Taking the Count: Prize Ring Stories
by VAN LOAN, Charles E
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Toronto: Doubleday Doran & Company (Canada) Ltd.. First Canadian Edition . Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Yellow boards with black stamping, 354 pp, foreword by Irvin S. Cobb, although this is a later reprint it is apparently the first Canadian edition of this boxing classic,; some soiling/foxing to boards, toning to endpapers & page edges, still a bright, tight copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- J.C. Bell (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 179-28
- Title
- Taking the Count: Prize Ring Stories
- Author
- VAN LOAN, Charles E
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Canadian Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday Doran & Company (Canada) Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Boxing
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern First Editions; Sports;
Terms of Sale
J.C. Bell
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About the Seller
J.C. Bell
Biblio member since 2005
Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
About J.C. Bell
We are a home-based book business and have been selling books online since 1998. We are currently in the process of cataloguing several more thousandused and antiquarian books.
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- Reprint
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- Jacket
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