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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.
1st edition. Hardback in dustjacket. Fine/Fine. ISBN 0241897351. 12952. eng
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."
br. Riuscito a scappare da una situazione terribile, con un padre che lo brutalizzava tra i campi di cotone dell'Arkansas, Sonny Liston fece in tempo a raggiungere sua madre a Saint Louis, a tredici anni, prima di finire nel penitenziario di Jefferson City. Capace di reagire al branco che voleva sottometterlo, fu notato dai cappellani della prigione che ne riconobbero l'immenso talento. Dopo aver sbaragliato il campo tra i dilettanti Liston portò a termine una delle più rapide e devastanti scalate al titolo mondiale dei pesi massimi, culminata nei due incontri fulminei con Floyd Patterson. Finito in mano alla mala che lo aveva tolto di galera e che controllava la boxe, fu costretto a eseguire gli ordini del boss Frankie Carbo fino alla fine dei suoi giorni, quando fu trovato senza vita a causa di un'iniezione di eroina pur avendo il terrore degli aghi. Considerato dai più grandi esperti ed interpreti della noble art, compresi George Foreman e Mike Tyson, il pugile più potente e spaventoso che sia mai salito sul ring, Liston deve gran parte della sua fama ai due incontri con Cassius Clay e Muhammad Ali. Sia il match mondiale di Miami, che la rivincita di Lewinston, sono avvolti dal "mistero", tanto che dopo cinquant'anni l'FBI ha deciso di riaprire il caso sul primo incontro, considerandolo truccato. Ed è proprio sulla prima sfida di Miami, nel 1964, che si raccoglie questo libro, dando per scontata la messinscena del secondo atto, quello del "pugno fantasma". Come ha potuto un campione del mondo in carica restare seduto sul suo sgabello dopo sei round, in una situazione di perfetta parità, per un improbabile dolore alla spalla? Non era forse dato favorito 7 contro 1 nei confronti di Clay? E la mafia dei Carbo, dei Palermo, dei Vitale, non spalmò forse decine di milioni di dollari puntando contro Liston?
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with slightly marked boards and a little bumping to corners. 416pp. A very comprehensive work covering sixty-five different sports from air records to wrestling. Statistics and results since the first events ever played in many sports. Illustrated in black & white photographs.
Book shows light shelf wear to covers only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book. 337 pages with b&w photos, essays by the above authors.
NAT FLEISCHER STORIA DEI PESI MASSIMI. , TRIS 1958-05-01, Sovracoperta un pò sporca e rovinata ai margi Buono (Good) . <br> <br> <br> 414<br>
Milano, Tris, 1958, 8vo tutta tela editoriale, pp. 413 con ill. n.t. e num. tav. f.t.
br. La vita, in fondo, non è che un succedersi di round: alcuni li perdiamo, altri li vinciamo. Altre volte finiamo al tappeto. È per questo che i pugili più amati non sono soltanto i campioni invincibili, i trionfatori, ma coloro che alternano momenti di gloria e di sconfitta, che lungo la strada lastricata di sacrifici cercano un riscatto da una vita di ingiustizie. I pugili sono i veri protagonisti dell'epopea della boxe, e le loro storie rivivono tra queste pagine. I pionieri degli albori che combattevano per fuggire dalla fame, i grandiosi pugili neri e le loro storie di rivalsa, gli immensi campioni e le loro esistenze al limite. Storie d'altri tempi e storie recentissime, le terribili sconfitte e i grandi trionfi di uomini e donne contagiati dalla febbre del ring.
br. Una raccolta di saggi, scritti nell'arco di vent'anni, quattro dei quali pubblicati per la prima volta in Italia, che ripercorrono la storia della boxe dai giochi gladiatori dell'antica Roma al pugilato a mani nude praticato in Inghilterra fin dal Diciottesimo secolo; dai combattimenti tra schiavi nell'America della Secessione alle sfide tra i fuoriclasse entrati ormai nella leggenda come Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson, Jack Dempsey, Jack Johnson e Joe Louis. Joyce Carol Oates tratta con sensibilità e rispetto il mondo della boxe, che ha imparato a conoscere fin da bambina assecondando la passione del padre. Racconta le vite spesso rocambolesche dei campioni, le loro alterne vicende e fortune, i risvolti sociali e di costume, gli interessi che si intrecciano nell'attesa dei grandi incontri, gli aspetti controversi eppure affascinanti di questa disciplina. Intellettuale d'eccezione, Oates si accosta con entusiasmo e disincanto allo sport che forse più di altri incarna la miseria e la magnificenza della natura umana, offrendo un punto di vista inedito e virile sulla "nobile arte".
Probably unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 230pp. A history of Sumo wrestling.
