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Auction No 370, Tag: Boxing

7 Lots (displaying 1 - 7)

Album of autographs, early 1990s, sport & entertainment, with Manchester United & City

Lot: 2

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £120 - £150
SOLD £185
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Album of autographs, early 1990s, sport & entertainment, with Manchester United & City players including George Best, Bryan Robson, Niall Quinn, Denis Law, Ryan Giggs & others; Muhammad Ali, Clive Lloyd, Mike Sweeney, Coronation Street & Brookside stars, Hayley Mills, Juliet Mills, Bill Wyman, Norman Wisdom, Robert Powell, Alvin Stardust, Dora Bryan, Foo Foo Lamar, Billy Connolly, Frank Windsor, Gordon Kaye, George Cole, Screaming Lord Sutch, and many other well-known. Signed pages mostly ‘back to back’. Fine (110)

Paul Magriel "The Memoirs of the Life of Daniel Mendoza", Batsford, 1951, 1st Edn, fine in a faded d/jkt,

Lot: 182

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
UNSOLD
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Paul Magriel The Memoirs of the Life of Daniel Mendoza, Batsford, 1951, 1st Edn, fine in a faded d/jkt, chipped at corners; and James Fair Give Him to the Angels: The Story of Harry Greb, N.York, 1946, in a very worn d/jkt, with browning to endpapers, title page and text margins. (2) 

Nat Fleischer boxing softbacks comprising "Max Baer, the Glamour Boy of the Ring", 1942, 44pp;

Lot: 200

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £36
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Nat Fleischer boxing softbacks comprising Max Baer, the Glamour Boy of the Ring, 1942, 44pp; Jack McAuliffe, the Napoleon of the Prize Ring, 1944, rust marks to title page,77pp; and Terrible Terry, the Brooklyn Terror, 1943, ex-library, some damp-staining, 64pp. Fair to fine. (3)

Michael Herbert "Never Counted Out! The Story of Len Johnson, Manchester's Black Boxing Hero and Communist"

Lot: 201

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £26
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Michael Herbert Never Counted Out! The Story of Len Johnson, Manchester’s Black Boxing Hero and Communist, Dropped Aitches Press, 1992, A5 s/bk, 123pp; and Fred Deakin Peerless Jim Driscoll, Crescendo Publications, 1987, A5 s/b in d/jkt, 100pp. Fine. (2)

Jack Hare "Gladiators of the Prize Ring, and My World Travels", Willsons, Nottingham, [1925]

Lot: 202

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £26
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Jack Hare Gladiators of the Prize Ring, and My World Travels, Willsons, Nottingham, [1925], octavo, pictorial boards, spine darkened, good; browning to b/w frontispiece and rear endpaper o/w fine internally; 304pp including photo-plates. 

Boxing biography, chiefly softbacks, including James Murray "Three Tears for Glasgow", 1990, signed by the author;

Lot: 204

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £46
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Boxing biography, chiefly softbacks, including James Murray Three Tears for Glasgow, 1990, signed by the author; Stan Shipley Bombardier Billy Wells, 1993; Alan Roderick Johnny! The Story of the Happy Warrior, 1990; Fred Deakin Tommy Farr, 1989; and others, all first editions, mainly VG/VF. (8)

Pierce Egan "Life in London; or, the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq., and his elegant friend Corinthian Tom"

Lot: 205

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £120 - £150
UNSOLD
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Pierce Egan Life in London; or, the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq., and his elegant friend Corinthian Tom, Sherwood, Neely & Jones, 1822, tall octavo, First Edition, third issue (with footnote on p.9 and first sheet of music numbered); contemp. half-calf worn, backstrip repaired and chipped in places; bookplate has been removed from the front pastedown o/w VG internally; complete with half-title & adverts, 36 hand-coloured plates and 21 wood engravings plus an extra coloured plate with adverts; 3 leaves of folding sheet-music; browned offset from each plate on to the facing page. Occasional minor spotting affects some page margins.