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Black Ajax
by Fraser, George MacDonald
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/As New
- ISBN 10
- 0786705531
- ISBN 13
- 9780786705535
- Seller
-
STREETSVILLE, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Carroll & Graf, 1998 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st US Ed... When Captain Buck Flashman sees the black boxer catch a fly in mid-flight he realizes that he is in the presence of speed such as the prize ring has never seen. Tom Molineaux may be crude and untutored, but if 'Mad Buck' knows anything (and like his notorious son, the archcad Harry Flashman, he has an unerring eye for the main chance), this ex-slave from America is a Champion in the making, on whose broad shoulders the ambitious Captain can climb to sporting and social fame. Under his patronage, the 'Black Ajax' is carried on a popular tide of sporting fever to his great dream: to fight the invincible, undefeated Champion of England, the great Tom Cribb. The story of Molineaux and his eventual battles with Cribb is told through a series of superbly original and individual voices -- colourful, powerful and funny. Together they create a magnificent picture of Regency England and a portrait of a flawed hero who surmounted the barriers of ignorance, poverty and race hatred to bring the prize ring a lustre it had never known before, and may never again.249p. glossary, unread, remainder mark, else as new..
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Details
- Bookseller
- KALAMOS BOOKS (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 042993
- Title
- Black Ajax
- Author
- Fraser, George MacDonald
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Edition
- 1st US Ed..
- ISBN 10
- 0786705531
- ISBN 13
- 9780786705535
- Publisher
- Carroll & Graf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- REGENCY ENGLAND HISTORIAL FICTION, FLASHMAN HARRY PAGET HISTORICAL SPORTS BLACKS BOXING
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Historical Fiction;
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KALAMOS BOOKS
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