The Great Prize Fight
by Lloyd, Alan
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0698108299
- ISBN 13
- 9780698108295
- Seller
-
Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Coward, McCann, & Geoghegan, 1977. Account of bare-knuckle prize fighting centering on the Heenan-Sayers fight of 1860. First American edition, Hardcover, full blue cloth, gilt titling. Light wear to book, gift note fills most of the free endsheet, light spotting/foxing to page edges; price-clipped jacket lightly worn & foxed, rubbed & creased. Text clean; xii, 188 pages; index, brief bibliography, b/w plates.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- np0390
- Title
- The Great Prize Fight
- Author
- Lloyd, Alan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First American Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0698108299
- ISBN 13
- 9780698108295
- Publisher
- Coward, McCann, & Geoghegan
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1977
- Keywords
- Boxing, Prize Fighting, Pugilism, Bare-Knuckle Fighting
- Size
- Octavo
Terms of Sale
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Biblio member since 2006
Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Most of our stock is on-line only, though we have many books in three booths at Angela's Attic Antique Mall, 1020 Gardner Street in South Beloit, Illinois; a booth across the street at the Best of Beloit; and a large booth at the Lake Geneva Antique Mall, 829 Williams Street, Lake Geneva, WI. You may request to see any of our on-line inventory at any location with a few days' notice.
Glossary
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...