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78 pages. Articles: Kingfish of the Dixiecrats (part 1 of 2) - Leander H. Perez; Danger - Office Party; Nobody's Safe in Philadelphia (another "Terror in our Cities" report); They Whistle While They Work - article on NBA referees with great photos of Jimmy Enright, Bud Lowell, Phil Fox, Pat Kennedy and Joe Serafin; Benjamine (Ben) Franklin Michtom Loves Little Dolls - his Ideal Novelty & Toy Company makes two million dolls per year - article with great color photos; "Please Rush the Gal in the Pink Corset" (continuing the life and times of Sears, Roebuck); Mama has Glamour; Sailor in the Rain; An Icicle Built for Two; The Rise of Carthage; Wolf!; Cinderella Rides Again (part 3 of 5); Write Finis. Includes nice ads for: General Electric; Herbert Tareyton cigarettes - featuring color image of Miss Mary Damon; Ford cars; Pontiac color centerfold; Botany clothing; Mercury cars; Kaywoodie Briar Pipes (full-color page with boxing theme); GM Electro-Motive division. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
52 pages. Features: One-page ad for Plymouth cars; Joan Crawford seeks divorce from Franchot Tone; Indy 500 winner William C. (Wild Bill) Cummints dies in auto accident; C.I.O. angle develops in insurance inquiry; The Spanish War - still a European problem; The meaning of Japan's Hainan Island Occupation; Oswaldo Aranha - solidarity salesman for the Americas; Will Roosevelt continue bucking Congress?; The Life of Pope Pius - and who will succeed him?; Great one-page ad for International Trucks light delivery trucks (vans); Judge Louis D. Brandeis retires; Redskin Revival - high birthrate gives Congress a new operproduction headache; Antarctic real estate claims; Amnesia victim William H. Lawrence gets his memory back - photo of him with his sister; France and Britain woo Franco as a Mediterranean safeguard - article with photo of Loyalist soldiers in French concentration camp after fleeing Catalonia; London Palestine Conference - Jew and Arab delegations refuse to sit together under same roof - with (separate) photos of Arabs and Chaim Weizmann; Classy two-color centerfold ad for Schlitz beer; Rise of plastic surgery; Undulant fever mystery at Michigan State College in east Lansing; The War on Syphilis; Lt. Ben S. Kelsey crashes while testing new Lockheed substratosphere pursuit plane - story with photos; Nice 2/3-page photo ad for Hotel Del Monte in California; Photo of 6'-9" Mike Novak, a basketball player for Loyola; The Billy Conn - Freddy Apostoli boxing match; Nice illustrated 2/3-page Dictaphone features boss-man and pretty secretary; Photo of Russell Birdwell; 2/3-page Canadian Pacific cruise ad features title "The Life of Riley on the Pacific"; Tea's Comeback; Britain's Slump; Bock Beer; Nice color ad inside back cover for the Packard Six & 120. Discrete clear tape repair to bottom of coverfold. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy Book
58 pages. Features: Two-color Ford ad inside front cover targets the young man looking for his first car; Nice two-page Budd railcar ad speaks of their safety; Nice one-page 1941 Chevrolet Truck ad; Eye-catching one-page, two-color ad for the January 18th issue of the Saturday Evening Post highlights its many interesting highlights; Stan Laurel marries Virginia Ruth Rogers Laurel; Obituaries/death notices for comedian Joe Penner, James Joyce, Dr. Emanuel Lasker and Lord Baden-Powell; Nice one-page two color ad for the New International Trucks features a red delivery van; US Politics; Photo of 'Nazi in a pen somewhere in the US; Hitler - Yugosloavia invasion hint on heels of Russian pact; Weak-winged Italy; Large photo of terrible bomb damage to London's old Paternoster Row after December 29th; Article on London's Volunteer Firefighters and how they foil the Nazis; Increasing French opposition to occupation forces; Wavell's Wave Sweeps over Libya; Peaceful Portugal - article with photo of Premier Salazar; Photos of Lt. Gen. Van Voorhis and Admiral Kimmel; Chrysler "Fluid Drive" one-page ad; Article and photo of the Martin B-26 Flying Torpedo; Nice Fruehauf Trailer ad "From Soup to Nuts"; Boxing article with large photo of Pat Comiskey in ring with Lou Nova; Fantastic color-photo ad for the 1941 Studebaker Land Cruiser features Mrs. Priscilla St. George Duke; Great back cover ad for Chesterfield cigarettes features color illustration of Marion Hutton; and much more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
