eagan eddie (6 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fair. 1932. No Edition Remarks. 278 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Slight cracking to hinges, with exposed netting, frontispiece detached but still present. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Stain to rear board.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). A smart copy of this illustrated work on the life and career of American boxer and bobsledder, Eddie Eagan. Reissued. Illustrated with frontispiece and seven plates. Collated complete. The fighting career of Edward Patrick Francis Eagan, an American boxer and bobsledder who is notable as being the only person to win a gold medal at both the Summer and Winter Olympic Games in different disciplines. This work explores his development in the ring from World War I, while enlisted as an artillery lieutenant, where he won the middleweight title of the American Expeditionary Forces. Through his time at Yale University where he won the AAU's heavyweight title, and beyond. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, smart with light shelf wear and rubbing to the extremities. The odd mark to the board and fading to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Very Good. book.

First edition. Lovat Dickson, London. 1932. Purple cloth, gilt type to spine. B&w photograph frontis. + further plates internally. 278 pages. Spine sl. sunned; signs of book plate removal from front paste-down end-paper.

Hardcover. ix, [3],300 p. Includes illustrations. From Wikipedia: "Edward "Eddie" Patrick Francis Eagan (April 26, 1897 June 14, 1967) was an American sportsman who is notable as being the only person to win a gold medal at both the Summer and Winter Olympic Games in different events. Eagan won his summer gold in boxing and his winter gold in four-man bobsled. Finally, Eagan is one of the few athletes who have competed in both the Summer and Winter Olympic games. Eagan studied law at Harvard University and later at the University of Oxford. In 1920, Eagan competed as a boxer at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, and won the gold medal in the light-heavyweight division. Eagan returned to the Olympics eight years later, this time as a member of the bobsleigh crew of Billy Fiske, who steered to victory at the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid. Eagan is one of two competitors to win gold in both Olympic seasons. Later, Eagan became a lawyer, and served in the army as a colonel during World War II. " Good. No dust jacket. Signed by author. Cover has some wear and soiling. Mark on bottom edge. Sticker residue on fep. Nice signed inscription on fep to military officer. Reprint. Reissued in 1934 and reprinted in 1943.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 4th Edition. 300 pages. First edition, fourth printing. He was an amateur light heavyweight champion and later the long-time chairman of the New York State Athletic Commission. It is inscribed on July 15th, 1948 to Endre Bohem who was a Hollywood screenwriter and later the producer of the television series "Rawhide". With Bohem's ownership bookplate on the front pastedown. Fine book in a near fine dust jacket with the spine slightly faded and it is price clipped. A beautiful and unique copy. Inscribed by Author(s).

Boxing autobiography of Eddie Eagan, the American amateur boxer who won a gold medal at the 1920 Olympic Games. This book covers only his boxing career but in 1932, soon after this book was written, Eagan famously won an Olympic gold medal at the 1932 Winter Olympics in the bobsleigh - he was the first athlete to win medals (let alone gold) in both Summer and Winter Olympic Games. 8vo. 300pp. Ink gift inscription, dated 1932, has been written across the title (on the title-page). Original blue cloth boards with gilt titles, rubbed to spine. A good copy.