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Budoworks, 2023. Paperback. New. 278 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.58 inches.

Many full page illustrations Binding is a bit loose.Light wear to coversName and adress of owner on paste down end paper and on dedication page

Paperback / softback. New.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Cloth - Hard Cover. Good+/No Jacket. Copyright is 1925; 329 pages, plus ads; Some moisture stains and a little discoloration to red cloth over spine and rear cover; Title lettering on spine is affected, though remains legible; Small tear in cloth at front joint about half an inch from foot; Volume remains tight and contents are very clean and free of any markings, book plates, etc.

The Sportsmans Book Club, 1953-01-01. Hardcover. Good. No dust jacket - Pages are tanned. Pages have no notes or highlighting. The cover and spine have some wear.

Garden City: Garden City Publishing Co. Inc., 1926. Hardcover; 8vo; 329 pages. First U.S. edition. Red cloth with black titles on cover and spine. Sunned spine and edges. Rubbed edges, some small tears in hinge, fraying. Yellowing interior. Gift inscription on frontis' recto. G/--. First American Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.

New York: G. P. Putnam, 1925. Book. NVG. Original Cloth. First Edition. Book has front end paper splitting along the hinge, modest foxing, faint pencil marks to front fixed endpaper, slightly bumped corners. Gilt lettering on the spine is dull..

Garden City: Garden City Publishing Company, 1926. Very good/Very good. Garden City: Garden City Publishing Company, 1926. Reprint of the G.P. Putnam's Sons edition. Photographic dustjacket over red cloth-covered boards with black lettering. Jacket chipped at corners and spine ends, with a few small tears and a couple scuffs to face. Spine ends nudged with a small tear at head, but boards are clean and square with solid lettering. Half inch tear between endpapers at bottom front hinge, but no splits. Corbett's death date noted in pencil under frontis, else pages unmarked. Binding is sound.

New York: G. P. Putnam's and Sons. 1925. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Publisher's original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine and upper board. Illustrated throughout with black and white frontispiece and 15 photographic plates. A very good or better copy, the binding square, with bumping, rubbing and fraying to the spine ends and corners. The contents, with a previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown, some cracking to the gutter between pages 208 and 209 and a small crack to the front hinge, are a little spotted to the early and late pages and occasionally throughout. Signed and inscribed by the author in dark blue ink "To / My dear friend / Walter Smith / with warmest regards / from / Jas J Corbett / Bayside, N. Y. / June 11 / 28". The autobiography of American heavyweight boxer James J Corbett, known in the media as 'Gentleman Jim', who became heavyweight champion after beating John L. Sullivan on… Leer más

G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1925. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near-fine with slight shelf wear and small name stamp on second blank page, otherwise bright and clean. In a very good dust jacket with light wear at the spine ends and corners, and some tape residue along the edges of the folds on the reverse. INSCRIBED BY HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION JAMES CORBETT on the flyleaf. Very scarce signed.

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).

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1925. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Front hinge neatly restored, else fine in very good or better dustwrapper with modest chips at the spine ends, and a short split at the front flap fold. Inscribed by the author and boxing champion: "To my friend Dennis J. Crown with best regards, Sincerely Jas. J. Corbett. May 15/29." We've had the book signed, and we've had it in jacket, but never both, and very scarce thus.