The Fighters, by Chris Greyvenstein. A Pictorial History of SA Boxing from 1881. Published by Don Nelson, Cape Town, 1981.
First Edition. ISBN 909238626. Hardback, no jacket, 448pp. Reading Copy. Condition: Poor (Cover and prelims in poor condition; binding in poor to fair condition; text block in fair to good condition)
Small scuff-marks to front and rear panels--shelf-worn, with superficial scratches. Corners rubbed, scuffed. Edges heavily shelf-rubbed, scuffed--especially around the head and foot of spine. Scuffing along the spine hinge on rear panel. Spine re-attached to rear panel with broad packaging tape in a very slap-dash, untidy manner. Soiled under the plastic taping. Title, author name and publisher clearly legible on both spine and front panel. Heavy insect (fishmoth) erosion along the gutter of front endpapers and along edges of front free endpaper, foxed on verso. Same on half-title, which is foxed, and has half of page missing. Cover entirely detached from the text block at the title page. Insect erosion around edges of title page. Prelims somewhat foxed, with progressively less insect damage towards the start of the first chapter.
Text block itself not in bad shape--with following defects: p15 loose, with small tears into the inner edge. Otherwise binding is shaken but reasonably secure as far as text block goes; binding is detached however from the front panel and spine, as already indicated in previous paragraph. Binding with text-block still attached to cover at the back, with rear endpapers reasonably intact and clean. A few individual pages also with light insect erosion to the edges. Tips of a couple of pages folded. A large crease across corner of p376, with a light ding and tiny tear into lower edge of opposite page. A couple of thumb smudges in the margins. Very occasional and limited foxing on the whole clean. No inscriptions, no underlining or highlighting, no annotations or marginalia.
