The Sweet Science by A J Liebling, First Edition (23 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First printing.

Condition: New. 2004. First Printing. Paperback. . . . . .

Fine. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover book , first edition thus (first appeared in the New Yorker magazine) 256 pages with dustjacket. Eighteen chapters featuring 18 Boxing matches each a prize contest From Sugar Ray Robinson Rocky Marciano Ezzard Charles and some lesser known pugilists. A Very Good copy in a near Fine unclipped dustjacket. Pictures available.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Half yellow cloth, gray boards, red ring design on cover top edges stained red. Spine foxed, top edges water-stained with stain bleeding down to front endpapers, else very good. Named the best sports book of all time by Sports Illustrated.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Octavo. 1,057pp. Red cloth. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. Tatty cover missing most of rear and spine. Foxing to front. Size: Octavo . Category: Sports & Pastimes; For further information on this title or for further photographs, please click on the "Ask Seller a Question" button directly underneath this listing. We aim to reply within three working days. Buyers from OUTSIDE of the UK are strongly recommended to make contact, to ask for an accurate shipping cost, BEFORE buying.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Maroon cloth. As new in slipcase, the subscriber's edition issued without jacket. Brochure laid in. First edition of the most entertaining book in the Library of America.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. NF, copy still in unread shrink wrapped slipcase. five stories. Cream slipcase with text and his photo on one side, maroon cloth covers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good to Very good. 1st Edition. Boxing. Each chaper centred on a particular fight. Foxing at edges and to jacket, else very good. Jacket not price clipped.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Black Cat BC-44 A Ringside View of Boxing. Light rubbing and edge wear; remainder mark on bottom of text block; light soiling on white back cover. Tight copy, clean interior. Tanning.

Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. As-new, in publisher's shrink wrap.The definitive American literary series encompassing all periods and genres of American writing, published in exceedingly handsome hardcover volumes with sewn bindings and ribbon markers, printed on a premium acid-free lightweight opaque paper that exceeds the requirements for permanence set by the American National Standards Institute.

Condition: VERY GOOD. First printing. "Boxing and Boxiana - a Ringside View." Uncommon first edition of these essays which originally appeared in the New Yorker on the high points (and some of the low points) of boxing in that era. "Named the best sports book of all time by Sports Illustrated in 2002, The Sweet Science offers a lively and idiosyncratic portrait of boxing in the early 1950s that encompasses boastful managers, veteran trainers, wily cornermen, and the fighters themselves: Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano, Sugar Ray Robinson, and Archie Moore, 'a virtuoso of anachronistic perfection.' No one has captured the fierce artistry of the ring like Liebling. (Pete Hamill) . 306 pp. Very good in black boards in a good only dust jacket (creasing at edges, rubbing at folds, original price of 3.95 on flap).

8vo. pp 256. Publisher's file copy with FILE COPY stamp on front cover and pastedown. Fine in VG+ dust jacket with slight edge wear at rear cover. Decent copy. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition Thus. First edition thus, two volume hardcover set with top edges gilt in a matching "SportsChannel" slipcase, The Long Season is signed by Brosnan on the first free endpage, while The Sweet Science features a facsimile signature from the author. Both volumes have a tiny hint of wear to the spine ends, and The Sweet Science has a very small ding to right edge of spine about halfway up, but are otherwise a solid, tight, clean Near Fine set in a VG+ slipcase, which has a touch of faint shelfwear to corners, a hint of sunning to the head, and some very faint rubbing to the panels.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First. first edition in good/good condition-dj has chipping at top and 1 " square out at bottom Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

First Edition. Hardcobver, very good in good edgeworn and chipped jacket lacking one and a half inch piece at top of jacket spine panel.