rare boxing sport book first edition hard cover

Kid Tinsel COHEN, Octavus Roy rare boxing sport book first edition hard cover dust jacket With dust cover Hard cover Very good condition 40.00 Sells online for 200.00 plus USD Flexible re pickup Elmsdale Road M4J 3M3 Donlands O'Connor East York Don Mills south exit off Octavo (19.5cm); rust-colored cloth, with titles stamped in blue on spine and front panel; dustjacket; 281pp. Mild wear; ; jacket lightly rubbed and Very Good. A presentable, Very Good copy of possibly the scarcest of Cohen's many books, a hardboiled novel of the boxing underworld. It is one of Cohen's few ventures outside of Black dialect fiction and to our knowledge his only foray into fistiana. The book was the source of the 1941 B-movie The Pittsburgh Kid, which starred light heavyweight champion Billy Conn.