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The Yankee Clipper & the Bronx Bomber Pose Together

Photograph of Joe Dimaggio and Joe Louis posing playfully together.

N.p: n.d. [1940s?]. The Yankee Clipper & the Bronx Bomber Pose Together. Rare photograph of the two legendary athletes posing playfully side by side, Dimaggio grinning with his bat cocked over right shoulder, Louis standing with his fists clenched, ready to land a right to Dimaggio's chin. According to biographers..... Read More about Photograph of Joe Dimaggio and Joe Louis posing playfully together

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The Interior of the Fives Court, with Randall and Turner Sparring. Engraved by C[harles] Turner after T. Blake.

London: W. Sams, Book & Printseller, to the Royal family opposite St James's Palace, 1825. Third state, the first being produced in 1818. A large and important depiction of an exhibition sparring match held in Fives Court, in London's Little St. Martin's Street, a tennis and fives court hired for... Read More about The Interior of the Fives Court, with Randall and Turner Sparring. Engraved by C[harles] Turner...

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Refereeing 1,000 Fights. Reminiscences of Boxing … With Foreword by The Earl of Lonsdale.

London: C. Arthur Pearson, 1919. Second Edition (first published in 1915 under the title Thirty Years a Boxing Referee). These memoirs deal with many famous boxers who were active in the early part of the 20th century, including Johnny Summers, Carpentier, Fitzsimmons, Gunboat Smith, and others. Read More about Refereeing 1,000 Fights. Reminiscences of Boxing … With Foreword by The Earl of Lonsdale

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The Science of Boxing

The Science of Boxing. Also Rules and Articles on Training Generalship in the Ring and Kindred Subjects.

New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, [1893]. First edition. The Science of Boxing. There is a section preliminary to the text entitled "Expert Opinions" in which a number of experts give their opinion of the book. Among these experts are the following: Bob Fitzsimmons, Peter Jackson, Joseph B. Choynski, Parson Doyle... Read More about The Science of Boxing. Also Rules and Articles on Training Generalship in the Ring and Kindred...

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Heavy-weight championships in America

Kings of the Queensberry Realm. Being an Account of Every Heavy-weight Championship contest held in America under the Queensberry Rules...

Chicago: The Continental Publishing Co, [co. 1902]. Later issue. Heavy-weight championships in America. The work is divided into four sections: the first is "The Art of Self Defense" and includes comparing boxing and football; how pugilists train and the rules of boxing, ancient and modern. The second section discusses the... Read More about Kings of the Queensberry Realm. Being an Account of Every Heavy-weight Championship contest...

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Putting a Wreath on Bob Fitzsimmons’ Grave

Autograph Letter, signed (“Jas. J. Corbett”), to Mr. Kendrick.

Hollywood, California: Hollywood Hotel, March 2, 1920. Putting a Wreath on Bob Fitzsimmons’ Grave. Corbett was an American pugilist who won the heavyweight championship of the world from John L Sullivan in New Orleans in 1892 and lost it to Bob Fitzsimmons in 1897. Reading in part, “Yes I remember the... Read More about Autograph Letter, signed (“Jas. J. Corbett”), to Mr. Kendrick

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Inscribed

Fighting For Fun. The Scrapbook of … Amateur Heavyweight Champion of the World.

New York: Macmillan, 1943. Third edition. Inscribed. Author won Olympic Heavyweight Title in 1920, was Rhodes Scholar, sparred with Dempsey and Tunney, never turned professional, was Chairman of N.Y. State Athletic Commission. Inscribed “To Derrick Atkinson, my friend with the hope that as my sparring partner he will get as... Read More about Fighting For Fun. The Scrapbook of … Amateur Heavyweight Champion of the World

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Inscribed to London's close friend and early admirer, Cloudesley Johns

The Game.

New York: Macmillan, 1905. First edition, second issue. Inscribed to London's close friend and early admirer, Cloudesley Johns. First edition, inscribed by London: "Dear Cloudesley — Who is ethically disinclined to my flimflamming a capitalist society out of a dollar and a half, and who, therefore, as a good socialist... Read More about The Game

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Boxing Novel

The Violent Wedding.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1953. First Edition. Boxing Novel. Lowry’s fifth novel and the story of black prizefighter and the white woman (a painter) who loves him. Read More about The Violent Wedding

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Rare, in Deluxe Binding

Boxing.

London: Published by Phelp Bros., Moore Park Road, Fulham, [n.d., ca. 1890]. Rare, in Deluxe Binding. Boxing manual by Jem Mace, Junior, son of Jem Mace, retired champion of the world (1831-1910). The advertisements at front include one for Waite’s School of Arms in Piccadilly where “the author of this..... Read More about Boxing

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Tom Moore’s Boxing Poem

Tom Crib’s Memorial to Congress. With a Preface, Notes, and Appendix. By One of the Fancy.

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme…, 1819. Third edition. Tom Moore’s Boxing Poem. Three editions appeared in the first year of publication. Hartley claims there are two issues of the third edition, one with 4pp. of ads in front, the other with 12 pp. of ads in the rear. This copy..... Read More about Tom Crib’s Memorial to Congress. With a Preface, Notes, and Appendix. By One of the Fancy

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