Willie pep (7 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Original black cloth Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good-. 1st Ed. 1973. xi, 195pp. B&W images. "This is a book about some ghetto kids of the 1930's and 1940's who became famous because they eventually learned how to fight better than most anyone else.Friday's Heroes is also about a young man from the Italian section of Hartford, Connecticut, who went on to become 'One of the Greatest Fighters the World has ever Known.' His name was Willie Pep.". Dust jacket has light wear to edges and minor loss to top/bottom of spine. Closed tear to bottom of spine and bottom of front and rear panels; with light fading to spine; not price-clipped. Book has gilt titles to spine. Light wear to corners. Small spots to font edge (not actual foxing). Small stain to FFEP; otherwise, pages and contents are in excellent condition with no inscriptions.…

Zustand: Good. 1973. First Edition. 195 pages. Signed by the author. Black pictorial dust jacket over black cloth. Front endpaper has been signed by the Author and dedicated. Pages are moderately tanned at the edges, with notable foxing. Occasional thumb marks to pages edges. Binding has remained firm. Boards have slight shelf wear with bumping to corners. Spine ends are a little crushed. Light wear to unclipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners.…

Later paperback edition of the 1973 classic recounting how kids from some of America's toughest ghettos of the 1930s and 40s became the celebrated boxers who featured in the Friday Fight Nights of the 1950s, evoked by one of their number - the World Featherweight Champion from 1942 to 1951. 8vo. 183pp. Paperback. Very good condition. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo.pp. 196. Signed by both authors on the front end paper:" Best wishes Willie Pep" and "Good luck, Robert Sacchi." Original publisher's cloth binding in dark brown, lettered gilt at spine. Dust jacket in dark brown and ivory, lettered red and ivory. Frontispiece photograph of Willie Pep World Featherweight Champion 1942Ð1951. Black and white photographs illustrate the text. Very good in minus very good dust jacket. Slight rubbing and creasing. Dust jacket used, creased and nicked at edges. Signedes. …

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if slightly edge-rubbed & dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 195 pages; Description: xi, 195 p. Illus. 22 cm. Subjects: Pep, Willie. Boxing. Impressively illustrated with a series of photo-plates. 1 Kg.…

American work on the ghetto kids from the streets of New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and Dertroit who became part of an era of the Friday Night Fights of the 1950s. The best of them was Willie Pep, from the Italian section of Hartford, Connecticut, who was world Featherweight champ from 1942 to 1951. Also in the group was Chico Vejar, Kid Gavilan, Joey Giardello, Billy Graham, Rocky Marciano, and Ezzard Charles. 8vo. 196pp. 32 pages of photographs. Dust-wrapper, short, closed tear to front panel otherwise very good. Presentation copy from Pep to the boxing reporter Sydney Hulls, signed and inscribed by Pep on the front endpaper. Also signed by Robert Sacchi.…