Testing the Ice: A True Story About Jackie Robinson
Language: English
Published by Scholastic Press First Edition stated, 2009
Series: Book 1 of 1 - Testing the Ice
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Mike's Baseball Books, Chula Vista, CA, U.S.A.Mike's Baseball Books
AbeBooks seller since April 18, 2001
Condition: Used - Near fine
£ 11.68
Quantity: 1 available
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INSCRIBED by Sharon Robinson. Just a BEAUTIFUL book with gorgeous full-page, color illustrations by Kadir Nelson. Has bright blue endpapers, in Near Fine Condition. The bright colored non price clipped Dust Jacket is in very good condition. A wonderful book to introduce children to Jackie Robinson an American and Civils Right Icon. I have more than 215 books on the Negro Leagues and Black Sports, around 200 publications on the Hall of Fame and its members and nearly 200 signed/inscribed books (mostly baseball) in stock. Discounts are available when you purchase multiple items on the same order.
Seller Inventory # ABE-1687386080515
- Title
- Testing the Ice: A True Story About Jackie Robinson
- Author
- Sharon Robinson text and Illustrated by Kadir Nelson
- Publisher
- Scholastic Press First Edition stated
- Publication year
- 2009
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Signed
- Inscribed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0545052513
- ISBN 13
- 9780545052511
- Illustrator
- Nelson, Kadir
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Series
- Book 1 of 1: Testing the Ice
- Seller catalogs
- BLACK SPORTS AND THE NEGRO LEAGES, Hall of Fame, SIGNED COPIES
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About the Author
KADIR NELSON illustrated two Caldecott Honor Books: Moses and Libre : Le long voyage d’Henri. Ellington Was Not a Street by Ntozake Shange won the Coretta Scott King Award. Will Smith’s Just The Two of Us won an NAACP Image Award, and his new book, We Are The Ship continues to garner major awards. Nelson showed artistic talent at age three and began working in oils by age sixteen. Kadir Nelson lives in Los Angeles.
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Mike's Baseball Books
Chula Vista, CA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since April 18, 2001
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I sell baseball fiction and nonfiction out of my home. I have a large inventory of adult novels, mysteries, juvenile series, children's titles, pulps, comics, humor, anthologies, poetry and plays. I have other sports fiction as well, football, basketball, golf, as well as many boys juvenile sport series. In nonfiction I carry team histories, biographies, history of baseball, international baseball, faith and religion in sports, the Hall of Fame, the World Series and All-Star Games, economics and the law of sport. I also have a large collection of the Sporting News Guides, Record Books, Dope Books, etc, please ask if you are looking for a specific year. I am always looking to purchase additional inventory whether one book or an entire library.…
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