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SIGNED BY TAYLOR (SPORTS.) TAYLOR, MARSHALL W. "MAJOR." The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World. Illustrated. 432 pages. Tall 8vo, original cloth, lettered in gilt; spine faded, binding slightly shaken. Worcester, MA, [1928]
first edition, inscribed and signed by the author,"Greetings, yours Major Taylor, Feb. 7, '29." Marshall Walter Taylor (1878 - 1932) was an American cyclist who won the world one-mile track cycling championship in 1899 after setting numerous world records and overcoming racial discrimination. Taylor was the first African-American athlete to achieve the level of world champion and only the second black man to win any world championship-after Canadian boxer George Dixon.
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