front cover

back cover

K.O. by Walter Anthony Merrill, a hardback first edition published in 1933... This rare book is numbered "47" of only 1,000 copies made... Signed on the front free end paper by former heavyweight champion James J. Jeffries in black fountain pen ink... Also signed and inscribed by the author and Belle Martell, boxing's first female referee, to 1930's California heavyweight Angus Morgan

measures: 9 x 9"
condition: some foxing to front cover, some age toning to inside pages

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