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1990rif. 167454N.p.: N.p. 1990. Vintage photograph of Italian-American champion boxer Jake LaMotta taken in 1943 and struck circa 1990s showing LaMotta knocking Sugar Ray Robinson through the ropes during one of their famed fights on February 5 1943. INSCRIBED by LaMotta on the upper right corner: "to Joe / Jake LaMotta / Raging Bull." LaMotta's 1970 memoir served as the basis for Martin Scorsese's award-winning 1980 film "Raging Bull" starring Robert De Niro as LaMotta. LaMotta held the middleweight title from 1949 to 1951 and was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990. 10 x 8 inches. Fine. N.p. unknown books
1981rif. 162968New York: United Press International 1981. Vintage press photograph of "The Showdown" the professional boxing match between Sugar Ray Leonard and Thomas Hearns on September 16 1981. Printed mimeo snipe and United Press International stamp on the verso. Leonard would emerge the world welterweight champion after 14 rounds. The duo would meet again in a rematch eight years later on June 12 1989. From the archive of the PIX Agency an American photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers as well as those still living in Europe and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969. 8 x 10 inches. About Near Fine. United Press International unknown books
1997rif. 202480New York: Powerhouse Books 1997. First edition. Hardcover. One of only 100 specially bound copies. Features an introduction by Andy Grundberg along with an essay by Bert Randolph Sugar. A gritty and intimate collection of black and white photograph of boxers and their environs. Includes 51 duotone illustrations. A fine copy in a fine slipcase. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by Fink on the half title page. Laid in is a silver gelatin print that is signed and numbered by Fink on the verso. One of Fink's best books. Powerhouse Books unknown books
1994rif. 116824Wien - Budapest: Galerie Knoll 1994. First edition. Softcover. Text in English German and Hungarian. Includes numerous color illustrations along with essays by Eva Schmidt and P. Lekov. A clean near fine copy in wrappers. Uncommon with only 1 copy listed in OCLC. Galerie Knoll unknown books
1983rif. 203821983. Caribbean Film About Slavery Sugar Cane Alley Original Vintage Poster. 1983. Measures 27" x 40". Poster image features a young Martinican man on a fading-red backdrop. A group of people dancing are at the top leading a sugar cane bundle cart being pulled by a horse. Also featured are the films title and original French title "Rue Cases Negres". Production credits an "Orion Pictures" logo and the PG rating are all listed below as well. The film depicts the life of a young black boy in the Martinique in the '30s and gives an impressionist view of life in the French colony and of the uneasy coexistence between the two worlds of the descendants of slaves kept in a de facto economic slavery and of the békés whites. It was written and directed by Euzhan Palcy a French-Martinican woman whose films are known to explore themes of race gender and politics with an emphasis on the perpetuated effects of colonialism. She is the first black director to win a César Award and the Venice Film Festival's Silver Lion both for Sugar Cane Alley. Rolled and in very good condition. unknown books
1986rif. 564094Bridgeport Connecticut: Klein Memorial Auditorium 1986. Hardcover. Good. Poster. Measuring approximately 24½" x 32". Printed in black and red on coated card stock. Poster is worn and foxed with staple holes and a few small holes and tears mostly confined to the margins and a slight ripple along the right edge sound but good only. Klein Memorial Auditorium hardcover books
1951rif. 401910No place: Regent Theatre 1951. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Broadside. Printed on blue and red on cardstock. Measuring 14" x 10.5". Two small nail holes from posting very faint dampstains in the margins and light overall age-toning very good. A poster for a triple feature film showing. The boxing film The Fight Never Ends was released in 1949. Lucky Ghost a comedic short featuring the much underrated black comic Mantan Moreland was released in 1942 as Lady Luck but later re-titled and re-released. The "Extra" Turpin vs. Sugar Ray Robinson reel refers to the rematch of the Welterweight Championship bout. In July of 1951 English boxer Randy Turpin surprised Sugar Ray Robinson with only his second defeat winning the World Welterweight title; Robinson won the title back two months later in the return match. This showing of the film was about two weeks after the rematch. Regent Theatre hardcover books
1900rif. 83787Philadelphia: W.J. McCahan Sugar Refining Co 1900. Hardcover. Very Good. Small approximately 4.75" x 2.5" staple-bound day calendar with celluloid covers advertising the W.J. McCahan Sugar Refining Company and picturing their Philadelphia buildings on the rear cover. Neat owner name on the first page a couple of light penciled notes in the calendar and a couple of smudges on the cover else very good plus. W.J. McCahan Sugar Refining Co hardcover books
1990rif. 51575St. Martin's Press 1990. Unbound. Fine. Publicity piece for the book. with examples of facts from the book on about a half dozen cards. Fine in original plastic wrap with gum included. St. Martin's Press unknown books
1889rif. 30671San Francisco: Commercial Publishing Company 31 California St. 1889. 73 1 blank pp. Original printed front wrapper with wrapper title as issued disbound. A clean text signed in ink on the last text page and on the front wrapper by Mitchell. Except as noted Very Good offered with . ARGUMENT OF WM. M. PIERSON FOR PLAINTIFF. San Francisco: Commercial Publishing Co. 1889. 154pp original printed front wrapper with wrapper title as issued. Disbound. Else Very Good. Two arguments for the State of California claim that this large refinery company "had surrendered the management of its concern and the control of its business to a body of men known as 'The Sugar Refineries Company' an unincorporated association of non-resident individuals formed and operated for the purpose of limiting the supply and thus advancing the price of sugar and therefore an unlawful combination and monopoly acting in restraint of trade." Over the next thirty years the Company would be charged with many antitrust violations. We do not locate records of these items in Cowan Harv. Law Cat. or on OCLC as of December 2024. Commercial Publishing Company, 31 California St. unknown books
