Description

Large format hardcover, oblong quarto bound in black paper covered boards, in publisher’s non price-clipped dust-jacket. 192 pages. Foreword by Willie Mays. Essay by Daniel Wolff. Edited by Antony Decaneas. Illustrated with 142 duotone [black and white] photographs by Ernest C. Withers. First edition, first printing with full number line. A picture book survey of the Negro League in and around Memphis, St. Louis and Chicago in the late 1940’s and early 1950’s. No previous ownership marks. Small remainder dot to bottom edge and very short tear to dust-jacket at upper, outer front hinge, now clear tape repaired on verso. A clean, fresh, tight and unmarked copy from a private collection. Near fine in a near fine dust-jacket. Large book, Priority and International orders will require additional postage charged at actual cost.