[8], 259 pp. With 16 plates from photographs & from drawings by Edwin William Krauter. 7¾x5¾, original red cloth lettered in gilt. First Edition.

Signed and inscribed by Johnson on the front free endpaper, "Jack Johnson, Former Champion, to Dirk Gabriel, with good luck." Autobiography of one of the great early African American heavyweight boxing champions, whose comportment outside of the ring brought him as much notoriety and fame as his actions inside it.