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Grantland Rice : The Tumult and the Shouting

A. S. Barnes & Company, New York, 1954

[1954] First Edition hardcover, leather bound. [Not a more recent reprint; this is the original 1954 Memorial Edition in leather.] Brown leather, photo of author on top cover; pictorial endpapers; frontispiece and vintage photographs throughout; 368 pages. Bookplate introducing the Memorial Edition of first printing of book, affixed to first free endpaper (with former owner's mailing label affixed to bookplate). Heavy wear to leather binding (chips, abrasions, rubbed-off leather), mostly at extremities and spine. Edges toned; light age toning and occasional foxing to pages; else overall Good. Free of cracked hinges, writing in text, and page tears. No slipcase. Not a former library book. Text very readable, vintage photographs clear and vivid. This autobiography is about one of America's greatest sport writers, Grantland Rice, who at the time he published this book, had written more than 22,000 columns, 7,000 sets of verse, over 1,000 magazine articles - plus radio outbursts for 32 seasons. He was still turning out a column six days a week for some 80 newspapers throughout the country. He wrote about the greats, Ty Cobb, Bobby Jones, Babe Ruth, Gene Tunney, Bill Tilden, Knute Rockne and the Four Horsemen, Helen Wills, Tommy Hitchcock, Jim Thorpe, Ben Hogan, and many others. Here are profiles, insights, comments, and straightforward reporting. Historical, vintage. Note: We are a well-established, well-respected, ethical book dealer in business since 1991. We describe the condition of our books thoroughly and honestly, so you'll know exactly what you will be receiving when you order. We ship promptly.. Book Condition: Good. Binding: Leather

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