The autobiography of Billie Jean King by King, Billie Jean
The Autobiography of Billie Jean King
The Uncompromised, First-Hand Chronicle of Grand Slam Mastery, Structural Activism, and the Evolution of Modern Tennis
The Uncompromised, First-Hand Chronicle of Grand Slam Mastery, Structural Activism, and the Evolution of Modern Tennis
Bibliographic Specifications
- Title: The Autobiography of Billie Jean King
- Author: Billie Jean King (with Frank Deford)
- Publisher: Granada Publishing, London / Toronto / Sydney
- Publication Date: 22 July 1982
- ISBN-10: 0246117929
- ISBN-13: 9780246117922
- Edition Details: First UK Hardcover Edition, First Printing.
- Binding: Original publisher’s premium cloth-bound hardcover casing with crisp spine titles.
- Physical Format: Octavo (8vo), 208 pages. Generously enhanced with central repositories of high-contrast black-and-white archive photographs capturing legendary match points, behind-the-scenes strategy, and historical championship celebrations.
- Language: English
Official Condition Report
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The Book: Used - Like New / Fine (F)
- Exterior / Boards: The original hardcover casing is in pristine, immaculate condition, keeping flat, clean panels and sharply square corners. The cloth binding is unyielding, showing no vertical spine-lean or crushing. Shows only very light, microscopic shelf wear restricted to the bottom shelving margins, entirely consistent with flawless collector preservation.
- Interior: The text block is exceptionally clean, bright, and tight. All 208 internal leaves are perfectly intact and remain entirely free of user highlighting, underline annotations, library processing stamps, owner name inscriptions, or folded dog-ears. A beautifully sheltered, showroom-grade copy.
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The Dust Jacket: Used - Like New (LN)
- Condition Detail: The original illustrated paper dust jacket is present, whole, and completely intact. Displays only very light shelf wear along the extreme jacket tips from standard vintage handling. The jacket face panels retain their bold contrast, remaining clean, bright, and entirely free of heavy open tears or sun fading on the spine.
Synopsis & Historical Value
Gepubliseer in 1982—kort na die vorming van die moderne professionele vrouetoer en op die kruin van haar internasionale invloed—staan The Autobiography of Billie Jean King as 'n gesaghebbende, eerstehandse kroniek van een van die mees transformerende figure in wêreldsport. Skrywer Billie Jean King neem die leser agter die skerms van haar ongeëwenaarde loopbaan waarin sy 39 Grand Slam-titels ingepalm het, insluitend 12 in enkelspel, 16 in vrouedubbelspel en 11 in gemengde dubbelspel.
Deur haar kenmerkende absolute eerlikheid en vurige gees te wys, sny die vertelling verby die tradisionele sportwyshede. Die teks bied 'n intieme kykie in haar historiese gevegte op die baan vir die Verenigde State in die Federation Cup en Wightman Cup, asook haar monumentale rol as kampvegter vir geslagsgelykheid en die stigting van die Women's Tennis Association (WTA). Vir tennisentoesiaste en ernstige versamelaars van klassieke sportliteratuur, dien hierdie eerste-uitgawe hardeband as 'n onmisbare historiese argief wat 'n wêreldwye kultuurverskynsel perfek vasvang.
Author Profile: Billie Jean King
Billie Jean King is 'n Amerikaanse voormalige Wêreld No. 1 professionele tennisspeler, 'n lid van die International Tennis Hall of Fame, en 'n wêreldwye ikoon vir sosiale geregtigheid. Benewens haar verstommende rekord op die baan, het haar historiese "Battle of the Sexes"-oorwinning oor Bobby Riggs in 1973 sport verbygesteek om 'n waterskeidingsoomblik vir die vroueregtebeweging te word. Haar lewenslange toewyding aan gelyke geleenthede het haar die presidensiële Medalje van Vryheid besorg.
Geskryf in samewerking met die bekroonde sportskrywer Frank Deford, verseker hierdie memoir 'n hoogs gepoleerde, vloeiende vertelling met diep sosiologiese insig. King se unieke kombinasie van elite-atletiese prestasie en haar deurslaggewende administratiewe visie omskep haar outobiografie in 'n gesaghebbende historiese rekord wat die evolusie van moderne professionele tennis permanent dokumenteer.
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