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Book Condition: Used
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA

United States
About Item: New York: Platt & Munk, 1968. Hardcover. Illustrations by Jo Polseno. 8vo. Full teal blue leatherette with gilt spine lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. xi, 275pp. Line drawings. Near fine/very good. Tight, quite attractive copy of these profiles of thirteen baseball, basketball, football, golf and hockey greats. This unique copy bears choice and bold autograph additions from four of these -- all Hall of Famers in their field -- each on a fine, heavy stock 5" X 3" card, two tipped to front flyleaf recto and two to verso: RAYMOND BERRY (born 1933, Baltimore Colts split end 1955-67 who coached a half dozen teams over 25 years) signs in blue ballpoint, adding "To Richard -- Best regards" and dating it January 1973 at upper right; BOB FELLER (1918-2010, beloved Cleveland Indians pitcher 1936-41, 1945-56) boldly in red fineline, dating it 6 June 1972 at upper right; HARRY HOWELL (1932-2019, Canadian hockey star who played 17 seasons with the New York Rangers), signs in blue ballpoint, dating… Read More
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