2008, ISBN: 9780679421627

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San Diego, CA, Nerw York, London, et al.: A Harvest Book/Harcourt, Inc., 2001. 1st Harvest Edition: 2001 1st Printing. Trade Paperback with Dust Jacket. Like New. 8vo or 8° (Medium… Mehr…

San Diego, CA, Nerw York, London, et al.: A Harvest Book/Harcourt, Inc., 2001. 1st Harvest Edition: 2001 1st Printing. Trade Paperback with Dust Jacket. Like New. 8vo or 8° (Medium Octavo): 7¾" x 9¾" tall. Murray Tinkelman (Illustrations); Susan Shankin (Design); Vaughn Andrews (Cover Design); Sandy Koufax (Front Cover Photo); Warren Spahn (Back Cover Photo). 310 pp. An excellent, spotlessly clean copy! Clean, fresh, sharp, tight, essentially flawless copy save very mild shelf wear, with clean text on crisp and bright pages. Synopsis: Beyond the techniques and training, baseball begins with one player facing another and the psychological battle that they wage-the head game. In his critically acclaimed and bestselling new book, Roger Kahn presents the story of this supreme war of wits and the people who changed the course of baseball by playing, what he calls, chess at 90 miles an hour. In The Head Game, Kahn investigates not only grips, tactics, and physics, but also the intelligence, maturity, and competitive fire that has inspired some of the greatest hurlers in history. By covering renowned pitchers and pitching minds-from Christy Mathewson, Cy Young, Don Drysdale, Bob Gibson, and Bruce Sutter to today's reigning pitching coach, Leo Mazzone-Roger Kahn sheds new light on baseball's most pivotal contest. A delightful and edifying tour of America's favorite pastime seen through the pitcher's eyes, The Head Game is as lively and familiar and old-shoe as the game itself, even today (Los Angeles Times). Famed sportswriter and journalist Kahn unpacks a lifetime of knowledge about pitching and tells anecdotes about major players in the game, including Cy Young, Sandy Koufax, Bob Gibson, and others. Unquestionably valuable as a tour of some of baseball's greatest pitchers., A Harvest Book/Harcourt, Inc., 2001, 5, San Diego, CA, Nerw York, London, et al.: A Harvest Book/Harcourt, Inc., 2001. 1st Harvest Edition: 2001 1st Printing. Trade Paperback with Dust Jacket. Like New. 8vo or 8° (Medium Octavo): 7¾" x 9¾" tall. Murray Tinkelman (Illustrations); Susan Shankin (Design); Vaughn Andrews (Cover Design); Sandy Koufax (Front Cover Photo); Warren Spahn (Back Cover Photo). 310 pp. An excellent, spotlessly clean copy! Clean, fresh, sharp, tight, essentially flawless copy save very mild shelf wear, with clean text on crisp and bright pages. Synopsis: Beyond the techniques and training, baseball begins with one player facing another and the psychological battle that they wage-the head game. In his critically acclaimed and bestselling new book, Roger Kahn presents the story of this supreme war of wits and the people who changed the course of baseball by playing, what he calls, chess at 90 miles an hour. In The Head Game, Kahn investigates not only grips, tactics, and physics, but also the intelligence, maturity, and competitive fire that has inspired some of the greatest hurlers in history. By covering renowned pitchers and pitching minds-from Christy Mathewson, Cy Young, Don Drysdale, Bob Gibson, and Bruce Sutter to today's reigning pitching coach, Leo Mazzone-Roger Kahn sheds new light on baseball's most pivotal contest. A delightful and edifying tour of America's favorite pastime seen through the pitcher's eyes, The Head Game is as lively and familiar and old-shoe as the game itself, even today (Los Angeles Times). Famed sportswriter and journalist Kahn unpacks a lifetime of knowledge about pitching and tells anecdotes about major players in the game, including Cy Young, Sandy Koufax, Bob Gibson, and others. Unquestionably valuable as a tour of some of baseball's greatest pitchers., A Harvest Book/Harcourt, Inc., 2001, 5, San Diego, CA, Nerw York, London, et al.: A Harvest Book/Harcourt, Inc., 2001. 1st Harvest Edition: 2001 1st Printing. Trade Paperback with Dust Jacket. Like New. 8vo or 8° (Medium Octavo): 7¾" x 9¾" tall. Murray Tinkelman (Illustrations); Susan Shankin (Design); Vaughn Andrews (Cover Design); Sandy Koufax (Front Cover Photo); Warren Spahn (Back Cover Photo). 310 pp. An excellent, spotlessly clean copy! Clean, fresh, sharp, tight, essentially flawless copy save very mild shelf wear, with clean text on crisp and bright pages. Synopsis: Beyond the techniques and training, baseball begins with one player facing another and the psychological battle that they wage-the head game. In his critically acclaimed and bestselling new book, Roger Kahn presents the story of this supreme war of wits and the people who changed the course of baseball by playing, what he calls, chess at 90 miles an hour. In The Head Game, Kahn investigates not only grips, tactics, and physics, but also the intelligence, maturity, and competitive fire that has inspired some of the greatest hurlers in history. By covering renowned pitchers and pitching minds-from Christy Mathewson, Cy Young, Don Drysdale, Bob Gibson, and Bruce Sutter to today's reigning pitching coach, Leo Mazzone-Roger Kahn sheds new light on baseball's most pivotal contest. A delightful and edifying tour of America's favorite pastime seen through the pitcher's eyes, The Head Game is as lively and familiar and old-shoe as the game itself, even today (Los Angeles Times). Famed sportswriter and journalist Kahn unpacks a lifetime of knowledge about pitching and tells anecdotes about major players in the game, including Cy Young, Sandy Koufax, Bob Gibson, and others. Unquestionably valuable as a tour of some of baseball's greatest pitchers., A Harvest Book/Harcourt, Inc., 2001, 5, San Diego, CA, Nerw York, London, et al.: A Harvest Book/Harcourt, Inc., 2001. 1st Harvest Edition: 2001 1st Printing. Trade Paperback with Dust Jacket. Like New. 8vo or 8° (Medium Octavo): 7¾" x 9¾" tall. Murray Tinkelman (Illustrations); Susan Shankin (Design); Vaughn Andrews (Cover Design); Sandy Koufax (Front Cover Photo); Warren Spahn (Back Cover Photo). 310 pp. An excellent, spotlessly clean copy! Clean, fresh, sharp, tight, essentially flawless copy save very mild shelf wear, with clean text on crisp and bright pages. Synopsis: Beyond the techniques and training, baseball begins with one player facing another and the psychological battle that they wage-the head game. In his critically acclaimed and bestselling new book, Roger Kahn presents the story of this supreme war of wits and the people who changed the course of baseball by playing, what he calls, chess at 90 miles an hour. In The Head Game, Kahn investigates not only grips, tactics, and physics, but also the intelligence, maturity, and competitive fire that has inspired some of the greatest hurlers in history. By covering renowned pitchers and pitching minds-from Christy Mathewson, Cy Young, Don Drysdale, Bob Gibson, and Bruce Sutter to today's reigning pitching coach, Leo Mazzone-Roger Kahn sheds new light on baseball's most pivotal contest. A delightful and edifying tour of America's favorite pastime seen through the pitcher's eyes, The Head Game is as lively and familiar and old-shoe as the game itself, even today (Los Angeles Times). Famed sportswriter and journalist Kahn unpacks a lifetime of knowledge about pitching and tells anecdotes about major players in the game, including Cy Young, Sandy Koufax, Bob Gibson, and others. Unquestionably valuable as a tour of some of baseball's greatest pitchers., A Harvest Book/Harcourt, Inc., 2001, 5, L. Feitz, 1970-01-01. Paperback. Very Good +/In Illustrated Wraps. Softcover ,1970 Leland Feitz Cripple Creek, CO unpaginated (27pages) Very Good+, in illustrated wraps.. just a hint of shelf/edge wear to photographic cover with a bit of age-toning to edges and rear panel...No notes or writing-All pages are clean and crisp-with map and 27 B &W photographs...detailed, engaging and lively story of John Birmingham, who decided in the 1960's to find, restore and run an entire narrow gauge train that was actually used in the gold camps of Colorado. The Cripple Creek and Victor is still in operation today. A real labor of love that every train enthusiast understands in his heart. Here ís the story of one who did it...Highly Recommended...Thanks for supporting a small family business...LOC SSE-3, L. Feitz, 1970-01-01, 3, Alfred A Knopf, New York, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Good (ex-library)/Near Fine. Hardcover. 648 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Alfred A Knopf, New York, 2008. First Edition. *** CONDITION: Good (ex-library) book with Near Fine dust jacket ... Ex-library with usual marks, stamps, stickers. Edges of boards have superficial edgewear and corners are lightly bumped. Spine has moderate lean. Edges of dust jacket have light bumping. Dust jacket is unclipped. Dust jacket is protected in clear, plastic sleeve. Pages are reasonably tanned. Roughcut edges. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: A rollicking, rich portrait of a life. And what a life! By one of today's greatest living actors. He was born a Canadian on a Friday the thirteenth in 1929—the year of the Crash. His boyhood was one of privilege: an ancestor was a Governor General; his great-grandfather Sir John Abbott was Canada's third prime minister and owned railroads. There were steam yachts, mansions, and a life of Victorian gentility and somewhat cluttered splendor. Plummer tells how "this young bilingual wastrel, incurably romantic, spoiled rotten, tore himself away from the ski slopes to break into the big bad world of theatre, not from the streets up but from an Edwardian living room down,” and writes of his early acting days as an eighteen-year-old playing the lead in Shakespeare's Cymbeline, directed by the legendary Komisarjevsky of Moscow's Imperial Theatre. We see his glorious New York of the fifties, where life began at midnight, with the likes of Arthur Miller, Carson McCullers, Tennessee Williams, and Paddy Chayefsky, and how Plummer's own Broadway world developed and swept him along through the last Golden Age the American Theatre would ever remember . . . how the sublime Ruth Chatterton ("she might have been created by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis”) introduced him to the right people in New York . . . how Miss Eva Le Gallienne gave Plummer his Broadway debut at twenty-five in The Starcross Story ("It opened and closed in one night! One solitary night! But what a night!”). He writes about Miss Katherine Cornell (the last stage star to travel by private train), who, with her husband, Guthrie McClintic, added to what experience Plummer had the necessary gloss, spit, and polish to take him to the next level. Guthrie bundled Plummer off to Paris for a production of Medea, opposite Dame Judith Anderson ("a little Tasmanian devil . . . who with one look could turn an audience to stone”). Plummer writes about the great producers with whom he worked—Kermit Bloomgarden, Robert Whitehead, and Roger Stevens—about Lillian Hellman, Leonard Bernstein, Elia Kazan ("If you weren't careful, this chameleon of chameleons might change into you, wear your skin, steal your soul”), and the miracle that was the new Stratford Festival in Canada, where Plummer blossomed in the classics under the extraordinary Tyrone Guthrie. He writes about his (too brief) encounters with his favorite geniuses, Orson Welles and Jonathan Miller. He writes about his lifelong friendships with Raymond Massey and the wild Kate Reid, and with that fugitive from the Navy, "that reprobate and staunch drinking buddy, the true reincarnation of Eugene O'Neill, whose blood was mixed with firewater,” Jason Robards, Jr. Plummer writes about his affairs and his marriages, and about his daughter, Amanda, who "despite her slim looks and tiny bones could raise tempests, guaranteed to loosen the foundation of any theatre in which she chose to rage.” We see him becoming a leading actor for Peter Hall's Royal Shakespeare Theatre, with a company of young talented players, each destined for stardom—Judi Dench, Vanessa Redgrave, Peter O'Toole, et al., collectively the future of the English stage. The old guard was brilliantly represented by Dames Edith Evans and Peggy Ashcroft and Sir John Gielgud. Plummer, the only fugitive from the New World, played Richard III, Benedick, and Henry II in Becket. He writes about his film career: The Sound of Music (affectionately dubbed "S&M”) . . . Inside Daisy Clover, which brought him together with the beautiful Natalie Wood . . . John Huston's The Man Who Would Be King (Plummer was Rudyard Kipling). He tells the story of accepting Sir Laurence Olivier's invitation to join the National Theatre Company, playing in Amphytron directed by Olivier himself ("a great actor but lousy director”), and writes about falling deeply in love with and eventually marrying a young actress and dancer, Elaine Taylor—to this day, his "one true strength.” Seamlessly written, with stories that make us laugh out loud and that make real the fascinating, complex, exuberant adventure that is the actor's (at least this actor's) life. Christopher Plummer was born in Toronto, Ontario. He has acted in more than a hundred feature films, and, in addition to performing leading roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company, he has starred in Great Britain's National Theatre, the Stratford Festival of Canada, and sixteen Broadway plays. He has been nominated for seven Tony Awards and won twice for Best Actor for Barrymore and Cyrano. He lives in Connecticut. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN/EAN: 9780679421627. Inventory No: 21060331.. 9780679421627, Alfred A Knopf, 2008, 3.25<

