engberg edward (11 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. HARDCOVER; dustjacket creased with nicks along edges of dj; owner's stamps, o/w book in good condition. Book.

First edition. 49 pp w/references. Bump to upper corner, else near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Capra Chapbook Series #39.

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. First edition, wrappered issue. 12mo. Pictorial papercovered wrappers. Fine. Capra Chapbook Number 39.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Nancy Engberg (Author photograph) (illustrator). Book Club Edition [stated]. xv, [1], 366, [2] pages. Illustrations. Appendix. Sources and Notes. Index. DJ has some sticker residue on the front and some wear, tears and other soiling. Edward Achorn, a Pulitzer Prize finalist for Commentary and winner of the Yankee Quill Award, is the author of two acclaimed books about nineteenth-century baseball and American culture, Fifty-nine in '84 and The Summer of Beer and Whiskey. He was the deputy editorial pages editor of the Providence Journal. He has won numerous writing awards and his work appears in The Best Newspaper Writing, 2007-2008. His reviews of books on American history appear frequently in the Weekly Standard. All fans of baseball, all fans of a good story, will love this book."--Professor Gordon Wood, Pulitzer and Bancroft Prize winner. This is a beautifully written, meticulously researched story about a bygone baseball era that even die-hard fans will find foreign, and about a pitcher who might have been the greatest of all time.--Joseph J. Ellis, Pulitzer prize-winning historian. Following in the tradition of the sleeper bestseller Crazy '08, Fifty-Nine in '84 is the story of Charles Radbourn, a brilliant major league baseball pitcher who, in the 1884 season, won an astonishing 59 games, a record that has never been broken. Set against the backdrop of 19th century baseball, Fifty-Nine in '84 gives readers a glimpse of the dangerous and violent game that preceded the sport we enjoy today. Charles Gardner Radbourn (December 11, 1854 - February 5, 1897), nicknamed "Old Hoss", was an American professional baseball pitcher who played 12 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played for Buffalo (1880), Providence (1881-1885), Boston (National League) (1886-1889), Boston (Player's League) (1890), and Cincinnati (1891). Born in New York and raised in Illinois, Radbourn played semi-professional and minor league baseball before making his major league debut for Buffalo in 1880. After a one-year stint with the club, Radbourn joined the Providence "Grays." During the 1884 season, Radbourn won 60 games, setting an MLB single-season record that has never been broken, or even seriously approached. He also led the National League (NL) in earned run average (ERA) and strikeouts to win the Triple Crown, and the Grays won the league championship. After the regular season, he helped the Grays win the 1884 World Series, pitching every inning of the three games. In 1885, when the Grays team folded, the roster was transferred to NL control, and Radbourn was claimed by Boston. He spent the next four seasons with the club, spent one year with the Boston franchise of the single-season Players' League, and finished his MLB career with Cincinnati. Radbourn is also known for being the first person photographed gesturing the middle finger. In 1886, an image was captured of him "flipping off" a member of the New York Giants in a team photo. Radbourn was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1939. Derived from a Kirkus review: A loving reanimation of the 1884 baseball season, during which Charles "Old Hoss" Radbourn won 59 games and hurled his team into the first World Series. As Achorn dutifully notes, 1880s baseball, flourishing before motion pictures and audio recordings, is a game both familiar and surpassingly alien. Preserved in sometimes skimpy, and always biased, newspaper accounts, the achievement of Radbourn, the Providence Grays' ace pitcher, is indeed astonishing. Well before the introduction of relief pitchers, the starters were expected to play the entire game and to pitch often, sometimes on consecutive daysâ"and sometimes even both ends of a doubleheader, as Radbourn did on Memorial Day, winning both. He won the next day, too. Achorn digs into Radbourn's Illinois background and follows his ancestors back to England. Little Charles learned to love hunting, purebred dogs, baseball and later on, Carrie Stanhope, the legendary woman who ran a Providence boarding house and eventually married Radbourn. The author charts Radbourn's swift rise in an era when pitchers flamed out quickly because of arm injuries; Radbourn and his colleagues lived with continuous pain. Achorn pauses occasionally to portray the pitcher's rivals and teammates and to identify the differences in yesteryear's game. The fielders used only their bare handsâ"even catchers had but minimal protection; foul balls were not strikes; a single umpire, often corrupt, called each game. The author also supplies needed cultural historyâ"e.g., the train ride from the East Coast to Chicago took three days; Buffalo Bill arrived in Providence that same season. An unabashed fan, Achorn capably delivers an entertaining story. A thoroughly researched panegyric to a man and an era.

Zustand: Fair. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket (business intelligence, privacy, right of ) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. First edition. 12mo. Pictorial papercovered boards. Fine with a tiny bit of wear, possibly lacking a glassine dust jacket. One of 60 hardbound numbered copies Signed by Engberg. Capra Chapbook Number 39.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. Limited Edition. 51 pages. First edition. One of 60 numbered copies signed by Engberg. Yes! Capra Chapbook Number 39. Fine book in a fine glassine dust jacket. A beautiful copy! Signed by Author(s).

Zustand: Very Good. Minneapolis, MN: Walker Art Center, 1999. First Edition. Quarto (32cm); 156pp. Stiff grey boards with white text; housed in black cloth slipcase with white text; pictorial wrap-around band with white text. Photographs throughout. Boards bumped; slipcase foxed; band bumped at spine head. Binding sound. Textblock, endsheets, and interior pages clean. Altogether Very Good or better copy of this exhibition book. Published in conjunction with Edward Ruscha: Editions 19591999. The show originated at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and traveled to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum. Volume II features essays by Siri Engberg, Edward Ruscha, and Clive Phillpot.

2 vol. : vol. 1 : 128 pp. ; vol. 2 : 158 pp.; 32.5 x 26 cm.; sewn bound; slipcase; black-and-white & color; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed; Extensive catalogue raisonné of Ruscha's prints, artists' books, and ephemera produced in conjunction with the exhibition "Edward Ruscha: Editions 1959 - 1999," organized by Siri Engberg and held at the Walker Art Center, June 12 - September 5, 1999. Traveled to Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, June 4 - August 28, 2000; and University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL, October 6, 2000 - January 5, 2001. Consists of two volumes in a printed cloth-covered-board slipcase with loose illustrated paper wrapper. Volume 1 titled "Prints Books Misc." 127 pp. consisting of just illustrations for all entries - including a page-by-page explosion of each of Ruscha's artist's books. Volume 2 titled "Essays Entries Info." [sic] with lush essays by curator Siri Engberg, and mind-altering text by Clive Phillpot & the artist. Fully illustrated with catalogue entries, concordance, selected exhibition history, selected bibliography, subject index, and index of titles. Reference : No. 253 in "The Book on Books on Artists' Books" by Arnaud Desjardin. London, England : The Everyday Press, 2011 Very Good. Dusting of slipcase and light rubbing of corners and edges. Two volumes: contents and covers clean and unmarked. Light wear to loose dust jacket including edgewear and mild creasing. Due to large size and weight additional shipping charges will be required for international orders.

Hardback in slip. Zustand: Near fine. First Edition. 26 x 31cm two near fine hardback volumes contained in a black, cloth-covered slipcase.

hardcover. Zustand: fine. Edward Ruscha (illustrator). Two volumes. Illustrations in color and b/w. 282 pages. 4to, grey boards in black cloth slipcase. Minneapolis: Walker Arts Center, 1999. A fine set.