JACK DEMPSEY’S THIRD AUTOBIOGRAPHY, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY HIM
DEMPSEY, Jack, with DEMPSEY, Barbara Piattelli. Dempsey. New York: Harper & Row, (1977). Octavo, original half orange cloth, original dust jacket.
First edition of the Manassa Mauler’s third autobiography, inscribed and signed by Dempsey, "To my friend Joan, lots of love, Jack Dempsey."
"Jack Dempsey remembers what it was like—what America was like—in those roaring days when he was king of the hill." Dempsey's third autobiography, written with his step-daughter, contains 24 pages of photographs depicting the heavyweight champion's life inside and outside the ring. Following a record-breaking boxing career (64-6-9, with 49 knockouts) that ended with the notorious "Battle of the Long Count," Jack Dempsey opened a successful restaurant on Broadway between 49th and 50th, at whose cloth-covered tables celebrities gathered and tourists ogled.
Lettering on dust jacket spine a touch faded. A fine inscribed copy.