Jeffries, James J. PHOTOCOPY of rare 1910 book – My Life and Battles’ published prior to his match with Jack Johnson. 8″ x 11″ paper bound with Accubind fabric along the spine. 64 pages including 15 p

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Jeffries, James J. PHOTOCOPY of rare 1910 book ‘My Life and Battles’ published prior to his match with Jack Johnson. 8″ x 11″ paper bound with Accubind fabric along the spine. 64 pages including 15 pages of photographs. Chapters as follows: Some Fighting the Jeffries Family Did Before My time, I Make a Good Start, My First Deer, In Which I Nearly Get Shot, An Adventure at Punta Oil Wells, I Happen to Become a Professional Fighter, Back In the Fighting Game, In Which I have the Chance of My Lifetime and Sieze It, I Meet Jim Corbett, My Life in Corbett’s Camp, The Eve of the Great Fight, I Fight Van Buskirk and Baker, How I Fought the Akron Giant, I Get the Hardest Punch I Ever Felt, I Knock Out the Famous Peter Jackson, Sharkey Gives Me a Good Fight, My First Trip East And a Disappointment, How Fitzsimmons Was Tricked Into Fighting Me, Training for the Championship Battle, Ready For the Fight, Telling For The First Time What Happened in the Dressing Room Before the Fight, I Become Champion of the World, Just After the Battle, My Adventures Abroad, Tom Sharkey Gives Me a Tough Twenty Five Rounds, I Meet the Greatest Boxer of Them All, I Fight Griffin and Kennedy, I Stop Ruhlin in Five Rounds, A Wild Hunting Trip Down the Colorado, I See Life Among the Savages, Chief Frank and I Get Some Great Hunting, Fitzsimmons Gets His Second Chance, After the Fight And One of Jack’s Adventures in the Desert, The Munroe Affair in Butte, My Training at Harbin Springs, My Second Fight with Jim Corbett, I Fight Munroe and Retire, How I Lived While Out of the Ring, The Johnson Match