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It's Only a Game
by Terry Bradshaw - SIGNED by Bradshaw
Book is in EXCELLENT + condition in Good++ DJ
- Signed by Bradshaw in Sharpie on the title page
- Story of the first quarterback to win four Super Bowls for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
- Covers not only Bradshaw's life, but also provides an intimate portrait into professional football
- Pocket Books, 2001, 257 pages.
- All pages clean, tightly bound. Dust Jacket has some minor shelf wear along the edges and spine.
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by Bob St. John
Inscribed & Signed by the Author
Book is in Good + condition in Good DJ
- This book gives some insights into the real Tom Landry. This is the full story of how Tom Landry rose from his boyhood in the dusty sandlots of Texas' Rio Grande Valley to defensive stardom and strategic genius with the New York Giants. Landry reveals what one of America's great coaches is really thinking about during a game.
- Outside front cover is starting to split at hinge, but book is solidly bound and appears unread.
- DJ has edgewear and some chipping.
- 1979, Word Books, 251 pages.
$24.95
by Jimmy Banks
First Edition
Book is in Very Good condition, in Good- DJ
* First Edition
* The title says it all - it's the Darrell Royal Story
* The man who embodies the history of Texas Longhorn Football, and one of the greatest college football coaches ever
* Shoal Creek Publishers, 178 pages, 1973
* Illustrated with photos
$24.95
$17.95
$17.95
My Wide World
By Jim McKay
Inscribed / Signed by the Author
Book is in NEAR MINT condition in EXCELLENT Dust Jacket
- From the host of ABC's Wide World of Sports
- Jim McKay covered more than 100 different sports in 35 countries. In this book, he tells of the summer of 1972, with flashbacks to other memorable moments. Includes deaths at the Indianapolis 500, the U.S. Open and British Open, both decided in the final holes, and Cathy Rigby's slip on the balance beam and the murder of 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. And much, much more.
- Published by Macmillan, 1973, 272 pages. Stated First Printing
- Clean pages and tightly bound. Price clipped Dust Jacket has tape-closed small tear on back. Front hinge slightly weak.
$27.95
By Salom Rizk
1943 First Edition - Inscribed / Signed by Rizk
Book is in EXCELLENT condition.
* The stirring story of an orphan who discovered at 14 that he was an American citizen.
* Coming to this country not speaking the language, after a few short years, Rizk was lecturing around the U.S. on the opportunities, freedom and fullness of life that he found here in contrast to his bare existence in Syria. Over 1 million children heard lectures from Rizk
* Father Flanagan, of Boys Town, said "Salom Rizk has made my homeless boys proud of being American."
* Tightly bound and very clean pages,
* 1943, 317 pages
$4.95
Paké Patch Growing Up In Old Hawaii: A Novel
By Emmie Shigezawa
Signed by the Author
Book is in NEAR MINT condition. Dust Jacket in VERY GOOD condition.
- Harumi Miura, a sophomore at the Univ. of Hawaii, awakens with a headache on a Sunday morning on December 7, 1941 to hear reports of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
- This is the story of a young girl growing up in Hawaii, but it is also a first-hand account of life in Hawaii before and after Pearl Harbor, chronicled with honesty and humility.
- The author was born in an area of Hawaii called Paké Patch, a small Japanese neighborhood that bordered on rice fields. According to the author, only a Shinto shrine stands today as a reminder of Paké Patch.
- Published by Gordon Publishing, 266 pages. First Edition, Stated First Printing. 2002
- Clean pages and tightly bound. Front hinge is a little weak. Dust Jacket has edge wear
$174.95
by David Ben-Gurion
Book is in Excellent condition in Very Good DJ
* David Ben-Burion is inseparably linked to the building of Israel as the Jewish State. The story of his life is the story of Israel. Compiled by David Bransten, the book captures Ben-Gurion's story in his own words, from his arrival in Israel in 1906, his service in WWI, participation in the Balfour Declaration and in the battle for the creation of Israel.
