Feb 26, 2009 - Sale 2171

Sale 2171 - Lot 423

Price Realized: $ 420
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
(SPORTS--BOXING.) JOHNSON, JACK. Life and Battle of Jack Johnson, Champion of the World. Illustrated. Small 8vo, original pictorial wrappers; edges worn with a couple of tiny chips. New York: Richard K. Fox, (1910)

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A biographical pamphlet, probably sold at sporting events as a souvenir. Jack Johnson (1878-1946) was the first black world champion boxer. This little biography chronicles all of the fights that Johnson had up to 1910, with full-page illustrations of all the boxers.`