Fighting Coach: A Football Story
by Scholz, Jackson
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Fulshear, Texas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1940. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Stated First Edition. Rubbing wear to spine ends and corners. Spine slightly cocked. Small scuff marks on the rear cover. Previous owner name on the blank page following the front endpapers. 245 pages with illustrated endpapers and chapter head vignettes. Vintage football fiction for boys. The author, Jackson Scholz (1897-1986), was an American track star who appeared in three Olympics (1920, 1924, and 1928), winning two gold medals and a silver medal. His losing race against Scottish runner Eric Liddell in 1924 was depicted in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire. Scholz later authored a number of juvenile sports stories..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Whiting Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11637
- Title
- Fighting Coach: A Football Story
- Author
- Scholz, Jackson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- William Morrow and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1940
- Keywords
- Children's Books Football Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books;
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About the Seller
Whiting Books
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Fulshear, Texas
About Whiting Books
We are an Internet-based company that sells used, out-of-print, and some rare volumes for readers, researchers, and collectors. We carry general stock in both fiction and nonfiction, leaning toward regional histories, biography, genealogy, sports, and the arts.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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....
- 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...