The Roar of the Crowd. The True Tale of the Rise and Fall of a Champion … With a Foreword

by Robert Gordon Anderson by James J. Corbett

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First edition

First edition. Frontispiece portrait. 2 , xiv, 329 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Green cloth titled in gilt. Spine ends bumped, very good plus copy in original red dust jacket. Hartley 411. Item #375096 James John Corbett 1866-1933 , was a handsome young Irish-born boxer on the rise in 1891. The following year he became World Heavyweight Champion when he defeated John L. Sullivan in New Orleans in December 1892. He

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