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Book is in excellent condition, as new. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket is as new also, now wrapped in clear protective cover. 244 pages with many large b&w photos.
Features: Lapidary 1982; Minerals 1982; Lapidary Forecast; Fluorescent Breakthrough; Kachinas - The Indian Saints; Field Trip - Arizona's Saddle Mountain; The 'Golden Meteorite' Nugget; Carve a Chalcedony Rose; Where to Write for Everything; Boxing it in. Average wear. Sound copy. Date stamped upon front cover. Magazine
16 pages. Features: Eddie Thomas cover photo; "Is Board's Power of Control Waning?"; Charlie Tucker photo; "Tot" Glanville photo; Photos of L. Radley of Oxford House Boxing Club; Photo of Charlie Collett, the Hemel Hempstead heavyweight; Photos of Charlie Solinas and Max Brady of Lurgan; Pritchard's Pile-Driver Stopped Jem Smith - article with photos of Jem Smith and Peter Jackson; Photos of Lavern Roach and Chris Jenkins, the Stourbridge lightweight; Photos of Eddie Thomas, Henry Hall and C.S.M. Inst. J. Ryan (Army Champion; Photo of Bos Murphy fighting Vince Hawkins; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
Book is in excellent condition, with small mark at spine, also upper leather portion of front cover. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Book is protected in clear plastic jacket . #1613 of 1950 copies printed for the Imprint Society, signed by the illustrator. Selections from a 2-vol. work originally published in 1826; authorship attributed to Jonathan Badcock or to Pierce Egan. Foreword by George Plimpton. Signed by Randy Jones (the illustrator) on the page following p. 136. Hardcover, 7 x 10.25 inches, in half-bound in brown leather over light brown paper-covered board with dark brown decorative stripe pattern. Speckled page ends. An etching by the illustrator is laid in. Black and white illustrations. 136 pages. Contents include: Cursory remarks on the origin, rise and progress of pugilism in england, Memoirs of the life of Thomas Cribb with additional anecdotes of female pugilism, Life of Thomas Hickman (An altercation between two ladies, the brutality of the American mode of fighting, Memoirs of Tom shelton (cruel amusements of the Westminster Pit, bull baiting,) Memoirs of Jack Slack (badger baiting, animal combat,) Memoirs of Joshua Hudson, etc.
LEGATURA IN BROSSURA EDITORIALE ILLUSTRATA FIRMATA, FREGI E ILLUSTRAZIONI DI P. GUARINI numero pagine: 125 formato: 21.8X15.8 stato conservazione: DISCRETO, COPERTINA CON TAGLI E PICCOLE MANCANZE AI MARGINI
Book is in excellent condition, as new. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket is as-new also. " A soap opera of financial intrique and chicanery, Shelby's Folly chronicles how Big Sky ambition and the scheming mind of Doc Kearns collided to produce one of the most preposterous series of events in boxing history."
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Light wear and small tears on dust jacket. Maroon leatherette cover. 9 1/4"w x 11 1/4"h. 256 pages. "'Unlike other celebrities who can do as they damn please, the heavyweight champion up to now has had certain moral responsibilities, more like a spiritual leader." [Wilfred Sheed]. Many photographs by Neil Leifer and other photojournalists tracking Ali throughout his career.
96 pages. Features: Suburbia's gift to the cities; Tamerlane of the Performing Arts; What is Education? Who is Educated?; Patriotism of the Scots; Modern America Makes a Breakthrough; Fashions in Fashion Photography; Noise; Duane Hanson's Down-Home Folks; Squash, paddle, and racquetball in the city; Germany's new wave of young film makers; Growing up cynically with TV; and more. Average wear. Address label remnant upon front cover. Magazine
8°, TELA EDITORIALE CON TITOLO IN ARGENTO AL PIATTO ANT. E AL DORSO, SOVR. CON FOTO B.N., PG. (2) IX (1) 351 (5), NUMEROSE FOTO B.N. N.T., FOREWORD JACK DEMPSEY. FIRST EDITION. (MAG)
(Codice SP/0657) Octavo (235 mm) 370 pages. Hardcover, Original blue cloth, black titles, no dust jacket, MINT. ~~~ SPEDIZIONE IN ITALIA SEMPRE TRACCIATA
Book is in excellent condition in chocolate heavy cloth covers, gilt print on cover and spine. No flaws, beautiful shape. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows small edge tears, one open at top cover, now wrapped in clear protective cover. 188 pages. Nice quotes and b&w photos throughout. Nice shot of author inside back cover also.
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very minor bumping to spine ends and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with light creasing to upper and lower edges. 304pp. Biography of the 'Little Wonder', as he became known, Tom Sayers, who held the title of Heavyweight Champion of England for three years in the mid-1850s.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full black cloth boards. 396 pages. Black and white illustrations and photos.
