What is the best boxing book you've ever read?

[JAB5239]

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Lol, what you say rummy.

[Bronson66]

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Good bump. Since Ivich's body of work here has 'gone missing', I would enjoy seeing a list from Bronson66, who reminds me quite a lot of the aforementioned. I've read about everything listed on this thread, and consider many of the authors friends, and others valued acquaintances as they all turn up at the IBHOF for the past 35 years, to provide discussions about their published products and anything else that comes up. Some are gone now.

Many years ago, I bought a close out quantity of the book pictured here from book retailer Barnes & Noble, so that I could pass copies out to people to use as (what I regard as) a great introduction to the sport. In all the years, I've never found a better intro for a person seeking to understand the rich history of our sport.

Nothing like a paper book to hold onto, even now.
I have a very extensive antiquarian book collection. Lots of extremely rare ones, first editions, manuscripts, etc. Prized possessions. Fun stuff.

I have the book pictured.
Below are probably the best of my boxing library.

The Black Lights,Hauser

Jim Jeffries
Jack Johnsonx2
Bob Fitzsimmons
All byAdam Pollack

In This Corner. Pete Heller
The Impossible Dream.Gains
The Sweet Science.
A Neutral Corner.
Both by Leibling

Twenty And Out .Duff

The Road To Nowhere .Dixon
A Ringside Affair .Lawton
Once There Were Giants. Izenberg
Box On. Gibbs

Murderers Row
The Gods Of War
In The Cheap Seats
All by Toledo

Ringside Seats
More Ringside Seats
By Wilson

Carpentier By Himself.Carpentier

Johansson. by Johansson

Jack Johnson His Life And Times .Batchelor
Penny A Punch.Legge
Ringside.Shulberg
Inside Facts On Pugilism .Siler
Night Train.Tosches
McIvanney On Boxing.McIllvanney
Joe Louis.Bak Joe Louis by Himself
Joe Louis.Roberts
Sam Langford.Moyle
I Fought Em All .Lewis & Sharkey
Jack Dempsey. Dempsey
Dempsey1 Dempsey 2 .Pollack
The Boxing Companion.Batchelor

The FightingBlacksmith.Batchelor

Jack Johnson In The Ring and Out .Johnson.
Jack Johnson Black Champion.Farr
Ali.Hauser
Ali.Eig
Ali Durham
Ali.Remnick
Sporting Blood. Acevedo
RobinsonP4P .Boyd
by George.Foreman
George Francis.Francis
Come Out Smoking.Pepe
Boxing AndThe Mob.Sussman
Jacobs Beach.Mitchell
Tyson.Heller
Boxing's Hall Of Shame.Myler
Great Fights Of The 60's. Whiting
Fight Dr.Pacheco
The One is Jack Hurley1& 2. Ochs
Sting Like A Bee.Torres
Inside FactsOn Pugilism.Siler
Fights For The Championship Bell's Life Boxiana Compendium. Egan
Unbeaten.Stanton
The Rock Of His Times.Skehan
The Boxing register
Boxing Almanac
a Flame Of Pure Fire .Kahn
Raging Bull.Lamotta
Somebody Up There Likes Me.Graziano
Knuckles And Gloves .Lynch
Manly Art.Kimball
Four Kings.Kimball
The Life And Crimes Of Don King,Newfield

Fiction
The Professional. Heinz
The Harder They Fall. Shulberg
Fifty Grand.Hemingway

I've about 30 coffee table sized, mostly pictorial books and another 40/50 biographies that aren't anything special ,books on Fury,Lewis,Minter,Conteh,McGuigan,Bruno, several others on Ali,Johnson,and Louis

[Willow The Wisp]

I have the book pictured.
Below are probably the best of my boxing library.

The Black Lights,Hauser

Jim Jeffries
Jack Johnsonx2
Bob Fitzsimmons
All byAdam Pollack

In This Corner. Pete Heller
The Impossible Dream.Gains
The Sweet Science.
A Neutral Corner.
Both by Leibling

Twenty And Out .Duff

The Road To Nowhere .Dixon
A Ringside Affair .Lawton
Once There Were Giants. Izenberg
Box On. Gibbs

Murderers Row
The Gods Of War
In The Cheap Seats
All by Toledo

Ringside Seats
More Ringside Seats
By Wilson

Carpentier By Himself.Carpentier

Johansson. by Johansson

Jack Johnson His Life And Times .Batchelor
Penny A Punch.Legge
Ringside.Shulberg
Inside Facts On Pugilism .Siler
Night Train.Tosches
McIvanney On Boxing.McIllvanney
Joe Louis.Bak Joe Louis by Himself
Joe Louis.Roberts
Sam Langford.Moyle
I Fought Em All .Lewis & Sharkey
Jack Dempsey. Dempsey
Dempsey1 Dempsey 2 .Pollack
The Boxing Companion.Batchelor

