(SPORTS--BOXING.) JACK JOHNSON. Jack Johnson * Sam Langford * Al Brown, and more. Police Gazette 'Supplement' posters, 15 x 11 inches, mounted to larger 17 x 14 inch sheets with small, black corner tabs; a huge scrapbook, containing 47 other Police Gazette 'supplement' posters of boxing greats, plus additional clippings etc. Folio, bound in quarter cloth and paper-covered boards; binding worn, but all posters therein in very good condition. should be seen. New York: Police Gazette, circa 1917-1918
an exceptional scrapbook of all the then current champions, black and white, assembled by the legendary editor of Ring Magazine, Nat Fleischer (1887-1972). Includes early images of Jack Johnson, Sam Langford, and Al Brown, plus 47 other posters, including a very young Jack Dempsey, John L Sullivan, Jim Corbett et al. These posters were 'supplements' to the Police Gazette, which contrary to its title was a sporting magazine, featuring boxing. They were all carefully mounted, at the corners, not glued. Many of the images are of boxers who were well-known at the time, circa 1900 to 1920, but little known today. All of the posters are uniform in format, with the image within a plain four line border
