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1930Segunda edición, 35 ilustraciones.
1960No 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.
2010ill., br. "Con l'Africa dentro" è la storia di un grande campione della boxe: Sumbu Kalambay campione lo è stato, oltre che per la propria classe inarrivabile, anche nella vita. La sua gentilezza, l'aristocrazia del suo cuore l'hanno fatto amare e naturalizzare in Italia. Le sue sconfitte, come e più delle vittorie fuori e dentro il ring, sono l'effettivo attivante di questo volume che ci racconta l'Africa, le fatiche degli inizi, il successo in America, i duri allenamenti a Las Vegas e a New York. Con un ritmo svelto e sincopato, perché la boxe è "forza vibrante, arte in velocità" (Tiberio Mitri) ed è dolore e amore, Gabriele Tinti ci racconta una storia di vita e d'amicizia.
1950No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked red cloth boards, slight foxing to page edges, rubbing to spine ends and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped but in poor condition with a few small pieces missing. 160pp. With articles and stories from Frank Richards, Len Hutton, Cyril Washbrook and others
1958NAT FLEISCHER STORIA DEI PESI MASSIMI. , TRIS 1958-05-01, Sovracoperta un pò sporca e rovinata ai margi Buono (Good) . 414
1972Book 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.
1993A clean, unmarked copy. 111 pages. Many black and white photos.
1972A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Previous owner's name label inside. 366 pages. Stated First Edition.
1975A 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.
2008A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full black cloth boards. 396 pages. Black and white illustrations and photos.
1979Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, in 1/4 cloth rust color boards with a black spine with gilt print, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows chipping at edges a few small tears. Autobiography Jack Tatum of the NFL's Oakland Raiders: 8 pages of b/w photos. "The hardest hitting free safety in football hits even harder at the game's rules which encourage legal mayhem. "
1976Book 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.
2000Book is in excellent condition with bumps to the upper corners as only flaw. 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, wrapped in clear protective cover. Previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book. 266 pages, short section of b&w photos.
1998Book 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.
1987Book 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.
1976Book is in excellent condition with yellow & brown patterned boards, brown cloth spine; gilt spine lettering & decoration; pictorial end papers; color illustrations. 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. Slipcase has worn and torn edges. 209 pages. Illustrators include Robert Cruickshank. James Gillray and Thomas Rowlandson. Contents include: James Figg, Jack Broughton, Tom Johnson, Daniel Mendoza, John Jackson, Joe Ward, Jem Belcher, Henry Pearce, John Gulley, Bill Biggons, George Maddox, Tom Molineaux, Tom Oliver's Black, Bill Richmond, Tom Cribb et al.
1994Book 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.
1996Book is in excellent condition. 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.
1986Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows Very light wear only, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 317 pages. B&W photos and illustrations throughout. Contents include: Professors of pugilism, Yankee Sullivan, Match between Sullivan and Hyer, John Morrissey, Working class culture in antebellum cities, End of the bare knuckle era, etc.
1969Ex-library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind, page block is a little warped. 262 pages with lots of large b&w photos, including one kissed by Salvador Dali. Dust jacket has edge wear, scuffing, library stickers. Jack Johnson was the first black heavyweight champion, was a world traveller, a music hall performer, a prisoner at Leavenworth, a matador in the bullrings of Spain, a speed demon, a connoisseur of the arts and women, and a Renaissance man at the turn of the 20th Century. He held the title for seven years against the widespread popular demand for a new "white hope"..
1991Book 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.
2010Book 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."
2002Book is in excellent condition. 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 clear protective cover. Previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book. Tells the stories, in "fighter's own words" of facing Muhammad Ali in the ring. Fighter's include: Tunney Hunsaker, Henry Cooper, George Chuvalo, Brian London, Karl Mildenberger, Joe Frazier, Jurgen Blin, Joe Bugner, Ken Norton, George Foreman, Chuck Wepner, etc.
1954Broché. 282 pages. Manques à la jaquette.
1949Broché. 189 pages. Manque au dos. Couverture défraîchie.
