Author: BOLUS, JIM
Title: Run for the Roses 100 Years at the Kentucky Derby
Description: New York: Hawthorne Books, Inc, 1974. First Edition (?). Hardcover. Hardcover is green leather look, with white at spine; red lettering on spine. Pages are clean and tight. Lavishly illustrated with 150 b/w photographs and 9 color plates. Some of the chapters are: The First Derby; Wild, Early Years; Knocking Down the Favorites; Fighting Finish; Plain Ben and Calumet; They Called Him Big Red; two appendices and index. Oversized, 4#. ; Photographs; 8 3/4 x 11; ix, 209 pages; Cover has light bumping; little bit of covering removed from very tips of corners; 3/4" pink mark on white part of spine; owner's nameplate inside front cover. DJ has rubbing/scuffing, light shelf wear, 1/2" closed tear at top of spine.. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .

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