50 years at ringside

Fleet Pub. Corp, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Signed. Vintage Hardcover with DJ, Signed by the Author First Edition 1958 Fleet Publishing 296 pages. Very Good+, in a VG DJ. Just a touch of shelf/edge wear to black cloth boards with gilt spine titles and gilt front cover illustration of one boxer standing over another - corners sharp. One tiny nick to top edge of front cover. Minor shelf/edge wear to original unclipped Dj - now in mylar. No previous owner markings - all pages are clean and unmarked. Signed on the backside of the FFEP " With best wishes Nat Fleischer Dec 1958". Endpapers are broadside ads for boxing matches from the past. Nathaniel Stanley Fleischer (November 3, 1887 – June 25, 1972) was a noted American boxing writer and collector. He served as the sports editor of the Press and the Sun Press until 1929. Encouraged by Tex Rickard, he inaugurated in 1922 The Ring magazine. In 1929 Fleischer acquired sole ownership of the magazine, which he led as editor-in-chief for fifty years, until his death at Atlantic Beach, New York in 1972. In 1942, Fleischer began to publish the magazine's annual record book and boxing encyclopedia, which was published until 1987. In addition, Fleischer wrote several other books about the lives of some world champions and about boxing history. Fleischer contributed to the founding of the Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA) and was twice presented with its James J. Walker Award. After Fleischer's death, the BWAA named an award after him. Fleischer, who had been instrumental in creating The Ring Boxing Hall of Fame in 1954 (disbanded in 1987), was himself an inaugural 1990 inductee to the International Boxing Hall of Fame. A very handsome Signed First Edition in the original DJ.LOC SSE-03