We just managed to get our hands on a few extra copies of one of the best — and most rare — Iron Game books ever written: The Illustrated History of Physical Culture by Alan Radley.

Published back in 2000, Radley does a masterful job of taking us back through the earliest history of physical training (Babylonia, Greece, Egypt, etc.) on through the pioneers of physical culture (MacFadden, Desbonnet, Attila),  the dawn of the musical hall strongmen (Inch, Sandow, Strongfort),  early publishing giants (Liederman, Atlas, Calvert) and into the modern world (Park, Reeves, Grimek, Pearl).

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Table of Contents

You’ll find many fascinating anecdotes of all the great names of bodybuilding history (Hackenschmidt, Klein, Apollon, Saxon – and so many more!)

All in all, this is book is an invaluable resource for anyone with a historical interest in bodybuilding and physical training.

148 pages in length, softcover, 8″ x 11.5″ in size, contain MANY photographs and diagrams printed on glossy paper. MINT copy.

IMPORTANT: Like all rare books, there are only so many copies to go around and when they are gone, they are GONE. Grab your copy now while they are still available. First come // First serve.