FIFTY FAMOUS FIGHTS IN FACT AND FICTION

The author selects 50 fights from real life and fiction. Among them are the two great fights between Tom Cribb and Tom Milineaux in 1810 and 1811, the meeting between Tom Sayers and John Heenan (1860), the encounter between Mr Pickwick and the cabman (from "Pickwick Papers", by Charles Dickens), and the final reckoning between Moby Dick and Captain Ahab (from "Moby Dick", by Herman Melville). An excellent collection, originally published 1932.

First Edition. 8vo. xiv + 384pp. Black cloth. Lacks the dust-wrapper. Fine ink inscription inside the front cover: Sir Wm Waters Butter, Bt, Edgbaston, From O. Locker Lampson M.P., Sept 5th, 1932.  [Hartley, 171]