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Heading: (Boxing)
Author: Naughton, W.W.
Title: Heavy-Weight Champions: Graphic Description of Every Heavy-Weight Championship Contest from Sullivan and Corbett to Jeffries and Johnson....
Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher:John Kitchen, Jr. Co.
Date Published: 1910
Description: Illustrated profusely from photographs. 19x12.5 cm (7½x5"), printed wrappers. First Edition.Published on the eve of the Fight of the Century between Jack Johnson, the first African American world heavyweight champion of boxing - and the previously undefeated champion James J. Jeffries. A meticulous record of both fighter's histories with up to the last minute speculation about even the size of the winner's purse. An interesting time capsule of racial politics in sports history.
Author: Naughton, W.W.
Title: Heavy-Weight Champions: Graphic Description of Every Heavy-Weight Championship Contest from Sullivan and Corbett to Jeffries and Johnson....
Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher:John Kitchen, Jr. Co.
Date Published: 1910
Description: Illustrated profusely from photographs. 19x12.5 cm (7½x5"), printed wrappers. First Edition.Published on the eve of the Fight of the Century between Jack Johnson, the first African American world heavyweight champion of boxing - and the previously undefeated champion James J. Jeffries. A meticulous record of both fighter's histories with up to the last minute speculation about even the size of the winner's purse. An interesting time capsule of racial politics in sports history.
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Wrappers toned, tears along spine repaired with tape; damage and rust staining around staples to some leaves; very good.
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Primer for the Fight of the Century, 1910
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