Battling Nelson – Life, Battles and Career of Battling Nelson – SIGNED First Edition 1909
£245.00
A first US edition, first printing of Life, Battles and Career of Battling Nelson by Battling Nelson, published by Hegewisch, Illinois in 1909, illustrated with cartoons and photographs throughout. A very good copy signed by Nelson to a compliments stamp on the front free end paper, bumping to the spine tips, the boards bound in publisher’s sage green cloth with dark green titling to the front board with humorous cartoon of Nelson, additionally reproduced towards the end of the book, the boards with substantial shelf-wear, toning to the text block and foxing to the prelims.
Published at Hegewisch, Illinois, in 1909, Life, Battles and Career of Battling Nelson, Lightweight Champion of the World is the Danish-American boxer’s exuberant autobiography. Written “by himself,” it recounts Oscar “Battling” Nelson’s rise from poverty to the lightweight championship, including his famously punishing contests with Joe Gans. Illustrated with portraits, fight scenes and cartoons, the book combines sporting history with vigorous self-promotion, capturing the toughness, spectacle and colourful language of early twentieth-century prizefighting in America.
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A first US edition, first printing of Life, Battles and Career of Battling Nelson by Battling Nelson, published by Hegewisch, Illinois in 1909, illustrated with cartoons and photographs throughout. A very good copy signed by Nelson to a compliments stamp on the front free end paper, bumping to the spine tips, the boards bound in publisher’s sage green cloth with dark green titling to the front board with humorous cartoon of Nelson, additionally reproduced towards the end of the book, the boards with substantial shelf-wear, toning to the text block and foxing to the prelims.
Published at Hegewisch, Illinois, in 1909, Life, Battles and Career of Battling Nelson, Lightweight Champion of the World is the Danish-American boxer’s exuberant autobiography. Written “by himself,” it recounts Oscar “Battling” Nelson’s rise from poverty to the lightweight championship, including his famously punishing contests with Joe Gans. Illustrated with portraits, fight scenes and cartoons, the book combines sporting history with vigorous self-promotion, capturing the toughness, spectacle and colourful language of early twentieth-century prizefighting in America.