* Also covers personal glimpses into the heart, mind and character of this complex man. Born in a Polish ghetto to farm laboror to founder and first Commander in Chief of the Israel Defense Forces. Autobiography and history combine in this one book by and about this statesman and scholar.
* Very clean page, binding tight, spine straight.
* Bookplate of prior owner inside leaf
* First edition, 1970, World Publishing, 216 pages.
$19.95
by Jesse Owens & Paul Niemark
Book is in EXCELLENT ++ condition. Good+ DJ.
* A remarkable self-portrait of the black man who carried this country to greatness in the 1936 Olympics.
* When Hitler was out to prove that the "Master Race" was superior, Jesse Owens won four gold medals and proved to the world that superiority wasn't based on the color of one's skin.
* 1978 Logos International BCE, 206 pages,
* Near mint book in good+ DJ,
* 1" tear on DJ at lower spine, other shelfwear to DJ
$9.95
by P. A. Pasergyeenko
1899 First English Edition
Based on its age, the book is in VERY GOOD +
* An account of the daily life of Leonid Tolstoy, one of Russia's greatest authors, and the author of Anna Karenina
* Translated from Russian by Isabel Hapgood
* Photo frontespiece picture of the happy Tolstoy couple
* Published by Thomas Crowell, 1899, 100 pages
* Tight binding, clean pages
* Slight spine roll and page dges are heavily foxed, and cover has some staining
Mark Twain in Elmira
by Robert Jerome and Herbert Wisbey
Inscribed & Signed by both authors
Book is in EXCELLENT condition. No Dust Jacket
- Inscribed & Signed by both authors as well as their typist
- The history of Twain's time living in Elmira, New York
- Stated First Edition
- Published by the Mark Twain Society, 1977. 242 pages
- Pages are clean and unmarked. Minimal shelf wear.
- The book comes with a newspaper article about the publication of the book, with pictures of the authors at the introductory book signing. The article had been put into the book, and where the newsprint had been, the inside of the front cover and the fly are yellowed. This is the shaded area you see in the photo of the signatures.
$99.95
Roses and Locoweed The Life of a Cowboy's Wife
by Freia J. Hooper-Bradford
Book is in Very Good condition. Soft cover
- The author chronicles a life few wives have shared. Married to a cowboy as a young woman, she lived a life she had dreamed about as a horse-crazy teenager. But it wasn't all roses, there was lots of locoweed.
- Detailing vagabond ranch life, she accurately recounts the bad tough times as well as the good life in the romantic west of the second half of the 20th century.
- 2005, IUniverse, 161 pages
- Clean pages, and tight binding with a slight roll in the spine.
$19.95
by Isabella Bird
Book is in MINT condition
* Softcover,
* Univ of Oklahoma Press, 1999 of 1960 copyright, 276 pages.
* A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains contains letters written by Bird to her sister during her six-month journey through the Colorado Rockies in 1873.
$7.95
Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life
by Francis Parkman
Book is in NEAR MINT condition
* The book is a first-person account of a 2 month summer tour of the U.S. states of Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and Kansas when Parkman was 23.
* Heritage Club Edition, faux leather binding with gilt stamp image on front, 1971, 297 pages,
* Prior owner name mailing label inside cover, otherwise fine,
* no slipcase
$24.95
By Alfred Hauge
INSCRIBED & SIGNED by Hauge
Book is overall in Mint condition. no DJ
* Cleng (Kleng) Peerson (1782-1865) was known as the 'Father of Organized Norwegian Migration to America'. He is recognized as the one pioneer whose tracks can be found throughout the Norwegian settlements in the United States.
* The True Saga of Cleng Peqson is not quite a biography but a sifting of the evidence available to a biographer. The resulting book is both a valuable collection of information on Cleng Peerson and an interesting sidelight on the mind of the novelist Alfred Hauge. The American edition is profusely illustrated.
* Norwegian Society of Texas, 1982, Dallas. 132 pg.
* Published in Norwegian as Sannferdig Saga om Cleng Peerson
* Translated from the Norwegian by John Weinstock and Turid Sverre.
$124.95