Carpentier, Georges

Ma vie de boxeur. Avant-propos de Victor Breyer. Ornamentations de H.-L. Roowy

Amiens: Roger Leveillard, 1921. First edition, 8vo, pp. [2], v-ix, [3], 233, [3]; frontispiece portrait, 9 plates, illustrations in the text; text toned, several marginal tears, but in all a very good copy in original card wrappers and pictorial dust jacket. Georges Carpentier (1894-1975) was a French boxer, actor, and World War I pilot. He fought mainly as a light heavyweight and heavyweight in a career lasting from 1908 to 1926. He was the world light-heavyweight champion (1920–22) and a European champion at four different weight classes. Among his bouts were those with Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey. Item #63470

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