The Southpaw by Henry W. Wiggen: Punctuation Freely Inserted and Spelling Greatly Improved

New York: Bobbs-Merrill, (1953).

Price: $500.00

Hardcover. First edition. Gift inscription and crease, both on the front fly, spine tanned, a very good copy in very good plus dustwrapper with some tiny spots on the spine. The author's first baseball novel, and the first to feature Henry Wiggen of the fictional New York Mammoths. Henry was to reappear several times, most notably in the baseball classic *Bang the Drum Slowly*.

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Item #72432 The Southpaw by Henry W. Wiggen: Punctuation Freely Inserted and Spelling Greatly Improved. Mark HARRIS.
The Southpaw by Henry W. Wiggen: Punctuation Freely Inserted and Spelling Greatly Improved
The Southpaw by Henry W. Wiggen: Punctuation Freely Inserted and Spelling Greatly Improved
The Southpaw by Henry W. Wiggen: Punctuation Freely Inserted and Spelling Greatly Improved
The Southpaw by Henry W. Wiggen: Punctuation Freely Inserted and Spelling Greatly Improved
The Southpaw by Henry W. Wiggen: Punctuation Freely Inserted and Spelling Greatly Improved
The Southpaw by Henry W. Wiggen: Punctuation Freely Inserted and Spelling Greatly Improved
The Southpaw by Henry W. Wiggen: Punctuation Freely Inserted and Spelling Greatly Improved

Mark Harris
birth name: Mark Harris Finkelstein
born: 9/19/1922
died: 5/30/2007

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American educator, literary biographer, and novelist best known for his series of baseball novels centering on Henry Wiggen, a pitcher for the fictional New York Mammoths. The best known of these is the second book in the series, Bang the Drum Slowly.more