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[BOXING] ALI, Muhammad.

The Greatest: My Own Story.

The Greatest: My Own Story.

Stock Code 119018

New York, Random House, 1975.

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'you work me to death'

An exceptional association copy, inscribed by Muhammad Ali to his editor Selma Shapiro on the front free endpaper: 'To Selma / from / your Boy / Muhammad Ali / You work me to death / May 11 -75 / Time 1:39'. Ali's use of the term 'boy' while addressing a white Jewish woman in 1975 is as witty as it is poignant.

First edition, first printing, inscribed by the author to his editor; 8vo; ex libris of James Silberman and Selma Shapiro loosely inserted; publisher's black cloth backed boards, titles to spine gilt and red; a fine copy in the original unclipped dustjacket with slight fading to spine panel.

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