Give Him to the Angels The Story of Harry Greb
New York: Smith and Durrell, (1946). First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 8vo. Pp. viii, 184. Frontis. photo portrait. Bound in yellow cloth with brown lettering stamped on the front board and spine. Edges of leaves a tad age-toned. In the price-clipped dust jacket that shows slight edge-wear, mostly to head and tail of spine. Gift inscription on the front free endpaper to Seattle author, philanthropist and civic leader Stimson Bullitt. Very Good / Very Good. Item #7330 The 1969 inscription honors Stimson Bullitt on his 50th birthday. A short note card is laid in. Born to one of Seattle's most prominent families, and raised in great comfort, as a young man Bullitt sought a life of hard Depression-Era experience by traveling by boxcar to and from Yale University, (and one year riding a motorcycle coast-to-coast), seeing Ledbelly in the Village, and amateur boxing during his college years and perhaps into his South Seas service during WWII. Dust jacket is now housed in a clear, removable archival protector.
Biography of the Pittsburgh pounder who walloped Gene Tunney in a 1922 championship bout.
Price: $150.00