plimpton george ames (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good-. First British Edition; First Printing. Ex library copy with usual stamps and marks inside. Unclipped DJ protected by clear library sleeve taped to inside covers but with some chipping and loss to fore corners and spine extremities, marker pen initials to inside front cover, missing front endpaper, tape shadows to half title and rear endpaper, some shelf wear to boards, some foxing to edges of reading block. ; First printing of first UK edition with no other printings listed, 1962. Green cloth boards with faded gilt lettering to spine. Good reading copy. DJ design by Len Deighton who would later gain more popular renown as the author of thrillers. ; 144 pages; One summer day, while watching a baseball game at Yankee Stadium, George Plimpton, editor in chief of The Paris Review, "suddenly began to wonder, timidly, if there wasn't a way of climbing the field-box railing and getting out to the pitcher's mound to try it myself - just to see what it was like and how how I'd get along." He found a way. With 20,000 pairs of eyes on him, this Walter Mitty-in-real-life walked out to the mound to match himself against some of the best players in the U. S. A.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 296 pages. 8.00x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Cloth with paste-on title. Zustand: Very Good. Limited Edition. Original red cloth with printed label to front board. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear with a hint of spine lightening. 8vo; 90 pages. First Edition, First Printing. . George Plimpton's first book. Uncommon, there are no records of how many were printed. The book consists of letters to his parents from his time in basic training to his deployment in Italy in 1946. His parents had the letters printed, perhaps to the chagrin of their son George. Essential biographical material on this prominent 20th century literary figure. George Ames Plimpton was an American writer. He is widely known for his sports writing and for helping to found The Paris Review. Plimpton is best known for his forays into the world of professional athletics: boxing with Archie Moore, pitching to Major League All-stars, quarterbacking for the Detroit Lions. Golfing with Nicklaus and Palmer . all part of his participatory journalism.

90pp. 8vo. First edition. First edition. 90pp. 8vo. George Plimpton was a founder and editor in chief of The Paris Review, as well as a writer and actor, is maybe chiefly remembered as a social and cultural butterfly who left an indelible mark on American literary culture of the post-war years. This, his first book, was privately printed. It consists of letters to his parents from his time in basic training to his deployment in Italy in 1946. Red cloth with paper cover label, some bubbling along front cover and a streak running from the bottom of the front to the rear cover, a few drops of adhesive (all defects from the binding process). Presentation card from his parents laid in.