Baseball Done by Robinson Jackie Dexter Charles (5 results)

Yellow cloth, red spine title. 1st Edition. The story of integration in major league baseball told by the first wave of African American players. weight: 0.9 lb. Very good,bookplate to ffep, in a good price-clipped dust jacket with some edgewear and a large chip from the spine head. 21x14 cm. 216 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, hardcover, has a tiny lean to the binding, slight bumps to spine ends and upper rear cover corner, mild sunning to the spine and cover edges, and a few tiny smudges to edges of text block, otherwise a solid, tight VG copy in a like price-clipped dust jacket, which has very slight bumps to spine ends and corners with a touch of creasing to tail of spine, minor rubbing to the covers, a touch of edgewear with a couple very short closed tears, and very faint sunning with a thin vertical crease to spine. Jacket is wrapped in a removable Mylar cover.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 216pp. Cream cloth boards with red title on spine. Dust Jacket slightly chipped. Previous owner's signature and date on f.f.p. Jackie Robinson speaks out in this extraordinary book. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. (1964) 216 pp. Original pale yellow covers w/ light discoloration to front cover. Edges a bit darkened. DJ lightly soiled w/ mild edge wear. Contents very nice.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by Robinson on front free endpaper: "11-22-64 / To the West Jr. Hi kids / with best wishes / Jackie Robinson." Publisher's cream cloth, with spine lettered in red; in its original red and white dust jacket, with Robinson portrait by Byron Goto to front panel, lettered in red and black. Very good book, with light toning and spotting to spine and board margins, and a touch of wear to spine ends; good unclipped dust jacket, with some chipping to spine ends, some fading to spine, a small closed tear to top of rear panel, lightly chipped corners, a blue pen squiggle to front panel, considerable splitting along rear flap fold, flap still holding, and some splitting to spine fold. With Beckett LOA. Overall, a scarce signed copy. In this book, Jackie Robinson conducts interviews with important figures in baseball on the subject of racial integration. Interviewed players include Roy Campanella, Hank Aaron, Ernie Banks, Branch Rickey, Carl Erskine, and many others. Jackie Robinson is credited with breaking the league's color line when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. In his Hall of Fame career, he won Rookie of the Year, NL MVP in 1949, and was selected for six All-Star games. An all-time great baseball player and towering figure in the civil rights movement, he was included in Time magazine's 1999 list of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century. Signed.