The Tragedy of Randolph Turpin by Jack Birtley
New English Library, March 1975, [First Edition - reprint June 1975], b/w photographic plates, hardback, dust jacket
Good Condition, minor edge and shelf wear to dust jacket and boards, age-toning to pages, no inscription or writing. Old Myer stickers to inside dust flap.
Good reading condition
160 pages
22cm high x 14cm wide
'The story of Randolph Turpin is in the classic mould of rags to riches but then, regrettably, bag to rags again. Author Jack Birtley say Turpin fight as a boy and later became a family friend - always his admirer. He spent over three years researching in order to write this book and the result is not simply a biography of a man who fought - almost literally - out of the slums of Leamington, but an analysis ... a reason why Turpin went up in the ranks of boxers, and came down so tragically ending his life with suicide.'