Pep Willie (24 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. This is a Near Fine copy of the first edition in a Near Fine dust jacket. NOT price clipped. A bit of white showing at the top edges. It is inscribed by the author: " To Milty Silverman & son With Best Wishes O.K. Willie Pep" On the front endpaper. T…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. (NAP). Cloth-covered boards, in dustjacket. A nice copy, with strong binding and good hinges. No marks. Some wear to the cloth at the edges. Light toning to pages and endpapers. Discoloration back endpapers. Very slight spine lean. Unclipped dustjacket is in ver…

Original black cloth Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. 1st Ed. 1973. xi, 195pp. B&W images. "This is a book about some ghetto kids of the 1930's and 1940's who became famous because they eventually learned how to fight better than most anyone else.Friday's Heroes is also about a young man from th…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. SIGNED & INSCRIBED by authors Willie Pep and Robert Sacchi. First edition (no additional printings listed). Original black cloth, approximately 5 ¾ x 8 3/8 inches, xi +195 pp + plates (black and white photographs). Hardcover, very good in dustjacket. Dustjacket scuffed and rubbed, two ¾ inch tear…

Condition: Good. 1973. First Edition. 195 pages. Signed by the author. Black pictorial dust jacket over black cloth. Front endpaper has been signed by the Author and dedicated. Pages are moderately tanned at the edges, with notable foxing. Occasional thumb marks to pages edges. Binding has remained firm. Boards have slight shelf…

Later paperback edition of the 1973 classic recounting how kids from some of America's toughest ghettos of the 1930s and 40s became the celebrated boxers who featured in the Friday Fight Nights of the 1950s, evoked by one of their number - the World Featherweight Champion from 1942 to 1951. 8vo. 183pp. Paperback. Very good condi…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo.pp. 196. Signed by both authors on the front end paper:" Best wishes Willie Pep" and "Good luck, Robert Sacchi." Original publisher's cloth binding in dark brown, lettered gilt at spine. Dust jacket in dark brown and ivory, lettered red and ivory. Frontis…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Friday's Heroes Inc., New York, 1973. 195 pages. First edition, first printing. Signed by arguably the best pound for pound boxer of all time, Willie Pep, a 2-time Featherweight Champion between 1942-1950, and voted as the No. 1 featherweight of the…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if slightly edge-rubbed & dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 195 pages; Description: xi, 195 p. Illus. 22 cm. Subjects: Pep, Willie. Boxing. Impressively illustrated with a series of photo-pla…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if slightly edge-rubbed & dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 195 pages; Description: xi, 195 p. Illus. 22 cm. Subjects: Pep, Willie. Boxing. Impressively illustrated with a series of photo-pla…

American work on the ghetto kids from the streets of New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and Dertroit who became part of an era of the Friday Night Fights of the 1950s. The best of them was Willie Pep, from the Italian section of Hartford, Connecticut, who was world Featherweight champ from 1942 to 1951. Also in the group was Chico…

BLACK CLOTH. Condition: VERY GOOD+++. Dust Jacket Condition: GOOD. ASSUMED FIRST EDITION. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY PEP ON FRONT END PAGE. THE BACK END PAGE HAS THE SIGNATURES OF BOXERS JERSEY JOE WOLCOT, BILLY GRAHAM AND WHAT MAY BE RUBY ?????? HARD TO DISCERN LAST NAME. DUST JACKEL HAS WEAR AND TEAR, BUT DESPITE FLAWS A NICE LOO…