Inscribed and in Dust Jacket
The Roar of the Crowd. The True Tale of the Rise and Fall of a Champion … With a Foreword by Robert Gordon Anderson.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1925.
Price: $1,750.00
About the item
First edition. Frontispiece portrait. [2], xiv, 329 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Green cloth titled in gilt. Spine ends bumped, very good plus copy in original red dust jacket. Hartley 411.
Item #375096
James John Corbett (1866-1933), was a handsome young Irish-born boxer on the rise in 1891. The following year he became World Heavyweight Champion when he defeated John L. Sullivan in New Orleans in December 1892. He defended the title in 1894 and knocked out Charley Mitchell, but was unseated in 1897 by Cornish boxer Bob Fitzsimmons in Carson City, Nevada.
Inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf:
“To My friend Miss Bel Wright with kindest regards from Jas J Corbett Oct 1 /25”.
