Author: VAN EVERY, EDWARD. SIGNED
Title: Joe Louis Man and Super-Fighter
Description: New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company. 1936, First Edition. A signed association copy. Hardback, 134mm x 192mm tall. 183pp + b/w photo frontispiece. Good and tight in the original brown cloth-covered boards with yellow titles. [Description would be "very good" apart from some splash dulling to the front board]. SIGNED by the Author on the front free endpaper and with the presentation inscription:- "to Johnny Best", and with the white-on-red printed despatch label of The Ring Book Shop, Madison Square Garden Arcade, New York City, N.Y. inscribed in ink "Compliments of Peter Reilly". It is not known whether Peter Reilly is the same as the one listed in the Boxing News Record for 1939, and who managed the French-Canadian light-heavy Jack Delaney in the 1920's, but is certain that the Johnny Best for whom this volume was signed, was the well-known boxing promoter who owned and ran the Liverpool Stadium from the 1920's thro' the 30's. Signed by Author.

Keywords: Boxing Pugilistics Pugilistica Ring Ringcraft Ring-Craft Sport Champion Champions Championship Championships Brown Bomber Roxenborough Negro Max Baer Pete Reilly Johnny Best Signed Presentation Association Harry Balogh Primo Carnera Liverpool Boxing Stadi


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