SAM LANGFORD BOOK IS AVAILABLE!!! My new book 'Sam Langford, Boxing's Greatest Uncrowned Champion' is now available. It is a hardback with dust jacket and is comprised of 429 pages with 98 illustrations. Priced at $29.95, the book can be ordered directly via www.samlangford.com. If you'd like a signed or inscribed copy just indicate that in the comments section when making payment. It's also available via Amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com.

Welcome to PRIZEFIGHTINGBOOKS.COM. I am an avid collector of boxing books and would like to help you build your own collection by offering for sale duplicate books that I acquire during my efforts to build my own collection. Please note that in addition to boxing books I have a number of non-boxing sports books listed on this site, as well as a great many other types of boxing memorabilia such as autographs, artwork, magazines, tickets, and other misc. items. Please contact me with any questions you may have concerning any of the listed items, or to request a scan.

As far as which boxing books are most desirable, every collector's opinion will differ somewhat. I recommend that you check out the website of Don Scott, editor of Boxing Collectors News at www.boxingcollectors.com for his opinion regarding books that are the most collectible. By the way, he puts out an excellent monthly newsletter on boxing memorabilia..

Another terrific resource to anyone who collects boxing books is two books written by R.A. Hartley; 'History & Bibliography of Boxing Books' (1989) and 'More Boxing Books' (1995). The author provides a listing of a very large number of boxing books that have been written, along with brief descriptions of each one. If you are a collector of boxing books, these two reference books are invaluable.

If you don't find a title you are looking for in my 'Boxing Books for Sale' section, please feel free to e-mail me a list of your wants and I will be happy to keep on file and contact you if I come across any of the desired titles. I would also be happy to answer any e-mail correspondence that you send regarding my own experiences in terms of prices for any boxing books that you might be pursuing. Lastly, as a collector of boxing books I would always be interested to hear from anyone regarding boxing titles, or boxing book collections that you might have available for sale or trade, especially pre-1935 titles.

I am currently looking for the following titles:
* The Battle of the Century by George Siler 1897
* Lessons in Boxing by George Dixon 1893
* A History of the Coffroth Family by James Coffroth 1926
* Famous Fights at the Stadium, C.A. Jeffries 1914
* Boxing in Nine Lessons by Battling Levinsky
* Ring Record & Fistic Facts #'s 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5 (1894-98)
* Police Gazette Sporting Annuals 1896-1906, 1910, 1917, 1919-20.

A more comprehensive list of titles I am still searching for may be viewed on my blog.

I am also interested in anything related to Sam Langford.

-Clay Moyle