New York: Random House, 1998. dj. Hardcover - More than just a biography of Muhammad Ali, this shows how revolutionary his role was in the world of sports. Cassius Clay grew up in the segregated South but became a beloved figure in American life. Illustrated with photographs. Notes, index. 326 pp. ISBN: 0-375-500650.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of Collis Phillips, who became a successful boxer in New Orleans during the height of Jim Crow, and of his family, of the triumphs and the tragedies. Before writing this moving book, Bates spent 10 years with the Phillips family from Collis down thru his great-great grandson, as a friend and biographer. 421 pp plus a section of glossy photographs.

New York: Harper & Row, (1987.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A provocative brief novel - a blending of despair and hope - by this Southern author. 161 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0156805.

Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press, 1995. Front cover has gold seal announcing that this book was a 1994 winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. ISBN: 0-88001-444x.

London: HarperCollins, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The true first edition of this highly acclaimed novel based on the true story of the real-life bare-knuckle boxer Tom Molineaux, a Virginia slave who fought his way to freedom and to celebrity in England in the early 1880's. Although not officially part of the Flashman Papers - and set earlier in time during Regency England - Captain 'Mad Buck' Flashman, father of Harry Flashman, plays a large role in this wonderful novel. Glossary. 248 pp. ISBN: 0-00-2255855.

New York: Carroll & Graf, 1999. The highly acclaimed novel based on thrue story of the real-life bare-knuckle boxer Tom Molineaux, a Virginia slave who fought his way to freedom and to celebrity in England in the early 1880's. Although not officially part of the Flashman Papers - and set earlier in time during Regency England - Captain 'Mad Buck' Flashman, father of Harry Flashman, plays a large role in this wonderful novel. ISBN: 0-7867-0618x.

New York: Carroll & Graf, (1998.) dj. Hardcover - A highly acclaimed novel based on the true story of the real-life bare-knuckle boxer Tom Molineaux, a Virginia slave who fought his way to freedom and to celebrity in England in the early 1880's. Although not officially part of the Flashman Papers - and set earlier in time during Regency England - Captain 'Mad Buck' Flashman, father of Harry Flashman, plays a large role in this wonderful novel. Glossary. 249 pp. ISBN: 0-7867-05531.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1965. dj. Hardcover first edition - Informal profiles by this former sportswriter of some of the stars of the "Golden Decade" of the 1920s - in boxing, tennis, baseball, football, golf - including Bobby Jones, Babe Ruth, Gertrude Ederle, Gene Tunney, Helen Wills, Ty Cobb, Jack Dempsey, Knute Rockne and many more. Illustrated with many photographs. 315 pp.

New York: Atria Books, (2008). First edition - The story of his rise from poverty to four time world heavyweight boxing champion, told in his own words. Includes an appendix with his professional fight record. Cover praise from President Bill Clinton who says "Passion, drive and athleticism shine through on every page of this absorbing memoir." 273 pp.

New York: Doubleday, (1995). First edition - The first novel by this award-winning journalist, a story of "crime, vengeance, and redemption, set on New York City's meanest streets. Frank Battaglia is a swaggering soldier of the Mafia, greedy for the power generations of thugs have taken as their right and compelled by an inner demon to rip away the shame that surrounds him like a shroud. As a young fighter, Frank fell apart in the ring at Madison Square Garden, a humiliation witnessed by the most powerful gangster in the city. In Frank's eyes, only one person can salvage his reputation: his son Nicky." 321 pp.

New York: Literary Guild of America, 1928. Hardcover - While this might have been a tongue-in-cheek criticism of the excesses of the "roaring twenties" it is amazing how it still describes the United States -whether it is taken to the road in the chapters "The once open road" and "Caravan" or the fascination with "Bigger and better murders", golf, boxing, movies, junk food ("soda fountains" where "the food is bogus" even though wrapped in strictly sanitary packages) and more. Illustrated with drawings by Howard W. Willard. 263 pp.