88 pages. Features: How I'll Beat Marvin Hagler, by Roberto Duran; How I'll Beat Roberto Duran, by Marvin Hagler; Sugar Ray Leonard on Duran, Hagler, Hearns and more; Boxing's Scandal - The Mysterious Case of Panama Lewis and the Cut Gloves; James Garza - the new west coast sensation; Anatomy of a non-fight - Michael Spinks vs. Eddie Mustafa Muhammad - what really happened?; Ringside Reports; Colour photos of Sugar Ray Leonard, Tommy Hearns and Roberto Duran; Budweiser International Rankings; Kronk Boxing Team; Gotch Against Jack Johnson - the dream match that almost was; Carl 'Bobo' Olson. Bit of writing in marker atop front cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
8vo., First Edition thus, with illustrations by Sidney Paget in the text; original publisher's binding of pictorial blue cloth, upper boards and backstrips blocked and lettered in gilt and black, red sprinkled edges, primrose endpapers, neatly recased, backstrip faded else a good, clean copy. First appearance of Doyle's boxing tale, present here in the original three instalments with a total of sixteen illustrations (2 full-page) by Paget. The story was never published individually in book form in the UK, but was included in The Green Flag (1900), and published individually in the US and Canada in 1907 (Green & Gibson A31). SCARCE. Green & Gibson, pp.119, 145.
Paris, s.d. (1910 c.a), 8vo brossura originale illustrata, pp. 119 con 40 fig. nel testo Raro.
66 pages. Features: 55th Boxing Writers' Association Dinner - article with photo of Sugar Ray and Lew Eskin; On the Fistic Scene; Pushing Leather; Meet Hilmer Kenty - The Unassuming Champion; Forgotten Champion - "The Georgia Deacon" Theo Flowers earned the nickname "Tiger' Flowers; Jeff Chandler - a no-nonsense talent with a BIG appetite; W.B.C. Ratings; Boxing Illustrated ratings; New York's Gyms - A Dying Breed; LeConte Focuses on New York; 'Captain' Don Myers; Harry Keck and Harry Greb; Leo Randolph - third member of '76 Olymians to gain crown; World Boxing Hall of Fame; International News; Many hilarious sleazy ads at back. Above-average external wear and soiling. A worthy reading copy. Book
Features: 10 Top Contenders in Boxing; They Fight For Glory in the Golden Gloves; '52's New Champs; Best Fights in Photos; The Worst Brawls I Ever Refereed; Complete All-Time Records; Can Jersey Joe Walcott do it again?; Randy Turpin is the Best Bet Since Sugar Ray; The New Mr. Moore (Archie); (Jack) Johnson didn't Dump it!; Third Man... And Out! - Peter Mueller kayoed wrong man (the referee); Remember Lew Jenkins; Remember Buddy Baer; and more. Moisture exposure. Somewhat above-average wear. Book
Features: Boys will be - Men, a boxing story by Jonathan Brooks; Lost from the Fleet, a seal hunting adventure by George Allan England - II; Use What You Have by Margaret Warde; The Adventures of William Tucker - X, by George Halsey Gillham; What Was He Like at Work? - 6 - Woodrow Wilson; Four Ways with a Filet Crochet Pattern; A Scientific Way to Construct Model Sailboats; From Girl to Girl - fifty years of college; and more. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
34 pages. Features: The Comfortable Pew, by Pierre Berton; Carol Morley - Canadian girl from London is a zany, zesty star in a top New York Revue - and now she wants to tackle Broadway; Name Droppers comic strip; How Canada's Flag Was Born, by Robert McKeown; Greased pig event at the University of Alberta's first rodeo - article with colour photos of animated young ladies; George Chuvalo Could Beat Floyd Patterson - photo-illustrated boxing article by Andy O'Brien; Port Moody B. C.'s Thunderbird Fast Draw Club - article and colour photos of the folks who love to shoot fast; Nipper - Doug Wright comic strip. Various tears. Considerable damage to covers. Book
66 pages. Features: At Ringside; California Grapevine; Sound Off; World-Wide Ratings; Muhammad Ali learns Richard Dunn is not just another British Heavyweight; Sam Langford - Heroic and Tragic Figure; Art Hafey - Next Featherweight Champ?; Roberto Duran and his Killer Instinct; Big George Foreman in the Heavyweight Picture Again; Winners and Losers - Foreman and Joe Frazier after Frazier was demolished; Oscar Bonavena; Vicente Saldivar; International Wrapup; and more. Unmarked with above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Milano, presso Batelli e Fanfani, Tipografi, Calcografi, Editori e Negozianti di Stampe, 1819, in-8, mz. pelle coeva con titolo e fregi oro, impressioni a secco al dorso, piatti in carta marmorizzata, pp. 206, (2). Con 2 tavole inc. da Rados su disegno di Sergent Marceau: una tavolata di avventori alticci, ed un incontro di pugilato a mani nude; scene che D. scrittore e traduttore, vivendo in Inghilterra per 25 anni, ebbe occasione di descrivere dal vero (v. il capitolo senza titolo dedicato alle meretrici).
8vo.. First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and 23 plates on 22, page edges very slightly browning; original orange cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a remarkably bright, clean copy. A boxing and pugilism classic by the boxing correspondent of the 'Daily Herald' newspaper. Very scarce, especially in this condition.
244p., illus. Signed by the subject, Archie Moore. Hardcover Very good condition very good d.j. good Signed by Archie Moore.
A clean, unmarked copy. 111 pages. Many black and white photos.