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Martina
by Martina Navratilova
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0394536401
- ISBN 13
- 9780394536408
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, Publisher, 1985 Alfred A. Knopf, Publisher, New York. 1985. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for a stray black mark on the FFFP. Book Condition: Near Fine; scant bumping to tips. DJ: Very Good +; NOT Price Clipped ($16.95); light bumping to top edge of DJ; small closed tears at head and upper tips. Off-white paper over boards with white cloth overlay on the spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. 287 pp 8vo. This is Martina's story of her life from her childhood in Czechoslovakia where she was a youth tennis star with dreams of Wimbledon and her defection in her teen years. She learns the game from other female tennis players and soon discovers her attraction to other females who helped with her feeling and eating habits. All of this has helped move to the top of the ranks in Women's Tennis. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014893
- Title
- Martina
- Author
- Martina Navratilova
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394536401
- ISBN 13
- 9780394536408
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf, Publisher
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1985
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Martina Navratilova, Women's professional tennis, lesbian, LGBTQ, Sandra Haynie, Rita Mae Brown, Nancy Liberman, Judy Nelson, diet, food, Czechoslovakia, Communism,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography; LGBT Issues;
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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- Gilt
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- Brodart
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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...
- Jacket
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