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Sonny Liston: The Champ Nobody Wanted by Young, A.S. "Doc - 1963
by Young, A.S. "Doc
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Sonny Liston: The Champ Nobody Wanted
by Young, A.S. "Doc
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Chicago: Johnson Publishing Co., 1963. 224pp. 2nd Printing (1st Paperback Printing). Original pictorial wraps. Illustrated. Quite scarce. The paperback edition was printed at the same time as the hardback. This title is difficult to find in any printing. Ex-library with a pocket in the back. Wraps scuffed and creased.. Second Printing. Original Pictorial Wraps. Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Ex-Library.
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- Format/Binding Paperback
- Book Condition Used - Good
- Jacket Condition No Jacket
- Edition Second Printing
- Binding Paperback
- Publisher Johnson Publishing Co.
- Place of Publication Chicago
- Date Published 1963
- Keywords Boxing, Pugilism
- Size 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall
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Sonny Liston: The Champ Nobody Wanted
by A.S. "Doc" Young
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- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9781958425442 / 1958425443
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Sonny Liston: The Champ Nobody Wanted
by Young, A.S. "Doc
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Chicago: Johnson Publishing Company. Very Good+. 1963. 2nd printing. Softcover. [moderate external wear, a little fading along top edge of rear cover; binding still completely intact]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) An "unauthorized" yet sympathetic biography, by a prominent African-American sportswriter, of the heavyweight boxing champion who took the title away from then-champ Floyd Patterson with a stunning first-round knockout on September 25, 1962. Liston's long ascent to the pinnacle of boxing was fought both inside and outside of the ring, as he had to overcome a hardscrabble childhood which led him into extensive criminal activity (he served a two-year prison sentence for armed robbery in the early 1950s), and his boxing career was clouded by persistent links to organized crime and a general perception that he was an unsavory character. He held the heavyweight title for exactly 17 months, during which his single fight was a rematch with Patterson in which he again…
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Sonny Liston: The Champ Nobody Wanted
by YOUNG, A.S. "Doc
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Chicago: Johnson Publishing Company, 1963. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Some edgewear, near very good in about very good dustwrapper with shallow nicking at the spine ends. Biography of Liston by a noted African-American sportswriter. To some of his contemporaries Liston, a particularly dark-skinned ex-convict, embarrassed a sport that had been trying to gentrify its image. Issued simultaneously in both soft and hardcover editions, both are very uncommon, the hardcover verges on being rare. A presentable copy.
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