Hoffa James Fraley Oscar (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 242 pages. Pages toned; a sound binding; good overall. The jacket has some wear and discoloring; a couple small tears. Jimmy Hoffa. Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Romance; ISBN: 0812818857. ISBN/EAN: 9780812818857. Inventory No: 200001.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 2nd Printing. Dj Has Edgewear With A Few Small, Taped Tears, Light Soiling & Light Rubbing. Book Has Light Edgewear. Light Soiling. Covers Feel Lightly Bowed. Hoffa's Facsimile Signature On 2Nd Front Endpage. Inside Hinge Is Creased. Good Reading Copy.

tan, red & gilt decorative (facsimile names on cover) 1/2 cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in vg+ / near fine cond. little nicks at spine top and bottom, missing tiny chip on rear top edge, minor rubbing & wrinkling, not price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing (FPu1975 & nap). 242p. 24 glossy b&w photos. biography. memoirs. autobiography. american history. true crime. labor history. politics. ~ "I made two disastrous mistakes in my life," says Jimmy Hoffa in the opening pages of this book. "The first was coming to grips with Robert F. Kennedy to the point where we became involved in a blood feud . My second mistake was naming Frank Fitzsimmons as my successor." Hoffa's third mistake was the meeting he went to on July 30, 1975, when he disappeared. Before that happened, Jimmy Hoffa told in person, on tape, and by phone to Oscar Fraley, a writer he trusted, his own story: what went right, what went wrong, and why, with no holds barred. He names names. He tells who did what to whom, who got what and why, as he sees it. Listen to Hoffa: "Hell, I'm not saying I'm an angel, but when it came to dirty tricks I couldn't hold a candle to the Irish Mafia." Hoffa got his start as a labor organizer when the goons all worked for the employers. He fought fire with fire. The reader will learn about Hoffa's personal life, but he will learn even more about how Hoffa saw the largest and most powerful labor union in the country; what he thought about organized crime and organized frame~ups; and of what they did to him in prison. The stories recounted in this book make the mind reel and the blood boil. If history seems most alive when we hear it in the words of the central participants, this book is history with a difference: it says as much about tomorrow as yesterday, by pointing a finger at where and how the bodies are buried, in Detroit, Washington, and wherever power and billions of dollars work fist in glove.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 242pp. Red cloth spine with brown boards, DJ has a small closed tear along back upper edge and very light rubbing to corner tips, First Edition, facsimile signature of Hoffa on front end page, b&w photos, Hoffa : The Real Story as told to Oscar Fraley a few days before Hoffa disappeared,

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing with not other printings stated. Book is fine and appears unread while jacket is price clipped and very near fine with wear isolated to to only a couple minor areas. Jacket is bright and attractive. Grey paper boards backed by red cloth spine, octavo, 242 pages. Satisfaction guaranteed. Photos always available on request. Shipped in a fitted, padded box.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine - Price-clipped. First Edition. Bound in red cloth over tan boards, stamped in gold. The dust jacket shows a picture of Hoffa and the U.S. Capitol in the background. The dust jacket is price clipped, but overall, a tight, bright copy of the true first edition of this book. The author's facsimile signature is on page two. 242 pp. Photo illustrated.