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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.…