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1940215031940. Archive of three photographs from the 1930s-1940s captures three African American boxers. One photo shows two boxers the "Gold Dust Twins" in action in the ring while another shows "Black Jack Lorenzo Pack" posing with fists clenched in the ring. Black and white silver gelatin photographs measuring 10" x 8". The first photograph features two muscular African American boxers standing side by side in a boxing ring both wearing classic boxing trunks and laced-up gloves. Their expressions are serious reflecting the intensity of their profession. A handwritten inscription on the back identifies them as the "Gold Dust Twins." This moniker was historically used to describe dynamic duos however specific information about African American boxers using this nickname in the 1940s is unclear. Very good condition overall. unknown
190243988Chicago: The Continental Publishing Co 1902. Later issue. Portraits and illustrations. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green cloth decorated in dark green and gilt rubbed some browning of text mostly marginal short tear along upper inner margin a few short tears or losses not affecting text. A very good copy. Later issue. Portraits and illustrations. 1 vols. 8vo. Heavy-weight championships in America. The work is divided into four sections: the first is "The Art of Self Defense" and includes comparing boxing and football; how pugilists train and the rules of boxing ancient and modern. The second section discusses the arrival of the Australians boxes including George Dawson Hall Seymour Burk and Foley. The third section deals with short biographical sketches of Sullivan Corbett Fitzsimmons Jeffries sharkey Mitchell Ruhlin Maher and Peter Jackson. The last part section deals with the championship fights fought in America under the Queensberry Rules including the Corbett and Sullivan and Corbett and Mitchell fights; Fitzsimmons fighting Maher Corbett and Jeffries; and Jeffries' fights Sharkey Corbett Ruhlin and Fitzsimmons. Hartley 1439 for the first edition The Continental Publishing Co unknown books
1940121967Singapore: Malaya Publishing House Limited 1940. A scarce manual for members of the Singapore Boxing Association this example dates from the 1940s pages 13-19 containing examples of contract forms dated "194" in print the final digit to be added by hand. The Singapore Amateur Boxing Association as it is today called was founded in 1930 and is the national controlling body for the sport of amateur boxing responsible for the promotion co-ordination and organisation of all local activities. Octavo 19 pages; wire-stitched in printed stiff paper wrappers. Ownership inscription to inside front wrapper dated Singapore 1946; staples corroded; a very good copy. WorldCat and Library Hub find two copies only at the British Library and the National Library of Singapore. unknown
195553801New York: Simon and Schuster 1955. 8vo. 8 375 1 pp. Double-page title numerous photo illustrations. Quarter-beige cloth over gray boards blue & red lettering front cover & spine minor edgewear rubbing slight bumping to couple corners w/ d.j. minor chipping head of spine couple minor tears couple closed tears minor creasing still VG/VG- copy inscribed by Rocky Graziano on ffep. First edition inscribed of this memoir detailing the violent life of the famed World Middleweight boxer which served as the basis for the 1956 Oscar-winning MGM film starring Paul Newman Pier Angeli Everett Sloane and directed by Robert Wise. An interesting side-note is that this was also one of the first screen appearances of a young Steve McQueen. Simon and Schuster, hardcover
194043974New York and London: Whittlesey House McGraw-Hill Book Company Inc 1940. First edition. Frontispiece portrait and plates. 1 vols. 8vo. Original burgundy cloth spine darkened rubbed corners knocked upper inner hinge cracking endpapers soiled some soiling and browning of text ink mark in margin and two words crossed through on last page of text a few ink smears elsewhere. First edition. Frontispiece portrait and plates. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed. Inscribed "Good Luck Jack Dempsey" on title-page. Hartley 495 Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc unknown books