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
355490725055New York. New York: Henry J. Wehman 108 Park Row New York nd 1890s. A 19th Century Softback. Rare. 32 pp. Rarely seen only a few copies have been sold at auction over the last 100 years. Occasional Illustrations in the text. Cover price 15 cents. A very good copy. Part 1 covers boxing; Part 2 covers wrestling. Owen Swift 1814 9 June 1879 was a British bare-knuckle prize fighter who killed three men in boxing bouts. The death of "Brighton Bill" in one particularly savage 85-round bout in 1838 and Swift's subsequent conviction for manslaughter led to the adoption of the London Prize Ring Rules He was regarded as one of the most brilliant fighters of his day losing only twice in his storied career. Originally printed in 1853 this appears to be an 1890s re-issue. Teaches the art of boxing and correct pugilistic attitudes without a master. Further photographs available upon request. £210. unknown
1795267979T. Batchelor Long Alley 1795. Hardcover. A fine example; clear printing bright image. Frame and mount strong and tight. ‘Gregson’s strength was manifest to his opponent who endeavoured to ward off its potent effects by his thorough knowledge of the science and Gulley put in another dreadful facer which made the claret fly in all directions when Gregson fell' Boxiana vol. I. Dimensions; 32 cm X 38cm approx. Bordered and centre-margin ruled. Subjects; Boxing - Bare-knuckle fighting - bare-knuckle bouts. T. Batchelor, Long Alley hardcover
1910ARCA00005N°53 à 107 ; 1910-1911. 832 pages (année complète) reliure cassée mais la revue en état correct.~
234p., illus. Edited by F. H. N. Several chapters on John L. Sullivan and other notable boxers. Hardcover Very good condition
1930323435Akron Ohio 1930. Broadside printed in red and black illustrated with photo of Harris. 13 x 9 inches. Folds minor foxing. Broadside printed in red and black illustrated with photo of Harris. 13 x 9 inches. Advertises the 19-year-old African American fighter under the management of Harry "Ping" Auber as available for cards with an impressive 62-3 records with 20 by way of knockout. Tragically in a fight against Mickey Duris in March 1931 Harris was unable to come out in the tenth round slipped into a coma and died from injuries sustained in the fight. unknown
195363840New York NY: Grosset & Dunlap 1953. 8vo. 4 197 1 pp. With 4 photo plates. Red tweed publisher’s boards black lettering on spine w/ d.j. cover art of Joe Louis fight couple minor closed tears slight edgewear and w/ wraparound photo-illustrated band for the United Artists film starring Coley Wallace Paul Stewart & Hilda Simms w/ photo stills of the movie NF/VG/NF copy w/ former ownership markings on ffep. First photoplay edition of this stirring autobiography of the famed Heavyweight Champion who held the title for 12 years longer than any other boxer as he battled both fighters and racism. Louis acknowledges in the dedication the editorial and writing aid from longtime friend Chester L. Washington longtime editor of the Los Angeles Sentinel L.A.’s largest Black newspaper and famed Jewish-American sportswriter & publicist Haskell Cohen 1914-2000 who began his career with the prominent Black newspaper Pittsburgh Courier and covered the Negro leagues and strongly advocated for Black athletes in professional sports. Wallace 1927-2005 also appeared in both the films Raging Bull 1980 and Marciano in 1979. Grosset & Dunlap, hardcover
1956106034Librairie Méa, 1bis, rue du Havre, Paris 1956 In-4 25,5 x 25,5 cm. Bradel éditeur toile noire, dos muet, report du titre en blanc sur le premier plat, non paginé [36] pp., 16 compositions mêlant élégance dont 15 hors-texte et une sur double page. Edition originale de ce ravissant album consacré à la boxe. Celui-ci, N 736 des 800 exemplairessur bristol à grains des papeteries Navarre numérotés de 11 à 810, enrichi d’un envoi autographe de l’auteur. coupes frottées, charnière fendillée.
403Tirage argentique. Dimensions : 15,2 x 20, 4 cm. Premier match de boxe télévisé. 5 février 1937. Tampon humide au dos : "Supplied by Keyston view company ".
403Tirage argentique. Dimensions : 15,2 x 20, 4 cm. Premier match de boxe télévisé. 5 février 1937. Tampon humide au dos : "Supplied by Keyston view company ".
