Negro Firsts in Sports (first printing) including Negro Horse Jockeys, Tom Molineaux, Jack Johnson, Rube Foster, Fritz Pollard, John Borican, Jesse Owens, Joe Louis, Jackie Robinson, Charles Sifford, Major Taylor, Wilma Rudolph, Althea Gibson, & other black athletes and African-Americans of achievement
Language: English
Published by Johnson Publishing Co., Chicago, 1963
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used





Seller: Medium Rare Books, Mountainside, NJ, U.S.A.Medium Rare Books
AbeBooks seller since April 1, 2013
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Condition: Used - Near fine
US$ 395.00
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Johnson Publishing Co., Chicago. 1963. 301 pages. First edition, first printing. Book is near fine. Bright, tight and clean. Binding and hinges are strong. Cloth panels, pages and endpapers are all clean. A touch of faint toning to endpapers otherwise about fine. Original dust jacket with $4.95 price intact on flap. Protected dust jacket shows light rubbing along edges and a trace of faint foxing. An uncommon first edition, first printing in collectible condition. NF/VG+.
Seller Inventory # 004419
Bibliographic details
- Title
- Negro Firsts in Sports (first printing) including Negro Horse Jockeys, Tom Molineaux, Jack Johnson, Rube Foster, Fritz Pollard, John Borican, Jesse Owens, Joe Louis, Jackie Robinson, Charles Sifford, Major Taylor, Wilma Rudolph, Althea Gibson, & other black athletes and African-Americans of achievement
- Author
- Young, A.S. "Doc"
- Publisher
- Johnson Publishing Co., Chicago
- Publication year
- 1963
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Item weight
- 1 kilogram
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Seller catalogs
- African-American History & Black Interest, First Edition, Sports
Medium Rare Books
Mountainside, NJ, U.S.A.
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