Complete Book Running by James Fixx, First Edition (10 results)

Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Good clean tight copy. Shelf wear. Tanning along fore edges and pages. Chips and/or tears along edges of jacket. Some rubbing to jacket.

A classic of modern fitness literature, The Complete Book of Running by James F. Fixx is one of the most influential running books of the 1970s, credited with helping spark America's distance-running boom. Combining training advice, physiology, psychology, nutrition, and the philosophy of running, Fixx presents a comprehensive guide that remains widely read decades later. This is a 1977 First Edition hardcover with the original dust jacket, published by Random House. The book itself is in Very Good condition, with a tight binding and clean, unmarked pages. The dust jacket is Good+, showing edge wear, rubbing, and small chips consistent with age, but remains complete and presentable. A desirable copy for runners, collectors of vintage sports titles, or readers interested in the history of fitness culture.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. Jacket edgeworn, with tears; rubbing wear to spine.

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. new book, missing dust jacket======.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. a nice clean presentable copy of a landmark book on running when published in 1977. this is a nice neat clean copy in a very good dj of a first edition copy suitable to grace the library of any runner or running enthusiast.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Very good in very good dust jacket. Corners rubbed slightly. Water stain bottom on spine of dust jacket. Tiny tears at top of dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. David Noyes (Illustrations). Neal Slavin (Jacket (illustrator). 24 cm. xvi, 239, [1] pages. Illustrations. The Runner's Directory. More Reading About Running. Index. Signed by the author on fep. DJ is price clipped. Sticker residue on back of DJ. James Fuller "Jim" Fixx (April 23, 1932 - July 20, 1984) was an American who wrote the 1977 best-selling book The Complete Book of Running. He helped start America's fitness revolution, popularizing the sport of running and demonstrating the health benefits of regular jogging. Fixx started running in 1967 at age 35. He weighed 214 pounds and smoked two packs of cigarettes per day. Ten years later, when his book, The Complete Book of Running (which spent 11 weeks at No. 1 on the best-seller list) was published, he was 60 pounds lighter and smoke-free. The cover of his book The Complete Book of Running featured Fixx's muscular legs against a red cover. In 1980 Fixx wrote a follow-up book titled Jim Fixx's Second Book of Running: The Companion Volume to The Complete Book of Running. Fixx was a member of the high-IQ club, Mensa, and published three collections of puzzles: Games for the Super-Intelligent, More Games for the Super-Intelligent, and Solve It! In his books and on television talk shows, he extolled the benefits of physical exercise and how it considerably increased the average life expectancy. The cover of his book The Complete Book of Running featured Fixx's muscular legs against a red cover. In 1980 Fixx wrote a follow-up book titled Jim Fixx's Second Book of Running: The Companion Volume to The Complete Book of Running. Derived from a Kirkus review: This chatty update to the Complete Book of Running reports on some new aspects of the sport that have caught Fixx's attention. The tone is often wildly enthusiastic, though Fixx acknowledges that the popularity of running has peaked and the inevitable backlash is setting in. Still, there are reports here on new equipment and new publications; there are recent findings on nutrition, on training, on avoiding and treating injuries; and there's word of such subgroups of runners as women, children, older people, and ultramarathoners. Fixx's conclusions on the physical and psychological effects of running are generally positive; and runners in general are prey to two delusions--that running prevents cancer and assures cardiovascular immortality. Fixx also offers some strategies for overcoming inertia. This is a good a look around for those who can never read enough about running. First Edition [stated]. Third printing [stated].

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. DJ in archival cover price clipped.closed tear. Stated first edition.