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London: Collins, 1948. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Eight plates in color, twenty-seven in black and white. Front hinge a little tender, very good or better in about very good dustwrapper with moderate overall wear. An attractive copy of this book in the Britain in Pictures series.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1957. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in a slightly spine soiled, near fine dustwrapper. Biography of a colorful fight promoter. An unusually nice copy.

New York: George H. Doran, 1926. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Owner's small stamp front pastedown, very good or better lacking the scarce dustwrapper.

London: Chapman & Hall, 1953. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Stated cheap edition. Small octavo. Fine in very good dustwrapper with a tear at the crown, a tear on the rear panel, and modest age-toning on the spine.

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1925. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. First edition.Octavo. 209pp., illustrated with photographs. A little wear at the spine ends, near fine in a good dustwrapper with internal tape repairs and substantial loss at the spine. Biography of the pugilist from early days to his later career thumping the boards. Very scarce in jacket.

New York: Hastings House, 1960. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Tall octavo. Fine in attractive near fine dustwrapper with a modest tar on the rear panel. A nice and bright copy of the first edition of an often reprinted title.

New York: Ring Book Shop, 1974. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 34th printing and the first edition of the 1974 version. Fine in slightly worn, near fine dustwrapper.

New York: George Winn, 1939. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Red cloth lettered in black. Small stain on the foredge, slight soiling on the boards, very good plus lacking the dustwrapper. A very scarce boxing title.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1929. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Foreword by Jack Dempsey. Slight wear at the spine ends, near fine lacking lacking the dustwrapper. Autobiography of one of the fathers of American boxing. Very scarce.

New York: American Heritage, 1972. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition. Spine ends dampstained, very good in a good only dustwrapper with corresponding dampstains, edges worn.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1973. Hardcover. Very Good. Bound manuscript. Introduction by Muhammad Ali. Quarto. Unpaginated. Typed carbon copies on pink and yellow carbon paper. Contemporary full cloth stamped in gilt with the title and author and: "Original Manuscript. March 16, 1973. To Sally... With Love." Dampstain mostly visible only on the front fly, a single word… Read more

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1985. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Owner's contemporary gift inscription on front fly along with a light stain, else very good in a very good price-clipped dustwrapper with short closed tear at top edge, extremities a bit yellowed.

London: Collins, 1948. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Eight plates in color, twenty-seven in black and white. Slight bump to head of spine, a very nearly fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper with wear to the head and tail of the spine and light soiling to the rear wrapper. An attractive copy of this book in… Read more

New York: Madison Square Garden Boxing, Inc. In Association with Fight of Champions / Printed by Thomas A. Koppel & Son Co, 1971. Softcover. Fine. Quarto. 25 mimeographed leaves printed rectos only, stapled into a color folder, photograph of the fighters on the front wrap, LeRoy Neiman painting on the rear. Very light wear, fine. Includes a biographical… Read more

London: Arthur Barker Limited, 1972. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A bright and fresh, pretty much as new copy.

Los Angeles: Published by Abe the Newsboy, 1960. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Twenty-fourth edition. Fine in about very good dustwrapper with several small tears and nicks. Signed by Abe the Newsboy, a prolific boxer, on his frontipiece photo.

Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott, 1957. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Modest stain to the foredge encroaching a little on the edges of several page, very good in a very good dustwrapper with small nicks and tears. Warmly Inscribed by the author: "To friend Tom. Best, Barney Ross." Uncommon autobiography of the prize-fighter.

New York: Stephen-Paul, 1946. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. A dent at the top edge of the front board, some scraping on the front free endpaper, else a very good copy lacking the dustwrapper.

New York: A.S. Barnes, 1949. Hardcover. Fair. First edition. Illustrated with photographs and line drawings. A fair only copy, with stains on the boards and endpapers, front hinge restored, lacking the dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author to Toscanini: "To Arturo Toscanini, An outstanding artist of our time who like a championship boxer has a great "pair of hands"… Read more

New York: Vanguard Press, 1933. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Foreword by Damon Runyon. Offsetting from a small clipping about Johnston's death on the endpapers, general wear, a sound, good copy lacking the dustwrapper. Nicely Inscribed by Johnston to a sportswriter: "To Tony Marevey hi Newark's 'Boy Reporter' and my very good friend. Jimmie Johnston 3/27/33." The inside story… Read more