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A GAME OF LIES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2011) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third novel in her award winning series featuring Hannah Vogel, a young woman struggling to make it as a journalist in 1930s Berlin in the years of the rise of the Nazis. In this novel she is covering the 1936 Olympics while posing as a travel reporter and as a lover of an SS officer - and also smuggling secrets out of Germany to Switzerland. Glossary, author's note. 318 pp. ISBN: 978-0765327338.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 70266More details Price: $17.50 -
DICK RANDALL: The Young Athlete.
Edition: First printing.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1910.). Hardcover first edition - Uncommon young adult novel by this prolific author, lawyer and athlete. At the first modern Olympics in 1896, he won (while on leave from Harvard, where he was an honor student) gold medals in both the long jump and the high jump - the only athlete ever to do so. This novel, set in a boys' school where the head is interested in athletics as well as scholarhip, expresses in fictional form many of his ideas about training (including not overdoing it), the importance of athletics and more. Illustrated by Walter Biggs.
Condition: Poor condition in dark green cloth with pasted on illustration on front cover (missing most of the spine cover, rear hinge cracked.)
Book ID: 34567More details Price: $65.00 -
GARDEN OF BEASTS: A Novel of Berlin 1936.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Thriller set at the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 404 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-22016.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 61113More details Price: $30.00 -
GARDEN OF BEASTS: A Novel of Berlin 1936.
Edition: First UK printing.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Thriller set at the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936. SIGNED on the title page. 404 pp. ISBN: 0-340-734531.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 61114More details Price: $40.00 -
AMERICAN TOPOGRAPHER: The Working Years of George Stanley Druhot, 1914-1963.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy, still in shrinkwrap.)
Book ID: 39803More details Price: $30.00 -
THE EDWIN POPE COLLECTION
Edition: First printing,
Dalls, TX: Taylor, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of essays by the writer who has been called the "best writer on sports today." Themes range from personal favorites to pro and college football, baseball, fishing, olympics, boxing and more . Introduction by Michener. Index. xxi, 266 pp. ISBN: 0-87833-6095.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 45743More details Price: $16.00 -
ALWAYS DREAM.
Edition: First printing.
Dallas, Texas: Taylor Publishing, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 1992 Olympic gold medal winner in figure skating tells of her early life in California, the importance of her Japanese heritage, and how she fell in love with the ice. SIGNED on a special bookplate on the front endpaper with a small drawing of a flower. Photographs and illustrations by Doug Keith. Oblong format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-87833-9965.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 50773More details Price: $40.00