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Good. No Jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Green cloth boards have only light wear, sunned on spine. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound.
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Good in Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Jacket rubbed and tanning, edgewear. Boards have tanning edges. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound.
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New in Near New jacket. Book FIRST PRINTING of the First Edition. The former manager of Boston's Suffolk Downs Racetrack discusses how such institutions are run, their problems and challenges, the people involved, the animals and how they are raced, the jockeys and owners, and the various political and other factors that often impact this business. Hardcover with dust jacket, 296pp. A nice copy. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall Top of pagination shows a dampstaining close to the spine leading to slight discoloration of upper corner of pages close to binding; pages affected are 153-296-clarity of pages unaffected.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7.75"-9.75" tall; Gift quality 1st edition hardcover in dark green cloth covered boards with mustard colored spine title and neon green pair of galloping TB's on foot of frt board. Spine ends bumped, tips still sharp. No writing, names, soil or tears in the tight, crisp 296pp text. Original, un-clipped bright yellow background dust wrapper is complete with light soil and age-toning at periphery. Book displays well in new mylar. 'Being of sound mind and in reasonable possession of my faculties, I marshaled my forces, at the tender age of fifty-four, and marched upon the city of Boston, Massachusetts, like a latter-day Ben Franklin, to seek my fame and fortune as the operator of a racetrack. Two years later, fortune having taken one look at my weathered features and shaken its hoary locks, I retreated, smiling gamely. '-Bill Veeck-The title of this book has to do with what its author calls 'the end product of the romance of horseracing. ' When Bill Veeck, the famous maverick from baseball, took up the challenge of managing Boston's semi-moribund Suffolk Downs racetrack in early 1969, he had yet to learn that the normal daily output of some sixteen hundred horses (including straw) would amount to so much, or be so hard to dispose of....In the tough-minded and tabasco-tongued prose that is his trademark, Bill Veeck lines out the battles he won and lost, the fun he had, what he discovered about horseracing at 'Sufferin' Downs, ' and the friends and enemies he so open-handedly made. With wry elan he provides a wealth of track lore.
