The Great Hockey Thaw, or The Russians are Here!
Garden City, N.Y. Doubleday & Company, 1974. Aislin. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Near Fine / Very Good. Item #003125
Stated first edition in the U.S.A. Quarter red cloth with black cloth boards, silver letting to spine. Red endpapers. xxii, 259 p.p. [16] p.p. B&W illustrations. Tail edge speckled red. Bumping to spine foot and corners, else fine. Dust jacket darkened to spine, bumping to spine head, short tears to corners, light damp staining to foot. Hockey fans, including most Canadians, feel about hockey the way ducks feel about water, and to see the best of the National Hockey League beaten by a collection of lance corporals in skates during the first game of the Summit Series of 1972 was almost a national disaster. Jack Ludwig was so intrigued by the series that he accompanied the team through all eight games. What he comes up with is a fascinating melange of metaphors and insights both about hockey and more general phenomena. A shorter version of The Great Hockey Thaw was published in Canada as "Hockey's Night in Moscow."
Price: $50.00