1824rif. 18594London: Hatchard and Sons 1824. Disbound 41pp. First and last leaves lightly dusted and worn else Very Good. The author argues that "notwithstanding the preferential duty rate of 10s. per hundredweight enjoyed by West Indian sugar as against East Indian the latter could be entered for internal consumption so as to afford a large profit to importers. It would be a most advantageous speculation for young men of good character and with small capital native or European to embark in the manufacture of sugar in Bengal." Ragatz. FIRST EDITION. Ragatz 249. Hatchard and Sons unknown books
1990rif. 52755Bloomington And Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1990. Cloth. 0253355788 . An edition in Very Good condition with sunning to the mildly soiled board edges a lengthy inscription on the front free endpaper and a previous owner's embossed stamp on the front free endpaper in an alike dust-jacket that is scuffed and worn from the shelf; Peter F. Sugar's A History of Hungary is an authoritative and highly readable account of one of the most important and influential countries in Central and Eastern Europe. From the first settlements in the Carpathian Basin in the 9th century to the present this comprehensive well-illustrated volume provides an exhaustive overview of the history culture and politics of Hungary.; 8vo ; 432 pages; TBC . Indiana University Press hardcover books
1910rif. 814351910. Paperback. Very Good. Pagination varies in the six separate pamphlets. 23 cm. Relatively minor wear. The earliest report is titled: A Statement in Regard to the American Sugar Refining Company and may not be strictly speaking an annual report to shareholders. paperback books
1971rif. 70837Quezon City 1971. Paperback. Good. index xii 327p. Yellow wrapper. 28cm. Backstrip worn on ends and has a stain in middle. Text printed on one side. paperback books
1731rif. 46721London. 1731. Limiting Sugar Trade with the French and Dutch A protest against a Bill to restrain the northern colonies from trading with the French and Dutch sugar islands. One of five editions published all rather scarce. Only four copies of this edition noted by ESTC - at the National Archives New-York Historical Society University of Michigan and the University of Minnesota. European Americana also notes Yale and JCB. Folded folio sheet. Vertical fold reinforced with tissue. Minor soiling. Very good. ESTC N15514. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 731/37. unknown books
rif. 38827TRADE PROMOTION CALIFORNIA WHITE AND SUGAR PINE MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION. LUMBER DATA. San Francisco: 1925. 4to. Stiff printed file folder. 12 loose sheets many folding numbered 1-11 and 13. Rare set of information sheets on a variety of topics related to the White and Surar Pine industry. While OCLC records several items from this group none are like this set of files. At the top of the file is the instruction to the dealer "put this filing folder in your information files" clearly a set of information sheets for the manufacturers use. Each sheet is from one to eight pages with diagrams and photographs and the topics range from descriptions of White and Surar Pines to doors siding sashes and frames interior trim and moldings factory lumber lath etc. With loosely laid-in cover letter enclosed. Very good. unknown books
1980rif. 41175Berkeley: Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute 1980. 146p. paperback; b& w photos. in very good condition. Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute unknown books
1978rif. 175810IL: Contemporary Books 1978. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very good or better in a Very good plus dust jacket. Book and dust jacket lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners tear on dust jacket at upper front corner dust jacket lightly worn. Contemporary Books hardcover books
1999rif. 150761New York: Warner 1999. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Very good in very good dust jacket. Pages clean. Edges of purple cover lightly faded. Spine ends lightly bumped. Nicks on dust jacket spine ends. Warner hardcover books
1977rif. 147817NY/Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill 1977. Softcover. Very Good. Second edition. 3rd. Very good in wrappers. Book has rub of spine yellowing cover yellowing pages foxing foredges. Bobbs-Merrill unknown books
rif. 71027Photograph. Good. Large format photograph 9 1/2 inches wide x 7 1/2 inches tall with a tan border and gray mount 12 1/4 inches wide x 9 7/8 inches tall. No backstamp. "Residence of F. A. Timby. Salt Lake City Utah. 2157 Grand Ave" in pen on front of mount. Corners worn one with small loss. Moisture staining to several areas of mount. Small stain to surface of image near the center. Photographer unknown. We have not seen this photograph before. A large format photograph of this historic house located in the Sugar House neighborhood of Salt Lake City Utah. Frank Arthur Timby 1863-1927 was president of F. A. Timby General Insurance Company. He is buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery Salt Lake City Salt Lake Utah. unknown books
2008rif. 1072348vo hardcover dust jacket illustrated 327 pp. Slight mark on dust jacket otherwise in excellent condition. Boxing from one of its masters with some help from Burt Sugar. McGraw-Hill, books
2008rif. 1072358vo hardcover dust jacket illustrated 327 pp. Slight mark on dust jacket otherwise in excellent condition. Boxing from one of its masters with some help from Burt Sugar. McGraw-Hill, books
2003rif. 107231Tall 8vo paperback illustrated 289 pp. Slight wear a small thin cut to bac k cover not significant normal aging; otherwise a really nice copy. Burt Sugar was one of boxings' most colorful writers. A tue expert of the sport and always capable of giving a great analysis of a fight. Lyons Press books
1987rif. 158744New York: NAL 1987. Softcover. Very Good. Uncorrected. Proof. Very good in wrappers. Name on title page. Cove rubbed with smudge marks light wear. NAL unknown books
