BOXING: The Modern System of Glove Fighting
by Captain W. Edgeworth - Johnstone (Assistant Inspector of Gymnasia -Heavyweight Amateur Champion England 1895-1896)
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good-
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LaGrange, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
Red cloth binding. Some shelf wear. Frayed and lightly damaged on the back cover-facing portion of the spine. Some places where the pages have begun to separate slightly from the binding. Writing from previous owners on the front endpapers.
Contains illustrations and photographs of early modern form gloved boxing.
From the publisher: Profusely illustrated with 40 full-page illustrations from Photographs specially taken, together with Portraits and Records of "Kid" Lavigne, "Pedlar" Palmer, Frank Craig, Bob Fitzsimmons. Articles on American and English Boxers; the Knock-out Blow; Judging."
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- Bookseller
- Pretty Good Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7
- Title
- BOXING: The Modern System of Glove Fighting
- Author
- Captain W. Edgeworth - Johnstone (Assistant Inspector of Gymnasia -Heavyweight Amateur Champion England 1895-1896)
- Format/Binding
- Red cloth.
- Book Condition
- Used - Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Gale & Polden, LTD.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1906
- Pages
- 170 + Advertisements in Back
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Boxing, Glove Fighting, Martial Arts, 20th Century
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