Book description
First edition bound in white & green cloth with red lettering. Color & B&W illustrations, 4to size, 209 pp. Just about Fine in dj. Book is fine but for someone inking the publisher's address underneath the name on the title page. Otherwise clean, tight & unmarked in a nice dust…
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If you love Kentucky Derby history, you can’t go wrong with any of Jim Bolus’s magical collections of Derby stories, but this is the book that kicked everything off.
I didn’t know when I first read it that Bolus had been a sports reporter with the Louisville Courier-Journal—the hometown newspaper for the Derby—for many years, but I was enchanted by his combination of a journalist’s keen eye for the nuts and bolts of a story and a storyteller’s sense of wonder and enjoyment in his tale.
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