Tom Harmon Great Gridiron Plot, First Edition (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Henry E. Vallely (illustrator). First Thus. In colorful pictorial jacket, whitman publication 2323, 8vo, 251pp. "authorized edition". (light shelfwear to jacket extremities, pages browning from age). Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Henry E. Vallely; (illustrator). First Edition. 251 pp. Brown boards lettered in orange on the front panel and spine. Wear at the corners of the dustjacket with some nicks and chips around the edges; faint pencil marks on the front panel. Illustrated with line drawings by Henry E. Vallely. Size: 12mo. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition. One of Whitman's boys and girls books in their "Classic Series." 8vo. 251 pp. Dark blue cloth with red titles. Stained edges, illustrated endpapers. Near fine with browning to the cheap paper. The brightly-colored jacket is near fine with a closed tear to the top of the front panel at the flap fold and minor rubbing.

8vo. 251 pp., plus 2 pp. ads. Numerous plates, illust. endpapers. Brown boards, orange lettrng (interior toning as usual), w/ d.j. NF/NF, w/ frmr ownrshp signature on ffep. First edition of this Football mystery. Whitman No. 2323.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Whitman, 1946, Racine, Wisconsin, first edition. A rare/vintage book about Tom Harmon. Book is in fair--relatively good condition. No DJ. Boards, spine, pages (color changed due to age), and hinges are in relatively good condition. A great one for your collection.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 251 pages; Description: 2 p. L. , [9]-251 p. Illus. 21 cm. Subjects: American football - College life - Juvenile literature 3 Kg.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 251 pages; Description: 2 p. L. , [9]-251 p. Illus. 21 cm. Subjects: American football - College life - Juvenile literature 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Henry E. Vallely (illustrator). The format is approximately 5.5 inches by 8 inches. 251, [2] pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrated DJ has some wear, soiling and scuffs and is in a plastic sleeve. Thomas Dudley Harmon (September 28, 1919 March 15, 1990), nicknamed "Old 98", was an American football player, military pilot, actor, and sports broadcaster. Harmon played college football as a halfback for the Michigan Wolverines from 1938 to 1940. He led the nation in scoring and was a consensus All-American in both 1939 and 1940 and won the Heisman Trophy, the Maxwell Award, and the AP Athlete of the Year award in 1940. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1954. During World War II, Harmon served as a pilot in the U.S. Army Air Forces. In April 1943, he was the sole survivor of the crash of a bomber he piloted in South America en route to North Africa. Six months later, while flying a P-38 Lightning, he was shot down in a dogfight with Japanese Zeros near Jiujiang in China. After the war, Harmon played two seasons of professional football for the Los Angeles Rams and had the longest run from scrimmage during the 1946 NFL season. He later pursued a career in sports broadcasting and was the play-by-play announcer for the first televised Rose Bowl in the late 1940s and worked for CBS from 1950 to 1962. He later hosted a 10-minute daily sports show on the ABC radio network in the 1960s and worked as the sports anchor on the KTLA nightly news from 1958 to 1964. He also handled play-by-play responsibility on broadcasts of the UCLA Bruins football games in the 1960s and 1970s. Henry E. Vallely (1881-1950) worked at the dawn of the comic book era, but did very little work for the comics books. A rare Lone Ranger comic book (1939) was closer to his typical work, illustrating books starring such familiar characters as The Green Hornet, Zorro, and - of course - The Lone Ranger. Perhaps best known for his chiaroscuro technique employed in Big Little Books, he also produced a large volume of work including fashion illustrations for women's magazines, spot illustrations for food periodicals, magazine covers and children's books. Though mostly forgotten now, Vallely was well respected enough in his day that when Dell needed new chapter pages for Hal Foster's Tarzan strips it was Henry they called upon to deliver them. And when Bob Kane needed artwork to crib from for his first Batman story, Vallely is believed to be one of the two primary sources for his images. His art is distinctive and timeless and deserves the recognition that has until this time eluded it. Captain Tom Harmon and his teammates on the college football squad find themselves faced with a two-fold threat in the current football season--stiff opposition on the part of the other teams in the conference and the immediate dismissal of their beloved coach if they do not win the conference championship. Here is a story vibrant with football clashes and the boisterous good fellowship of college life. Authorized Edition [stated]. [As an 'original story' presumed first edition]. Presumed first printing.