The Roar of the Crowd: The True Tale of the Rise and Fall of a Champion. Signed Copy
by CORBETT, James J., with Foreword by Robert Gordon Anderson
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York & London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1925. First edition, this copy inscribed, signed, and dated in ink by Corbett on the recto of the frontis. 8vo, xiv & 329 pp. plus 16 plates. Publishers gilt-lettered green cloth in pictorial dust jacket.
Page 329 roughly opened causing small losses in the margin (text unaffected), otherwise fine in moderately edge worn dust Jacket (including short tears and small loses), lightly browned at the spine and folds, otherwise very good.
"We cannot help but feel that The Roar of the Crowd will be read as long as the world loves a clean, honest, and courageous fighter, both within the ropes and in those harder battles of life outside the ring." (Excerpted from the dust jacket).
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- Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0000625
- Title
- The Roar of the Crowd: The True Tale of the Rise and Fall of a Champion. Signed Copy
- Author
- CORBETT, James J., with Foreword by Robert Gordon Anderson
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York & London
- Date Published
- 1925
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- James J Corbett, Boxing, Pugilism, Signed
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autograph; Sports; Signed; Martial Arts, Boxing;
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