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1915ref. 14430Baltimore Md: I & M Ottenheimer 1915. 58 pages; No. 41 of the publisher's series of small booklets relating to sports an humor; black and white illustrated; 5" x 4" approximate size; no date but circa 1900; some edgewear and soiling chipping to back and front of illustrated paper wrap covers; pages browned; fair condition and interesting boxing memorabilia. Soft Cover. Fair. I & M Ottenheimer Paperback
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).
2006No 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.
1964ref. 806New York: Fleet Publishing Corporation 1964. Hardcover. Good/good. Gray cloth hardcover with dustjacket. No statement of edition 1964 is the only date. A good copy with general wear at the corners and spine ends light soiling to the gray covers. Text is clean and unmarked and the binding is solid though lacking in tightness. Unclipped jacket with a $3.95 price point is in good conly condition. Much scuffing to the panels and a 2" tear at the top of the rear panel. White rear panel is browned and soiled short chips at the head and heel of the spine panel. 116 pp. some black and white photos at center. An early biography of boxing legend Muhammad Ali with one of his poems gracing the rear dustjacket panel. Fleet Publishing Corporation hardcover
18998vo., 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.
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.
1989205 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
1860ref. 66827New York. 1860. Two Contemporary Accounts of the First "World Title" Match in Boxing A pair of special issue American newspapers offering "first-hand" reports on the famous Sayers-Heenan bareknuckle boxing match generally considered the sport's first international title match. As evidenced by these two papers contemporary reports of the fight vary wildly on the details but the outline appears to be as follows. John C. Heenan of California nicknamed the "Benicia Boy" travelled to England in early 1860 in order to enter the ring with the reigning champion of English pugilism Tom Sayers. The international nature of the contest attracted intense interest from both sides of the Atlantic despite the illegal nature of prize fighting. The fight took place on the morning of April 17 in front of a crowd of thousands at an "undisclosed location" in Farnborough Hampshire. The match was protracted and violent lasting over two hours and with both fighters sustaining serious injuries. The ultimate result is a point of debate but the most accepted version is that local police eventually managed to force their way into the ring and break up the unsanctioned event resulting in a draw. Together here are extra issues of two of the most prominent sports periodicals of the day the Spirit of the Times and the New York Clipper. Between them they present three different accounts of the day one in the Spirit and two different accounts in the Clipper. All three give a similar outline of the lead-up to the bout though differing in certain details. In effusive fashion they describe the machinations that went into organizing the illegal fight determining its location getting thousands of spectators "tickets to 'nowhere'" the forming of the ring the esteemed personages present and of course the betting odds. The round-by-round descriptions of the fight however differ in nearly every detail and betray a certain degree of wholesale fabrication. The Spirit of the Times is the most unapologetically pro-American claiming a complete victory for Heenan after a mere twenty-seven rounds. Their portrayal of the third round provides a succinct example of the colorful language used in these papers clearly meant to entertain the reader as much or more than to share truthful events: "3. Tom came up rather flushed and the gravy distilling from his damaged brow he dodged and tried his double but did not get home he tried a second time but was stopped cleverly and Heenan returned on the right ogle. This led to very heavy counters each on the larboard goggle Tom feinted and popped his left on the smeller. They got hold swung round broke away and Heenan then popped his left again on the right eye severe exchanges followed at close quarters and both were in the end down." The special issue of the Clipper tells a different story giving play-by-play details of forty-three rounds of bareknuckle boxing with round three ending in a knockdown by Heenan. At the end of the fight they claim that Sayer surrendered and was escorted out of the ring and declare "British 'Fair Play and May the Best Man Win' a Grand Humbug." The following page prints an account from The Bell which puts the fight at thirty-seven rounds ending with the police entering the ring. The rest of the issue is occupied by numerous other articles about the history and practice of boxing including the most recent "Rules of the Prize Ring" the history of "The Championship of England" from 1719 the "Duties of Seconds and Bottle Holders" and a full-page timeline of "Remarkable Occurrences in the Prize Ring" including a brief section on "Female Pugilists." A pair of rare antebellum sports reporting newspapers recording a legendary moment in the history of boxing. Old folds light foxing and staining minor edge wear. Some splitting to gutter of the Clipper which is uncut along the top edge. Both very good overall. For a detailed discussion of the Sayers-Heenan fight and its place in American culture see Elliott J. Gorn The Manly Art Ithaca NY 1986 pp.148-59. unknown
