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SACKLER, Howard (1929–1982). The Great White Hope. New York: The Dial Press, 1968.
8vo. Original black cloth; original unclipped dust jacket (spine torn near head with loss, light surface wear to extremes, front panel creased).
FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY SACKLER to the American writer Bernard Wolfe and his wife, American actress Dolores Michaels. Based on the career of the heavyweight champion boxer Jack Johnson and “the wages of Black success and individualism” (from the front flap).