Bruiser von tully jim (15 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. A riveting picture of life in the boxing ring, originally published in 1936. The boxers populating these briskly paced chapters are drawn from the many ring legends the writer counted among his friends: Jack Dempsey, Joe Gans, Stanley Ketchel, Gene Tunney.

Zustand: New. A riveting picture of life in the boxing ring, originally published in 1936. The boxers populating these briskly paced chapters are drawn from the many ring legends the writer counted among his friends: Jack Dempsey, Joe Gans, Stanley Ketchel, Gene Tunney Series: Black Squirrel Books. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 141 x 21. Weight in Grams: 352. . 2010. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 272 pages. 7.80x5.50x0.90 inches. In Stock.

Softcover. Zustand: Very good +. Third printing, complete and unabridged. No. 67. 189, [5] p. 16 cm. Paperback. Front cover art by Charles Andres, 1946. Pages browned. A novel ofo the prize ring.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 1960 Corgi printing, spine creased with chipped ends, corners of the covers creased, page edges tanned. Orders received by 3pm Sent from the UK that weekday in recyclable card packaging.

Zustand: Good. 1936. No edition remarks. 248 pages. No dust jacket. Orange cloth. Clean pages with noticeable tanning throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Boards have mild edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Heavy tanning to spine, which has notable crushing and tearing to ends. Book has forward lean. Mild water stains and droplets to spine. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Very good copy in hardcover with good plus jacket. Shelf-wear, rubbing, light dust-staining, pages yellowing. Binding square and firm. Jacket has chipping and small tears along the edges with larger pieces missing at fore-edges and top and base of spine.…

Zustand: New. A riveting picture of life in the boxing ring, originally published in 1936. The boxers populating these briskly paced chapters are drawn from the many ring legends the writer counted among his friends: Jack Dempsey, Joe Gans, Stanley Ketchel, Gene Tunney.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Tight binding, interior clean. Tan board corners and spine rubbed/bumped slightly; light foxing as well. Spine is age toned. Signed and inscribed on the ffep "To Dr. S.S. Stanley from his friend, Jim Tully, N. Hollywood, Calif.". Interior of boards have some browning (discoloration) that has transferred to the endpapers, not on main text though. Bookshop sticker inside back board. The Bruiser is the story of Shane Rory, a drifter who turns to boxing and works his way up the heavyweight ranks. 248 pages, plus a page of ads. Signed by Author(s).…

Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. New York: Greenberg Publisher, 1936. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm); publisher's cream cloth, black titling to upper cover and spine, blue topstain; [6],248pp. Boards a bit worn, especially at spine ends, corners bumped, top stain faded; overall Very Good, internally clean and sound, albeit lacking jacket. The author's novel of the boxing prize ring, dedicated to Jack Dempsey. …

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. A scarce first UK edition copy of Jim Tully's novel concerning boxing. The scarce first UK edition in the publisher's original cloth binding. Library label to the rear paste down. Jim Tully (1886-1947) was an American writer and pugilist, who is considered to be one of the founders of hard-boiled fiction. This is one of his critically and commercially successful novels concerning boxing, which draws on Tully's experiences of life on the road and the ring. The protagonist, Shane Rory, is a drifter who works his way up the heavyweight ranks. This volume is scarce in the first UK edition. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally sound, with a mark to the front board and darkening to the spine. Shelf wear to the extremities. Library label to the rear paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean except for spotting to the first and last couple of pages. Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. First edition. 248pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Tan cloth over boards. Publisher's black top stain. Good, in a good Grosset & Dunlap reprint dust jacket. The dust jacket is shorter than the book, wraps around the spine and covers, and has been adhered to the book on the pastedowns. The spine ends and corners of the covers are gently bumped. The publisher's stain on the top edge of the text block is partially faded. This book once belonged to a Circulating Library, and has four ink stamps on the endpapers. The text block is sturdy. A first edition of this gritty boxing novel, written by an author who was very familiar with prizefighting, and whom many consider to be a precursor to the "hard-boiled" school of writing.…

First Edition. First edition in G&D dust jacket. Tully drew on his own experiences on the road and in the ring as well as those of his friends Jack Dempsey (the heavyweight champ to whom the book is dedicated), Gene Tunney, et al. INSCRIBED, "To Joe Shaw / FROM ONE BRUISER TO ANOTHER / Jim Tully." Joseph T. "Cap" Shaw was Tully's literary agent at Wilson, Powell, and Hayward, a former editor of Black Mask magazine, and an Olympic medal-winning fencer. Good with spine gutters and endpapers darkened and light vertical crease on spine; in a reprint Grosset & Dunlap dust jacket with same front panel illustration as the first. Dust jacket has significant chip to head of spine taking out title and few letters of author's name but is otherwise good and bright. Signed. …

Zustand: Very Good. First edition. First edition. Signed by Jim Tully on front free endpaper, inscribed "To Arthur and Hazel This novel of bruisers and battles by their friend Jim Tully[,] Tall Timber North Hollywood California 1938." [vi], 248 pp. Bound in publisher's tan cloth lettered in black. Very Good with vertical crease to spine, light soiling, offsetting to endpapers, in a Good dust jacket with some chips, tears, and creases, a few pieces of archival mending tissue on verso, unclipped ($2.00) Ex-hobo-turned-author Jim Tully was also an ex-boxer; this novel was inspired by his experiences in the ring. Signed. …

Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. [vi], 248 pp. Original tan cloth lettered in black. Near Fine with former owner's name penned on front free endpaper and rear paste down, a little dampstaining to fore edge of back board. In Very Good original, unclipped ($2.00) pictorial dust jacket, chipped at head, spine panel a bit dulled, small scratch with closed tear to middle of front panel with small tape mend to verso, lightly edge worn; presents well. Uncommon in a presentable jacket. Ex-hobo-turned-author Jim Tully (best-known for his road memoir Beggars of Life) was also an ex-boxer; this novel was inspired by his experiences in the ring. Likewise, the novel Circus Parade was inspired by his time with a circus. His time as a tree-surgeon, though, unfortunately never inspired a novel. One imagines it would have had a title like The Pruner or perhaps Climbers of Bark. …