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Graham, Frank. Brooklyn Dodgers: An Informal History. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1945.
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Description: 248 pages. Edges of backstrip bumped. Former owner's name at top edge of front free endpaper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Village Booksmith, Hudson Falls, NY, U.S.A.
Graham, Frank. The Brooklyn Dodgers: An Informal HIstory. G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1945.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 248pp. Grey cloth, blue spine lettering. Extremities lightly bumped, contents mildly age-toned, a 1945 inscription on front free endpaper Price-clipped dust jacket is chipped and missing several large pieces along edges and spine with some loss of text. Book is in overall sound condition.
Seller: Old Bookshelf, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good with fair to poor dust jacket. Dust jacket is well worn at spine tips and corners with a two inch triangular piece missing from middle of back panel near spine and a two inch tear at top of spine. 248 pages. 18 illustrations.
Seller: Jerry Merkel, XENIA, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: pp. vii, [3], 3-248. 8vo. Illustrated. Dust jacket protected in a mylar sleeve, not price clipped. Dust jacket in chipped, scuffed, and worn. Book is in solid, tight, very clean condition. No former owner's names or marks.
Seller: ARABESQUE BOOKS, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Graham , Frank. The Brooklyn Dodgers : An Informal History. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1945.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A key volume in the Putnam's baseball series . This copy of the First Printing is in excellent condition . The interior is clean , no marks of any kind . The hinges are tight . The cloth on the boards is clean . The Dodger blue graphics on the spine are bright . No dust jacket
Seller: The History Place, Palestine, TX, U.S.A.
Graham, Frank. The Brooklyn Dodgers, An Informal History. G.P. Putnam's Sons, NY, 1945.
Price: US$133.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing (scarce). Very good in a good to very good dustjacket that has edgewear and a 1" chip to bottom of the spine and 1/4" chip to bottom of spine. Not priceclipped and no markings. (box 171)
Seller: Bruce Davidson Books, Arlington, MA, U.S.A.
GRAHAM, Frank. The Brooklyn Dodgers: An Informal History. G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1945.
Price: US$137.50 + shipping
Description: Octavo. Tan cloth; dustjacket; 248pp. Tight, VG or better copy in the original pictorial dustwrapper, edge-rubbed and sunned on spine (but still legible); chips to spine ends; rear jacket flap partially detached; about VG. One of the tougher titles in the Putnam's team history series, especially in jacket.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Frank Graham. The Brooklyn Dodgers, An Informal History. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1945.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Inscribed: "To Lank - and Mickey - As always - Frank". Grey cloth boards with blue text stamped to spine. Blue dust jacket with text. Slightly deckled edges. Comes with insert stating this is a "Review Copy, with the compliments of G>P. Putnam's Sons," allowing for quoting in periodical or radio review up to 750 words, and publication date: May 18. Black and white photography throughout. No previous owners' names or other markings. Light wear to boards and bumping to head and tail of spine. Wear to dust jacket and closed tears with some losses at spine; central losses to dust jacket spine seem to be created by consistent rubbing. 6 x 8 1/4 inches. Shipped through boxed USPS Priority mail.
Seller: William Chrisant & Sons, ABAA, ILAB. IOBA, ABA, Ephemera Society, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
GRAHAM, Frank. The Brooklyn Dodgers: An Informal History. G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1945.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Crown a little bumped, modest light wear, thus very good, lacking the dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author: "To Charlie - As always. Frank Graham." The recipient, Charlie Segar, was a baseball writer for the *Brooklyn Citizen*. In the 1920s he was the director of the Baseball Writers' Association. He later served seventeen years as the Secretary-Treasurer of Major League Baseball, mostly under another former sportswriter, Commissioner Ford Frick. A nice association - Segar started his career covering the Dodgers.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.