First Edition. Price-clipped, elsewise a bright, clean, tight copy sans flaws. "Interwoven with photographs are remarkable writings on boxing by A.J. Liebling, Jimmy Cannon, William Nack, James Baldwin, and Mark Kram, plus and insightful biographical profile of Hoff by journalist Richard Woodward. With an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Ford, who also selected each essay." ILLUSTRATED in black and white photography with accompanying descriptive captions. 125 pages. GO2.

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Bibliographic Details

Title: The Fights
Publisher: Chronicle Books Llc
Publication Date: 1996
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0811811220
ISBN 13: 9780811811224
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: Charles Hoff
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

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Photographs of fighters in action are accompanied by essays about boxers, specific fights, and the sport of boxing

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When a roster of writers includes Richard Ford, A. J. Liebling, James Baldwin, and Jimmy Cannon, it's hard to imagine that the words are only a preliminary to the stark, haunting black and white photography of Charles Hoff, whose lens chronicled boxing from the '30s through the '60s, but Hoff's images are, indeed, the book's main event. Like boxing itself, they are graceful, brutal, compelling and poignant, adding even deeper focus to the heavyweight essays that surround them.

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