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Published by Hammond, Hammond & Co, London, 1956
Seller: Arty Bees Books, Wellington, New Zealand
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Black hard cover with red titles on spine. Bumping to corners and mark on front corner of front. Contents tight with age discolouration. Guildford Book Exchange stamp on front e/p. 288pp with some illustrations. Dust jacket is not price clipped but it does have chipping and absences at corners and spine ends. It has been covered to protect it. "This is the story of Rocky's fight, with life, with the guys in the other corner of the ring - and with himself." from the blurb.
Published by Simon & Schuster, New York, 1955
ISBN 10: 039306123XISBN 13: 9780393061239
Seller: Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABAA, ILAB), Bordentown, NJ, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First edition. First edition (stated) Hardcover. 375 pp. with index. Illustrated with photographs. Fine, touch of offsetting to the endpapers. In very good dust jacket with rubbing to the edges and a coprner stain upper rear panel. One of the cornerstone sports related books of the 20th century, the autobiography of boxing great Rocky Graziano (1919-1990). Born Thomas Rocco Barbella in Brooklyn, his father was a boxer with a brief fighting record under the name Fighting Nick Bob. The family moved to Manhattan's East Village neighborhood where Rocky was a tough and tumble street fighter who spent years in reform school, jail , and Catholic protectories. Graziano won some Manhattan amateur boxing competitions. He continued to find trouble with the law; in 1940 he was sent to an upstate New York correctional facility (his friend Jake LaMotta was there as well). Joining the Army after his release, he would up in trouble again after punching a captain and going AWOL. It was at this time that he adopted the name Rocky Graziano and resumed boxing but the Army caught up with him and sent hin to Leavenworth. After his release he resumed his career, becoming a formidable middleweight prizefighter and by 1945 "Ring" magazine was calling him "the next Joe Louis". In 1947-48 he won, then lost, the middleweight crown to Tony Zale; Rocky fought Sugar Ral Robinson in 1948, narrowly losing the championship bout. After his retiremen, he became a televison regular, co-starring on The Martha Raye Show, Miami Undercover, appearances on I've got A Secret, The Pat Boone Show, Car 54 Where Are You?, Naked City and in the 1967 film Tony Rome. "Somebody Up There Likes Me" was the basis for the 1956 movie of the same name starring Paul Newman (James Dean was originally cast to play Graziano but died before filming began).
Published by Simon & Schuster, New York, 1955
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. About fine in lightly worn very good plus dustwrapper. Autobiography of the great Middleweight Champion boxer. Basis for the 1956 Robert Wise film featuring Paul Newman. Though not Newman's first film, it was his convincing portrayal of Graziano that helped to make him a star. The film also boasted a script by Ernest Lehman, and the screen debuts of both Robert Loggia and Steve McQueen.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A very good+ copy in a Vg.+ dj. (Mild scratch at base of rear board, with slender half-inch chip on dj. A few other small chips & short edge tears in dj. Traces of shelf soiling on rear panel of dj.) Basis for the film starring Paul Newman.
Published by Simon & Schuster, New York, 1955
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. First edition. 375 pages. 21.5 x 15 cm. Signed presentation copy by Graziano "To Frank Mastro the swell fellow" in blue ink. Frank Mastro boxed before he became a boxing reporter for the Chicago Tribune from 1930 to 1969, known for his straw skimmer and big cigar. Laid-in Mastro's membership card "Chicago Press Veterans Association" dated 1969. illustrated with photographs. Orig. white spine lettered in red and dark gray boards. Near fine in worn and chipped dust wrapper.