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The Harder They Fall.

Stock Code 112561

New York, Random House, 1947

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Presentation copy. First edition of the author's second book, with his signed presentation inscription in blue ink to the front free endpaper, 'For Cas Adams, / with warm recollections / of the talks we had about the / fight business - and some / very congenial pub crawling. / all the best, / Budd. / July 17, 1947.'

The recipient, Cas Adams, was the boxing specialist for the New York Herald Tribune until 1943, when he became the publicist for King Features Syndicate (Variety, June 2 1943).

First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author; 8vo; minor offsetting to endpapers, else unmarked internally; publisher's black cloth, titles to spine in red and blue, red topstain bright, cloth a little marked, with the unclipped pictorial dust-jacket by Louis Glanzman, mild toning, light creasing and rubbing to extremities, else very good.

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Provenance: Cas Adams (author's presentation inscription).

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The Harder They Fall.

SCHULBERG, Budd.

Stock code: 112561

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