5j153Robert W. Kelly Publishing Corp. ohne Ort 1957. 32 Seiten mit zahlreichen Abbildungen kartoniert mit durchgehender Knickspur. unknown
18960055681896 Paris, Plon, Nourrit et Cie, 1896. Grand in-quarto (245 X 192 mm) demi-maroquin havane à coins, filets dorés sur les plats, dos quatre nerfs filetés or, grand compartiment central orné en long de filets, fers dorés et petites mosaïques de maroquin vert foncé, titre doré, tête dorée, plats de la couverture conservés (Albert Valat) ; (3) ff., 322 pages, (1) f.
5j191Instant Vision London 1974. 2 Seiten broschiert gelocht. - Text englisch - unknown
136 pages. Fiction: The Girl in the Tree; The Sharpshooter's Daughter; From Different Worlds; Wild Ride; Death Stands by (conclusion); Arson, Incorporated (part 4 of 8). Articles: The Hospitals Fight Their Toughest War - staph infections are antibiotic resistant; Man with Magic Fingers - Erroll Garner Can't Read a Note but makes $200k/year as a jazz pianist!; The Face of America - Outdoor Baptism photo in Lake Grandview at the foot of Sharptom Mountain; Will Our Yugoslav gamble pay off? - article with photo of John Foster Dulles seated with Josip Broz Tito; A visit with Jack Dempsey - includes dramatic boxing photos plus some of his wives; Why Can't I remember?; Adventures of the Mind - part 4 - art and human dignity; My Daughter's an Arab - great color photos of little Vicki Cheney; Future Unlimited - great photo-illustrated article with famed automotove inventor Charles Kettering; Why Hollywood Stopped Dieting - with gorgeous photo of Anita Ekberg. Ads: American Standard yellow bath fixtures; Wurlitzer organ ad features the home of Sue and Norm Smith in Joliet Illinois; Campbell's soup; Ad for the new Chrysler Windsor Dartline; Tareyton; 1958 Ford color photo ad; Very nice one-page photo ad for Motorola TVs shows a fixated doctor's waiting room; Republic Steel; Sweet color photo ad for the Dodge Power Giant pickup shows truck at drive-through bank window; Redwood lumber designer George Nakashima is featured in a color-phot ad for Simpson; Sano cigarettes; Evinrude outboard color photo ad; A&P coffee; Photo-journalist Ray Jacobs is featured in an Ansco film ad inside back cover; (soiled) Betty Crocker cupcake mix ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
104 pages. Special Features: Pius XII - a six-page photo-illustrated article written by Bishop Fulton J. Sheen. and We'll Clean Up Boxing or Kill It "A quietly tough athletic-commission chairman tells a shocking story of the ring's underworld operation and how he and his aides are trying to combat it". Other features include: A teen-age gang from the inside; When Adenauer goes, what happens to Germany?; Jennifer Goes to Sea - Jennifer Seymour; I was a free-loader for thirty days; Movie Review: The Shrike starring Jose Ferrer and June Allyson; Cary Grant - of enduring charm; and the boy who may be King - Juan Carlos. Full page colour vintage print advertising including Texaco Dealers, Studebaker, Coca-Cola and 1955 Chevrolet V-8. Full page colour vintage U.S. Brewers Association print advertising with "Supper on the Sand" illustrated by Douglass Crockwell. Somewhat above-average wear. 3 inch opening page 20. Binding sound. Magazine
Nice 2-colour 2-page ad for Dodge cars; Colour ad for Sovereign Potters of Hamilton, Ontario - fine Earthen Dinnerware since 1933; Nice Colour Good Year Tire ad with newlyweds; Nice colour ad for 1947 Ford cars; How Communists Rob and Wreck Canadian Labour Unions, by Pat Sullivan, whose sensational break with the Communist Party made national headlines; Article on Road Safety, including graphic photos of wrecks with bodies on street - tips for summer driving in view of the fact that 1,500 Canadians will be killed in driving accidents this year; Government nutrition survey's first findings - mental laziness of mothers causing rickets and other nutrition deficiency problems in children; London, Ontario - city of big bank accounts - many nice photos of local people and places; 50 degrees below zero in this doctor's office! - Dr. T.J. Oxford is the government doctor and Indian agent for the James Bay area - many photos; Nice colour ad for the 1947 Mercury 118 auto; Colour ad for Waterman's Taperite pens; Meet Brenda York - the girl who writes $100 cheques for easy cooking