Selected as one of baseball literature's Golden Dozen by Roger Kahn, Man on Spikes is an uncompromisingly realistic novel about a baseball player who struggles through sixteen years of personal crises and professional ordeals before finally appearing in a major league game. In a preface to this new edition, Eliot Asinof reveals the longsuffering ballplayer and friend upon which the novel is based.
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Selected as one of baseball literature's Golden Dozen by Roger Kahn, Man on Spikes is an uncompromisingly realistic novel about a baseball player who struggles through sixteen years of personal crises and professional ordeals before finally appearing in a major league game. In a preface to this new edition, Eliot Asinof reveals the longsuffering ballplayer and friend upon which the novel is based.
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Seller's Description:
SIGNED by author on limitation page, #30 of a limited edition of 75 copies; near fine in gilt-stamped burgundy cloth boards, no jacket as issued; minor scuffing to boards, gilt title on spine shows some flaking else a tight square unmarked copy in sound binding; first printing thus.
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A fine copy in a very near fine jacket with just a trace of soiling to the back panel and the very slightest of fading to the red lettering on the spine. A beautiful copy, very unusual in this condition. 277 pp. 8vo,
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Very Good in Good dust jacket. Hardcover. 8vo. McGraw Hill Book Company, New York. 1955. 276 pgs. Typed Letter, Signed from Eliot Asinof laid in (possibly to Roger Kahn or Roger Angell; not sure). First Edition/First Printing DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (DJ is reinforced at the corners of the DJ). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Man on Spikes is an uncompromisingly realistic novel about a baseball player who struggles through sixteen years of personal crises and professional ordeals before finally appearing in a major league game.; Writing Baseball; 1 x 9 x 6 Inches; 276 pages.
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Near Fine. Near fine in a Vg. + dj. (Edges of cloth mildly discolored by age. Very shallow chipping at spine ends. Orange titles on spine somewhat discolored, but perfectly readable. Couple of 1"-inch tears in dj. ) FIRST novel by the author of "Eight Men Out." As scarce as Malamud's "The Natural." (B)
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Fine. First edition. REVIEW COPY. (Publisher's printed review slip laid-in. ) Fine in near fine dust jacket. (A few small edge nicks in jacket. Trace of light shelf-wear at spine ends. ) Author's scarce FIRST book.
