Bill minor (19 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Condición: Good.

Paperback. Condición: Good.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Nice inscription by BILL LITTLEFIELD. This immensely pleasurable novel is steeped in the lore and nurtured by the mythology of baseball. Filled with sentiment and wisdom, a book that will delight the fan. It's a story about out infinite possibilities for rebirth. First Edition with all numbers from 1 to 10 present. The book is in NEAR FINE condition the non price clipped Dust Jacket is in very good condition. I have more than 175 Baseball Novels and Mysteries, about 130 Signed Sport Books (mostly Baseball), and over 2,300 Baseball Publications in stock. Discounts available when you purchase multiple items on the same order. Wendell Minor (ilustrador). Inscribed by Author(s).…

First printing (per publisher's statement upon copyright page) INSCRIBED, DATED, and SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. xii, 333 pages. Hardcover: H 23.5cm x L 15.5cm. White dust jacket lightly rubbed with minor soiling; short tears and bumping/creasing at edges; front flap retains publisher's printed price at top right corner. Green boards; vibrant gilt stamped lettering upon spine and front board; bumping/scuffing at spine ends and board corners. Small green stain at fore-edge heel with a few leaves fractionally affected at their bumped bottom margins. Author's four-line ink inscription "to the Houston Exchange | Club, from | Erle Johnston | July 14/1998" at top of half-title page (the Houston Exchange Club presumably being a Houston, Mississippi civic group as the book was acquired from a Tupelo, MS estate); interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding remains fairly crisp. A very good+ copy in a very good dust jacket. With Foreword by Mississippi political columnist Bill Minor, Preface, b/w illustrations, and Index. Features essays regarding Mississippi's 20th century political history including the turbulent civil rights era with a focus on issues, legislative intrigue, deal-making, officeholder corruption as well as Democratic and Republican Party candidates and their state legislature, gubernatorial, and US Congressional campaigns. Major figures include Governor and Senator Theodore Bilbo, Senator John Bell Williams, Governor Dennis Murphree, Senator John Stennis, Senator James Eastland, Senator Pat Harrison, Governor Ross Barnett, activist Charles Evers, Paul Johnson, James Meredith, Governor William Waller, Governor William Winter, among many others. Born in Louisiana but raised in Grenada, Mississippi, Erle Johnston purchased the Scott County Times newspaper in Forest, Mississippi in 1941 and built upon his career as a reporter and publisher with frequent work in public relations and state political campaigns. His most notable affiliation to the latter was the 1959 election of Governor Ross Barnett who rewarded Johnston with an appointment to the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission in 1960 where he served as Director from 1963 to 1968. Johnston died in September 1995 before completing a follow-up Book Two. {MS Shelf #7} Description copyright David Hallinan, Bookseller ISBN 0963910906.…

First printing (per publisher's statement upon copyright page) INSCRIBED, SIGNED, AND DATED BY THE AUTHOR. xii, 333 pages. Hardcover: H 23.5cm x L 15.5cm. White dust jacket lightly rubbed; negligibly short closed tear at rear panel's bottom left; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Green boards; vibrant gilt stamped lettering upon spine and front board; top corners of boards bumped and slightly worn. Some foxing to text block's top edge; faint foxing to fore-edge. Past owner's ink signature and date on front free endpaper; author's four-line ink inscription "To Dr. William Middleton | Regards | Erle Johnston | Dec 14/1993" at top of half-title page; interior leaves are otherwise bright and clean. Binding remains fairly crisp. A very good+ copy in a near fine dust jacket. With Foreword by Mississippi political columnist Bill Minor, Preface, b/w illustrations, and Index. Features essays regarding Mississippi's 20th century political history including the turbulent civil rights era with a focus on issues, legislative intrigue, deal-making, officeholder corruption as well as Democratic and Republican Party candidates and their state legislature, gubernatorial, and US Congressional campaigns. Major figures include Governor and Senator Theodore Bilbo, Senator John Bell Williams, Governor Dennis Murphree, Senator John Stennis, Senator James Eastland, Senator Pat Harrison, Governor Ross Barnett, activist Charles Evers, Paul Johnson, James Meredith, Governor William Waller, Governor William Winter, among many others. Born in Louisiana but raised in Grenada, Mississippi, Erle Johnston purchased the Scott County Times newspaper in Forest, Mississippi in 1941 and built upon his career as a reporter and publisher with frequent work in public relations and state political campaigns. His most notable affiliation to the latter was the 1959 election of Governor Ross Barnett who rewarded Johnston with an appointment to the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission in 1960 where he served as Director from 1963 to 1968. Johnston died in September 1995 before completing a follow-up Book Two. {MS Shelf #6} Description copyright David Hallinan, Bookseller ISBN 0963910906.…

