The Heavyweight Championship: An Informal History of Heavyweight Boxing from 1719 to the Present Day by FLEISCHER, Nat - 1949

Putnam & Company Ltd, 1950. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1950. Reprint. 303 pages. Cream dust jacket with black lettering over grey cloth. B&W illustrations throughout. Clean pages. Notable tanning to endpapers and page edges. Some gutter cracking. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with tanning to spine and board edges. Unclipped dust jacket. Mild wear, tear and chipping to edges and corners. Heavy tanning to spine and edges, with staining and soiling to DJ.

G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1949. Book. Illus. by illustrated. Near Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Name and address of former owner on front endpaper, otherwise unmarked, solid copy. Black cloth covers with picture of ring in white, two small boxers and referee. Normal shelfwear. Endpapers tanned. Minor to moderate lean to spine..

Hardcover. Fair. DUST COVER TORN MESSAGE ON FLY PAGE. Offered by the U.K. charity Langdon: supporting young people with disabilities.

New York, USA: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1961. Revised Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Illustrated throughout with numerous black and white figures and photographs. Revised Edition of 1949 copyright edition. Firmly bound black cloth with gilt titles, no jacket. Foxing bands on the end papers, smudge mark on the front end paper from a rubbed out price.

Stewart Press, 2011-10-28. Paperback. Used: Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

Sportsmans Book Club, 1954T. hardcover. Good. in x in x in. NOT an ex-library book. Clean copy in good condition. Without Dust Cover.

Putnam, 1961. Hardback. good/No Dust Jacket. tan binding, ex library, revised edition

Putnam, 1949. Hardback. fair/No Dust Jacket. blue binding, signs of previous damp/on the cover/marking/bleeding through the front board only in the spine area otherwise good, only cover marked, contents not effected, slightly stepped though

Revised edition. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket, illustrated, 318 pp. Dust jacket a little faded, slight edgewear, otherwise very good. Normal aging; overall very good plus. Nat Fleischer was probably the most knowledgeable boxing expert of his generation. Founder of Ring Magazine, and author of countless articles and books on the subject of boxing. This work traces the history of the Heavyweight Championship from 1719 to 1960.