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Tully, Jim. The Bruiser. Greenberg: Publisher, New York, 1936.
Price: US$73.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Tan cloth stamped in black, lacking the dust jacket. Dust soiling to the boards. Bookstore label of Stanley Rose Bookshop to the rear pastedown endpaper. A sound copy with slight fading to the topstain. The story of a drifter who turns to boxing and works his way up the ranks. Though not autobiographical, it does draw on Tully's experience of the road and the ring. ; 248 pages
Seller: Bungalow Books, ABAA, Pueblo, CO, U.S.A.
Tully, Jim. The Bruiser. Greenberg, New York, 1936.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Inscribed by Author. bumped at tail of spine. Review copy w/ stamp. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Ohio; Boxing & Wrestling; Literature & Literary. Inscribed by Author. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 305.
Seller: Archer's Used and Rare Books, Inc., Kent, OH, U.S.A.
Jim Tully. The Bruiser. Greenberg, 1936.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed. First Edition. 1st edition; INSCRIBED COPY; inscribed by Tully on the ffep and dated 1937; hardcover, no dust jacket; GOOD condition; cloth has rubbing to extrems; there is a small stain to the ffep; endpapers are discolored, but there are no markings to the text. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.
Seller: Book Alley, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Tully, Jim. The Bruiser. Greenberg: Publisher, New York, 1936.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Signed by Jim Tully on front free endpaper, inscribed "To George from his friend and helper on the radio [signed] Jim Tully." [vi], 248 pp. Original tan cloth lettered in black. Very Good with crease through spine, light soiling to back board, and darkening to spine. Lacking jacket. Ex-hobo-turned-author Jim Tully was also an ex-boxer; this novel was inspired by his experiences in the ring.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: There is no dustjacket. The endpapers have some browning with age. ; This copy of the book was inscribed from Jim Tully to the famous movie director Leo McCarey. Jim Tully once called the "most hated man in Hollywood" and friend/publicist for Charlie Chaplin insccribed the book " To Leo McCarey able son of an able father who was kind to me in the days of hunger Jim Tully"
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Tully, Jim. The Bruiser. Greenberg: Publisher, New York, 1936.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: 248pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Tan cloth over boards. Publisher's black top stain. Good, in a good Grosset & Dunlap reprint dust jacket. The dust jacket is shorter than the book, wraps around the spine and covers, and has been adhered to the book on the pastedowns. The spine ends and corners of the covers are gently bumped. The publisher's stain on the top edge of the text block is partially faded. This book once belonged to a Circulating Library, and has four ink stamps on the endpapers. The text block is sturdy. A first edition of this gritty boxing novel, written by an author who was very familiar with prizefighting, and whom many consider to be a precursor to the "hard-boiled" school of writing.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Tully, Jim. THE BRUISER. Greenberg (1936), New York, 1936.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First edition in G&D dust jacket. Tully drew on his own experiences on the road and in the ring as well as those of his friends Jack Dempsey (the heavyweight champ to whom the book is dedicated), Gene Tunney, et al. INSCRIBED, "To Joe Shaw / FROM ONE BRUISER TO ANOTHER / Jim Tully." Joseph T. "Cap" Shaw was Tully's literary agent at Wilson, Powell, and Hayward, a former editor of Black Mask magazine, and an Olympic medal-winning fencer. Good with spine gutters and endpapers darkened and light vertical crease on spine; in a reprint Grosset & Dunlap dust jacket with same front panel illustration as the first. Dust jacket has significant chip to head of spine taking out title and few letters of author's name but is otherwise good and bright.
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
Tully, Jim. The Bruiser. Greenberg: Publisher, New York, 1936.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Signed by Jim Tully on front free endpaper, inscribed "To Arthur and Hazel This novel of bruisers and battles by their friend Jim Tully[,] Tall Timber North Hollywood California 1938." [vi], 248 pp. Bound in publisher's tan cloth lettered in black. Very Good with vertical crease to spine, light soiling, offsetting to endpapers, in a Good dust jacket with some chips, tears, and creases, a few pieces of archival mending tissue on verso, unclipped ($2.00) Ex-hobo-turned-author Jim Tully was also an ex-boxer; this novel was inspired by his experiences in the ring.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Tully, Jim. The Bruiser. Greenberg: Publisher, New York, 1936.
Price: US$700.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. [vi], 248 pp. Original tan cloth lettered in black. Near Fine with former owner's name penned on front free endpaper and rear paste down, a little dampstaining to fore edge of back board. In Very Good original, unclipped ($2.00) pictorial dust jacket, chipped at head, spine panel a bit dulled, small scratch with closed tear to middle of front panel with small tape mend to verso, lightly edge worn; presents well. Uncommon in a presentable jacket. Ex-hobo-turned-author Jim Tully (best-known for his road memoir Beggars of Life) was also an ex-boxer; this novel was inspired by his experiences in the ring. Likewise, the novel Circus Parade was inspired by his time with a circus. His time as a tree-surgeon, though, unfortunately never inspired a novel. One imagines it would have had a title like The Pruner or perhaps Climbers of Bark.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.