First printing (per publisher's statement upon copyright page) SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. xii, 333 pages. Hardcover: H 23.5cm x L 15.5cm. White dust jacket lightly rubbed, several negligible short tears/nicks at spine head and adjacent panel corners, gold oval bookseller sticker (of Square Books, Oxford Mississippi) affixed at front flap's top right corner; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Green boards with vibrant gilt stamped lettering upon spine and front board; slight scuffing at spine heel and at tips of bottom board corners. Interior pages are bright and clean. Binding retains some crispness. A very good+ copy in a very good dust jacket with Erle Johnston's ink signature upon the title page. With Foreword by Mississippi political columnist Bill Minor, Preface, b/w illustrations, and Index. Features essays regarding Mississippi's 20th century political history including the turbulent civil rights era with a focus on issues, legislative intrigue, deal-making, officeholder corruption as well as Democratic and Republican Party candidates and their state legislature, gubernatorial, and US Congressional campaigns. Major figures include Governor and Senator Theodore Bilbo, Senator John Bell Williams, Governor Dennis Murphree, Senator John Stennis, Senator James Eastland, Senator Pat Harrison, Governor Ross Barnett, activist Charles Evers, Paul Johnson, James Meredith, Governor William Waller, Governor William Winter, among many others. Born in Louisiana but raised in Grenada, Mississippi, Erle Johnston purchased the Scott County Times newspaper in Forest, Mississippi in 1941 and built upon his career as a reporter and publisher with frequent work in public relations and state political campaigns. His most notable affiliation to the latter was the 1959 election of Governor Ross Barnett who rewarded Johnston with an appointment to the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission in 1960 where he served as Director from 1963 to 1968. Johnston died in September 1995 before completing a follow-up Book Two. {MS-Shelf #5} Description copyright David Hallinan, Bookseller. ISBN 0963910906.…

First printing (per publisher's statement upon copyright page) SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. xii, 333 pages. Hardcover: H 23.5cm x L 15.5cm. White dust jacket rubbed and mildly soiled, with tears, bumping, and creasing along top edges; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Green boards with vibrant gilt stamped lettering upon spine and front board; slight scuffing at spine ends and at tips of bottom board corners. Interior pages are bright and clean. Binding retains some crispness. A very good+ copy in a very good- dust jacket with Erle Johnston's usual compact illegible ink signature upon the title page. With Foreword by Mississippi political columnist Bill Minor, Preface, b/w illustrations, and Index. Features essays regarding Mississippi's 20th century political history including the turbulent civil rights era with a focus on issues, legislative intrigue, deal-making, officeholder corruption as well as Democratic and Republican Party candidates and their state legislature, gubernatorial, and US Congressional campaigns. Major figures include Governor and Senator Theodore Bilbo, Senator John Bell Williams, Governor Dennis Murphree, Senator John Stennis, Senator James Eastland, Senator Pat Harrison, Governor Ross Barnett, activist Charles Evers, Paul Johnson, James Meredith, Governor William Waller, Governor William Winter, among many others. Born in Louisiana but raised in Grenada, Mississippi, Erle Johnston purchased the Scott County Times newspaper in Forest, Mississippi in 1941 and built upon his career as a reporter and publisher with frequent work in public relations and state political campaigns. His most notable affiliation to the latter was the 1959 election of Governor Ross Barnett who rewarded Johnston with an appointment to the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission in 1960 where he served as Director from 1963 to 1968. Johnston died in September 1995 before completing a follow-up Book Two. {MS Shelf #4} Description copyright David Hallinan, Bookseller. ISBN 0963910906.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Large quarto. Color frontispiece and B&W photos. Condition: heavy bump to top of spine with minor tear to top of DJ and top of spine; small damp stain to bottom edge of DJ; else very good in very good DJ. 176 pages.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Fine condition. Very Fine dust jacket. First Printing of the First Edition. Boston:: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1989. A beautiful copy -- clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. The Dust Jacket is bright and shiny. NO chips. NO tears. NOT price clipped (17.95). Protected by a removable Brodart clear-plastic sleeve. NO remainder mark. Pages are fresh and crisp -- probably never read. The author's first book -- a delightful novel steeped in the lore and nurtured by the mythology of baseball. First printing, with complete number row (10 987654321) on the copyright page. Bound in the original blue boards, with a blue cloth spine lettered in shiny gold. McCue p. 65. From the Dust Jacket: "Pete Estey, divorced, retired, and prematurely consigned to Fair Haven, a retirement home. He has spent a wonderful working life as a baseball scout. One of the attendants Fair Haven, however, decides she won't let him give up. Louise's motives turn out to be not entirely selfless -- she has a young grandnephew who she thinks might have the makings of a major-league baseball player. And thanks to her, Pete realizes that the most important player of his career still remains to be discovered: the Prospect.". INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR. First Printing of the First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Fine condition/Very Fine dust jacket. Illus. by Minor, Wendell (jacket art). 8vo. (viii), 227pp. Minor, Wendell (jacket art) (ilustrador).…

