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Original Brown Hardback. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Ed. Thus. 1979. 246pp. B&W images. "The great John L.: a barroom braggart feted by royalty, admired by presidents and the common man, he was the first internationally-renowned sports-man, the fighter who dragged the Nobel Art out of the era of bare-knuckled prize fights and gave it respectability". Dust jacket has light wear to edges and corners with very mild fading to spine; light bump to top edge of upper board. Not price-clipped. Book has gilt titles to spine with some light wear to top edges and corners. Very slight foxing to edges. Pages and contents are in vg condition with no inscriptions.

Hard Boards. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Hardback 1977. 231 pages. Clean & tight book. Flat pages. PAGE EDGES ARE FOXED. No inscriptions. JACKET INSIDE HAS FOXING. Jacket is not torn. Front flap is not price-clipped: £4.95. Jacket is now under clear removable protective covers. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref O-XTR. Jack Johnson - in the Ring and Out with the original Introductions by Damon Runyon; Tad, Ed. Smith & J. B. Lewis. Edited with Afterword by Gilbert Odd. Published in 1977 by Proteus, London.

First Edition Thus Hardcover autobiography of the renowned prizefighter, near fine in fine jacket, in mylar cover; minor softening to board corners else a tight square unmarked copy in unclipped dust jacket; first edition thus.