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GRIFFO: HIS LIFE STORY AND RECORD

GRIFFO: HIS LIFE STORY AND RECORD

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Potted biography and fight record of Albert 'Young Griffo' Griffiths, World featherweight boxing champion from Australia.

Paperback, 1st edition. small booklet. 32pp. photos and adverts. Large section cut from pp. 29/30, with some text missing (about one third of the page - including some statistical notes about Griffo on page 29. Page 30 is just adverts). In the original rubbed pictorial wraps, spine splitting but holding. Good condition copy of this scarce title.

Date
n.d. [c. 1926]
Publisher
Sydney: Fine Art Publishers
Author
Jack READ

£110.00 (Code: 96305)

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