AGASSI : The fall and rise of the enfant terrible of tennis by PHILIP, Robert:

A5 dark blue slightly faded garage: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 1993. Paperback. Good. Hardback with dust jacket, book good, jacket good but small tear to top and slighly faded at spine. "Image," said Andre Agassi, "is everything". But despite the George Michael designer stubble, the Farrah Fawcett hairstyle, the earrings, the nail varnish and the shocking pink thigh-hugging cycle shorts, the kid from Las Vegas had the image of being a loser. That was until the 'Great White Hype', as his critics were fond of calling him, became Wimbledon Champion in the summer of 1992. As a baby he used a tiny table-tennis bat to swat a balloon tied to his high chair, at four he was knocking up with Jimmy Connors and Bjorn Borg in front of a huge audience in Caesars Palace, and at seven he was winning under 10 tournaments while his father, a former Olympic boxer, battled officialdom and parents of rival players. Andre Agassi is accustomed to rocking the established order of things. A… Read More

London: Bloomsbury Books, 1993. No inscriptions or marks. A lovely clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or torn or creased with minor traces of handling. 183pp. The fall and rise of the enfant terrible of tennis, Andre Agassi, who, in only his thirteenth ever match on a grass court, won the Wimbledon men's singles title.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good (+). 9.5 x 6.25 inches.