ideas; Prescription for Happy Husbands - Quebec's schools for homemakers-to-be teach everything from pinning drapes to repairing fuse plugs - the 93 Ecole Menagere Regionale - with multiple photos; Stylish two-colour ad for Chrysler autos; Jobless Italians make mausoleums their home - brief article with five photos; Cockeyed Boxing - Thai kick-boxing - article with photos; Nice 2-colour ad for DeSoto autos; This month with Morley Callaghan; Two-colour ad for Plymouth Cars; Photographic study of the manufacture of baseballs; Nice colour ad for the Monarch 8 auto; Colour ad for Quaker Corn Flakes; Colour ad for Mercury 114 auto; Canada's No. 1 Housewife - More Canadians read "Blondie" than any other comic strip - why we and others in 29 countries do still mystifies its artist, Chic Young - great illustrated story; It's Accordion Clothes for Holiday High Spots - the creations of Montreal designer Maxine Samuels of "Betty and Maxine"; Wonderful colour ad for Canadian Pacific "We're seeing Canada by Train!"; Nice colour Pontiac ad; Paratroopers' midget motorbike (Corgi) musters out and joins the 'civvie street' parade - photos - the Corgi made its debut in Toronto recently; Back cover colour ad for Community Silverplate. Above-average wear to covers which are detached but present. Centerpage loose but present. A rare surviving copy of this E.P. Taylor publication. Book
71 pages. Features: Bob (Robert) Goulet - he finds there is room at the top for hard work; Sweat Equity helps pay for their house - Joe Hodgen and Jeannette MacDonald prepare their new home in Chippawa, Ontario; Fidel Castro - Liberator or Slave-Maker? - a Canadian journalist visits Havana; Tragedy strikes the young duchess - The Duchess of Kent Story, Part 3 of 3; Ventriloquist Carolyn Blythe of the Blue Sky Revue in Verdun, Quebec; Porpoise with a purpose - Even blindfolded, Kathy can find her goal; Tachibana Ballet Institute in Tokyo - bathing helps their ballet; Sober piety and sturdy self-reliance mark the old-world ways of Canada's Mennonites; The Man the Sharks would't eat - Captain Haliburton (Bertie) Himmelman explains what happened to the Giant King 38 years ago; Workshop for Equality - Core, the Congress of Racial Equality, uses non-violence/sit-in strikes; School at Concrete, Washington, has a road beneath it; Charles Mohr, Jr., a University of Wisconsin senior, dies as a result of his first and last boxing knockout; Sid Caesar says "I conquered Shyness"; A new generation of bookworms is invading our libraries - children; The Nipper by Doug Wright; Great colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
32 pages. Features: The C.N.R. gambles on passenger service - article with photos; Rita Tushingham - article and colour photos - filming of "The Trap"; Blair Richardson - The Hard-Punching Bible-Belter - article with photos of Canada's middleweight boxing champion; First Came the Vikings; When Our Parliament Buildings Burned - on a winter night fifty years ago a dreadful fire broke out - article with photos; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
50 pages. Interesting WWII commentary by publisher Joseph Lister Rutledge; Secret Power in the Far Pacific - Japan and Germany planned a 'perfect crime'... Here's why it failed, and why Japan cannot win (written in light of the Pearl Harbour attack); Never From Valiant Men - story by I.A.R. Wylie; Mickey Rooney - The Life and Loves of Box-Office Man No. 1 - article with photos; Photo feature of Alexis Smith; I Saw it Happen in Manilla - Annalee Whitmore describes Japanese bombing in the Philippines; Digest version of "Storm", a novel by George Stewart; The Goodwill Tour of Don Florencio De La Pampa; 40-question boxing quiz by Jack Dempsey; The Battle of Detroit - Frederick L. Collins gives a first-hand report of high-scale allied arms manufacturing; Mississippi Belle - story by Clements Ripley; Kellogg's All-Bran cereal ad; Stalin - Devil or Genius?, by Emil Ludwig with black and white photos; To the Ladies, by Princess Alexandra Kropotkin; Girl Meets Girl, by Bubbles Schinasi; Pictures You Ought to See, by Howard Barnes; Nice colour ad for Mercury Mills, Limited, Hamilton, on back cover. Cover photo of young girl nurse bandaging arm of her playmate's arm. Average wear. Address label with hand-written correction on front cover. Inked postal date stamp atop front cover. Binding intact. A quality copy. Magazine
