Pep Willie (23 results)

Condition: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

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. There is a touch of red showing on the inside of the dust jacket but does not show on the outside of the jacket. Willie Pep was a championship boxer of the 1940s and 50s . This is his memoir of his time. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Apparent First. ------------Black cloth, 8 1/4" tall. 195 pages, with frontispiece photo and with 2 sections of photos, many action photos.VERY GOOD CONDITION,tight solid binding and hinges, dull covers- - - dust jacket chipped and rubbed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Illustrated (illustrator). First Edition. Signed by Willie Pep, hardcover, dust jacket has some wear. We ship fast. By Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. B&W photos (illustrator). (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 very nice condition for its age, but shows toning and some small bits of wear and creasing.

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 the Italian section of Hartford, Connecticut, who went on to become 'One of the Greatest Fighters the World has ever Known.' His name was Willie Pep.". Dust jacket has light wear to edges and minor loss to top/bottom of spine. Closed tear to bottom of spine and bottom of front and rear panels; with light fading to spine; not price-clipped. Book has gilt titles to spine. Light wear to corners. Small spots to font edge (not actual foxing). Small stain to FFEP; otherwise, pages and contents are in excellent condition with no inscriptions.

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 tears and several lesser nicks and chips, a few of which are tape repaired, lower corner of front flap creased, price present. Book itself has faint mottling on cloth, probably from reacting with dustjacket, corners bumped with cardboard exposed there, otherwise tight, clean, paper crisp, unmarked; probably never really read. Boxing; autobiography; autograph (Shelved in sports section). ; 195 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardback book (195 pages) illustrated with vintage b/w photographs. With obituary laid in. Dust jacket shows scuffing/soiling with tears/chipping at top and bottom edge. Bookseller since 1995 (LL-Base2-BS-5-TS-L) rareviewbooks.

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st US Edition. 195pp. A touch of shelf-wear / rubbing to spine and corners of book. A price stamp in red on flyleaf. Jacket is chipped and rubbed with some light soiling to rear and minor loss tail of spine. A couple of closed tears repaired with sellotape on reverse.

Unbound. Condition: Fine. 8"x 10" B&W photo -- SIGNED by former boxer Willie Pep: "With Beat Wishes- Willie Pep". . SIGNED PHOTO.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Dust jacket has minor chipping at head and heel of spine and corners.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First Edition. INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY WILLIE PEP: "TO GENE D'ARNELL, BEST WISHES.". INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR.

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 wear with bumping to corners. Spine ends are a little crushed. Light wear to unclipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Worn DJ. First Edition. 195pp. Illus. Foreword by Joey Adams. Special materials coordinated by David Wilson. Gift inscription on front endpaper: 'To Jack Basilico, One of the Heroes.". Jack Basilico, a featherwieght, boxed professionally during the 1930's. Inscription signed by Vince Foy, 1974.

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 condition.

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. Frontispiece photograph of Willie Pep World Featherweight Champion 1942Ð1951. Black and white photographs illustrate the text. Very good in minus very good dust jacket. Slight rubbing and creasing. Dust jacket used, creased and nicked at edges. Signedes.

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 20th century by the Associated Press and ranked the No. 1 featherweight of all time by the International Boxing Research Organization. In addition to Willie Pep, the book is also signed by his friends and legendary fighters, including Hall of Famers Chico Vejar, 1946 World Lightweight Champ Tippy Larkin, World middleweight champion from 1963 to 1965, Joey Giardello, the legendary Charley Fusari, Featherweight phenom Freddie Russo, NJ Boxing legend Mike De Cosmo, Bantamweight from Paterson, Frankie Baumann, Former trainer to Buddy McGirt, Andrew Golota and Mustafa Hamsho, Al Certo; and last but not least, author Robert Sacchi, aka the Man with Bogart's Face, actor, writer, boxing enthusiast and pal of Willie Pep. As for the book, it is tight and clean. Binding and hinges are strong and sound. Black cloth panels are clean. A touch of shelf-rubbing on corner tips. A couple of small faint ink dots on page edges, which is understandable considering the book was signed by ten different people. Original DJ with $7.95 price intact on flap. DJ shows rubbing along the edges with a couple of tiny chips at crown and heel. A remarkable boxing title paying tribute to the "ghetto kids" who became boxing legends, but even better human beings. First edition, first printing; signed by ten. VG/VG. Rare. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition.

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-plates. 3 Kg.

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-plates. 1 Kg.

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 Vejar, Kid Gavilan, Joey Giardello, Billy Graham, Rocky Marciano, and Ezzard Charles. 8vo. 196pp. 32 pages of photographs. Dust-wrapper, short, closed tear to front panel otherwise very good. Presentation copy from Pep to the boxing reporter Sydney Hulls, signed and inscribed by Pep on the front endpaper. Also signed by Robert Sacchi.

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 LOOKING COPY. DUST JACKET IS IN A PROTECTIVE PLASTIC COVER. Size: OCTAVO.

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