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W.C. Heinz. The Professional 1ED. HARPER & BROS January 1958, 1958.
Price: US$25.01 + shipping
Description: Aged but in good shape Slight shelve wear on the cover
Seller: R Bookmark, Youngtown, AZ, U.S.A.
Heinz, W. C.. The Professional. Harper & Row New York (1958), 1958.
Price: US$87.00 + shipping
Description: hardback with dust jacket Nice copy octavo 338pp., Doesn't appear to be a first edition; states Harper & Row NOT Harper Brothers. Catalog number 57-11798. Nice square copy in bright black cloth with a very good dust jacket with some chipping at head of spine. PHOTO available
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Heinz, W. C.. The Professional. Harper & Row, New York, 1958.
Price: US$99.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Black cloth binding with red print. In addition to the normal library markings and attachments, there are a very few light scattered soil spots. The dust jacket inside flap corners are clipped. This is the Harper Crest Library Edition.
Seller: P Peterson Bookseller, Osseo, WI, U.S.A.
W.C. Heinz. The Professional: A Novel. Harper & Brothers, 1958.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1958. First Edition (stated). 16mo (8.5" x 5.75"); [viii], 338p. Illustrated dustjacket with original $3.95 price; book in green and black cloth with red and gilt lettering to spine. Jacket shows a few tears and chips along edges, as well as some shallow creasing and smudging to back. Small tear to cloth at head of spine. Boards open easily but binding is sound. Pages are unmarked. Not an ex-library copy. [AB-104]
Seller: Recycled Books, Denton, TX, U.S.A.
W.C. HEINZ. THE PROFESSIONAL. HARPER & BROS. NEW YORK, 1958.
Price: US$158.35 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: DECKLED FORE EDGE. DUST JACKET NOT PRICE CLIPPED ($3.95) BRODART PROTECTED. FIRST EDITION/ FIRST PRINTING. TIGHT AND SQUARE. UNMARKED. LAUDED BY ERNST HEMINGWAY AND CONSIDERED A CLASSIC OF BOXING LITERATURE. HEINZ HAS CHOSEN TO CREATE HIS BOOK, AS SEEN FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A PRIZE FIGHTER'S MANAGER. UNCOMMON IN FIRST EDITION. UNFORTUNATELY, WRAPPERS WITH BRODART JACKET COVERS, READILY REFLECT LIGHT AND ALAS, DO NOT PHOTOGRAPH WELL.
Seller: BooksCardsNBikes, Stratford, ON, Canada
Heinz, W.C.. The Professional. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1958.
Price: US$220.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boxing novel written by sportswriter Heinz. Clean and tight in jacket with some rubbing and small closedtears.
Seller: ProPen, Arcata, CA, U.S.A.
Heinz, W. C.. THE PROFESSIONAL. (signed). Harper & Brothers, Publishers, New York, 1958.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st edition, 1958. A Very Good copy in a Good- dust jacket. 8vo., 338 pp., bound in publishers black and grey cloth with illustrated dust jacket, $3.95. INSCRIBED by author inside front cover, dated 1-28-58. Jacket spine is faded; edges, tips and top/base of spine are chipped. End papers are toned; text edges dusty. Text is unmarked, binding is solid. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve. Heinz published his first book in 1958, a novel called The Professional, the story of a young fighter pursuing the middleweight boxing championship. Ernest Hemingway called the book "the only good novel I've ever read about a fighter, and an excellent novel in its own right."
Seller: Frey Fine Books, Rougemont, NC, U.S.A.
HEINZ, W. C.. The Professional. Harper & Brothers Publishers, NY, 1958.
Price: US$280.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Dustwrapper shows a closed tears and a minute bit of wear to spine ends, but is overall bright, tight and clean. The book appears to never have been read. The first edition of this now classic boxing novel by Heinz. The back panel of the dustwrapper contains the glowing blurb by Red Smith.
Seller: Michael J. Toth, Bookseller, ABAA, Springtown, PA, U.S.A.
HEINZ, W.C.. THE PROFESSIONAL. HARPER & BRO., NY, 1958.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The DJ has a small closed tear. The previous owner's name is written in the book ( quite small )
Seller: Gian Luigi Fine Books, albany, NY, U.S.A.
Heinz, W.C.. THE PROFESSIONAL. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1958.
Price: US$320.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, hardcover. 338 pages, Very good, with former owner's name on front free endpaper, head/tail of spine bumped and endpapers browned from dust jacket contact, in a very good dust jacket with light edgewear and trace of tape residue from old jacket cover at edges, interior side of jacket browned. Protective mylar cover on jacket. A classic of boxing fiction.
Seller: Ziebarth Books, Coal Valley, IL, U.S.A.
Heinz, W. C.. The Professional. Harper & Brothers, NY, 1958.
Price: US$324.99 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Two-tone cloth titled in gilt and orange. Stated first edition. Spine ends/points slightly worn. Tight and unmarked. The DJ in mylar is mildly chipped to spine ends/points, slightly rubbed/edgeworn. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
W.C.Heinz. The Professional. Harper & Brothers, 1958.
Price: US$395.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine copy in a near fine jacket.Light wear to crown.$3.95 on flap.Stated First Edition. Fictional novel on Boxing. One of the best ever.Excellent Copy.Extremely Rare.
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA, ILAB, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.
HEINZ, W.C.. The Professional. Harper and Brothers, New York, 1958.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Neat owner name on the front fly, and bottom of the spine slightly bumped, else fine in near fine dustwrapper with a modest tear at the foot of the spine. A nice copy of this novel about the manager of a prize-fighter, something of a classic of the genre, and difficult to obtain. Ernest Hemingway said, "'The Professional' is the only good novel I've ever read about a fighter and an excellent novel in its own right."
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
W. C. Heinz. The Professional. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1958.
Price: US$570.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Gold and red letters on black cloth. Light apple-green boards. 338 pages. Publisher's M-G is on the copyright page. The top and bottom edges of the spine strip are slightly rubbed and softened. Some of the bottom edges of the boards are slightly rubbed. Endpapers and pages are lightly tanned. The front endpaper has a 3/8 in. stain, near the spine; the facing half-title page has ghosting of the stain. DJ: the illustration spans the front and spine panels; the ends of the spine panel and the ends of the front flap's fold are frayed with chips and rubbed spots; the back panel has light shelf wear rubbing, 2 light crease lines, and one word is partly faded; the reverse side has darkened, especially on the spine strip. Photos e-mailed upon request. International shipping will require extra cost.
Seller: Books from the Past, Memphis, TN, U.S.A.
HEINZ, W.C.. The Professional. Harper and Brothers, New York, 1958.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Rear endpapers offset from clippings, else near fine in an attractive, very good dustwrapper with two small chips at the corners of the crown, and a large but faint dampstain on the rear panel. This copy Inscribed by Heinz: "To Jim Kahn - connoisseur-raconteur-colleague-friend. Sincerely, Bill Heinz. 12-30-57. Stamford, Conn." A nice copy of this well-regarded novel about the manager of a prize fighter, a classic of the genre and difficult to obtain, especially signed. Ernest Hemingway said, "'The Professional' is the only good novel I've ever read about a fighter and an excellent novel in its own right."
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
HEINZ, W. C.. The Professional.. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1958, 1958.
Price: US$1223.85 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing, presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the front free endpaper, "To Ruth & Alan Hilditch our good friends who have heard me talk a lot of this. Bill Heinz Xmas 1957". Alan Hilditch (1900-1971), a certified public accountant, was a graduate of Yale and "a member of the St. Elmo Society, the Yale Club and the Innis Arden Golf Club" (New York Times obituary, 30 October 1971, retrieved 19.06.19). He was a keen sportsman, involved with the swimming and track teams at the exclusive Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, before going up to Yale. This is Heinz's first novel, the story of young boxer Eddie Brown's quest for the middleweight championship of the world. Subsequent editions bear a foreword by Elmore Leonard. Wilfred Charles Heinz (1915-2008) was an American sportswriter, war correspondent, journalist, and author, "the last surviving representative of a flowering of sports journalism that transpired in the pages of New York City's daily newspapers in the 1940s and '50s. Heinz and Red Smith, [who] had red their Hemingway, brought irony and pity to their accounts of home-run hitters and club fighters; they could make an 800-word column into a set piece that brought tears to your eyes. Red Smith reported that Hemingway called [the present work] the only good book he'd ever read about a fighter" (Yagoda). Ben Yagoda, "The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism," 1998, p. 115; "The New York Times," October 30, 1971, p.34. Octavo. Publisher's black and green cloth, titles in gilt and red on spine, untrimmed. With the colour pictorial dust jacket. Running man motif repeated from dust jacket to title page in simple line drawing. A little cocked, spine softened, light spotting to boards and pastedowns edges. A very good copy, in the bright dust jacket, with slight darkening to edges, and some wear and creasing to extremities.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom