Description:
Paperback. Very Good.
Playing the Field - Autobiography of an All American Racketeer by Diamond Spike - 1948
by Diamond Spike
Similar copies are shown below.
Similar copies are shown to the right.
Playing the Field - Autobiography of an All American Racketeer
by Diamond Spike
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
California: News Publishing Company, 1948. Second edition. Hardcover. Good. Green textured cloth with fading gilt titles, 2nd edition, no jacket. A good copy with some soil, and wear to the cover edges. Corners and spine tips bending inward. Previous owner's gift inscription neatly inside the front cover, otherwise a clean, tight copy in a solid binding. 168 pp., a memoir of the gambling underworld in poetry, followed by an extensive dictionary of jargon.
-
Bookseller
Independent bookstores
(US)
- Format/Binding Hardcover
- Book Condition Used - Good
- Quantity Available 1
- Edition Second edition
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher News Publishing Company
- Place of Publication California
- Date Published 1948
- Keywords Poetry American Racketeering Underworld Gaming Autobiography
We have 10 copies available starting at SGD 21.55.
Playing the Field: Autobiography of an All American Racketeer
by Spike, Diamond
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9781163133590 / 1163133590
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Seller
-
GORING BY SEA, West Sussex, United Kingdom
- Item Price
-
SGD 21.55
Show Details
Item Price
SGD 21.55
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Playing The Field: Autobiography Of An All American Racketeer
by Diamond Spike
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9781432557911 / 1432557912
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
HOUSTON, Texas, United States
- Item Price
-
SGD 39.17
Show Details
Description:
Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-03-01. Paperback. Good.
Item Price
SGD 39.17
Playing the Field
by Diamond Spike
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Used - Good+
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Yreka, California, United States
- Item Price
-
SGD 41.06
Show Details
Description:
News Publishing Company, Sacramento, CA, 1948. Inscribed by author, dated 3/6/1956. Would have rated very good but end papers have pulled away at staples. Just minor wear to green leather like covers, text pages very good. Still nice copy, satisfaction guaranteed.
Item Price
SGD 41.06
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Playing The Field: Autobiography Of An All American Racketeer
by Diamond Spike
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Used:Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9781432557911 / 1432557912
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
HOUSTON, Texas, United States
- Item Price
-
SGD 55.51
Show Details
Description:
Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-03-01. Paperback. Used:Good.
Item Price
SGD 55.51
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Playing The Field: Autobiography Of An All American Racketeer
by Diamond Spike
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9781164481645 / 1164481649
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
HOUSTON, Texas, United States
- Item Price
-
SGD 60.58
Show Details
Description:
Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010-09-10. Hardcover. Good.
Item Price
SGD 60.58
More Photos
Playing the Field: Autobiography of an All American Racketeer
by SPIKE, Diamond (pseudonym of Robert Ernest Shelley)
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Seattle, Washington, United States
- Item Price
-
SGD 65.80
Show Details
Description:
News Publishing Company, 1948. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
Item Price
SGD 65.80
Playing the Field: Autobiography of an American Racketeer.
by Spike, Diamond. (Philip K. Carnine)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Used - Very good, corners bumped, light wear to spine ends, owner’s blindstamp to ffep.
- Edition
- 2nd Edition.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Reno, Nevada, United States
- Item Price
-
SGD 61.69
Show Details
Description:
Sacramento. : News Publishing. , 1948. 2nd Edition.. Green leatherette, yellow cover title, no spine title. . Very good, corners bumped, light wear to spine ends, owner’s blindstamp to ffep. . 8vo.. Inscribed and signed “Diamond Spike” by the author on the ffep. An account in verse of life in the underworld.
Item Price
SGD 61.69
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Playing the Field: Autobiography of an All American Racketeer
by Diamond Spike
- New
- Paperback
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9781494030360 / 1494030365
- Quantity Available
- 10
- Seller
-
Southport, Merseyside, United Kingdom
- Item Price
-
SGD 56.75
Show Details
Description:
Paperback / softback. New.
Item Price
SGD 56.75
Playing the Field: Autobiography of an All American Racketeer
by Diamond Spike
- New
- Hardcover
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9781258903305 / 125890330x
- Quantity Available
- 10
- Seller
-
Southport, Merseyside, United Kingdom
- Item Price
-
SGD 77.34
Show Details
Description:
Hardback. New.
Item Price
SGD 77.34
More Photos
Playing the Field: Autobiography of an All American Racketeer
by SPIKE, Diamond (pseudonym of Robert Ernest Shelley)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
- Item Price
-
SGD 205.64
Show Details
Description:
Sacramento: News Publishing Company, 1948. Hardcover. Near Fine. Second edition. 8vo. 168pp. Brown leather-grained cloth gilt; Light edgewear on the boards, very near fine, assume issued without dustwrapper. Inscribed by Spike on the half-title: "To Foz[?] Baker, Sincerely yours, Diamond Spike." Poetry of the criminal underworld, includes a relatively extensive glossary of jargon and slang.
Item Price
SGD 205.64