Jack Johnson - In the Ring and Out
by JOHNSON, Jack
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near fine/good +
- Seller
-
Rocky River, Ohio, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Chicago: National Sports Publishing Company, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/good +. Octavo, 259pp., illustrated. A crisp, clean, near fine copy in the publisher's red cloth. Just a touch of dust-soiling to the top edge, and the spine gilt a bit dulled. In a good or better dust jacket, creased and with a few challow chips and tears. The spine is a bit faded, with the price scuffed out in the middle of the spine. Still better than often found, and the jacket is almost always missing. Johnson, the first Black athlete to obtain international fame, was a very controversial figure in his day, having married three white women, and been unafraid of the public backlash during the height of Jim Crow segregation. This autobiography discusses both Johnson's boxing career and his personal life, and includes some laudatory essays by Damon Runyon (misspelled "Runyan"), his wife Irene, and several others.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cleveland Book Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8966
- Title
- Jack Johnson - In the Ring and Out
- Author
- JOHNSON, Jack
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition
- good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- National Sports Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1927
- Keywords
- Sports, African-American history, Black history, African-Americana
Terms of Sale
Cleveland Book Company
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About the Seller
Cleveland Book Company
Biblio member since 2017
Rocky River, Ohio
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As a small, independent bookseller in Cleveland, Ohio, I deal in general used, rare, and antiquarian books, autographs, manuscripts, pamphlets, and personal and family papers in all subjects. My family has been in the antiquarian book business since 1971. Are you moving, downsizing, or doing some spring cleaning? Did you inherit or otherwise come into some old books? Or, maybe you've collected modern novels from the last thirty or fifty years. No matter what kinds of books you have, we'd love to take a look at them! We travel throughout Ohio, western Pennsylvania and New York, southern Michigan, and eastern Indiana, and will travel farther in some cases to look at whole libraries or even just a few particularly interesting books. Give us a call at (216) 352-3940 and we can talk more about the kinds of books you have.
As a small, independent bookseller in Cleveland, Ohio, I deal in general used, rare, and antiquarian books, autographs, manuscripts, pamphlets, and personal and family papers in all subjects. My family has been in the antiquarian book business since 1971. Are you moving, downsizing, or doing some spring cleaning? Did you inherit or otherwise come into some old books? Or, maybe you've collected modern novels from the last thirty or fifty years. No matter what kinds of books you have, we'd love to take a look at them! We travel throughout Ohio, western Pennsylvania and New York, southern Michigan, and eastern Indiana, and will travel farther in some cases to look at whole libraries or even just a few particularly interesting books. Give us a call at (216) 352-3940 and we can talk more about the kinds of books you have.
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