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(SPORT—BOXING.)
Cabinet
card photograph of an African
American boxer.
6
1
/
2
x 4
1
/
4
inches, lightly
faded. York, PA, circa 1870’s
[300/400]
We tried to identify this late 19th century
pugilist, but with no luck.
COMPLETE SET
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(SPORT—BOXING.) FLEISCHER,
NAT.
Black Dynamite.
Profusely illus-
trated from engravings, photographs and
drawings. Five volumes, uniform 8vo,
original pictorial orange cloth lettered in
black.
New York: Ring Magazine, 1938-1947
[500/750]
Sports writer and publisher Nat Fleischer’s
definitive series on African American pugilists.
Beginning with the early fighters like Tom
Cribb and Tom Molineaux in the early 19th
century, through the fighters like Jack Johnson
in the early 20th century, Fleischer’s history is
still considered to be the best.
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