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Charles Scribner's Sons, 1964. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Scribners, 1964. EX-LIBRARY copy with card pocket and library stamps. Jacket has taped reinforcements at spine top & bottom.. Hard Cover. Good Plus/EX-LIBRARY/Good/Ex-Library. Illus. by Photographs.

Macmillan And Co LTD, 1964. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1964. No Edition Remarks. 245 pages. Photographic dust jacket over black cloth with gilt lettering. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Light foxing and tanning to pages; more prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with light scuffing overall. Spine has soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a noticeable forward lean. Unclipped dust jacket with moderate rubbing, chipping and tearing to edges. Moderate tanning and scuffing overall; noticeable water staining to inside panels. Visible creasing to panels.

USA: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1964. Charles Scribner's Sons 1964 First Edition NAP Good+/Very Good DJ Ex-library with usual markings o/w VG, Bright dust jacket protected in clear dust jacket cover. Four bright photo illustrated sections. 245 pages with index. Size: 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 x 1 1/8 inches.. First Edition NAP. Hardcover. Good+/Very Good DJ.

London: Macmillan, 1964. Hardcover in very good condition with good condition clipped dust jacket. Jacket is edgeworn, chipped at spine ends and inner flaps are taped to paste downs. Boards feel solid, spine is tight and contents are clean and unmarked. AD. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Used.

Macmillan, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Some rubbbing to dustwrapper, no fading or tears, more pronounced to top and bottom of spine. Wrapper now in clear removable protective sleeve. Not price clipped, no inscriptions, illustrated, clean copy internally with very little wear. Heavy book, will require additional postage outside the UK.

Greenwich, Connecticut: Fawcett Gold Medal, 1969. Book. Illus. by Peter Caras;. Very Good. Soft cover. First Paperback Printing. 192 pp. Gold Medal book T2092. Light rubbing on the corners with a single crease on an otherwise flat spine; no interior markings. Cover art by Peter Caras. The Chapters are: Lonesome Blues; The Bay; The Desert; Lively Times; Flight; The Wanderer; and Last Round; followed by an index..

London; Macmillan & Co, 1964, 1964. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. [8], 245 pp, [1]. 16 illustrations from archive photographs. Book Condition: Very Good. Jacket Condition: Very Good. Publishers' orange cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. A clean copy; no annotation or inscriptions. Jacket a little rubbed and scuffed with minor wear top edge and a couple os small nicks lower edge. Biography of the World Heavyweight Champion and his notorious lifestyle in a changing society.

London: Macmillan, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. Firts printing. Hardcover. 245 pp. with index. Illustrated with photos. A tight, fine example in lightly rubbed dust jacket. A rather scarce, British biography of late 19th-early 20th century bare-knuckled heavyweight boxing legend Jack Johnson. Born in Galveston, Johnson rose to prominence in the in the brutal turn of the century prize fighting world, securing the World Heavyweight Championship in 1908. Challenged again in 1910, he defeated Jim Jefferies. Johnson was a colorful, but often controversial figure, married four times (three of his wives were white), outspoken, and notorious. He was a fugitive from justice from 1913 to 1920.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1964. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. 245pp. Illustrated with black and white plates. Owner information on the front free endpaper else near fine in a very good dust jacket with rubbing, shallow chips, and tears.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. DJ in archival cover owner embossed stamp. A-2.64[H] . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1974.

New York, New York: Scribners, 1964. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/VG-/G+. Written by "boxing's most authoritative historian,'' this is the definitive biography of John Arthur Johnson, the first Black man to win the world's heavyweight championship. In 245 pages + 8 pages of black-and-white photos. A First Edition, first printing, from 1964, this hardcover 8vo has soft gray cloth-covered boards stamped with red lettering to front & spine. Condition is VG+: very clean save for some tiny spots to outside bottom page edges & a light soiled spot to bottom of front board. Binding straight & strong, pages creamy white but unmarked. The unclipped DJ is VG-/Good+, with minor rubbing to extremities & a triangular tear to front cover through last word in title; else bright & colorful & nicely protected in new clear mylar cover free! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, ( 1964). First edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. 16 photogravures. Octavo, 245pp.; gray cloth; dj extremities lightly scuffed. "This book's importance goes far beyond a simple retelling of how this man won the heavyweight championship, misused it, and finally lost it -Bruce Catton." 16 photogravures.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1964. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Ed.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 246 pages, chipping to edge of dust jacket..

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Photographic Plates. A clean, tight copy in a Mylar jacket cover. Price clipped.

Macmillan & Co 1964. Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

London.: Macmillan. , 1964.. First edition. . Gilt decorated hard cover. . Fine copy. . Octavo. . Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition.

London: MacMillan, 1964. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. red cloth, gilt spine, pp., 245, [1], 8 full page b & w plates from photographs, index, ex private library with bookplate inside front cover, a tight, clean, bright copy Size: 8 Vo.,.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1964. 1st. Hardcover. 245 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light chipping on dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Record # 2233350

London: Macmillan Company. Clipped DJ in archival cover. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1964.