Mar 27, 2014 - Sale 2342

Sale 2342 - Lot 587

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(SPORT--BOXING.) FLEISCHER, NAT. Black Dynamite. Profusely illustrated from engravings, photographs and drawings. Five volumes, uniform 8vo, original pictorial orange cloth lettered in black. New York: Ring Magazine, 1938-1947

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sports writer and publisher Nat Fleischer's definitive series on African American pugilists. Beginning with the early fighters like Tom Cribb and Tom Molineaux in the early 19th century, through the fighters like Jack Johnson in the early 20th century. Fleischer's history is still considered to be the best.