Corri eugene (10 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No dust jacket. Wear/marking to picture board. Foxing/tanning to end papers and page edges.

Hard Back. Second Edition. Boards bound in blue cloth and with illustrations to the front board Fading to the spine and slight discolouration in places Photographic frontispiece Contents mostly clean with some black and whitenbspphotographs Browning to the edges Tight binding Overall good pp190. book. …

Hardback (No Dust Wrapper.). Zustand: Good. Condition Notes: Heavily bruised at the head, tail and corners of the boards. Mudie's Library sticker remnant to the upper board and pastedown. Previous owners' name to the pastedown. The contents lightly toned with age and somewhat loose overall with one plate now detached but laid in; Hardback. Red boards with gilt & black titles to the spine & upper board; Measures 9" x 5¾" (1.1 kg); pp (xii) 266 (8 ads.); Index; Preface by Earl of Lonsdale; Includes: Tissue-guarded Frontispiece; Black & white plates; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #190436 ||.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Second Edition. This is a Very Good Copy of this Book in Publisher's blue cloth with black title lettering to the spine and upper cover.No Dust-Jacket.The book has a firmish binding with just a little stitching showing through at the verso of the half title page hinge join.There is one small previous owner's name to the blank front endpaper,with some light wrinkling to cloth along top edge of the upper cover.Illustrated with 4 b&w plates.There is the usual tanning to the pages within the book due to the paper quality used in 1919.Uncommon title and a second edition (The First edition was issued in 1915 under a different title) 8vo 190pp Second Edition [1919].…

1st edition. Good copy only in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly bumped and rubbed as with age. Hinges starting. Internally, bright and clean. Remains quite well-preserved overall. SIGNED Barry Jones photocard loosely inserted. Physical description; xii, 266 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 23 cm. Subjects; Boxing Great Britain History. Amusements Combative sports. 1 Kg. …

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. A scarce first edition memoir from an important figure in the history of British boxing. The scarce first edition of this memoir of Eugene Corri, a man who spent forty-five years as a boxing referee, and who in 1907 was supposedly the first person to officiate from within the ring.Corri even appeared as himself in Alfred Hitchcock's 1927 silent movie, 'The Ring'.Corri's conversational tone leads the reader through some of the 2,000 fights he refereed, including Mickey Walker against Tommy Milligan in 1927.Illustrated with sixteen photographic plates. Collated, complete.This work belonged to the library of Philip Brocklehurst, bearing his armorial bookplate to the front pastedown, and a dedication to him to the front free endpaper. Brocklehurst is best known for being a member of the Nimrod Expedition in Antarctica of 19071909, led by Ernest Shackleton. A boxer himself, he represented Cambridge University at boxing in 1905, 1906 and 1907 as a lightweight against Oxford University, and obtained a half blue. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to spine head and tail. Contemporary owner's armorial bookplate to front pastedown, and inscription to front free endpaper. Some spots to fore edge of text block. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally clean and bright, with the odd spot. Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

Memoirs of forty-five years as a boxing referee from supposedly the first man to officiate from inside the ring in 1907. Also referee of the fight with the first million dollar gate, Dempsey and Carpentier in 1921. A lovely conversational style takes the reader from fights with Jack Johnson through to Gene Tunney. 1st edition. 8vo. 288pp. plus 16 page soft black and white photos. Internally very good, very mild foxing throughout. Publisher's compliments stamp to title page. In the original black cloth boards, gilt titles to spine which has some wear to head and tail, corners a little bumped else a very good copy of this scarce title.…

Zustand: Good. The Gloves & The Man - The Romance of the Ring by Eugene Corri, c. 1920'sPublisher: Hutchinson, London.Binding: hardback cloth.Illustrated: yes. All collated and complete.Description / Condition: Some edge wear/marks/browning to boards with some edge tears to spine; no jacket. Light foxing to pages with spotting in places and half a dozen light edge tears to borders. Please see pictures for further information.…