Boxing Literature
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Short Stories

Art Buckley was a pseudonym of famed pulp writer, Frederick C. Davis

Buckley, Art, "Bare Knuckles," Complete Stories (Nov. 1, 1931)
Buckley, Art, "Elliot, Duke of Clout," Complete Stories (Dec. 1, 1931)
Buckley, Art, "Iron Fists," Complete Stories (Feb. 1, 1932)
Buckley, Art, "No Fight Tonight," Complete Stories (Jun. 15, 1932)
Buckley, Art, "The Count of Ten," Complete Stories (Dec. 1, 1932)
Buckley, Art, "Comeback," High Spot Magazine
Buckley, Art, "Gloves of Gold," High Spot Magazine
Buckley, Art, "Quick Fisted," High Spot Magazine
Buckley, Art, "Winner Take All," High Spot Magazine
Buckley, Art, "Red Gloves," High Spot Magazine (Jan. 1931)

Jones, Thom, The Pugilist at Rest, The New Yorker (1991)
Jones, Thom, Dynamite Hands, Playboy
Jones, Thom, Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine, The New Yorker

L'Amour, Louis, "Fighter's Fiasco," Ace Sports Stories (Jan 1938)

London, Jack, "The Game," Metropolitan Magazine (Apr/May 1905)
London, Jack, "A Piece of Steak," The Saturday Evening Post (Nov. 20, 1909)
London, Jack, "The Abysmal Brute," Popular Magazine (Sep. 1, 1911)
London, Jack, "The Mexican," The Saturday Evening Post (Aug. 19, 1911)

Matheson, Richard, "Steel," Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (May 1956)

Serling, Rod, "The Big Tall Wish," More Stories From The Twilight Zone (1961)

Wallace, Edgar, "Fighting Snub Reilly," in Fighting Snub Reilly (1934)

Novels

Burnett, W.R., Iron Man (1930)
Doyle, Arthur Conan, Rodney Stone (1896)
Gardner, Leonard, Fat City (1969)
Hamill, Pete, Flesh and Blood (1977)
Heinz, W.C., The Professional (1958)
L'Amour, Louis, Lando
L'Amour, Louis, The Iron Marshall
Lipsyte, The Contender (1967)
Serling, Rod, Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962)
Schulberg, Bud, The Harder They Fall (1947)
Shaw, George Bernard, Cashel Byron's Profession (1901)
Sorel, Julia, Rocky (1976)
Stallone, Sylvester, Rocky II (1979)
Vergani, Orio, Poor Nigger (1930)
Waldman, Frank, The Challenger (1955)
Wise, Leonard, The Diggstown Ringers (1978)
Witwer, H.C., Fighting Blood (1923)
Witwer, H.C., The Leather Pushers (1921)


Non-boxing Novels written in and about the 1930s:

Call It Sleep by Henry Roth
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
East of Eden by Steinbeck
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoy
Mildred Pierce by James M. Cain
All the Kings Men by Robert Penn Warren
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men - James Agee (photos by Walker Evans)
Double Indemnity by James M. Cain

Biography

From Abebooks.com: Harte, James Lambert - The Amazing Story Of James J. Braddock - Emmaus, PA: Rodale Press, 1938 First Edition: Hardcover VG/No dustjacket - The rags-to-riches story of Jim Braddock, "The Cinderalla Man," written only a year after he lost the heavyweight title to Joe Louis; 183 pages; book in terrific condition for age; straight and tightly bound in purple cloth, with title in gilt on the spine; no title on front panel; pages slightly yellowed, and the year "1905" written in ink in the margin of page 1, opposite where the text states that Baddock was born in 1906; two black and white photos. - Price -- $200!

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