An Operator – Selections From The Fancy; or True Sportsman’s Guide

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Selections From The Fancy; or True Sportsman’s Guide. 1972 Imprint Society. Barre Massachusetts 1972. Limited Edition of 1,950 copies SIGNED by author. 136-pages. VG condition. Includes: Cursory remarks on the origin, rise and progress of pugilism in England, and other pugilists; memoirs of the life of Thomas Hickman, including misc. reports on sporting ardor, an altercation between two ladies, and the brutality of the American mode of fighting; memoirs of Tom Shelton, on the adventures of training, memoirs of Tom Molineaux, with further observations on the progress of pugilism; memoirs of Jack Slack…