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Playing to win : the story of Althea Gibson / by Karen Deans ; illustrated by Elbrite Brown.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection GV994.G53 D43 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Deans, Karen, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gibson, Althea, 1927-2003--Juvenile literature.
- Gibson, Althea.
- Gibson, Althea, 1927-2003.
- Tennis players--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Tennis players.
- African American women tennis players--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- African American women tennis players.
- Tennis players--Biography.
- African American women tennis players--Biography.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Picture books.
- Juvenile works.
- Picture books for children -- Juvenile literature.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copies)
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 28 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Holiday House, 2007.
- Summary:
- Growing up in Harlem, Althea Gibson was heading down the wrong path until she found her calling. She went on to become the first African American women to be ranked as the number one woman tennis player in the world.
- Notes:
- "Text copyright ©2007 by Karen Dean"--verso of title page.
- "Illustrations copyright ©2007 by Elbrite Brown"--verso of title page.
- "Printed and bound in China"--verso of title page.
- "Designed by Vyette Lenhart"--verso of title page.
- "The typeface is Agenda. The illustrations were done in acrylic paint, pencil, cut and torn paper, Caran d'Ache crayon, and cardboard attached to 300 lb., watercolor paper. Some pieces were coated with gesso"--verso of title page.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- A Junior Library Guild Selection (2007).
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copies presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copies have 1 paper sheet ([2] p.) with publisher's press release for this work laid in.
- Banks Collection copies: dust jackets retained.
- ISBN:
- 9780823419265
- 0823419266
- OCLC:
- 55657349
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