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I'm Glad You Didn't Take it Personally
by Jim Bouton
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Good +
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Item Price
CA$18.62CA$13.03
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About This Item
New York, NY: William Morrow and Company, 1971 William Morrow and Company, New York. 1971. Hardcover. First Edition (NAP). Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; scant shelfwear. DJ: Good+; Price Clipped; light bumping and wear to head, tail, and tips; toning to peripheral edges of DJ; shallow wrinkles to panels (from printing process?). Red cloth boards and spine with bright black lettering on the spine. Red textblock top.220 pp 8vo. This book is a follow-on to Bouton's book Ball Four in which he tells about what happened to him as a result of having written the expose of major league baseball, Ball Four. This book covers the fallout from the book, his becoming a leper in many circles, his time on television, and his encounter with Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn. 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 #
- 016357
- Title
- I'm Glad You Didn't Take it Personally
- Author
- Jim Bouton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- William Morrow and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1971
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Jim Bouton, Ball Four, Ball Five, major league baseball, professional baseball, baseball pitcher, New York Yankees, Houston Astros, Seattle Pilots, Bowie Kuhn, author, television broadcaster,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Baseball; Art/Music/Motion Pictures/Television; Autobiography;
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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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Jacket
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- First Edition
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- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
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