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.

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.