Chadwick, Bruce

WHEN THE GAME WAS BLACK AND WHITE: the illustrated history of the Negro Leagues.

Pp. 192(last blank), illustrated throughout in colour and black & white (several full and a couple double page), pictoiral endpapers, bibliography, index; small square 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards; dust wrapper, lightly foxed on reverse, edges slightly rubbed and split; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on verso of upper free endpaper, edges of leaves lightly foxed; Abbeville Press Publishers, New York, 1992. First edition. *'Until 1947, major-league baseball was as segregated as movie theatres in the North and bus depots in the South, a national pastime and a national scandal' [wrapper blurb]. Item #173238

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