Books, Jack Johnson Boxing, First Edition (114 results)

paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. Ships in a BOX from Central Missouri! May not include working access code. Will not include dust jacket. Has used sticker(s) and some writing and/or highlighting. UPS shipping for most packages, (Priority Mail for AK/HI/APO/PO Boxes).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Fallen Angels included Ty Cobb, Pete Rose, Billy Martin, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter and O. J. Simpson. Saviors were Babe Ruth, Jackie Robinson, Larry Bird and Magic Johnson. Gods were Jack Dempsey, Bill Russell, Jim Brown, Secretariat and Walter Johnson. Has 246 pages and hundreds of photographs, many are in color. In very good condition. I have hundreds of books on boxing, golf, football and basketball and more than 2,400 baseball...

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. Pictorial wraps with B&W photo of Jack Johnson and red and white titles. This copy has only very minor shelf wear. Rather short but informative biography of Johnson with many photographs. This book is one of a series of books on African-Americans titled, "They Didn't Know It Couldn't Be Done." ; "They Didn't Know It Couldn't Be Done"; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 116 pages.

Hardcover, photos. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Book As New. No defects. NO notes, names or ANY markings. DJ with chip bottom front cover and nicking across top edge, not price clipped ($16.95) ; 274 pages.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 128 Pages. No defects noted. Interior text pages are flawless with black and white photo illustrations on every page. Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love, has long been called the number one fight town in the world. The relentless fighting style of its boxers has thrilled fans over the years. Twenty-seven champions have come from the city over the course of more than a century. This book retraces the legacy of determined...

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Photo Cover (illustrator). First Edition. ------------( 1st printing of the First revised Edition ) --- trade paperback, a solid Very Good/Very Good+ example, bump to lower corner has slightly creased a few pages and the front cover, , 442 pages, b&w photos, Jack Johnson refused to fight him and Jack Dempsey called him "the greatest boxer" ---"Standing no more than 5' 7" tall, Sam Langford was one of the 20th century's greatest fighters. In...

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. There were mythic sports figures before him--Jack Johnson, Babe Ruth, Joe Louis, Joe DiMaggio--but when Cassius Clay burst onto the sports scene from his native Louisville in the 1950s, he broke the mold. He changed the world of sports and went on to change the world itself. As Muhammad Ali, he would become the most recognized face on the planet. Ali was a transcendent athlete and entertainer, a heavyweight Fred...

First Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 244 pages; Description: xii, 244 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-238) and index. Subjects: Johnson, Jack (1878-1946) --African American boxers --Boxers (Sports) --United States --Biography. Summary: In 1908 talented black US fighter Jack Johnson won the heavyweight championship of the world from the Canadian Tommy Burns. There was...

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. One of the first books to truly examine this subject and one of the most difficult to find. Chapters include Black Professional Players of the Past; A Brief History of Professional Basketball; From the Beginnings to Jack Johnson and Other Black Boxing Champions; The Emerging Black Stars of Football and Professional Football's Caste System. First Edition, ex-library copy. The text is in very good condition, the non price clipped...

Paperback. first PB. 2092, very good (BOXING BIOGRAPHY / PHOTOS), paperback,

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine in Very Good DJ. First edition. First printing, near fine cloth hardcover shows just a light bit of shelf and trace wear, in very good dust jacket (price at flap) that shows rubbing, couple of small open puncture holes at middle of spine and edgewear that includes wrinkling and a small open chip at spine head. 264 pages. Solid copy of this play that is based on the legendary boxer Jack Johnson.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. B/W Photos (illustrator). 1st. First Edition, First Printing; black c w/red titles; lite foxing; owner's name; 347 clean, unmarked pages/index; decorative end papers.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Stapled gloss softcover with heavier wrap. Front cover title and footer band printed in orange ink, inside all in black ink. Liberally illustrated with photos of many boxers. Articles include: Carmen Basilio the Fighter of the Year? Jess Wilard Vs Jack Johnson; Pedro Francisco Lopez, the US had a One-Eyed Heavyweight Champ in Louisville's Marvin Hart, KO Morgan. A stain on the back cover is visible on the last two pages. Size: 8½"...

