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One Tough Kid -- A pompous, but highly readable autobiography. It has the ingredients of a popular TV series or a thrilling movie…perfect boxing, crooked boxing, brutality, sex, murder!
$30







Aerobox -- Now you can keep fit the way top boxers do. From Michael “The Silk” Olajide, Jr., a former world-ranked middleweight contender, comes AEROBOX, a non-contact aerobic program and total body workout for both men and women.
$20







Bless Me, Father -- “There are moments in this book, about boxing, about the nature of masculine fear, that are QUITE UNLIKE ANYTHING I’VE EVER READ OR SEEN OR HEARD.”
$20







Body & Soul -- When French sociologist Loic Wacquant signed up at a boxing gym in a black neighborhood of Chicago’s South Side, he had never contemplated getting close to a ring, let alone climbing into it. Yet for three years he immersed himself among local fighters, amateur and professional. What happens is memorable. (274 pages, hardcover)
$20







Boxer’s Start-Up -- Over 200 photos show you how! A beginner’s basic guide to boxing training and technique.
$20







The Book of Boxing Quotations -- 221 pages of absolutely remarkable boxing quotations!
$20
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Boxing Shorts -- From the quick wit of Muhammad Ali to the knockout punches of George Foreman, this entertaining collection of boxing quips and quotes showcases the most memorable one-liners ever to enter the ring. (233 pages)
$20







Boxing’s Best--Short Stories -- Boxing’s Best Short Stories brings the action of the ring to life with 22 classic tales. (330 pages, hardcover)
$20







Buffalo Nickel -- Novelist Floyd Salas has charted his dramatic coming of age in the conflicting shadows of two older brothers: one a drug addict and petty criminal, the other an intellectual prodigy. (347 pages, hardcover)
$20







Buttercups And Strong Boys -- “An absolutely enthralling tour through the minor leagues of boxing by a writer as skillful and informative in his observations as the very best chroniclers of the Sweet Science.” George Plimpton (252 pages, hardcover)
$20







Cashel Byron’s Profession -- George Bernard Shaw’s fourth novel. This is the story of a young gentleman who, having run away from school, lands in Australia where he learns the art of prize fighting. (236 pages, hardcover)
$30







China Boy -- Warm, funny, and deeply moving, China Boy is a brilliantly rendered novel of family relationships, culture shock, and the perils of growing up in an America of sharp differences and shared humanity.
$20







Do Or Die -- Barret’s fascinating documentation of a seven-year odyssey photographing young boxers in Harlem, the South Bronx and Brooklyn. Astounding photographs! (hardcover)
$60







Easy Boxing For Self-Defense -- A rare instructional guide written by former light heavyweight contender. Many photographs. (34 pages)
$30







Fighting Ruben Wolfe --Cameron Wolfe and his brother Ruben have run out of luck. Their family’s broke and they need money fast. Jobs are hard to find. Their parents are no help. There’s only one place to turn: underground. (207 pages)
$20







How To Box --Classic insights to boxing and sparring are given. Jack Dempsey’s advice and Benny Leonard photos are wonderful.
$25







Ring of Dreams -- Ninety pages of artistic photography of amateur boxers from California to Manhattan.
$20







Shadow Boxer -- A Best Book for Young Adults (ALA)…A Recommended Book for Reluctant Young Adult Readers (ALA)…A Best Book of 1993 (SLJ)
$20







The Boxer’s Workout --. The fitness program set forth in this book is for people who want to get into “fighting trim” without necessarily getting into the ring to box. (173 pages of excellent photos)
$20







The Brave -- The sequel to Robert Lipsyte’s famous The Contender series. A 1992 ALA Best Book for Young Adults. Riveting!
$20







The Chief -- Robert Lipsyte, the award-winning author, continues his love of boxing with Sonny Bear, the Tomahawk Kid, who fights for his people.
$20







The Contender-- Story telling doesn’t get any better than this boxing classic! An award-winning tale, complete with a teacher’s reading guide and author’s personal email!
$30







The Defendants -- The Defendants is written by an ex-fighter who knows that most fighters don’t make it, but knows about the dream that drives them.
$20







The Gloves -- “The Gloves, told in pitch-perfect prose, is enormously empathetic, grimly funny, in the end almost unbearably heartbreaking, and has more actual insights into class and race and masculinity than any hundred sociological studies.” David Shields, Black Planet (331 pages, hardcover)
$25







Warrior Angel-- Sonny Bear’s amazing story continues! (See The Chief)
$20







The White Feather-- Sheen was a studious if rather slothful young fellow who found little to hold his interest in the fanatically popular school games. He became an outcast until… (158 pages, hardcover)
$30







Training for Boxers-- Great photos, old tricks, and great classic advice for fighters!
$30







Yellow -- Hooray! An Asian amateur boxer! “A gem…The Asian-American experience has grown ever more rich and complicated…Don Lee has captured this truth beautifully, wisely, and with winning economy.” Cleveland Plain Dealer
$20







The Power of One --A magical adventure on an epic scale: An exceptional storyteller’s stirring saga of a young boy’s will to win. (518 pages, hardcover)
$30







The Shadow Boxer -- This is the story of Sevigne Torrins, poet and boxer, who sets out to make it in the world but whose sexual and professional misadventures take him from a demanding, muscular boyhood on the shores of Lake Superior to the trendy, bohemian life of Toronto and even to Egypt.
$25







Dancing Shoes is Dead-- Infatuated with the likes of Muhammad Ali and Joe Louis, Gavin Evans became obsessed with boxing at the age of six and was determined to be the heavyweight champion of the world in spite of being the smallest kid in the class.
$20