1860ref. 66827New York. 1860. Two Contemporary Accounts of the First "World Title" Match in Boxing A pair of special issue American newspapers offering "first-hand" reports on the famous Sayers-Heenan bareknuckle boxing match generally considered the sport's first international title match. As evidenced by these two papers contemporary reports of the fight vary wildly on the details but the outline appears to be as follows. John C. Heenan of California nicknamed the "Benicia Boy" travelled to England in early 1860 in order to enter the ring with the reigning champion of English pugilism Tom Sayers. The international nature of the contest attracted intense interest from both sides of the Atlantic despite the illegal nature of prize fighting. The fight took place on the morning of April 17 in front of a crowd of thousands at an "undisclosed location" in Farnborough Hampshire. The match was protracted and violent lasting over two hours and with both fighters sustaining serious injuries. The ultimate result is a point of debate but the most accepted version is that local police eventually managed to force their way into the ring and break up the unsanctioned event resulting in a draw. Together here are extra issues of two of the most prominent sports periodicals of the day the Spirit of the Times and the New York Clipper. Between them they present three different accounts of the day one in the Spirit and two different accounts in the Clipper. All three give a similar outline of the lead-up to the bout though differing in certain details. In effusive fashion they describe the machinations that went into organizing the illegal fight determining its location getting thousands of spectators "tickets to 'nowhere'" the forming of the ring the esteemed personages present and of course the betting odds. The round-by-round descriptions of the fight however differ in nearly every detail and betray a certain degree of wholesale fabrication. The Spirit of the Times is the most unapologetically pro-American claiming a complete victory for Heenan after a mere twenty-seven rounds. Their portrayal of the third round provides a succinct example of the colorful language used in these papers clearly meant to entertain the reader as much or more than to share truthful events: "3. Tom came up rather flushed and the gravy distilling from his damaged brow he dodged and tried his double but did not get home he tried a second time but was stopped cleverly and Heenan returned on the right ogle. This led to very heavy counters each on the larboard goggle Tom feinted and popped his left on the smeller. They got hold swung round broke away and Heenan then popped his left again on the right eye severe exchanges followed at close quarters and both were in the end down." The special issue of the Clipper tells a different story giving play-by-play details of forty-three rounds of bareknuckle boxing with round three ending in a knockdown by Heenan. At the end of the fight they claim that Sayer surrendered and was escorted out of the ring and declare "British 'Fair Play and May the Best Man Win' a Grand Humbug." The following page prints an account from The Bell which puts the fight at thirty-seven rounds ending with the police entering the ring. The rest of the issue is occupied by numerous other articles about the history and practice of boxing including the most recent "Rules of the Prize Ring" the history of "The Championship of England" from 1719 the "Duties of Seconds and Bottle Holders" and a full-page timeline of "Remarkable Occurrences in the Prize Ring" including a brief section on "Female Pugilists." A pair of rare antebellum sports reporting newspapers recording a legendary moment in the history of boxing. Old folds light foxing and staining minor edge wear. Some splitting to gutter of the Clipper which is uncut along the top edge. Both very good overall. For a detailed discussion of the Sayers-Heenan fight and its place in American culture see Elliott J. Gorn The Manly Art Ithaca NY 1986 pp.148-59. unknown books
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.
1956No 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.
2006(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
1989No 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.
1950(Codice SP/1137) In 8° (22 cm) XVI-303 pp. Original blue cloth, gilted title (fine), chipped dust jacket. ~~~ SPEDIZIONE IN ITALIA SEMPRE TRACCIATA
1976ref. 2514Etats-Unis, Donald M Grant / Rhode Island 1976. In-12 cartonnage éditeur de 186 pages au format 13 x 19,8 cm sous belle jaquette illustrée. Illustrations de David Ireland. Etat superbe, proche du neuf. Edition originale à petit tirage.
