Magula Steve (3 results)

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Aristocratic Books, 1982. Hard cover, first edition; signed and inscribed by author to basketball legend Newt Oliver. Fine condition in VG dust jacket with a few small nicks along the edges. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good condition. First edition. Small Quarto. [2] 189pp. Original red buckram in illustrated dustjacket with rose and red lettering on spine. Photos on title page. Photo-illustrated dedication on verso of title page. Inscribed by Magula on front free endpaper. Two copies of the Brookfield-Masury News, September 1982 laid in. An electrifying look into the day of the Barnstormer. Not a sports book per se. but of love, murder, all types of sex and tragedy. What the athletes endured and were exposed to. before the big money. Illustrated with reproductions of b/w photographs throughout. Dustjacket with very light wear along edges. Block lightly age-toned.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Aristocratic Books, Inc. 1982. 189 pgs. Illustrated with Black and White Plates. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Light sticker residue present to the rear endpaper. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards clean with no wear present. An exciting, unorthodox book about the blood and guts of the barnstormers of sports, sex, sadism, murder, love extraordinary. In doses and combinations least expected. "They were generally acknowledged as one of the greatest of these basketball teams, the Vagabond Kings featured Bill Spivey at center, Doug Atkins at power forward, and Magula at shooting guard. The team posted a four-year (1948-1952) record of 429 wins and 14 losses. The seven-foot Spivey is on Sports Illustrated's all-time University of Kentucky basketball team. The six-foot-eight, 280-pound Atkins (who had jumped six feet, seven inches for the University of Tennessee track team before taking up basketball) eventually went on to a nine-year career as a defensive end for the Cleveland Browns and a place in the Pro Football Hall of Fame". Paul Belden "Gory days" E-029; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.