FAMOUS NEGRO ATHLETES.
by Bontemps, Arna
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good in orange cloth with black lettering in a very good dust jacket (prev owner's last name, the dust jacket flaps ha/orange cloth with black lettering in a very good
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
New York:: Dodd, Mead,, (1964). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in orange cloth with black lettering in a very good dust jacket (prev owner's last name, the dust jacket flaps had been pasted down inside the covers, separated now some short edgetears to dj, original price of $3.25 on dj flap) Despite the flaws this is a very uncommon first edition in better condition than usually found. . First edition. Illustrated with photographs. Biographies ranging from Joe Louis and Satchel page thru Wilt Chamberlain and Althea Gibson. Written for young adults. Index. 155 pp.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 83279
- Title
- FAMOUS NEGRO ATHLETES.
- Author
- Bontemps, Arna
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in orange cloth with black lettering in a very good dust jacket (prev owner's last name, the dust jacket flaps ha
- Jacket Condition
- orange cloth with black lettering in a very good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (1964)
- Keywords
- althea gibson, joe louis, wilt chamberlain, sugar ray robinson, boxing, tennis, baseball, basketball, sports
- Bookseller catalogs
- African American Children's books;
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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- Flap(s)
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- Cloth
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