Swimming the American Crawl

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1930. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Tiny date stamp on front fly, and a small scuff on the rear board, very near fine lacking the dustwrapper. A year after its publication novelist-turned-screenwriter Cyril Hume, then working on the script for a new film adaptation of *Tarzan the Ape Man*, spotted the athlete and BVD… Saber más sobre este artículo

Putnam, 1937. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1937. Reprint. 190 pages. Dust jacket over blue cloth. Contains black and white photographic plates. Clean pages with mild tanning and notable foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Mild thumb-marking present. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Mild crushing and tearing to spine ends. Heavy foxing to boards. Unclipped jacket has… Saber más sobre este artículo

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1930. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Fine in a very good or better dustwrapper with a few tiny nicks and tears, internally tape repaired. A very nice copy of this book by the Olympic champion, which has become very uncommon in jacket. The following year author Cyril Hume, then working on the script for… Saber más sobre este artículo

Putnam, 1937. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1937. Reprinted. 190 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscriptions and sticker to front pastedown and endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Clipped jacket has light… Saber más sobre este artículo

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Near Fine. 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front cover. ; Book is in excellent condition. Many phtographs. Scarce copy in this condition. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 190 pages .

London: Putnam, 1934 cloth mottled and faded in spots, foxed closed edges, otherwise tidy copy, name at head of title page, 190pp + plates. reprint. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1930. First Edition. Bookplate, a very good copy in a good dust jacket with some chips and tears. One of few to successfully transition from sports champion to actor. Since then, it seems nearly everybody thinks they can do it.

Putnam, 1941T. hardcover. Good. . light amount of wear along the edges of the cover of the book, some scuff marks on the cover of the book, light ripping on the spine of the book, does not include a dust jacket, foxing on the edges of the book