📚 Boxing

The sweet science: technique and champions, and the cost-of-the-ring argument that never settles.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject boxing in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The Admirable Bashville	George Bernard Shaw	1907	15
	The sweet science	A. J. Liebling	1949	14
	Fencing	Walter Herries Pollock	1889	10
	Golden boy	Clifford Odets	1937	10
	A pictorial history of boxing	Nat Fleischer	1959	10
	The boxing register	James B. Roberts	1996	10
	Encyclopaedia of boxing	Maurice Golesworthy	1960	9
	A pictorial history of boxing	Nat Fleischer	1959	8
	The heavyweight champions	Durant, John	1960	8
	The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Boxing	Harry Mullan	1996	7
	Four Kings	George Kimball	2008	7
	Raging bull	Jake La Motta	1970	6
	The Fight	Norman Mailer	1975	6
	On boxing	Joyce Carol Oates	1987	6
	Boxiana	Egan, Pierce	1812	5
	Shadow box	George Plimpton	1977	5
	McIlvanney on boxing	Hugh McIlvanney	1982	5
	The black lights	Thomas Hauser	1986	5
	Greatest Ever Boxing Workouts	Gary Todd	2013	4
	Boxing for beginners	Jim Fitzgerald	1980	3
	The manly art	Elliott J. Gorn	1986	3
	The International Boxing Hall of Fame's basic boxing skills	Floyd Patterson	2007	3
	Championship Fighting	Jack Dempsey	1950	2
	Savate	Bruce Tegner	1970	2
	Rocky	Rosalyn Drexler	1976	2
	The complete book of boxing for fighters and fight fans	Curtis Cokes	1980	2
	Boxing	Kevin Hickey	1980	2
	Muay Thai	Panyā Kraithat	1988	2
	Boxing	Gary Blower	2006	2
	Boxing and training	Gene Tunney	1928	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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