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The Wizard of Foz - Dick Fosbury's One-Man High-Jump Revolution
by Welch, Bob and Dick Fosbury
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Good/very good
- ISBN 10
- 1510736190
- ISBN 13
- 9781510736191
- Seller
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Eugene, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2018. Second printing. Hardcover. Good/very good. Signed without inscription by Dick Foasbury and Bob Welch on a corporate (Sapient) holiday book plate affixed to the front free endpaper. Black hardcover with silver spine titles, 2nd printing in dustjacket. A good only copy with wear to the spine tips, bumping to the lower board corners and some dots of brown to the bottom of the front board. Interior is clean and unmarked other than the ghost of a previous bookstore price erased at the top of the ffep. The book opens widely at the half title page, but the binding is solid, as are the hinges. The unclipped jacket is much better - clean and bright with minimal edgewear. 282 pp., indexed, black and white photo gathering at the center. Fosbury's passing in early 2023 was a blow to the track and field community in Oregon, where he pioneered the Fosbury Flop - used by most competitors in the high jump to this day.
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- Bookseller
- Tangible Tales
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2055
- Title
- The Wizard of Foz - Dick Fosbury's One-Man High-Jump Revolution
- Author
- Welch, Bob and Dick Fosbury
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second printing
- ISBN 10
- 1510736190
- ISBN 13
- 9781510736191
- Publisher
- Skyhorse Publishing
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2018
- Keywords
- Oregon Athletes Athletics High Jump Track and Field History olympic games biographies Signed autographed editions fosbury flop OSU State University
- Bookseller catalogs
- Sports; HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Pacific Northwest (OR, WA); BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Sports; SPORTS & RECREATION / Olympics;
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