Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including Selections from the Collection of Barbara and Ira Lipman
Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including Selections from the Collection of Barbara and Ira Lipman
The Passion of American Collectors: Property of Barbara and Ira Lipman
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December 16, 09:12 PM GMT
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The Passion of American Collectors: Property of Barbara and Ira Lipman
FOOTBALL AND BOXING
3 books by and about Knute Rockne, and a print of the Dempsey-Tunney championship
Knute Rockne. The Four Winners: the Head, the Hands, the Foot, the Ball. New York: Deven-Adair, (1925). Frontispiece. Publisher's pictorial orange cloth. Signed by Rockne on the front free endpaper. First edition. — The Autobiography of Knute K. Rockne. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1931). Frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth. First edition. — Harry A. Stuhldreher. Knute Rockne All American. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (ca. 1940). Publisher's blue cloth, pictorial dust-jacket. — A framed reproduction of a painting by Gustav Rehberger of the Jack Dempsey-Gene Tunney "Long Count" heavyweight championship fight held at Soldier Field, Chicago, 22 September 1927, signed in the lower margin by Tunney and Dempsey. No. 1089 of 1500 copies.
Together 3 volumes, 8vo, and a framed print (420 x 513 mm). Some rubbing and fading to books; Stuhldreher very browned, jacket chipped.