1920106644<p>Two BroadsidesThe New Colored Menace: World's Greatest Heavyweight Al Walker. 44x31 cm 17¼x12". c.1929. Ripple & Curran Manage the Greatest Boxing Stable in the West - Directing Fighters with a Future Who Fight. With a list of 7 boxers each with a short biography. c.1920s. General light wear with some old folds pinholes normal aging minor closed tears at edges etc. the Walker broadside may have some manuscript additions; both pieces very good. The Walker broadside is significant in that Black heavyweights were essentially eliminated from fighting for the heavyweight championship. After Jack Johnson white America wanted no part of a black heavyweight until Joe Louis came on the scene in the 1930s. It is doubtful Walker's record would have made a top ten fighter but he did fight George Godfrey. The second broadside features a list of western prizefighters including Cowboy Billy Owens a Native American heavyweight. </p>
1920106644<p>Two BroadsidesThe New Colored Menace: World's Greatest Heavyweight Al Walker. 44x31 cm 17¼x12". c.1929. Ripple & Curran Manage the Greatest Boxing Stable in the West - Directing Fighters with a Future Who Fight. With a list of 7 boxers each with a short biography. c.1920s. General light wear with some old folds pinholes normal aging minor closed tears at edges etc. the Walker broadside may have some manuscript additions; both pieces very good. The Walker broadside is significant in that Black heavyweights were essentially eliminated from fighting for the heavyweight championship. After Jack Johnson white America wanted no part of a black heavyweight until Joe Louis came on the scene in the 1930s. It is doubtful Walker's record would have made a top ten fighter but he did fight George Godfrey. The second broadside features a list of western prizefighters including Cowboy Billy Owens a Native American heavyweight. </p> books
19544197Kilmainham Ireland: Phoenix Boxing Club 1954. Poster. Near Fine. The Phoenix Boxing Club is an historic Dublin club that was established in the 1920s and still remains active today. A promotional poster printed in black ink onto robust paper measuring 30 x 20 inch wide. The poster advertises an impressive line up of bouts to be held in the National Stadium featuring Irish Northern County and Irish International champions on the fight card. Poster w. fold marks some soil and creases minor edge wear w. pin holes at upper right corner and two stray ink marks. An amazing survivor considering the posters intended use. A nice piece of scarce and ephemeral Irish Boxing memorabilia. Printed by "Ardiff" in Kilmainham Dublin Ireland. Phoenix Boxing Club unknown
1920604042<p>"Jack Dempsey" in dark blue fountain pen ink on full length pose dressed in boxing outfit in a fighting stance wearing boxing gloves. Note his muscular arms. Photograph is by Woodbury L.A. with their rubberstamp on the back and is on heavy stock; 7 1/2" x 9 1/2"; very good fresh tack holes in corners; ca. 1920. Signed and inscribed: "To My Friend Frank with best wishes Jack Dempsey".</p> unknown books
1920604042<p>"Jack Dempsey" in dark blue fountain pen ink on full length pose dressed in boxing outfit in a fighting stance wearing boxing gloves. Note his muscular arms. Photograph is by Woodbury L.A. with their rubberstamp on the back and is on heavy stock; 7 1/2" x 9 1/2"; very good fresh tack holes in corners; ca. 1920. Signed and inscribed: "To My Friend Frank with best wishes Jack Dempsey".</p> unknown
1918List3130Muskogee Oklahoma 1918. Real photo postcard measuring 3 ¼ x 5 ½ inches. A real photo postcard depicting Japanese-American boxer Young Togo inscribed verso: “To K. Iwana Muskogee Oklahoma / From Young Togo fighter and jiu jitsu wrestler Muskogee Oklaâ€. Young Togo was a lightweight and sometimes featherweight or bantamweight boxer from Fort Smith Arkansas who debuted around 1907. He seemed to have been a popular fighter based on contemporaneous newspaper articles. Following a draw with Togo “Battling†Nelson described him as “the toughest piece of Japanese flesh that ever stepped into a prize ring†and stated that “he was game to the core. He fought clean and took his beating like a gamester†then noting that Young Togo had been “full of malaria†at the time.1 In the same article sports journalist Otto Floto described Togo as “one of the very toughest boys of his weight†who “seems to be invincible.†Togo may be Koriyama Kokichi the head coach of YÅ«jirÅ Watanabe’s Nippon KentÅ Club founded in 1921 in Tokyo; Boxing: A Quick Guide 1923 a book written by the pair in Japanese identifies Kokichi as “Young Togoâ€.<br /> <br /> 1 “What Nelson Thinks Of Fort Smith Fans By Battling Nelson†Southwest American March 1 1912 5. unknown
