London, W. H. Allen & Co, J. C. Juta & Co., Impey and Davis in South Africa 1892

8vo, 400 pp, red cloth with gilt lettering, frontispiece and 7 plates, including one of a riot at a boxing match 190 by 130mm (7½ by 5 inches).

Couper fought Wolf Bendoff for £4000 and it was the first major international fight in South Africa. He could be regarded as the founder of boxing in South Africa.

Frontispiece + plates by Irving Montague. A novel of boxing and diamonds set in the late 1890's in Kimberley & Johannesburg. The author was a well known pugilist who did much to advance the science of athletics in South Africa, and some of his best-known fights are described here. He made and lost a fortune, eventually committing suicide in a fit of depression at Johannesburg.. The descriptions of many of the characters are of recognisable people including the mining company boss Barney Barnato " The Johannesburg Times 20th July 1897 has an obituary on Couper, whom it says was trained by a partner of Jem Mace, Charlie Ball, and later by Ned Donnelly and Bat Mullens.

Bibliography: Hartley 427