New York: Scribner, (2002). Hardcover first edition - The author's first crime novel, introducing Billy Nichols, a 1940s sportswriter known as Mr. Boxing Set in 1948, this the depicts the gritty post World War II boxing scene in San Francisco - a world the author knows well, as the son of a noted boxing writer and founder of the San Francisco Historical Boxing Museum Nominated for Barry, Macavity and Shamus Awards. Frontispiece. 302 pp. ISBN: 0-743214439.

New York: Scholastic, 2001. dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at Muhammad Ali's life from a talented writer for young readers. Photographs. Bibliography, chronology, index. 172 pp.

Santa Barbara: Capra Press, (2005.). SIGNED first edition - A collection of 10 of Nolan's favorite short stories - from all of the different genres in which he writes --western, detective, a boxing story, an aviation story, a time travel story, science fiction and more - published for the first time in a non-genre collection, Written over a period of 35 years, the stories are arranged chronologically, and include 3 never before published in book format. Foreword Paul McComas. INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in 2006 - when he was signing this, Nolan commented that it is his favorite book - a pretty remarkable comment when you look at the four full pages the list of his "other works" fill at the beginning of this book. 256 pp. ISBN: 1-592660495.

New York: Dutton, (1988) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Collection of essays on topics ranging from Moby Dick to Emily Dickinson, from Robert Louis Stevenson to Charlotte Bronte, from Kafka to Mike Tyson and boxing, on Hemingway and on using a pseudonym. SIGNED on the title page. 402 pp. ISBN: 0-525-246525.

Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A unique boxing book: the author was an amateur boxer at Oxford, a boxing writer for several years and then he decided to bring an unknown fighter to the World Welterweight Championship. The settings range from Cuba to Harlem, Paris to Las Vegas, a memoir both funny and melancholy. 187 pp. ISBN: 0-88001-6019.

New York: The Viking Press, (1970) dj. Hardcover first edition - Autobiography of this boxing great, winner of two world championships. Includes an appendix with his boxing record. viii, 376 pp. Dust jacket art by LeRoy Neiman. ISBN: 0-670681415.

Houston, TX:' Arte Publico Press, (1992.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - This coming of age account of a young man at first following his older brother into a life of crime and drug use, and then struggling to save himself (and failing to save his brother) is an "autobiography that reads like a well-crafted novel in its recording of the excessive human costs of drug addication.". SIGNED and dated on the title page. 347 p. ISBN: 155885049X.

Blue Ash, OH: Tyrus Books, 2015. First edition - The author's first novel, set in Los Angeles, and named a Sports Illustrated Sports Book of the Year 2015. "Nick Pafko knows he can't be a professional boxer forever. But he never guessed it would end so quickly, and so wrong. Broke and unemployed, Nick has little choice but to call a number given to him by a friend. On the other end? Scott, a washed-up B-movie actor who runs a so-called massage parlor looking for somebody desperate enough to work security." 298 pp

New York: New American Library - NAL, (1968.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Rather uncommon first novel by the author of the Pulitzer prize-winning 'The Killer Angels.' In this book, the hero returns from Korea to the boxing ring and travels to the Middle East in search of inner peace - experiences which parallel those of Shaara. 239 pp.

Chicago: Reilly & Lee, (1922). Hardcover - Mystery and adventure set in the circus world and the world of boxing. 238 pp.

Chicago: Reilly & Lee, (1922.). Hardcover - Mystery and adventure set in the circus world and the world of boxing. 238 pp.

New York: Ecco Press, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first book, a powerful collection of five short stories and the title novella, by Boyd, whose years of experience as a 'cut-man' (the one who staunches the blood flow and allows fights to continue), gives these stories a sometimes heart-breaking authenticity. One of the stories - 'Million $$$ Baby' - was the basis for the 2004 Academy-award winning film, produced and directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Hilary Swank. 235 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0198206.

Guilford, Connecticut : The Lyons Press, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of essays on his adventures in Costa Rica, with Peter Blake and the New Zealand sailing team, crocodile hunting in Australia, diving with the great white sharks in South Africa and much more by the author best known for his Doc Ford mysteries - but who has also been a fishing guide and the author of the "Out There" column for Outside magazine. SIGNED on the title page. xv, 195 pp. ISBN: 1592280331.