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Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: SIGNED BY AUTHOR EDWARD VAN EVERY AND ALSO BY LEGENDARY SAN FRANCSCO CHRONICLE SPORTS COLUMNIST JACK ROSENBAUM on the front free endpaper. A tight, very impressive copy to boot of the 1936 1st edition. Clean and Near Fine in a crisp, price-intact ($1.00), VG+ to Near Fine dustjacket, with one small piece of clear tape reinforcing the spine crown inconspicuously at the inside of the dustjacket and very light creasing --with just a touch of mild chipping-- along the panel edges. 12mo, "the complete and thrilling picture of the rise of the unknown Joe Barrow to the heights where as Joe Louis he can find few men willing to challenge his right to fistic supremacy" (from the front dustjacket flap).
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Signed first edition of biography of heavyweight champion boxer JOE LOUIS, "The Brown Bomber" who fought racism and Nazism with athletic skill. Joe Louis's mastery of the boxing ring made him a hero to African Americans, and later, a symbol of the power of Democracy over the Nazi regime. His 1938 rematch with German boxer Max Schmeling was held in Yankee Stadium, to an in-person audience of over 70,000 in people, and tens of thousands of others breathlessly followed the fight over the radio - including a young Maya Angelou. She recalled the excitement and importance of Louis's victory to Black US Americans in her essay CHAMPION OF THE WORLD: "The last inch of space was filled, yet people continued to wedge themselves along the walls of the Store. Uncle Willie had turned the radio up to its last notch so that youngsters on the porch wouldn't miss a word [.] Champion of the world. A Black boy. Some Black mother's son. He was the strongest man in the world." JOE LOUIS, MAN AND SUPER-FIGHTER covers Louis's early career and successes, as well as his struggles against racism in and out of the ring. A beautiful copy, rare signed by Louis. 7.5'' x 4.75''. Original brown cloth binding with yellow lettering to spine and front board. Lacking scarce original dust jacket. Black-and-white photographic frontispiece with facsimile signature. [8], 184 pages. Front flyleaf signed by Louis with "Best Wishes," dated June 9, 1936. Binding with a bit of bumping to corners and spine ends. Some foxing to frontispiece and the two leaves on either side. A notably sharp copy.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.