2008, ISBN: 0679421629

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[EAN: 9780679421627], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Alfred A Knopf, New York], BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY BZDB5 AUTOBIOGRAPHY; IN SPITE OF MYSELF, Jacket, Hardcover. 648 pages. *** PUBLIS… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780679421627], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Alfred A Knopf, New York], BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY BZDB5 AUTOBIOGRAPHY; IN SPITE OF MYSELF, Jacket, Hardcover. 648 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Alfred A Knopf, New York, 2008. First Edition. *** CONDITION: Good (ex-library) book with Near Fine dust jacket . Ex-library with usual marks, stamps, stickers. Edges of boards have superficial edgewear and corners are lightly bumped. Spine has moderate lean. Edges of dust jacket have light bumping. Dust jacket is unclipped. Dust jacket is protected in clear, plastic sleeve. Pages are reasonably tanned. Roughcut edges. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: A rollicking, rich portrait of a life. And what a life! By one of today's greatest living actors. He was born a Canadian on a Friday the thirteenth in 1929—the year of the Crash. His boyhood was one of privilege: an ancestor was a Governor General; his great-grandfather Sir John Abbott was Canada's third prime minister and owned railroads. There were steam yachts, mansions, and a life of Victorian gentility and somewhat cluttered splendor. Plummer tells how "this young bilingual wastrel, incurably romantic, spoiled rotten, tore himself away from the ski slopes to break into the big bad world of theatre, not from the streets up but from an Edwardian living room down," and writes of his early acting days as an eighteen-year-old playing the lead in Shakespeare's Cymbeline, directed by the legendary Komisarjevsky of Moscow's Imperial Theatre. We see his glorious New York of the fifties, where life began at midnight, with the likes of Arthur Miller, Carson McCullers, Tennessee Williams, and Paddy Chayefsky, and how Plummer's own Broadway world developed and swept him along through the last Golden Age the American Theatre would ever remember . . . how the sublime Ruth Chatterton ("she might have been created by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis") introduced him to the right people in New York . . . how Miss Eva Le Gallienne gave Plummer his Broadway debut at twenty-five in The Starcross Story ("It opened and closed in one night! One solitary night! But what a night!"). He writes about Miss Katherine Cornell (the last stage star to travel by private train), who, with her husband, Guthrie McClintic, added to what experience Plummer had the necessary gloss, spit, and polish to take him to the next level. Guthrie bundled Plummer off to Paris for a production of Medea, opposite Dame Judith Anderson ("a little Tasmanian devil . . . who with one look could turn an audience to stone"). Plummer writes about the great producers with whom he worked—Kermit Bloomgarden, Robert Whitehead, and Roger Stevens—about Lillian Hellman, Leonard Bernstein, Elia Kazan ("If you weren't careful, this chameleon of chameleons might change into you, wear your skin, steal your soul"), and the miracle that was the new Stratford Festival in Canada, where Plummer blossomed in the classics under the extraordinary Tyrone Guthrie. He writes about his (too brief) encounters with his favorite geniuses, Orson Welles and Jonathan Miller. He writes about his lifelong friendships with Raymond Massey and the wild Kate Reid, and with that fugitive from the Navy, "that reprobate and staunch drinking buddy, the true reincarnation of Eugene O'Neill, whose blood was mixed with firewater," Jason Robards, Jr. Plummer writes about his affairs and his marriages, and about his daughter, Amanda, who "despite her slim looks and tiny bones could raise tempests, guaranteed to loosen the foundation of any theatre in which she chose to rage." We see him becoming a leading actor for Peter Hall's Royal Shakespeare Theatre, with a company of young talented players, each destined for stardom—Judi Dench, Vanessa Redgrave, Peter O'Toole, et al., collectively the future of the English stage. The old guard was brilliantly represented by Dames Edith Evans and Peggy Ashcroft and Sir John Gielgud. Plummer, the only fugitive from the New World, played Richard III, Benedick, and Henry II in Becket. He writes about his film career: The Sound of Music (affectionately dubbed "S&M") . . . Inside Daisy Clover, which brought him together with the beautiful Natalie Wood . . . John Huston's The Man Who Would Be King (Plummer was Rudyard Kipling). He tells the story of accepting Sir Laurence Olivier's invitation to join the National Theatre Company, playing in Amphytron directed by Olivier himself ("a great actor but lousy director"), and writes about falling deeply in love with and eventually marrying a young actress and dancer, Elaine Taylor—to this day, his "one true strength." Seamlessly written, with stories that make us laugh out loud and that make real the fascinating, complex, exuberant adventure that is the actor's (at least this actor's) life. Christopher Plummer was born in Toronto, Ontario. He has acted in more than a hundred feature films, and, in addition to performing leading roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company, he has starred in Great Britain's National Theatre, the Stratford Festival of Canada, and sixteen Broadway plays. He has been nominated for seven Tony Awards and won twice for Best Actor for Barrymore and Cyrano. He lives in Connecticut. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN/EAN: 9780679421627. Inventory No: 21060331. This item is heavy and may require additional shipping costs for destinations outside Australia., Books<

ISBN: 9780679421627

Knopf. Hardcover. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy… Mehr…

Knopf. Hardcover. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included., Knopf, 2.5<