<I>Go Up For Glory</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1966
name: label: Published by
content: G. P. Putnam's Sons, American, 1838 - 1996
label: Manufactured by
content: Berkley Books, American, founded 1955
label: Written by
content: Bill Russell, American, 1934 - 2022
notes: label: Description
content: This is a hardback copy of Go Up for Glory by Bill Russell. The book has a paper book jacket which is covered with a clear plastic book sleeve on its exterior. The front cover of the book is black with a foregrounded color portrait of Bill Russell wearing a suit and a red tie, resting his head against his proper left hand, in the bottom left corner. A black-and-white depiction of men playing basketball is positioned to the right and behind of the portrait. At the top of the cover, in blue type, it reads: [The great superstar of the Boston Celtics tells the unvarnished /story of his struggles as a man, Negro and champion athlete.], with [Bill Russell] below in yellow type, and [As told to William McSweeny] to the right in smaller blue type. Underneath, in large white type, it reads: [Go Up for Glory]. A piece of clear tape holds a sticker (white with black type, reading [B/Rus] near the bottom of the books spine. The back cover is off-white with a black-and-white image of Bill Russell in a suit with two other men on either side of him. Underneath the image is a block of black text about Co-author William McSweeny and Bill Russell's history and achievements. There is a black and white barcode sticker on top of the clear plastic at the bottom of the back cover, at the bottom, which reads: [Warehouse - BK18235004 / Go Up For Glory / Used, Good]. There are a total of 224 numbered pages which are off-white with black type and two sections of glossy pages in the middle with black-and-white images of Bill Russell. On the first interior page, there is a white sticker with black type reading [Wiggin Memorial Library / STRATHAM, N.H.] with [DISCARDED] stamped diagonally in red ink underneath. On both title pages, [66-161] is handwritten in red ink in the top right corners. On last interior page, there is a sticker (white with black type) with a chart printed on it (13 rows, 5 columns) titled [DATE DUE] at the top left, with [DISCARDED] stamped in red ink diagonally across the chart.
place: label: Place printed
content: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Athletes
label: Topic
content: Basketball
label: Topic
content: Sports
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Books and Published Materials
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2015.161
objectType: label: Type
content: hardcover books
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © 1966 William Felton Russell and William Francis McSweeny
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on paper, cardboard, book cloth (textile material), adhesive, and plastic
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 8 3/4 × 6 × 1 3/8 in. (22.2 × 15.2 × 3.5 cm)