All My Octobers: My Memories of 12 World Series When the Yankees Ruled Baseball
Price: $600.00
Hard Cover. New York: HarperCollins, 1994. First Edition. Fine / Dust Jacket Included.
First edition, first printing. Signed by Mantle on half-title page. Publisher's navy cloth-backed white paper-covered boards, designed by Nancy Singer, with silver foil baseball to front board, and spine lettered in silver foil; in its original blue dust jacket designed by Joel Avirom and Jason Snyder, with depiction of Mantle at bat to front panel, lettered in red and white. Fine book, with two faint vertical lines of blue to rear board, as seen on other copies; fine unclipped dust jacket. Overall, a great copy. In All My Octobers, Mickey Mantle recounts the glory days of the Yankees, and his twelve World Series appearances from 1951 to 1964, which resulted in seven championships. Mantle holds a number of World Series records today, including home runs (18), RBIs (40), runs (42), walks (43) and total bases (123). The book also includes a short and heartfelt epilogue, in which Mantle talks openly about his struggles with alcoholism and urges young people not to go down the same path. Mantle was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1974 and selected to the prestigious All-Century Team in 1999. Item #MMAN028