Milano, Editoriale Sportiva, 1945, 8vo br. pp. 150
Milano, 1933, 8vo cop. ill. col. fasc. di 24 pp. con num. ill.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and illustrations in the text; black cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly rubbed at extremities and little faded at backstrip. SCARCE.
Second edition, 12mo, xxxv, [1, blank], 133, [11, index]pp., with half-title, engraved frontispiece and nine additional full-page engravings showing two boxers fighting (perhaps Dan Mendoza and Richard Humphries), demonstrating the various boxing techniques taught in the text, some light off-setting, a few pages have been trimmed up to the text, especially at the fore-edge, but with no loss, early paper endpapers, nicely bound in full calf, hand sewn headbands, hand tooled edges, hand lettered spine. The author of this guide indicates he seeks to appeal specifically to the gentleman wanting to protect himself from 'the insolence so peculiar to the manners of the lower order of people in this country.' But he has special advice for professional practitioners of the pugilistic art, with hints for preparing for a scheduled fight which include taking 'a pint of best red wine mulled, with a tablespoonful of brandy' on the morning itself. This manual was written at an important juncture in the sport, and focuses on two practitioners who impelled boxing forward greatly - Daniel Mendoza and Richard "The Gentleman Boxer" Humphries, who famously fought three bare-knuckle bouts between 1788 and 1790 (the third of which was the first time spectators were charged an entry-payment to a sporting event). Before Mendoza, boxers generally stood still and merely swapped punches. Mendoza's 'scientific style' consisted of more than simply battering opponents into submission and included much defensive movement. He developed an entirely new style of boxing, incorporating such defensive strategies as what he called 'side-stepping,' moving around, ducking, blocking, and generally avoiding punches. At the time, this was revolutionary, and Mendoza was able to overcome much heavier opponents as a result of this new style. Though he stood only five feet seven inches and weighed only 160 pounds, Mendoza was England's sixteenth Heavyweight Champion from 1792 to 1795, and is the only middleweight to ever win the Heavyweight Championship of the World. Mendoza helped transform the popular English stereotype of a Jew from a weak, defenceless person into someone deserving of respect. He is said to have been the first Jew to talk to the King, George III. Mendoza was second for Tom Molineaux, a freed Virginia slave, in his fights. In 1789 - the year this book was issued in London - he opened his own boxing academy there. Hartley, 1578; Extremely rare, ESTC locates a single copy of the first edition at Yale which is tentatively dated 1784, and two copies of this second edition (British Library and Yale).
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 319pp. With in-depth information from around the world of boxing. Illustrated.
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.
Book is in excellent condition with a tiny bit of shelf wear along the lower edge only. 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 the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears, now wrapped in protective clear cover. 285 pages. Contents include: Black intellectual and the sport of prizefighting, The Patterson-Liston fight, Battling Kiki: the boxer as natural man, Romance of toughness: LaMorta and Graziano, Malcolm X and the failure of afrocentrism, etc.
205 p. Illustrated. Tall 8vo. 235 mm. Original full red cloth binding. Original dust jacket, very slightly soiled. First Edition. First Printing. Limited to 1500 copies. Hardbound. Near fine. An interesting study of the December 1896 World Heavyweight Boxing Championship Fight between Robert Fitzsimmons and Tom Sharkey, with Wyatt Earp as the Referee. His controversial decision, and the ensuing machinations are intriguing. as is the cast of characters, including: "Lucky" Baldwin; Wyatt and his wife Josephine Earp; the cowboy actor, William S. Hart; Bat Masterson; "Danny" Lynch; Colonel Henry Kowalsky; "Mysterious Dave" Mather; Judge Sanderson; John L. Sullivan; "Gentleman Jim" Corbett; etc. W3
Book shows light wear to covers, age toned paper. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 197 pages, author photo on back cover looking like he just got hit. " Ali, Mailer & Foreman collide in the richest, most incredible bout of the century." (Bantam) Larry McMurtry writes a nice blurb from the Washington Post.
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slightly dusty top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or creased with nicks to spine top and enclosed tear to front spine edge. Now protected in fully-removable transparent sleeve. 223pp. The story of boxing around the world over around sixty years. Illustrated. Foreword by Jack Dempsey.
(Codice SP/1024) In 8° (24 cm) X-274 pp . PRIMA EDIZIONE. Testo inglese, varie fotografie dei puglili, vignettwe, ecc. Legatura mezza tela editoriale, sovraccoperta. COME NUOVO. ~~~ SPEDIZIONE IN ITALIA SEMPRE TRACCIATA
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very minor traces of storage. 224pp.
(Codice SP/1137) In 8° (22 cm) XVI-303 pp. Original blue cloth, gilted title (fine), chipped dust jacket. ~~~ SPEDIZIONE IN ITALIA SEMPRE TRACCIATA
183 pages, page edges tanned, signed dedication by Michael Murray on the front endpaper. eng
