HARDCOVER BOOKS.
And a Credit to His Race (Joe Louis), Gerald Astor
Saturday Review Press, 1974, first edition
Book condition: Excellent
Dust jacket: Worn
Price: $10.
The Archie Moore Story, Archie Moore
McGraw-Hill, 1960, first edition
Book condition: Excellent (pages yellowed)
Dust jacket; Good ( a few small tears, price-clipped)
Price: $25.
Black Dynamite, Vol I, Nat Fleischer
The Ring Book Shop, 1938
Book condition: An excellent copy with no detracting features
Dust jacket: N//A
Price: $75.
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Black Dynamite, Vol IV, Nat Fleischer
The Ring Book Shop, 1939
Book condition: Very Good (picture of Jeffries vs. Johnson fight pasted inside front cover)
Dust jacket: N//A
Price: $100.
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Black Dynamite, Vol V, Nat Fleischer
The Ring Book Shop, 1947
Book condition: Excellent
Dust jacket: N//A
Price: $125.
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Boxing Babylon, Nigel Collins
Citadel Press, 1990
Book condition: Like new
Dust jacket: Slightly worn
Price: $10.
British Boxing, Denzil Batchelor
Collins, 1948
Book condition: Excellent
Dust jacket: Excellent
Price: $10.
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Buttercups and Strong Boys, William Plummer
Viking, 1989
Book conditon: Excellent, ex. lib.
Dust jacket: Excellent, in mylar
Price: $10.
Champion Joe Louis - Black Hero in White America, Chris Mead
Scribner, 1985
Book condition: Excellent
Dust jacket: Some wear
Price: $10.
Come Out Smokin', Phil Pepe
Coward, McCann & Geoghrgan, 1972
Book condition: Excellent
Dust jacket: Worn with small tears
Price: $35.
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Dempsey: By the Man Himself, Considine & Slocum
Simon and Schuster, 1960, first printing
Book condition: Good, ex. lib.
Dust jacket: Excellent, in Mylar
Price: $20.
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Garden of Innocents, Fisher and Marshall
Dutton, 1972, first edition
Book condition: Excellent
Dust jacket: Worn, torn
Price: $10.
The Greatest, My Own Story, Ali and Durham
Random House, 1975, first edition
Book condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket: Worn, small tear
Price: $10.
History of Boxing, Peter Arnold
Chartwell, 1985
Book codition: Excellent
Dust jacket: Worn, small tear
Notes: Coffee-table book
Price: $25.
The Jew in American Sports, Harold Ribalow
Hippocrene Books, 1985
Book condition: Like new
Dust jacket: Excellent
Notes: Chapters on Joe Choynski, Abe Attell, Benny Leonard,
Benny Bass, Kid Berg, Al Singer, Barney Ross;
90 pages devoted to boxing.
Price: $15.
Jack Dempsey: The Idol of Fistiana, Nat Fleischer
The Ring Publishing Co., 1929
Book condition: Very Good, some creasing on front cover
Dust jacket: N/A
Price: $125.
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Joe Louis, 50 Years an American Hero, Joe Louis Barrow
McGraw-Hill, 1988
Book condition: Excellent
Dust jacket: Excellent
Price: $10.
John the Great, Donald Chidsey
Doubleday, 1942
Book condition: Well worn (tears on cover), but intact and readable
Dust jacket: N/A
Price: $25.
Legendary Boxers of the Golden Age, Billy Edwards
Chartwell, 1990
Book condition: New
Dust jacket: Like new
Notes: A coffee-table reprint of The Pugilist Portriat Gallery, 1894.
Price: $29.
Loser and Still Champion, Budd Schulberg
Doubleday, 1972, first edition
Book condition: Excellent
Dust jacket: Worn
Price: $10.
Mickey Walker: The Toy Bulldog and His Times, Walker & Reichler
Random House, 1961, first printing
Book condition; Excellent
Dust jacket: Excellent
Price: $15.
The Million Dollar Gate, Kearns & Fraley
Macmillan, 1966, first printing
Book condition: Excellent
Dust jacket: Good (torn, taped, price-clipped)
Price: $30.
Muhammad Ali: A Thirty-Year Journey, Howard Bingham
Simon & Schuster, 1993
Book condition: New
Dust jacket: New
Notes: Coffee-table book
Price: $39
Muhammad Ali: The People's Champ, Elliott Gorn
University of Illinois, 1995
Book condition: New
Dust jacket; New
Price: $10.
Muldoon: The Solid Man of Sport, Edward Van Every
Frederick Stokes, 1929
Book condition: Very Good
Dust jacket: N/A
Price: $250.
