cemetery Dance Publications on April 20, 2010 as a $25.00 limited-edition hardcover, Stephen King and Cemetery Dance have made an arrangement with Scribner to make available a less expensive hardcover edition of Blockade Billy , with an on-sale date of May 25th, the same date the audiobook goes on sale. The Scribner edition will be available in all U.S. and Canadian retail outlets. Both the Scribner book and the Simon & Schuster audiobook will feature a bonus short story ("Morality").
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Details
- Bookseller
- Sherlock Joe's Book Hunting
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- KING114
- Title
- Blockade Billy
- Author
- Stephen King
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition; Second Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1587672286
- ISBN 13
- 9781587672286
- Publisher
- Cemetery Dance Publications
- Place of Publication
- Baltimore
- Date Published
- 2010
- Pages
- 113
- Keywords
- stephen king; blockade billy; cemetery dance; trading card
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Sports;
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I will also gladly search for and offer well-priced books of all kinds. If there's something you'd love to have, either send me a message here or go to https://cases.sherlockjoes.com and Open a Case!
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