Edwin Dooley (4 results)

Unknown. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Second edition (first published by John Lowell Pratt in 1933). 208 pages. Hardcover: H 19.25cm x L 13cm. Dust jacket with color pictorial front panel illustrated by James Y. Stowell; soiling and light toning with a few nicks at edges, short tears at spine head and at top of rear panel, front flap's top corner is price-clipped. Light brown/tan boards with black stamped lettering to spine and front board. Several small light stains to dark blue top edge; a few foxing spots to fore-edge and bottom edge. Green-toned pictorial endpapers; impression from past bookseller's erased pencil price notes at front free endpaper's top right corner; pages 13-22 have shallow bumping/creasing at their bottom margins with some associated light foxing spots; interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding retains some crispness. Else a very good+ copy in a very good dust jacket. Front flap notes that author Eddie Dooley is "familiar to sports fans through his writings in 'The New York Sun', his articles in many popular magazines and his radio broadcasts." Edwin Dooley worked at "The Sun" as a feature writer from 1927-1938 and as a radio sports broadcaster from 1936-1948 which likely means this Grosset & Dunlap reprint dates from 1936-1940. Dooley was an All-American quarterback at Dartmouth College in 1927 and was elected to three terms serving New York in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1957 to 1962.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Near Fine, internally clean, solid hard cover First Printing in a complete untorn Very Good dust jacket. The jacket has some light soiling and scuffing.

Wraps. Condition: Very good. Format is approximately 6 inches by 9 inches. v, iii. 89, [1] pages. Illustrations. Notes. The Society of the Cincinnati is a hereditary society with branches in the United States and France, founded in 1783, to preserve the ideals and fellowship of officers of the Continental Army who served in the Revolutionary War. Now in its third century, the Society promotes the public interest in the Revolution through its library and museum collections, publications, and other activities. It is the oldest hereditary society in the United States. The Society does not allow women to join, though there is a partnership society called Daughters of the Cincinnati which permits all female descendants of Continental officers. This volume Includes five lectures delivered at the Institute . during 1970-1975 on the theme of the American Revolution, and a paper on the same theme by a member of the VMI history department. The Contents are: Morison, S.E. Verrazzano, discoverer of Virginia.--Rankin, H.F. Yankee Doodle: the soldier of the American Revolution.--Meade, R.D. Patrick Henry: a fresh reappraisal.--Taylor, G.V. The officers of the French Army in the War of the American Revolution.--Barrett, J.G. The Revolutionary War reminiscences of John Burrows.--Higginbotham, R.D. Washington and American generalship in the Revolution. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus.…