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New York : Smith and Durrell, 1946. Book. Illus. by frontis photo. Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Solid copy. Yellow cloth covers with brown lettering. Name of former owner on front endpaper, otherwise unmarked. Covers soiled from handling, shelfwear. Endpaper, inside covers and all pages heavily tanned or moderately browned..

Smith and Durrell 1946 with 184 pages and a b&w photo frontis of Greb.. First edition. Hardback. Good to very good. Bright yellow cloth, owner's very small name stamp on the front end paper. No dust wrapper. . Boxing, Harry Greb

New York: Smith and Durrell, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Pp. viii, 184. Frontis. photo portrait. Bound in yellow cloth with brown lettering stamped on the front board and spine. Edges of leaves a tad age-toned. In the price-clipped dust jacket that shows slight edge-wear, mostly to head and tail of spine. Gift inscription on the front free endpaper to Seattle author, philanthropist and civic leader Stimson Bullitt. Biography of the Pittsburgh pounder who walloped Gene Tunney in a 1922 championship bout.The 1969 inscription honors Stimson Bullitt on his 50th birthday. A short note card is laid in. Born to one of Seattle's most prominent families, and raised in great comfort, as a young man Bullitt sought a life of hard Depression-Era experience by traveling by boxcar to and from Yale University, (and one year riding a motorcycle coast-to-coast), seeing Ledbelly in the Village, and amateur boxing during his college years and perhaps into his South Seas… Read More

Good. Association copy Jack Hurley's copy, dated by him 1946. Good only hardcover, usual browning. Little scribbling at photo frontis.Edgewear, corners dog-eared, complete, well bound, toned throughout. No reader, remainder, or ex-library marks, except for boxer and promoter Jack HURLEY's note on front fly (first page). Our pics.

New York : Smith and Durrell, 1946. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Good. 9" by 6". None. The first edition of this biographical work on American professional boxer Harry Greb, written by James R. Fair. The first edition.In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Illustrated with a frontispiece photograph of Harry Greb. This biographical work on Harry Greb was written by James R. Fair. Harry Greb was an American professional boxer and the light heavyweight champion from 1922 to 1923 and world middleweight champion from 1923 to 1926. In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally excellent with light bumping and handling marks to the extremities. Offsetting to the endpapers. The wrap is generally smart with creasing, minor loss to the head of the spine, handling marks to the rear and a two inch closed tear to the rear. Tape repairs to the head and tail of the spine and to the head to the verso. Internally firmly bound… Read More

Smith & Durrell. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1946. Hardcover. Signed by the author on fep; light staining to front board at bottom gutter; pages are very tanned at edges; endpapers are discolored from previous news clippings; edgewear to DJ with several large chips -- especially at corners and spine ; Signed by Author .

Smith & Durrell, N.Y., 1946., 1946. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. First printing. 184 pp., frontis photos, 8vo, yellow cloth, dustjacket. Text shows no wear, no name however the acidic leaves have yellowed with age, particularly along the edges, and the preliminary leaves show some foxing. Dj is price-clipped, has a few short edge-tears and some chipping mostly to the spine-ends, few small stain spots. Uncommon book, hardly ever found in a decent dj like this. VG+/VG-. Nicest copy we've seen.