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The World's Work, 1955. Hardcover. Good. 1955. First Edition. 158 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Clean pages with mild tanning throughout. Tightly bound. Droplets present. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing. Mild tanning to spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Moderate water stains to boards. Boards are notably warped.

Kingswood, Surrey, UK: The World's Work. Very Good- in Fair dust jacket. 1955. 1st UK Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. In overall a very clean red cloth with clear black titles to spine, a dark stain near the inner side of the top of the spine - fairly negligible - all titling deep and clear. In the original un-clipped publisher's dust-jacket which has a dark stain to the top of the spine, a chunk torn away from the edge of the spine and now lacking the title on the front cover o/w the rest of the d/j is present and is now in a new protective clear - removable - bookfilm plastic cover and looks much better. See Images. The page fore-edges have some light toning and pale spotting (foxing) with age, but are generally clean. Internally excellent with NO Inscriptions or Marks. 158 pp. Plain end-papers, with very slight offsetting. 8 b/w photo Illustrations of Rocky Marciano in action in the Ring against various opponents. Overall a near VG Plus copy, just down-graded due to the… Read More

Kingswood, UK: The World's Work. Bound in clean red cloth with clear black titles to spine, this dated 1955 hardcover First Edition is VG in VG dustjacket(unclipped). 158pp with 17 Chapters and 8 B/W photos of Ring action. Minor chip to wrapper at top of spine, otherwise all VG . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1955.

Kingswood: The World's Work Ltd. , 1955 . First edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 7.5" by 5". None. A scarce, first UK edition of this biographical work on the undefeated world heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano, written by Wilfrid Diamond. First edition.Bound in the publisher's original cloth, with the original, unclipped dust wrapper. 'The Guy Marciano' tells the story of Rocco Francis Marchegiano, an American professional boxer who fought under the name Rocky Marciano. Rocky competed between the years 1947 and 1955, holding the world heavyweight championship from 1952 to 1956. To this day, Marciano remains the only heavyweight champion to end his career while still being undefeated. Written by Wilfrid Diamond, known for his works surrounding the field of boxing.Illustrated with eight photographs taken during Marciano's various boxing matches. Collated, complete. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original, unclipped dust wrapper. Dust wrapper has been taped to the paste downs.… Read More

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