Paperback. Condition: Very Good - Cash. First Edition. Glossy white covers, picture on face. Clean, light wear. Clean pages. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition First Printing. Written by "boxing's most authoritative historian,'' this is the definitive biography of John Arthur Johnson, the first Black man to win the world's heavyweight championship. In 245 pages + 8 pages of black-and-white photos. A First Edition, first printing, from 1964, this hardcover 8vo has soft gray cloth-covered boards stamped with red lettering to front & spine. Condition is VG+: very clean save for some tiny spots to outside bottom page...

Paperback. first PB. 2092, very good - fine (BOXING BIOGRAPHY / PHOTOS), paperback,

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Roca, Francois (illustrator). First edition, 1st Printing. *Starred Review* Muhammad Ali: Champion of the World begins not with Ali, but with Jack Johnson, the first African American heavyweight champion of the world, and then moves on to champions Joe Louis and Sonny Liston All were great in the ring, but as Winter has God ask: "Is that all there is to a boxer?" It is not, of course "There appeared a...

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. review copy with promotional materials laid in. Solid, clean with firm hinges, sharp corners. DJ in VG+ condition with just hints of wear to extremities. BP/Af-Am Cultural Studies/Boxing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. The Biography of Jack Johnson. Book and DJ in MINT condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Peter Caras; (illustrator). First Paperback Printing. 192 pp. Gold Medal book T2092. Light rubbing on the corners with a single crease on an otherwise flat spine; no interior markings. Cover art by Peter Caras. The Chapters are: Lonesome Blues; The Bay; The Desert; Lively Times; Flight; The Wanderer; and Last Round; followed by an index. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good condition. 1st Printing of First Softcover Edition. New York: Pyramid Books, 1970. Tight, square, unmarked copy. Light cover soil else Very Good condition. No creases. Not price clipped (95 cents). No remainder mark. No store stamp, ink name or bookplate. Photo illustrated throughout. The daring exploits and record-breaking feats of back stars in boxing, baseball, basketball, football, golf, track and field, tennis, etc. Satchel Paige, Jack Johnson, Joe Louis, Sugar Ray Robinson, Althea Gibson, Arthur...

Hardback. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. In the dazzling first novel, Antonia Logue weaves together the lives of three extraordinary characters: Jack Johnson, who punched his way out of the docks of Galveston to become the first black heavyweight champion of the world: Arthur Cravan, the Dadaist provocateur who was competing for the heart of the English Modernist poet Mina Loy, the third charismatic figure in this triangle.

Paperback. first PB. 2092, near fine, (BOXING BIOGRAPHY / PHOTOS), paperback,

Condition: FINE. First printing. A full-scale biography of Jack Johnson - the first black heavyweight champion in history, and the most celebrated - and most reviled - African American of his age. "At a time when whites ran everything in America, he took orders from no one and resolved to live as if color did not exist. While most blacks struggled just to survive, he reveled in his riches and his fame. And at a time when the mere...

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First edition. Firts printing. Hardcover. 245 pp. with index. Illustrated with photos. A tight, fine example in lightly rubbed dust jacket. A rather scarce, British biography of late 19th-early 20th century bare-knuckled heavyweight boxing legend Jack Johnson. Born in Galveston, Johnson rose to prominence in the in the brutal turn of the century prize fighting world, securing the World Heavyweight Championship in 1908. Challenged again in 1910, he defeated Jim Jefferies....

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Biography of jack Johnson, worl heavyweight champion of the world - another copy with no DJ and a peice from the cover - all intact, perfect reader copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine unread condition glossy photographic softcover wraps. Includes List of Other Titles in A Hard Road to Glory series; Author Dedication; Publisher's Statement dated March 1993; Views of Sport: Taking the Hard Road with Black Athletes by Arthur R. Ashe, Jr.; Foreword by Ralph Wiley, October 1993; Foreword to A Hard Road to Glory: A History of the African-American Athlete, Volumes 1 - 3; Acknowledgments; Reference Section and Index. "A Hard Road to...

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Not pruice clippedv and without inscriptions. Fuirst |Printing with some surface wear to wrapper spine. The Life and times of Jack Johnson the first Coloured World Heavyweigh Champion.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 245pp. Illustrated with black and white plates. Owner information on the front free endpaper else near fine in a very good dust jacket with rubbing, shallow chips, and tears.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 274pp. Illustrated with black and white plates. Creasing on the bottom page edge and a stamp on the top page edge thus near fine in a very good dust jacket with fading on the spine and tiny tears.