Gilson Matthew (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Chu, Kai (jacket design); Gilson, Matthew (author photograph) (illustrator). 1st Edition. As new condition saddle brown boards, blue spine, and gold spine lettering contained in a near fine condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Book(s) by Jonathan Eig; Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quotes by Mohandas Gandhi and Jackie Robinson; Prologue; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Notes and Index. Illustrated with a section of black-and-white photographic plates. A small 1/2 inch indent to upper left rear jacket tip and some light scattered jacket edge rubbing. Signed by the author with thin black Sharpie/marker on the full title page. "April 15, 1947, marked the most important opening day in baseball history. When Jackie Robinson stepped onto the diamond that afternoon at Ebbets Field, he became the first black man to break into major-league baseball in the twentieth century. Wolrd War II had just ended. Democracy had triumphed. Now Americans were beginning to press for justice on the home front - and Robinson had a chance to lead the way. He was an unlikely hero. He had little experience in organized baseball. His swing was far from graceful. And he was assigned to play first base, a position he had never tried before that season. But the biggest concern was his temper. Robinson was an angry man who played an aggressive style of ball. In order to succeed he would have to control himself in the face of what promised to be a brutal assault by opponents of integration. In Opening Day, Jonathan Eig tells the true story behind the national pastime's most sacred myth. Along the way he offers new insights into events of sixty years ago and punctures some familiar legends. Was it true that the St. Louis Cardinals plotted to boycott their first home game against the Brooklyn Dodgers? Was Pee Wee Reese really Robinsn's closest ally on the team? Was Dixie Walker his greatest foe? How did Robinson handle the extraordinary stress of being the only black man in baseball and still manage to perform so well on the field? Opening Day is also the story of a team of underdogs that came together against tremendous odds to capture the pennant. Facing the powerful New York Yankees, Robinson and the Dodgers battled to the seventh game in one of the most thrilling World Series competitions of all time. Drawing on interviews with surviving players, sportswriters, and eyewitnesses, as well as newly discovered material from archives around the country, Jonathan Eig presents a fresh portrait of a ferocious competitor who embodied integration's promise and helped launch the modern civil-rights era. Full of new details and thrilling action, Opening Day brings to life baseball's ultimate story." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Signed by Author(s).

Cloth Spine Card Boards. Condition: Very Good. 11 pp., 4 prints. Brown cloth spine with paper boards. Some marks to the boards and wear to the corners, with slight fraying to the spine ends. Internally clean with book plate excised from the top corner of the front endpaper. Four beautiful reproductions of maps from three manuscripts in the British Museum and one at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Despite never travelling far from his monastery in St Albans Matthew Paris was "known as the greatest English cartographer of his age, although his maps differ greatly from geographical reality" (BL). 41 by 29.5 cm. Atlas Folio Illustrated.

Original Artwork. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. One of 500 signed and numbered (with initials, 'MG'); this being #162. Features a series of b/w photographs taken from the observation section atop the Sears Tower, arranged flip-book fashion to show time sequence of fog lifting on the Chicago urbanscape. 3.25 in. x 4 in.[32]pp., bound at top edges with metal fasteners. Illustrated with 36 b/w Photographs. A nice copy in Very Good condition with only slight wear. Exceptionally rare despite the edition (Worldcat records only 2 surviving copies).