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Raging Bull II, Chris Anderson
Lyle Stuart, 1986
Book condition: Good
Dust jacket: Worn
Price: $5.
Ring Record Book, Nat Fleischer
The Ring Book Shop, 1958
Book condition: Pages excellent, cover average, no markings
Dust jacket: N/A
Price: $75.
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Ring Record Book, Nat Fleischer
The Ring Book Shop, 1959
Book condition: Good (spine loose)
Dust jacket: N/A
Price: $35.
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Ring Record Book, Nat Fleischer
The Ring Book Shop, 1966
Book condition: Very Good
Dust jacket: N/A
Price: $50.
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Ring Record Book, Nat Fleischer
The Ring Book Shop, 1968
Book condition: Interior Excellent but cover roughed up, particularly spine
which shows some creasing and a 1" tear at top rear
Dust jacket: N/A
Price: $50.
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Ring Record Book, Nat Fleischer
The Ring Book Shop, 1971
Book condition: Excellent except spine beginning to tear at top (1/4")
Dust jacket: Poor (not shown)
Price: $30.
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Ring Record Book, Loubet, Ort, Girsch & Daniel
The Ring Book Shop, 1974
Book condition: Very Good (owner's name stamped in several places)
Dust jacket: Good (torn, taped)
Price: $30.
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Ring Record Book, Loubet, Ort & Daniel
The Ring Book Shop, 1976
Book condition: Like new
Dust jacket: Very Good
Price: $35.
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Ring Record Book, Bert Randolph Sugar
The Ring Publishing Corp., 1981
Book condition: Like new
Dust jacket: Very Good to Excellent
Price: $30.
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Rings, On the Life and Family of a Southern Fighter (Collis Phillips), Randolph Bates
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1992, first editon
Book condition: Like new
Dust jacket: Slight shelve wear
Price: $10.
White Hopes and Other Tigers, John Lardner
Lippincott, 1951, first edition
Book condition: Very Good to Excellent
Dust jacket: Fair (torn)
Price: $35.
SOFTCOVER BOOKS
Ali, Rex Lardner
Tempo Star, 1978
Conditon: Very Good
Price: $8.
Boxing Day: The Fight That Changed the World (Johnson vs. Burns, 1908), Jeff Wells
Harper Sports, 1998
Conditon: New
Price: $15.
Boxing for Beginners, Al Bernstein
Contemporary Books, 1978
Condition: Very Good
Price: $6.
Boxing Memorabilia, Bill Clayton
Sterling Publishing, 1992
Condition: New
Price: $15.
Count of Ten, Terry Leigh-Lye
Background Books, 1947
Book condition: Excellent
Soft cover w/dust jacket
Price: $35.
Free to be Muhammad Ali, Robert Lipsyte
Bantam, 1980
Condition: Almost new
Notes: Autographed by author
Price: $10.
The Greatest, My Own Story, Ali and Durham
Ballatine, 1976
Condition: Excellent
Price: $5.
The Heavyweight Champions, Stanley Weston
Ace, 1970
Condition: Average
Price: $5.
How to Punch the Bag, Spaulding
American Sports publishing, 1921
Condition: Almost Excellent
Price: $35.
Jack Johnson is a Dandy, Jack Johnson
Signet, 1970
Condition: Excellent, tiny tear on cover
Price: $5.
Kid Galahad (a novel), Francis Wallace
Bantam, 1962
Condition: Good
Price: $3.
A Neutral Corner, A.J. Liebling
Simon & Schuster, 1992
Condition: New
Price: $10.
The Old Timer: Sporting Records Compendium, Tom Foley
Tom J. Foley, c1930
Book condition: Excellent
Price: $45.
Personalities of the Ring, Terry Leigh-Lye
Scion, 1952, first edition
Condition: Very Good
Dust jacket over wrappers
Price: $35.
Seconds Out - Round One (Boxing on Cigarette and Trade Cards), Evan Jones
Murray Cards, 1993
Condition: New
Price: $39.
Shadow Box, George Plimpton
Simon & Schuster, 1989
Condition: New
Price: $8.
Sonny Liston: The Champ Nobody Wanted, "Doc Young"
Johnson, 1963
Condition: Average (book store stamp on inside cover - no other markings)
Price: $75.
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Sugar Ray Leonard, The Baby-Faced Boxer, Bert Rosenthal
Children's Press, 1982
Condition: Excellent
Notes: Only boxer in series of 30 sports stars books for children, 44pp.
Price: $10.
The Uncrowned Champion, Joey Giambra
Joey One, Inc., 1979
Condition: Very Good, small tear on spine
Notes: Autographed by Giambra
Price: $35.
Winning Boxing, Julius Carson
Contemporary Books, 1980
Condition: About Excellent
Price: $10.
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