The Harder They Fall – rare, vintage, or collectible item from Deb’s Book Paradise
The Harder They Fall – rare, vintage, or collectible item from Deb’s Book Paradise
The Harder They Fall – rare, vintage, or collectible item from Deb’s Book Paradise
The Harder They Fall – rare, vintage, or collectible item from Deb’s Book Paradise
The Harder They Fall – rare, vintage, or collectible item from Deb’s Book Paradise
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The Harder They Fall

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Description

  • Author: Budd Schulberg

  • Publisher: Random House

  • Edition: First Edition, First Printing

  • Date of Publication: 1947

  • Place of Publication: New York

  • Format: Hardcover with original dust jacket

  • Page Count: 372 pages

  • Condition:

    • Book: Very Good+ (clean interior, solid binding, light toning consistent with age)

    • Dust Jacket: Good (edge wear, chipping at spine and corners, some loss—but complete and original)

 

 Description 

The Harder They Fall is Budd Schulberg’s searing, insider novel of professional boxing—its glamour, corruption, and moral cost. Written with journalistic sharpness and psychological depth, the novel exposes a world where ambition and exploitation collide, following the rise and fall of a broken heavyweight built more on promotion than talent.

Dark, fast-paced, and unsparing, this is Schulberg at his most cynical and compelling—a natural companion to What Makes Sammy Run?, but set in a brutal arena where bodies, not just souls, are sacrificed.

The novel later inspired the 1956 film starring Humphrey Bogart and Rod Steiger, cementing its place as a classic of mid-century American realism.

Collector’s Notes / Why We Love This Book

  • True Random House First Edition (1947)

  • A cornerstone of postwar American literary realism

  • Important crossover title: literary fiction + sports history + Hollywood culture

  • Increasingly sought after in any condition with original jacket

  • Feels especially resonant today in conversations about exploitation, celebrity, and media manufacture

This is a legitimate, classic first