SPORTING ANECDOTES. BEING ANECDOTAL ANNALS, DESCRIPTIONS, TALES AND INCIDENTS OF HORSE-RACING, BETTING, CARD-PLAYING, PUGILISM, GAMBLING...AND OTHER SPORTS. EDITED BY 'ELLANGOWAN'. London, Hamilton, Adams, 1889. 8vo. 352pp. Original cloth, spine worn. Recollections of boxing, horse-racing and gambling. [ref: 41619] £12.00 (including VAT) enquire buy |
GLOVES OFF. London, Century, 2022. 8vo. x+317pp. Illustrated. Original cloth in dust-wrapper. Autobiography of the champion heavyweight boxer Tyson Fury. [ref: 79148] £12.00 (including VAT) enquire buy |
TYSON. THE NO-HOLDS-BARRED BIOGRAPHY OF THE WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION. London, Robson Books, 1989. 8vo. 357pp. Illustrated. Original cloth in dust-wrapper. WITH A LONG INSCRIPTION, SIGNED 'PETER' BY THE AUTHOR on the front endpaper: A biography of the world heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson. [ref: 78955] £28.00 (including VAT) enquire buy |
THE SPORTSMAN'S FRIEND IN A FROST. London, Thomas Cautley Newby, 1857. 8vo. 416pp. Original decorative cloth. Sports include hunting, boxing and horse racing. [ref: 59345] £50.00 (including VAT) enquire buy |
THE SUGAR RAY ROBINSON STORY. BOXING'S COMEBACK KING. Worthing, Pitch, 2019. 8vo. 288pp. Illustrated. Original cloth in dust-wrapper, good condition. A biography of the great world champion American boxer Sugar Ray Robinson. [ref: 79427] £12.00 (including VAT) enquire buy |
BEYOND GLORY. JOE LOUIS vs. MAX SCHMELING AND A WORLD ON THE BRINK. London, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2005. 8vo. 423pp. Illustrated. Original cloth in dust-wrapper. On the boxing rivalry between the American Joe Louis and the German Max Schmeling. [ref: 65699] £12.00 (including VAT) enquire buy |
IN BLACK & WHITE. THE UNTOLD STORY OF JOE LOUIS AND JESSE OWENS. London, Simon & Schuster, 2002. 8vo. 415pp. 16 plates. Original cloth in dust-wrapper. An account of the fight between Joe Louis and Jesse Owens in 1935. [ref: 71211] £12.00 (including VAT) enquire buy |
FENCING, BOXING AND WRESTLING. London, Longmans, Green, 1889. Large 8vo. 337pp. Illustrated. Original publisher's half morocco, top edges gilt, edges untrimmed. Good condition. LIMITED LARGE PAPER EDITION of 250 numbered copies. A volume in the Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes. [ref: 39275] £90.00 (including VAT) enquire buy |
CRICKET ON BOXING DAY. COMPILED BY ARNOLD WHIPP. Leeds, The Society, [1964]. Large 8vo. 44pp. Illustrated. Original cloth. LIMITED EDITION of 100 numbered copies. Accounts of matches played by the Northern Cricket Society on each Boxing Day between 1949 and 1963. Padwick, 3157. [ref: 17998] £18.00 enquire buy |