Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Acceptable. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: First edition. 2nd Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780394503851ISBN:0394503856
Description: Good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. DJ has plastic and label attached, flaps glued to boards. Book has shelf wear, missing 1st cover page, stamps, spine tilt. HB; 265 p. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780394503851ISBN:0394503856
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. owner's name on front free end paper, few chips to edges of dj. 265 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780394503851ISBN:0394503856
Description: Collectible-Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; Book is in as new condition, DJ has one slight rub mark on spine bottom and tiny closed tear on top near spine. Mylar cover. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House, New York
Date Published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780394503851ISBN:0394503856
Description: Very Good Plus in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Book has slight spine lean, lightly bumped bottom rear corner, light soiling & minor shelfwear, dj has 1" tear at bottom rear panel, corner crease on rear flap, crease down front flap, a few tiny tears at spine ends, edgewear, light scuffing (corners, rear panel), light browning to flaps & minor shelfwear. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House, N. Y.
Date Published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780394503851ISBN:0394503856
Description: Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Hard cover is in near fine condition and the dust jacket is in very good condition with two small tears to top front cover now protected in mylar cover. Is also price clipped. Has a date and four numbers in ink on copyright page. Is a stated first edition. A Very Nice Copy! ! read more
Description: As New. New York: Random House, 1979, First Edition Stated. Near Fine/Very Good, Mustard cloth boards with black cloth spine strip, clean and tight copy, inscription on inside page only marking, light shelf wear to dust jacket. Biography/Leaders/Basketball. Helps support Christian Homeschooling family. read more
Edition: First edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: New York
Date Published: 1979
Description: Some rubbing to wrappers, mainly a fine copy. 8vo. wraps. An advance uncorrected proof copy of the autobiography of the Celtic legend. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster (Paper)
Date Published: 1991-01
ISBN-13:9780671709891ISBN:0671709895
Description: New. New, unread, unused & in perfect condition with no damaged or missing pages. Pre-release book with plain cover and publisher stickers. Great Copy. Ships Lightning Fast. read more
"Bill Russell's sort-of biography. But it's not completely organized like a biography. The first chapter is about his childhood in Mississippi, and his father and grandfather. But he spent almost half his childhood in Oakland, and there's not too much about that, and there's not much about his college years, except as spread throughout the book regarding his basketball education. He's awfully candid (but neither explicit nor braggardly) about his sleeping around on his wife, and similar acts by pro teammates (though he is discreet enough not to mention names there). In fact, he hardly mentions his wife, as she apparently wasn't a very large part of his life. He's pretty philosophical, and mostly aware that his opinions are just that, and out of the mainstream, and that he's not always consistent. Refreshing, that. Didn't want to be inducted into the Hall of Fame (the first Black to be so) because he knew a lot of the folks who had been and thought that they weren't very worthy (mostly because of racism)--including Abe Saperstien, founder of Harlem Globetrotters, whom he claimed fought against integration of MLB and NBA, as that would subtract from his bottom line. But does a good job of explaining his out-of-the-mainstream ideas, mostly. The one disappointment is that it was written in 1979, shortly after he finished his first coaching stint, and only ten years after he retired as a player. So there's less perspective. But also the kind of things he says about "athletes these days" has less resonance."
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