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Auction #133 begins on 20 Aug 2026

Singh (Benny)

MY CHAMPIONS WERE DARK

Published: Pennant Publishing, Durban, 1963

Reserve: $65

Approximately:

Estimate: $85-110

Bidding opens: 20 Aug 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 27 Aug 16:30 GMT

Ships from: South Africa

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xx + 199pp. Hardcover binding with black lettering to spine and front board. With several monochrome plates, collated and complete. Condition: Good. Sunning to spine and less so to small sections of the boards, slight shelfwear to top of spine. Light browning to endpapers and pastedowns. Slight foxing to some of the pages and to edges of textblock. Text and plates still clean, well bound.

 

An overview of the world of non-white boxing during the Apartheid years of South Africa, written by Benny Singh, the ‘father of African boxing’.

 

Durban: Pennant Publishing, 1963

 

Size: 8vo (21 x 13,2cm)

 

  • Overall Condition: Good
  • Size: 8vo


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