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warshawlawI am pleased to offer the revised and expanded second edition of my book "America's Great Boxing Cards", a price guide, encyclopedia and checklist of American boxing cards from 1886-1966.
The first edition of the book drew rave reviews. Boxing Collectors News said that it was a reference book boxing collectors had to have in their libraries. It sold out completely. Rather than reprinting the first edition in response to recent requests to obtain the book, I decided to issue the second edition a few months early so everyone could have the great accumulation of additional data on significant sets that I had obtained since I completed the first edition.
The second edition picks up where the first edition stopped, with all of the data that made the first edition so useful plus a ton of new research. I added many sets of vintage boxing cards to the listings, created a new section devoted to W (strip) cards, and created vastly expanded checklists of rare and significant sets like the N174 Old Judge cards. I added hundreds of images to the book, including photographs of nearly every N174 Old Judge and T226 Red Sun, and all N162 and T227 Series of Champions boxers. The Exhibit section has been refined with the addition of more information, checklists and photographs of significant prewar series like the Heavyweights series, the Dempsey-Tunney fight series, the Table Of Comparisons series, and some very rare Hollywood-related cards of boxers that were uncatalogued until now.
Active collectors will find this book is a necessity due to the price updates. There have been dramatic changes in the prices of vintage boxing cards since the first edition of the book, and I have included them all (almost). You will find vastly expanded pricing reflecting actual results of Ebay sales, auctions and private sales; literally hundreds of new, up to date prices. Want to know what boxing cards now routinely bring in excess of $1,000 each at auction? What set hasn't been seen in years for sale in any forum? Which partial set drew a record price in excess of $20,000 at auction? Buy this book and you will find out. And I never make up prices based on extrapolations from other card sales, like so many price "guides" out there. In my view, extrapolating prices not only distorts the pricing, it misleads the collector into believing that every card is available in every grade when in fact many cards are worth purchasing in any grade.
Despite adding over 10% more pages to the book and so much more information, I have held the line on pricing at $40 per copy plus $3.85 for priority mail shipping. I expect to ship the book by December 15, 2004, earlier if the printer finishes it earlier. If you preorder the book and prepay by November 28, 2004, I will throw in a CD with hundreds of pictures of rare boxing cards that I did not have space to include in the book itself.
Please email me for payment instructions.