carpenter harry foreword (5 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Poor. Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio. Books shipped within 24 hours. Dust jacket is in fair condition with some considerable tears and shelf wear. No marks or writing observed in text. Pages are clean and glossy. Binding is held together but is starting to loosen.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, REPRINTED printing. Rubber-stamped name and date written on the front endpaper, else fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Phil Nunan. An attractive copy of this book that collects the best writings of the British commentator and golf author, Henry Longhurst (1909-1978) who was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2017. Tall octavo. 320 pages; indexed.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in black cloth boards with gold gilt lettering to spine. Unclipped dustjacket in new removable protective clear sleeve. 244pp. B/w photographs. Not library copy, no inscriptions. (78/6).

paperback. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hardcover. First edition. Signed "Ali" on title page at a Book Soup event with his photographer Howard L. Bingham in 1993, Hollywood. Due to the effects Parkinsons Disease had taken on Ali's health he signed the book with just "Ali." Quarto. 192pp. Original marine blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine in original color photo-illustrated dustjacket, black lettering on spine. Light blue endpapers. Double page photo-illustrated title page. With a foreword by Muhammad Ali. Carpenter in his history of boxing stating the first account of a fight to be given by Homer, around 1100 BC, in the 23rd book of the Iliad. However, "the English invented boxing as we know it: a fair fight, hands only, no aid to the fist other than a protection of horsehair in leather. The glove is there to guard the hand from damage, not to add to its power." with brief accounts of Roman and British fights prior to his decade by decade account starting in 1890 through the 1970s with a special chapter on boxing at the Olympic Games from 18961972. The book covers all categories from Heavy to Light-Heavy, Middle. Welter, Light, Feather, Bantam and Fly followed by special sections with results of World Championships and Olympic Champions. The book is profusely illustrated with drawings, b/w and, starting with the chapter on the 1970s, color photographs throughout. Contains index and photo credits at rear. Brodart-protected dustjacket with light wear along edges and price-clipped. Dustjacket in overall very good, binding and interior in near fine condition. Very good to near fine condition.