Somebody Up There Likes Me

1955 Simon and Schuster first edition, first printing. Inscribed to sportswriter Red Smith by Rocky on the front free endpaper ('To Red Smith - a real guy'). Walter "Red" Smith was one of the most admired sportswriters of the 20th Century. Smith and Graziano were well acquainted. Ira Berkow's biography of Smith notes that the two men were occasional dinner companions,… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1955. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. white spine lettered in red and dark gray boards. Near fine in worn and chipped dust wrapper. 375 pages. 21.5 x 15 cm. Signed presentation copy by Graziano "To Frank Mastro the swell fellow" in blue ink. Frank Mastro boxed before he became a boxing reporter for the… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1955. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. About fine in lightly worn very good plus dustwrapper. Autobiography of the great Middleweight Champion boxer. Basis for the 1956 Robert Wise film featuring Paul Newman. Though not Newman's first film, it was his convincing portrayal of Graziano that helped to make him a star. The film… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1955. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. First edition (stated) Hardcover. 375 pp. with index. Illustrated with photographs. Fine, touch of offsetting to the endpapers. In very good dust jacket with rubbing to the edges and a coprner stain upper rear panel. One of the cornerstone sports related books of the 20th century, the… Saber más sobre este artículo