Fire Eater by Berkowitz Henry (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. This is a juvenile fiction book for youth, with a very strong Jewish theme. The main character goes to Philadelphia Athletics games and gets a job selling cushions. Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, Rube Waddell are all mentioned with a little game action. The boy also plays football for his elementary school. The language used against the Jewish people "greasy Jew" and "you little sheenie" is indicative of the animosity Jewish people felt in America. Has brown covers, 392 pages and is in good condition. I have around 35 items on Faith and Religion in sports and more than 2,300 Baseball Publications in stock. Discounts available when you purchase multiple items on the same order.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Nice book, tight and square with bright covers and spine, clean unmarked interior. Sturdy binding. Bookplate on front paste down.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Good in boards. Front hinge looseley bound. Owner illustrations on front panel, FEP, and rear pastedown. Personalization on FEP. Inking on bottom edge of text block.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. good condition with minor soiling xlibrary with usual markings; xlibrary with usual markings; LIB2958014380.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. 394pp. First edition (no subsequent printings noted; 1941 date on both copyright and title pages). Full brown cloth with matching brown topstain, and black spine titles & front panel motif. NF/VG. Light bumping at spine ends, very faint spotting to fore-edge of textblock and endpapers, else near fine. In an unpriced jacket shallowly chipped at all four corners, with several short closed tears and associated creases at base of front and rear panels and at the ends of the lightly rubbed spine panel. Young adult novel following a Jewish boy, Adam Levy, as he matures from a street fighter in an anti-Semitic neighborhood of Philadelphia circa 1910 to a high school football star and ultimately a WWI war hero in France. Uncommon first edition, especially in such a well-preserved example of the photo-montage jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. bookplate fell off leaving some glue residue (inv-20fl).

Hardcover. 4th Impression. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Owner imprint on front pastedown. Rubbing, open tearing along panel edges. Damp staining on top of rear panel.