MARCH, Joseph Moncure.

£850 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

The Set-Up. Signed limited edition, number 91 of 275 copies signed by the author, illustrated by Alexander King, and bound in quarter cloth. March's story of an African-American prize fighter, perhaps inspired by the real-life example of Jack Johnson, is an acute portrayal of race relations during the Roaring Twenties. A trade edition was also published in 1928.The 1949 film noir adaptation, directed by Robert Wise and starring Robert Ryan and Audrey Totter, controversially changed the protagonist to a white man and moved away from the poem's tragic ending. "The sense of bleak poetry, however... remains intact" (Field).

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