Sale 2471 - Printed & Manuscript African Americana, March 29, 2018

362 362 c   (SPORTS—BOXING.) The Fight. The World Heavyweight Championship. Poster, 45 x 30 inches; minimal wear. NewYork: Darien House, 1971 [600/900] A poster advertising a closed-circuit live screening of the “Fight of the Century”—the first heavyweight contest between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, in NewYork. Frazier won the title by unanimous decision. This poster was produced for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), which hosted the only Harlem screening of the fight at the 142nd Street Armory.Tickets were not cheap at $15, but that was still more affordable than the $150 ringside seats at Madison Square Garden. The poster featured stylized art by Celestino Piatti. 363 c   (SPORTS—BOXING.) Direct from Ringside, EveryThrilling Moment . . . Fight Pictures . . . Joe Frazier vs. Muhammad Ali. Poster, 40 x 27 1 / 2 inches to sight; folds, minimal wear. Not examined out of frame. New York: Murry Poster Printing, [1971] [600/900] A poster advertising a film of the first Ali-Frazier fight, won by Frazier on 8 March 1971. “Fight Pictures” went into national release on 12 March, just 4 days after the fight. Here, the portrait of Ali is captioned with his birth name, Cassius Clay. The poster promises that a tape of the fight “will not be shown on home TV for 6 months.” 363 364 364 c   (SPORTS—TENNIS.) Van Vechten, Carl; photographer. Photograph of Althea Gibson. Photograph, 10 x 7 1 / 2 inches; photographer’s embossed stamp in lower right of image, with his copyright notice and manuscript caption on verso. [New York], 20 November 1958 [300/400] Althea Gibson (1927-2003) was the great tennis star of her era, having been named the Associated Press Female Athlete of the year in 1957 and 1958. In 1958, she finally gave up her amateur status and attempted to make a living as a professional despite extremely limited opportunities for female athletes at that time.