JOE LOUIS, MAN AND SUPER-FIGHTER

by Joe Louis, Edward Van Every

$1,500 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix

First edition · Signed

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1936. Signed first edition of this biography of heavyweight champion boxer Joe Louis, The Brown Bomber who fought racism and Nazism with athletic skill. Near fine. Item #40796 Joe Louis's mastery of the boxing ring made him a hero to African Americans, and later, a symbol of the power of Democracy over the Nazi regime. His 1938 rematch with German boxer Max Schmeling was held in

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