52 pages. Contents: Threats of New Violence in Quebec - Why We Should Take the "Army of Liberation" seriously; Are Hospitals Save? - a calm look at two deaths after surgery; Editorial - Of Course Hate-Mongering Should Be Stamped Out, But Not By Passing Censorship Laws - pressure on Justice Minister Guy Favreau to bring in hate laws; Greatness - Dr. Hans Selye describes what leads to the quality of greatness in the mind of a man or the life of a nation; Your Guide to the new federal split-level cabinet; Let's Give the Police More Power; Washington Hostess Perle Mesta; Your Health May Depend On Where You Live; A Weekend with the Ski Fanatics - article with photos; Nostalgic black and white photo ad for Electrohome and "Canada's Largest Stereo Laboratory"; Art Fraud - some odd "Group of Sevens"; Whiz Jazz pianist Tony Collacott; Reflections on the Clay-Liston boxing match; Mordecai Richler looks at the new cliches of nonconformity; Colour-photo Canadian Club ad features rolling in a hoop; Nice colour-photo Coke ad on back cover features beauty holding her own black and white photo. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding sound. A quality vintage copy. Book
66 pages. Features: Life Story of Sir Kinglsey Wood; Ice Guards the Dutch - fascinating 4-page photo-illustrated article explains Holland's defences against Nazi invasion; Island of Women - men have left the Island of Molene in Brittany to fight the war; France Fights Britain - great photo-illustrated boxing story with pictures of Petty Officer Warnes, Aircraftman Cole, Lance-Corporal Harrington, Corporal A. Welsh, Leading-Aircraftman A. House, Corporal Robinson, Mike Honeyman, Guardsman Danahar, J. Powell, Y. Nadal, plus seven photos of dignitaries who attended the fights; Roll to Beauty - how to slim while rolling on an ill-fated exercise device; Roosevelt's Envoy - photo-illustrated article on Sumner Welles; Inside a Nazi Prison Camp - these Nazi-provided photos depict decent conditions for Allied prisoners; Ice Follies of 1940 - nice photos of Evelyn Chandler, Bess Ehrhardt and Roy Shipstad; No. 7 in the Series "How I Would Run the War" - Women in War - great photo-illustrated article explains how women are producing armaments; Diary of the War - No. 26 - The Twenty-fourth Week - with photos of destruction in Finland and a wonderful one-page photo of New Zealand soldiers chatting with locals at the Egyptian pyramids; Several Low cartoons; Can We be Utopians?; The History of Weapons, No. 9 - Weapons and Tactics. Nostalgic one-page ad for Minor cigarettes features nurse giving injured soldier a smoke. Nice ad for the Francis-Barnett Powerbike. Many other wonderfully nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A lovely vintage copy. Magazine
50 pages. Short Stories: Dream of Love; The High Cost of Babies; Major Arrowtoss. Articles: Heroes - or Bums? - campaign to smear unemployed vets; Citadel of Jump - Great photo-illustrated article on Robert M. Weitman's Paramount Theatre in New York; "I'll Take Zale in Two" - photo-illustrated boxing article by Rocky Graziano; The Decline of Bing Crosby - photo-illustrated article on his voice problems; Billion Dollar Haul - fascinating article on war booty at the end of WWII, with photo of Hjalmar Schacht; War Against West Point; About that Sinus Trouble. Special Features; Sexiest Gal in Town? - photo-illustrated article about Ruth Gilbert; Wackies - article with great one-page photo of Barbara Bates and Julie Gibson; Lion Hunt - photo-illustrated article of Metropolitan Opera tenor Lauritz Melchior hunting mountain lion; Hockey's Hardest Hoodlum - John "Choo-Choo" Mariucci of the Chicago Blackhawks; On the Bowery; The Name is Sheridan - lovely photos of Ann Sheridan; Smokechasers - photos of parachuting forest fire fighters; Photos of Marvin S. Kite marrying Doris Press by phone; Salute of the Month - photo of Lloyd F. Oleson, National Commander of the Disabled American Veterans; Before and after photos of 1st Lt. William D. Robertson, the first GI to contact the Russian Army at Torgau, Germany; and more. Nice ad for movie "The Man I Love" features photo of Ida Lupino; Light wear. Unmarked. Light age-toning to contents. A nice vintage copy. Book