First printing (per publisher's statement upon copyright page) SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. xii, 333 pages. Hardcover: H 23.5cm x L 15.5cm. White dust jacket lightly rubbed with minor soiling, a few short tears at edges, top corner of front flap is price-clipped. Green boards with vibrant gilt stamped lettering upon spine and front board. Light soiling to fore-edge. Binding remains fairly crisp. A very good+ copy in a very good dust jacket with Erle Johnston's ink signature upon the title page. With Foreword by Mississippi political columnist Bill Minor, Preface, b/w illustrations, and Index. Features essays regarding Mississippi's 20th century political history including the turbulent civil rights era with a focus on issues, legislative intrigue, deal-making, officeholder corruption as well as Democratic and Republican Party candidates and their state legislature, gubernatorial, and US Congressional campaigns. Major figures include Governor and Senator Theodore Bilbo, Senator John Bell Williams, Governor Dennis Murphree, Senator John Stennis, Senator James Eastland, Senator Pat Harrison, Governor Ross Barnett, activist Charles Evers, Paul Johnson, James Meredith, Governor William Waller, Governor William Winter, among many others. Born in Louisiana but raised in Grenada, Mississippi, Erle Johnston purchased the Scott County Times newspaper in Forest, Mississippi in 1941 and built upon his career as a reporter and publisher with frequent work in public relations and state political campaigns. His most notable affiliation to the latter was the 1959 election of Governor Ross Barnett who rewarded Johnston with an appointment to the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission in 1960 where he served as Director from 1963 to 1968. Johnston died in September 1995 before completing a follow-up Book Two. {MS Shelf #3} Description copyright David Hallinan, Bookseller. ISBN 0963910906.…

Magazine. First Edition. 100p. including covers, 8x10.5 inches, articles, interviews, reviews, ads, services, illustrated with b&w photos and art, wraps lightly worn, pages lightly and evenly toned, else very good rough trade, leather and SM magazine in stapled pictorial glossy wraps. Leather and motorcycle club magazine. Published quarterly for the first 20 or so issues then it switched to monthly. Eventually renamed "Cuir".…

First Edition. First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog for a group show that ran January 10 through February 10, 1973. Text by Marie Czach. Includes brief biographies, list of prints in the show and artist statements along with 2 images by Callahan and 1 each by Brandt, Siskind, Weston and White. A clean very near fine copy in stapled wrappers. A lovely copy of this uncommon catalog.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. The essential history of jazz emerges along with the history of Monterey Jazz - the oldest ongoing jazz festival in the world. Legends were made in Monterey. From Armstrong to Vaughan, Gillespie, Miles, Monk, McFerrin - more than 165 rare photo, this authorized history features work collected from jazz photographers all over the world and from the Festival's treasured archives. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Book. …

Cloth. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First Edition. Signed. A Near Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Signed by dust jacket illustrator Wendell Minor, and by authors Pat Conroy, Charles Baxter, Ernest Gaines, Bill Bryson, and Terry Kay (at the illustrations of their books). Signed by Author(s). Book. …

Condición: As New.

Hardcover. Condición: New.

Paperback. Condición: New.

Condición: new.