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Henry Downes Miles. Pugilistica.. John Grant, Edinburagh,, 1906.
Price: US$293.60 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The History of British Boxing. Containing Lives of the Most Celebrated Pugilists; Full Reports of Their Battles from Contemporary Newspapers, with Authentic Portraits, Personal Anecdotes,and Sketches of the Principal Patrons of the Prize Ring, Forming a Complete History of the Ring from Fig and Broughton, 1719-40, to the Last Championship Battle between King and Heenan, in December 1863. 8vo. 3 vols. xvi, 507, (viii), 538, 6, (vi), 528, 6pp. 3 frontispieces. 100 illus. Original pictorial cloth, slightly rubbed, and spotted on edges and end-papers.
Seller: The Isseido Booksellers, ABAJ, ILAB, Tokyo, Japan
Price: US$407.89 + shipping
Description: Lives of the most celebrated pugilists; full reports on their battles from contemporary newspapers, with authentic portraits, personal anecdotes, and sketches of the principal patrons of the prize ring, forming a complete history of the bare-knuckle ring from Fig and Boughton, 1719-40, to the last championship battle between King and Heenan, in December 1863. Complete in three volumes. All vols. thick 8vo. Original brown decorative cloth with gilt vignettes of pugilists in action to fronts. Contents in each very clean with some light foxing in each volume, particularly to page edges. Vol.1: xvi + pp507. Frontis. + 29 full-page illustrations and many illustrations in the text. Vol.2: pp544. Frontis. + 17 full-page illustrations and many in the text. Vol.3: Frontis. + pp534. Frontis. + 12 full-page illustrations and many text illustrations. A very nice set of this key boxing book.
Seller: Sportspages, Farnham, United Kingdom
Price: US$448.94 + shipping
Description: John Grant, Edinburgh. 1906. In Three Volumes. Large 8vo. Hardback, no DWs issued, Brown boards, gilt decoration and type to spine, black type to upper boards. b&w illustrations and portraits. Vol.1: 507pp. Vol.2: 537pp. Vol.3: 528pp plus indexes. A little browning and foxing to interior, boards a little rubbed to extremities, but overall a very pleasing set.
Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
Price: US$448.94 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: xvi, 507pp. 538pp, 6pp index. 528pp, 6pp index. With one hundred portraits & illustrations. Original brown cloth with gilt boxers. Firm bindings, with light edge rubbing to the covers, with spines slightly dulled. Internally, the front inner joint is cracked, but remains firm. Some page edges are spotted, but generally clean. With an invoice from Foyles the booksellers dated 1936 tipped into the inside cover of Vol 1. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: N. G. Lawrie Books, sheffield, United Kingdom
Price: US$562.50 + shipping
Description: 2nd printing. Octavo, 3 volumes in olive-green cloth with gilt titles and decorations on spine; black titles and gilt decoration(Mendoza and Humphries fight, 1790) on front cover. Vol 1, 507pp including index, Vol 2 538pp plus index, Vol 3, 528pp plus index. Condition is Very good, with bumped corners, heavy wear at tops of spine, average wear at bottoms sunned spines, vol 1 slightly cocked Shelved on upstairs shelf, near copier. 1227597. Rockville Non-Retail Listings.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Henry Downes Miles. Pugilistica. John Grant, Edinburgh, 1906.
Price: US$705.47 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: An illustrated history of British boxing, from the bare knuckle rings of 1719 to the 1863 championship battle between King and Heenan. Three beautifully bound and illustrated volumes on the history of British boxing. The second edition of this work, with the very scarce first edition published in 1880.With an engraved frontispiece protected by the original tissue guard to each volume, and numerous further engraved plates, the majority of which display portraits of notable British pugilists.A history of boxing in England from 1719 to 1863, with information on the lives of celebrated pugilists, reports on their fights from contemporary newspapers, and personal anecdotes.These works belonged to the library of Philip Brocklehurst, each bearing his bookplate to the front pastedown. Brocklehurst is best known for being a member of the Nimrod Expedition in Antarctica of 19071909, led by Ernest Shackleton. A boxer himself, he represented Cambridge University at boxing in 1905, 1906 and 1907 as a lightweight against Oxford University, and obtained a half blue. In the publisher's original cloth bindings, with gilt detailing. Bumping to spine heads and tails, with some patches of light fading to the front board of vol I. Contemporary owner's bookplate to front pastedown of each volume. Some spotting to text block fore edge. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally clean and bright, with heavier patches of spotting to first few pages of vol III. Near Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$907.50 + shipping
Description: Second edition; 3 vols, thick 8vo (230 x 170 mm); vol. I: xvi, 507pp, frontis. & 29 full-page illustrations, with many illustrations in the text; vol. II: 544pp, frontis. & 17 full-page illustrations, with many in the text; vol. III: 534pp, frontis. & 12 full-page illustrations, with many text illustrations, fore-edge to two leaves in Preface of vol. I roughly cut but not affecting text, contents in each very clean save for some light foxing in each volume( as usual), particularly to preliminary and terminal pages and page edges but relatively minor; publisher's brown cloth decorated in black and gilt with gilt vignettes of pugilists in action to upper boards, bumping to spine extremities and corners, minor rubbing, otherwise very good-plus, an attractive set.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom