Sports
Shirt cannon #4
npl: Self-published by the author, [c2022]. Pamphlet. [20]p., 5.5x8.5 inch zine on sports mascots during the pandemic; in very good condition. "Your premier source for mascot interviews, essays, short fiction, and fan art." More
Cat.No: 316467
The Hard Campaign
North Hollywood: Arena Pubs. 1985. Paperback. 190p., price sticker on cover else a very good first printing PBO in explicit camp pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction. Manpower MP 154. More
Cat.No: 317107
The Filipino Occupational and Recreational Activities in Los Angeles
San Francisco: R and E Research Associates, 1975. Paperback. ix, 81p., paperback, 8.5x10.75 inches. Illustrated profusely with charts and tables. Reprint of the 1934 thesis studying the Filipino American community and their involvement in business, entertainment, newspapers, and more. Price sticker on front wrap, small scar on rear, else very..... More
Cat.No: 289489
Recreation for Urban America
Washington DC: National Committee for Urban Recreation, 1979. iii, 38p., 8.5x11 inches, introduction by Holman and Yzaguirre, services & resources, photos, tables, figures, very good booklet in stapled pictorial wraps. Plan for multicultural urban playgrounds, parks, recreation centers, and sports facilities. More
Cat.No: 235795
The third annual "A Celebration of Roots" : Two steps forward-- Chinese Americans in sports
San Francisco: Chinese Historical Society of America, 1996. Paperback. 92p, wraps; numerous ads, previous owner's name penned on front wrap, else very good condition. Program for a benefit dinner dance held Saturday, August 10, 1996, at the Westin St. Francis Hotel. Historical section includes photos of early sports teams, many..... More
Cat.No: 142411
The Black Scholar: Volume 3, Number 3, November 1971; The Black Athlete
Sausalito, CA: The Black World Foundation, 1971. Magazine. 62p., stapled wraps, 7.25x10.25 inches, wraps lightly worn, remains of address label on front wrap, else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 292475
The Black Scholar: Volume 7, Number 3, November 1975: The Crisis of the Cities
Sausalito, CA: The Black World Foundation, 1975. Magazine. 64p., stapled wraps, 6.75x10 inches, wraps lightly worn, price crossed off in marker on front wrap, else very good condition. Includes an interview with Arthur Ashe. More
Cat.No: 291137
Big A: the story of Lew Alcindor
New York: Scholastic Book Services, 1971. Paperback. 112p., illus., first printing, slightly worn wraps. Alcindor would of course become best known as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. More
Cat.No: 28218
Orange and Black. Volume IV of the Lincoln High School, June 1917
Los Angeles: Los Angeles City Schools, 1917. Paperback. 146p., the usual highschool yearbook format with coated alkaline paperstock. Softbound in 10x7.5 inch yapp-edged unglazed paper covers with minimalist decoration (the letter L and date); the overlapping edges are badly chipped and the tail of spine panel has tears. Textblock has..... More
Cat.No: 234180
Venus to the hoop; a gold-medal year in women's basketball
New York: Doubleday, 1997. Hardcover. vi, 342p.+ 12p. photos, very good first edition in boards and unclipped dust jacket. Personally inscribed and signed by the author and team player Jennifer Azzi, #8. European American author on the US women's Olympic basketball team. More
Cat.No: 81575
Gay Games IV: Closing Ceremony [brochure] Saturday, June 25, 1994 at Yankee Stadium
New York: Unity '94, 1994. Pamphlet. Six panel brochure/program folded to 8x9 inches, participating nations, closing credits, acknowledgments, closing ceremonies program, lyrics and poem on rear panel, very good on heavy stock. Lyrics to "Jack and Jill" & "Take the Flame" on last panel. More
Cat.No: 301087
Nuestro Fútbol en su Epoca de Oro (Anecdotario)
Guatemala: El Imparcial, 1965. Paperback. xiv, 363p., french-fold wraps, illus., spine creased, pages evenly toned, gift inscription on half-title else good condition. Text in Spanish. History of soccer in Guatemala by a sports reporter and former soccer player. More
Cat.No: 290815
The African-American address book
New York: A Perigee Book / Berkley Publishing Group, 1995. Trade Paperback. xiv, 288p., first printing, very good in trade-size wraps. More
Cat.No: 32277
Civil Rights digest: a quarterly; vol. 9, #2, Winter 1977: Discrimination in Sports
Washington DC: US Commission on Civil Rights, 1977. Magazine. 48p., 8.5x11 inches, articles, essays, news, illustrations and photos, wraps rubbed, address label on rear wrap else very good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 295797
Olla Podrida, February 1943. Published by the Olla Podrida Staff of Berkeley High School
Berkeley: the staff, 1943. Hardcover. Unpaginated, printed on alkaline glazed paperstock, the usual yearbook format in 11x8 inch maroon oilcloth boards with minimal titling. A lengthy terminal section records senior wills: "Barbara Sinclair leaves...all of the boys gasping. Shirley Stout leaves her eyelashes to Elsie Borden." This year the senior..... More
Cat.No: 241419
Cub Tracks, June 1926; A quarterly magazine for students, parents, alumni, and faculty
Oakland: Associated Students of the University High School, 1926. Magazine. pp.147-197p., 7.5x10.5 inches, about fifty pages of text, photos, and illustrations on semi-coated ivory paperstock, literary arts journal in stapled decorated green pictorial wraps. Slight edgewear, a very good copy. Bills itself as "magazine," but has ear-marks of "yearbook" minus..... More
Cat.No: 185452
Watch My Smoke
Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2022. Hardcover. x, 205p., hardcover in dust jacket, 5.75x9 inches, very good. More
Cat.No: 286825
Joetta's "P" principles for success, life lessons learned from track & field. A powerful life guide for you!
N.pl. Xlibris, 2009. Paperback. 96p., wraps, one corner bumped else very good condition, signed by Joetta Clark Diggs. More
Cat.No: 269742
Here's to it to do it
N.pl. n.pub. [1980?]. Hardcover. 163p., very good condition in like dj. Erling Ostraat-Wigg was a Norwegian - American immigrant who settled in Walnut Creek, California. He was an active skier and in the artificial snow industry. Not found in OCLC as of 4/2024. More
Cat.No: 319602
High and Outside [signed]
San Francisco: Spinsters/aunt lute, 1980. Paperback. 195p., signed by the author on the title page, "Free Reading Copy" stamped on front blank, else very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Lesbian softball novel. More
Cat.No: 28255
Self-Defence and Judo. Illustrated. A Pan Original
London: Pan Books Ltd, 1967. Mass Market Paperback. 188p., vignette line-drawings throughout the text, softbound in decorated wraps, a pocket-size original. Paperstock is quite toned (remains supple), a small stain affects half-title and title leaves (crushed insect?), no other damage of any kind nor any owner marks, a good to..... More
Cat.No: 235841
Racism: a prime factor in the determination of black athletic superiority; a paper prepared for presentation at the August 30 annual meeting of the American Sociological Association
N. pl. the author, [1972?]. 24 8.5x11 inch sheets stapled together in upper left corner, first page toned and lightly foxed else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 157352
Under-Gunder i Amerika. Hagg-turnens ocensurerade loggbok. Bildredaktor: C. A. Nykop
Stockholm: Ahlen & Akerlunds Forlag, 1943. Hardcover. 62p., illustrated with grainy b&w news photography and personal photos by Gunder's handlers. Gunder was an international track competitor, very likeable, a funny guy, see pix of him with Greer Garson, Gary Cooper, Eddie Rickenbacker and many ordinary characters. He competed in San..... More
Cat.No: 292015