1988ref. 1515New York: Shapolsky Publishers. F in NF dust jacket. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Minor edgewear to dustjacket; Otherwise fine; B&W Photographs; 6.25x9.5"; 325 pages; Signed by Author . 1988. Shapolsky Publishers hardcover
1953ref. 63840New York NY: Grosset & Dunlap 1953. 8vo. 4 197 1 pp. With 4 photo plates. Red tweed publisher’s boards black lettering on spine w/ d.j. cover art of Joe Louis fight couple minor closed tears slight edgewear and w/ wraparound photo-illustrated band for the United Artists film starring Coley Wallace Paul Stewart & Hilda Simms w/ photo stills of the movie NF/VG/NF copy w/ former ownership markings on ffep. First photoplay edition of this stirring autobiography of the famed Heavyweight Champion who held the title for 12 years longer than any other boxer as he battled both fighters and racism. Louis acknowledges in the dedication the editorial and writing aid from longtime friend Chester L. Washington longtime editor of the Los Angeles Sentinel L.A.’s largest Black newspaper and famed Jewish-American sportswriter & publicist Haskell Cohen 1914-2000 who began his career with the prominent Black newspaper Pittsburgh Courier and covered the Negro leagues and strongly advocated for Black athletes in professional sports. Wallace 1927-2005 also appeared in both the films Raging Bull 1980 and Marciano in 1979. Grosset & Dunlap, hardcover
2002183 pages, page edges tanned, signed dedication by Michael Murray on the front endpaper. eng
1975ref. 19746-ym6000Bucharest (Bukarest): Stadion Publishing House 1975. 73 Seiten, 1 Blatt sowie 12 Blatt Tafeln. Orig. Broschur (etwas berieben und bestoßen, Umschlag etwas fleckig, der hintere Umschlagdeckel mit einem Einriß, sonst gutes und sauberes Exemplar). 8°. broschiert/ Taschenbuch
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.
194944 pages. Features: Nice cover illustration of Quebec winter dance party; Nice half-page colour-photo ad for Sovereign Potters features their Pagoda design; 3/4-page RCAF recruits radio, radar and electronics trainees; 1/4-page ad for Canadian Pacific's White Empress; Canada Must Arm for Peace - Hanson W. Baldwin suggests Canada's role in the prevention of WW III - major photo-illustrated article; Fighter's Wife (boxing short story); George Drew and Louis St. Laurent Step into the political arena - photo-illustrated article; A Family for Pam (short story); If you want to be a Barbara Ann Scott (figures skater) - the rules that have helped her win five international titles, with photo of her trainer, Sheldon W. Galbraith; Outline of Good Intentions (short story); Schoolhouse in the Snow (short story); J.Arthur Rank ad features photo of actor John Mills; Bermuda on a Budget - photo-illustrated travel article on how Irene Marx and Maida Skene did it; Photo of soloist Frosia Gregory in ad for Campana's Italian Balm; Photo-illustrated interior design article; Classy one-page colour Heinz ad features painting by R. York Wilson of tomatoes being harvested by hand into bushel baskets for transit to Leamington for processing; Party recipes; Nice half-page colour Quick Quaker Oats ad features little boy dreaming of being a hockey player; World Sayings; O'Keefe's colour ad on back cover features painting by Rex Wood of old seaman telling tales to young boys; and more. Several middle leaves loose but present. Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
1974124 pages. Features: Magnificent boxing poster-style cover featuring Muhammad Ali and George Foreman as they prepare for their fight in Zaire; Many lovely fashion ads. Funky one-page photo ad features young white male with bushy hair and beard, for the city of Cleveland; Amnesty - the painful issue of how to handle Americans who dodged the draft; Putting Zaire on the Map - article on the upcoming boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire - with one-page photo of President Mobutu; Hooked on Vietnam - hundreds of unusual Americans have chosen to stay in Vietnam, including: Seminarian John Tabor, Harry Hartwig, and Frank Mariano; 'Computer Raped by Telephone' - and other futuristic felonies by electronic con men who leave no footprings (a remarkably prescient look ahead to modern day hackers); Letter from Erica Jong; Two-page Teacher's Whisky ad features one-page photo of Mel Brooks in caveman attire; The Case of the Hot Writer - a visit to Cornwall's David Cornwell - far from the neurotic insecurity of John Le Carre's unholy underworld; Color-photo centerfold ad for Bill Blass Collection beddings; Home is Next to the Factory - The Tai and Rosita Missoni home; Suicide - a sin or a right?; Will My Baby be Normal? - Genetic counselors are having increasing success in anwering this heavy question. Above-average external wear, particularly along cover fold. Bit of writing in upper corner of front cover at spine. A worthy vintage copy of this timeless boxing memento. Book
ref. 13975709London: Hollis and Carter, 1950 in-8, frontispice, xviii-270 pages, 12 planches h.-t., index. Cartonnage d'éd. Joint des coupures de presse.
195916x11. 255p. Algo deteriorado.
198384 pages. Features: Davey Moore one-page color photo; Tex Cobb Interview; How does Hector Camacho rate with the Experts?; Hall of Fame Inductees Monzon, Foster and Burley; Boxing's Second Generation; Stanley Ketchel - the first middleweight great; Wilford Scypion - fighter of the month; and much more. Unmarked with above-average external wear. Covers detached but present. A worthy vintage copy. Book
