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Knopf, New York, 1st Edition, 1st Printing 2021 SIGNED by Billie Jean King on a publisher's tipped-in leaf (itself a proof of authenticity), Hardcover with dust jacket, 481 numbered pages, 25 x 17 cm, navy blue paper over red boards with silver titling on spine, jacket cover has action photograph of King on the front, a photographic portrait on the rear. NEW book with Signed First Edition sticker. Near Fine in Fine, with very mild shelf wear. A powerful memoir, in truth a manifesto from the first female athete-activist. "Early on, what was most apparent to me was that the world I wanted didn't exist yet. It would be up to my generation to create it."

Delacorte Press, 1st Edition 2020, 3rd Printing, SIGNED by Ruby Bridges on a publisher's bookplate attached to the half title page. Hardcover with dust jacket, 55 numbered pages, 19 x 14 cm, black boards with silver titling on spine, jacket is white with a Norman Rockwell image ("The Problem We All Live With"), depicting Ruby Bridges' historic walk to school, lavishly illustrated with many (30+) period photographs and illustrations. NEW (unread) book. FINE in FINE DJ. Written as a letter from civil rights activist and icon Ruby Bridges to the reader, This Is Your Time is both a recounting of Ruby's experience as a child who had to be escorted to class by federal marshals when she was chosen to be one of the first black students to integrate into New Orleans' all-white public school system and an appeal to generations to come to effect change.

Delacorte Press, 1st Edition 2020, 3rd Printing, SIGNED by Ruby Bridges on a publisher's bookplate attached to the half title page. Hardcover with dust jacket, 55 numbered pages, 19 x 14 cm, black boards with silver titling on spine, jacket is white with a Norman Rockwell image ("The Problem We All Live With"), depicting Ruby Bridges' historic walk to school, lavishly illustrated with many (30+) period photographs and illustrations. NEW (unread) book. FINE in FINE DJ. Written as a letter from civil rights activist and icon Ruby Bridges to the reader, This Is Your Time is both a recounting of Ruby's experience as a child who had to be escorted to class by federal marshals when she was chosen to be one of the first black students to integrate into New Orleans' all-white public school system and an appeal to generations to come to effect change.