1910346154Philadelphia: American Caramel Company 1910. 5 lithograph cards two of them are the same; Jack Johnson. All cards have slight toning and rubbing near edges with the exception of one of the two Jack Johnson cards that has a bumped corner and creasing at center. Colors are still vibrant on all; overall a very good set of scarce trading cards celebrating Black athletes. 5 lithograph cards two of them are the same; Jack Johnson. Color lithograph boxing trading cards from the "Prize Fighter Caramels" series. American Caramel Company began issuing sports cards in boxes of their caramels in 1908. This series issued in a set of 20 cards in 1910. Featured here are celebrated Black boxers Joe Gans Jack Johnson x2 Joe Walcott and George Dixon. American Caramel Company unknown
1910346158Mecca and Tolstoi Cigarettes 1910. 11 lithograph print cards. All cards have brilliant coloring and are very good to near fine. 11 lithograph print cards. Tobacco cards or "T-Cards" were either packaged directly with tobacco products or issued separately by tobacco companies. <br /> <br /> These cards were part of the Mecca & Hassan Champion Athlete and Prize Fighter collection and also under the brand Tolstoi Cigarettes. Featured are celebrated Black prize fighters Peter Jackson Jack Johnson with gloves and Jack Johnson without gloves two of the same image; one issued under Mecca and the other under Hassan on verso Joe Jeanette Sam Langford two of the same image; one issued under Mecca and the other under Hassan on verso George Dixon as Tolstoi on verso and two separate depictions of Joe Gans one with a duplicate; issued as Mecca and Hassan respectively on verso. Mecca and Tolstoi Cigarettes unknown
1980CAT0118Various Places 1980. Illustrated calf "Frankfurt" binding 9 x 10 inches. With twelve scrapbook pages and twenty-eight photographs and two programs laid in. Very Good. Archie Moore's personal scrapbook evidently started in Frankfurt in the period surrounding his fight with Hans Kalbfell and extending onward. Moore used the scrapbook to house other photographs and memorabilia titling it "Archie Moore Albumn sic - various 'celebs' Boxers." The loose photos show Moore posed with various friends and acquaintances. The scrapbook contains three contact sheets of stills from an unidentified film a picture of Mr. T. an inscribed program from Mickey Walker several original photographs from an unidentified boxing match and a single leaf extract from the Sacramento Union discussing Moore's youth project signed by Moore in 1966. <br /> <br /> Moore was a frequent victim of racism early in his career and often fought abroad. His career spanned several eras in boxing from the 1940s onward. He fought a young Cassius Clay at age 45 when Clay was 20. This album starts during the period when he held the world light heavyweight championship and continues through his retirement from boxing. He led a varied life upon retirement starting a charity for youth in San Diego acting in several films and helping train George Foreman for his fights into the 1990s among other activities. A very nice personal scrapbook from an incredible career which we have left in its found state with the photographs loosely interleaved with the pages. Generally very good well used but cared for with bright contents and some wear to binding. unknown books
194182212Norwalk Conn.:: Boxing Writer's Association; Nat Fleischer; The O'Brien Suburban Press 1941. 1941 Edition. publisher's blue gilt-lettered cloth. The cloth of the spine extending onto a portion of the front panel is discolored from water damage. The binding structure and contents are unaffected. 8vo. This book belonged to a boxing trainer named "Ray" Arcel and contains more than fifty signatures and inscription including champions Joe Louis Ray Robinson Jim Braddock Tony Canzoneri and Gus Lesnevich. Other signatures are those of ring announcers and writers restauranteur Toots Shor; boxing commissioner John J. Phelan; cartoonist Ham Fisher with a pencil drawing of Joe Palooka; Joe DiMaggio; and J. Edgar Hoover. Boxing Writer's Association; Nat Fleischer; The O'Brien Suburban Press], hardcover
19441791Paris, aux dépens de l'artiste, l'Imprimerie Nationale 1944 (1947). 2 volumes grand in-folio (46 x 34 cm) en feuilles, sous chemises et étui de l'éditeur. Texte en latin et en français traduit par Michel de Marolles. 119 EAUX-FORTES ORIGINALES DE André DUNOYER DE SEGONZAC. Tirage unique à 225 ex. numérotés sur papier vélin d'Arches. 1 des 220 exemplaires avec l'état définitif (n° 176) sur vélin filigrané. Tirage des eaux-fortes par Jacques Frélaut chez Roger Lacourière. Typographie choisie par Ambroise Vollard, impression du texte sur les presses de l'Imprimerie Nationale. Le chef-d'œuvre gravé de l'artiste.
