Mrs Tex Rickard (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1936. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good with partially removed bookplate on pastedown and shelf/edgewear to boards. No dust jacket. An excellent copy of this vintage and prolific biographical work.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. No dust jacket, bumper corners, spine sun faded and bumped. Binding tight, appears unread. Former owners nameplate inside front page. Assumed first edition.

First edition (not stated per publisher's standard practice) DATED, INSCRIBED, AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. [10], 368 pages. Hardcover: H 21cm x L 14.5cm. Lacks dust jacket. Blue cloth with bright gilt stamping to spine and front board; light vertical crease to slightly sunned spine cloth; some scuffing and bumping at spine ends and board corners. Muted blue top edge; deckle fore-edge. Slight toning at gutters of yellow endpapers; author's eight-line ink inscription "June 3, 1940 | To | My dear friend | Ed Kuykendall | with best wishes | From | Maxine Rickard | Mrs. Tex Rickard" on front free endpaper which also has some red soiling at center right. Shallow chip at bottom fore-edge corner of Contents leaf with missing paper patch attached at preceding leaf's bottom corner; top corner of pages 37-38 creased; a few scattered spots of soiling to interior leaves. Binding is firm. Still a very good copy of a quite uncommon book. An embellished account of the life of Klondike and Alaska gold rush participant, hotel and saloon operator, Madison Square Garden developer, and legendary boxing promoter Tex Rickard by his third wife (and widow) Maxine Elliott Hodges Rickard.…

Slightly idealised account of the life of the great boxing promotor Tex Rickard by his second wife Maxine, who he married in 1926. Tex Rickard died in 1929. First edition. 8vo. 311pp. Original cloth boards, lightly rubbed. A good copy.

Slightly idealised account of the life of the great boxing promotor Tex Rickard by his second wife Maxine, who he married in 1926. Tex Rickard died in 1929. First UK edition. 8vo. 311pp. Dustwrapper, rubbed to edges. A good copy in a rare dustwrapper.