Georges Carpentier — My Fighting Life

London, Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1920 . First edition. Cloth. An interesting autobiographical work on a previous champion heavyweight boxer of Europe, Georges Carpentier. First edition, in the publisher's original green cloth binding, with a boxing motif to the front board. Georges Carpentier was a French boxer, actor and World War One pilot. He had a long and successful boxing career, fighting between 1908 and 1926. Known as Le Grand Georges, he achieved the title of French professional champion on a number of occasions and became the European heavyweight champion just prior to the First World War. This work depicts Carpentier's varied life, from the start of his career, to military boxing during the way, as well as his training hints and secrets. With eleven full-page photographs of Georges throughout his life. Collated, complete. In the publisher's original green cloth binding, with a boxing motif to the front board. Externally, very smart, with light bumping to the extremities and fading to the spine. Light offsetting and the occasional spot to endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with the odd spot. A few scattered spots to the fore edge. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .