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YOUNG CORBETT - WORLD'S WELTERWEIGHT CHAMPION 1933

YOUNG CORBETT - WORLD
YOUNG CORBETT - WORLD

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Souvenir magazine, published to celebrate Young Corbett III, real name Ralph Giordano, becoming the World's Welterweight Champion in 1933. Contains a good biography of Young Corbett by Billy Mahoney, many photographs and full career stats. Mahoney was an accomplished welterweight boxer from Fresno, Corbett's home town.

Paperback. 4to. 28pp. Illustrated card covers, lightly rubbed and the odd small crease. Internally very good. Signed to a portrait of himself on page 2 by Young Corbett III and by Mahoney, again to a portrait of himself, on page 1.

Date
1933
Publisher
Fresno: Mid Cal Publishers
Author
Billy MAHONEY

£120.00 (Code: 32524)

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