BUDD SCHULBERG'S ACCOUNT OF THE FAMOUS 1971 ALI-FRAZIER FIGHT, INSCRIBED BY BOTH SCHULBERG AND ALI
SCHULBERG, Budd. Loser and Still Champion: Muhammad Ali. Garden City: Doubleday, 1972. Original red cloth, original dust jacket. $1500.
First edition, inscribed on the half title by both Schulberg ("To George—who lives up to that mighty send-off gift Eric gave you. All best, Budd Schulberg") and Ali ("To George from Muhammad Ali. Pearl 1972").
Author of On the Waterfront, respected journalist, and a lifelong boxing enthusiast, Schulberg travelled with Ali at the time of the famous Ali-Frazier match in which Frazier defeated Ali in fifteen rounds.
Dust jacket with wear and light soiling. A very goody copy.