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192910804N.p. New York: Privately Printed 1929. Octavo. Cloth-backed gold-foil boards; bright fuchsia endpapers; 80p. Subscriber's Edition limited to 200 hand-numbered copies this is no. 47. Probably a pirated edition published after the 1928 Covici printing; the Reginald Marsh illustrations not present in this edition. The single text decoration is of a quality that puts us firmly in mind of our favorite booklegger Samuel Roth. Boards edge-rubbed with foil rubbed through on edges; internally clean and unmarked. A solidly Very Good copy lacking the scarce dustwrapper. Privately Printed unknown books
1976biblio2Boxing ticket 3" x 5 1/2" includes stub printed on stiff blue paper. Slight aging; near fine. This is a ticked for the closed circuit TV broadcast of the third and final bout between Ali and Norton. After breaking Ali's jaw and winning the first bout Ali would come back and win the second encounter. In the third fight Norton would lose a very controversial decision to Ali despite the fact that many fight fans felt Norton really deserved the decision. books
1976101484<p>Boxing ticket 3" x 5 1/2" includes stub printed on stiff blue paper. Slight aging; near fine. This is a ticked for the closed circuit TV broadcast of the third and final bout between Ali and Norton. After breaking Ali's jaw and winning the first bout Ali would come back and win the second encounter. In the third fight Norton would lose a very controversial decision to Ali despite the fact that many fight fans felt Norton really deserved the decision.</p> books
1930101482Boxing bill poster advertisement for Henry Armstrong fight film 9"x 12" one sheet. Some aging and browning;otherwise very good. Henry Armstrong 1912-1988 is considered one of the best fighters in history. He held three titles at the same time and almost won a fourth. Before Sugar Ray Robinson would come to dominate the fight scene Hank Armstrong was second only to Joe Louis as one of the most important black athletes in America during the first half of the last century. He is pictured on this movie bill which also lists some of his fistic accomplishments. books
1930101485Boxing bill poster advertisement for Joe Louis fight films 9"x 12" one sheet. Some aging and browning a few chips at the edges; otherwise very good. This advertisement for a Joe Louis fight movie promises "all the great Joe Louis Fights in one picture." Louis is pictured in in two photos one a promotional pose with Jim Braddock and a second picture of Louis outside the ring as the ref counts out one of his opponents. This film was to be shown at the Dixie Theatre and the fights were to include his battles with Baer Carnera Levinsky Schmeling and Braddock. While the small poster is not dated it is probably before the second Schmeling fight which he won by first round knockout since there is no reference to it. books
192019852New York: Marshall Stillman Association 1920. Softcover. Good. Single sheet 9 x 20 inches additional flap for folding and mailing printed on both sides with text and halftone illustrations of boxing and self-defense techniques. Hand-addressed soiling and creasing at one edge slit into which the flap would have been inserted prior to mailing as issued; very good. A "10-day free trial" prospectus for a mail order course in the Marshall Stillman method of boxing jiu-jitsu and other forms of self-defense. Don't believe boxing can be taught by mail Read the endorsements here and give it a try: "Practice the lessons faithfully for ten days and then if you do not feel that you can learn boxing and self-defense by this original method return the course to us. Should you decide to keep the course send us $5 in complete payment. That's fair enough isn't it You can't lose." Stillman's history is noteworthy in several respects: Millionaires Alpheu Geer and Hiram Mallinson developed the Marshall Stillman method named for two of Geer's grandparents in the early 1900s as a prison reform effort; they saw physical activity and sport as a positive influence in combatting recidivism. In 1919 they brought in the obstreperous Lou Ingber to manage the gymnasium; shortly thereafter another nearby gym lost a large portion of its Jewish membership due to anti-semitic policies and those boxers found a welcoming home at the Marshall Stillman Athletic Club. "Stillman's Gym" rapidly became one of the best-known boxing gyms in the country with Joe Louis Jack Dempsey Gene Tunney and Rocky Graziano among its alumni and Frank Sinatra Dean Martin Jerry Lewis Buddy Hackett and Tony Bennett frequently in attendance as spectators. It remained a household name until 1959 when Ingber an inveterate innovator and self-promoter who had long-since purchased the gym outright and legally changed his surname to "Stillman" sold up and retired--a decision he regretted later telling a reporter that it was "the worst thing he had ever done as it left him with nobody to talk to and nobody to abuse. Marshall Stillman Association unknown books
1937101483<p>Boxing ticket 2 1/2" x 5 3/4"printed on green stiff paper. Some very slight aging but it really nice condition overall. This is an exchange ticket that allows the holder to exchange it for This is a complimentary exchange ticket that allows the holder to exchange it for a $16.50 fight ticket for $4.00 in taxes at the Morrison Hotel Room 340. This would be the "Cinderella Man's" last title fight. He put up a valiant fight and even dropped Louis early on but would end up getting knocked out in the eight round. Braddock would have a great early career but injuries and a string of loses almost took him out of the fight game until he made a remarkable comeback that won him the heavyweight championship from Max Baer. Unfortunately Louis put an end to that in the next fight.</p> books
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
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> 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 books
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