The FightingBlacksmith.Batchelor

Jack Johnson In The Ring and Out .Johnson.
Jack Johnson Black Champion.Farr
Ali.Hauser
Ali.Eig
Ali Durham
Ali.Remnick
Sporting Blood. Acevedo
RobinsonP4P .Boyd
by George.Foreman
George Francis.Francis
Come Out Smoking.Pepe
Boxing AndThe Mob.Sussman
Jacobs Beach.Mitchell
Tyson.Heller
Boxing's Hall Of Shame.Myler
Great Fights Of The 60's. Whiting
Fight Dr.Pacheco
The One is Jack Hurley1& 2. Ochs
Sting Like A Bee.Torres
Inside FactsOn Pugilism.Siler
Fights For The Championship Bell's Life Boxiana Compendium. Egan
Unbeaten.Stanton
The Rock Of His Times.Skehan
The Boxing register
Boxing Almanac
a Flame Of Pure Fire .Kahn
Raging Bull.Lamotta
Somebody Up There Likes Me.Graziano
Knuckles And Gloves .Lynch
Manly Art.Kimball
Four Kings.Kimball
The Life And Crimes Of Don King,Newfield

Fiction
The Professional. Heinz
The Harder They Fall. Shulberg
Fifty Grand.Hemingway

I've about 30 coffee table sized, mostly pictorial books and another 40/50 biographies that aren't anything special ,books on Fury,Lewis,Minter,Conteh,McGuigan,Bruno, several others on Ali,Johnson,and Louis

That's a great collection! You learn plenty by reading. Anyway; that's what Mom always said, so it's gotta be true.

[solidman]

awesome collection. It was this list that convinced me to buy in the ring books.

[Anomalocaris]

I have the book pictured.
Below are probably the best of my boxing library.

The Black Lights,Hauser

Jim Jeffries
Jack Johnsonx2
Bob Fitzsimmons
All byAdam Pollack

In This Corner. Pete Heller
The Impossible Dream.Gains
The Sweet Science.
A Neutral Corner.
Both by Leibling

Twenty And Out .Duff

The Road To Nowhere .Dixon
A Ringside Affair .Lawton
Once There Were Giants. Izenberg
Box On. Gibbs

Murderers Row
The Gods Of War
In The Cheap Seats
All by Toledo

Ringside Seats
More Ringside Seats
By Wilson

Carpentier By Himself.Carpentier

Johansson. by Johansson

Jack Johnson His Life And Times .Batchelor
Penny A Punch.Legge
Ringside.Shulberg
Inside Facts On Pugilism .Siler
Night Train.Tosches
McIvanney On Boxing.McIllvanney
Joe Louis.Bak Joe Louis by Himself
Joe Louis.Roberts
Sam Langford.Moyle
I Fought Em All .Lewis & Sharkey
Jack Dempsey. Dempsey
Dempsey1 Dempsey 2 .Pollack
The Boxing Companion.Batchelor

The FightingBlacksmith.Batchelor

Jack Johnson In The Ring and Out .Johnson.
Jack Johnson Black Champion.Farr
Ali.Hauser
Ali.Eig
Ali Durham
Ali.Remnick
Sporting Blood. Acevedo
RobinsonP4P .Boyd
by George.Foreman
George Francis.Francis
Come Out Smoking.Pepe
Boxing AndThe Mob.Sussman
Jacobs Beach.Mitchell
Tyson.Heller
Boxing's Hall Of Shame.Myler
Great Fights Of The 60's. Whiting
Fight Dr.Pacheco
The One is Jack Hurley1& 2. Ochs
Sting Like A Bee.Torres
Inside FactsOn Pugilism.Siler
Fights For The Championship Bell's Life Boxiana Compendium. Egan
Unbeaten.Stanton
The Rock Of His Times.Skehan
The Boxing register
Boxing Almanac
a Flame Of Pure Fire .Kahn
Raging Bull.Lamotta
Somebody Up There Likes Me.Graziano
Knuckles And Gloves .Lynch
Manly Art.Kimball
Four Kings.Kimball
The Life And Crimes Of Don King,Newfield

Fiction
The Professional. Heinz
The Harder They Fall. Shulberg
Fifty Grand.Hemingway

I've about 30 coffee table sized, mostly pictorial books and another 40/50 biographies that aren't anything special ,books on Fury,Lewis,Minter,Conteh,McGuigan,Bruno, several others on Ali,Johnson,and Louis

I had many of those once upon a time.

I would add Shadowbox by George Plimpton.

The section on the build up to the first Ali fight gave a stark insight as to just how much awe and terror Liston was regarded in by press and public alike.