The Red Smith Reader by Anderson, Dave, Editor

NY: Random House, 1982. HC, VG with mild dampstaining at spine foot/VG; 8vo; "a collection of the author’s newspaper columns which appeared between 1932 and 1982". Smith wrote for the NY Times and other prominent newspapers; clipping of NY Times Book Review article, "First a Writer, Then a Sportsman", reviewing this book favorably, laid in; brick red cloth covers with gilt lettering, etc, red dj illus with b/w photo of Red Smith at his typewriter; 308 pp.