The Boy's Baseball Book
by Mickey Owen, Frank Farmer
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall , 1963 Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ. 1963. Hardcover. First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; bumped tips, head, and tail; scant soiling to boards. DJ: Fair; NOT Price Clipped ($3.95); wear and missing small pieces at tips, head, and tail; rubbing to panels, wear at flap and spine folds. Yellow cloth boards and spine with bright black lettering on the spine. 208 pp 8vo. This is a fully illustrated complete baseball instruction guide by one of baseball's great catchers, Mickey Owen. Written especially for youngsters, it contains hundreds of inside tips, techniques, and offensive and defensive strategies that can turn ordinary players into champions. A clean presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007713
- Title
- The Boy's Baseball Book
- Author
- Mickey Owen, Frank Farmer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Prentice-Hall
- Place of Publication
- Englewood Cliffs, NJ
- Date Published
- 1963
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- baseball, baseball coaching, Mickey Owen, baseball schools, player instruction, baseball hitting, baseball pitching, baseball fielding, managing baseball teams,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Baseball; Adolescent/Childrens Books;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
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- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...