The Great Prize Fight
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CA$45.00
CA$45.00
Lloyd, Alan. Coward McCann & Geoghegan. 1977. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.
A highly colourful telling of the story behind the 1860 bare-knuckle prize fight between American John C. Heenan and Britain's Tom Sayers. Forty-two brutal rounds of illegal pugilism in what was likely the best attended prize fight to that time - and a precursor of title fights to come. A wonderful story vividly told - and a book in fine fighting trim.
A highly colourful telling of the story behind the 1860 bare-knuckle prize fight between American John C. Heenan and Britain's Tom Sayers. Forty-two brutal rounds of illegal pugilism in what was likely the best attended prize fight to that time - and a precursor of title fights to come. A wonderful story vividly told - and a book in fine fighting trim.