Boxing bibliography and letters.-

Neville Weston (G.)

A large manuscript boxing bibliography, 253 pp., with supporting letters and ephemera pasted in, half morocco binding, gilt-lettered ‘Ledger’ to spine, c.1920s - 50s § A Boxing Bibliography, number 1 of 6 typed copies, also including: Supplement No.1 (1938); Boxiana and The Fancy (“details of my own collection”), numerous tipped or pasted in leaves, numerous handwritten notes including list of recipients, original cloth, worn, 1937 § Bibliography of Boxing: An Additional Chronological Check List…, number 1 of 3 typed copies, ‘spring folio’ binding, 1948; with a duplicate (no. 2 of 3) § Correspondence volume, accompanying the bibliographies, numerous tipped-in typed or ms correspondence with bibliographers and prominent boxing figures, including: R. I, Agnew; Walter Dexter; Henry Gadsby; Arthur Frederick Bettinson; original cloth, stained and lacking spine §

[with] A large scrap volume of newspaper and magazine cuttings relating to boxing, 193pp., from publications such as The New York Clipper, NY Times, Police Gazette, The Sun, etc., also with 6 postcards depicting Jack Johnson and James J. Jeffries pasted in, browned §

ms paper labels to covers, large 4to or folio (6)