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WILLIAMS, SHANE with DELME PARFITT: : SHANE - MY STORY

SCOTLAND.EDINBURGH.MAINSTREAM PUBLISHING COMPANY (EDINBURGH) LTD.,2008.

ISBN 9781845963675.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy,subject's portrait colour photographic illustrated front panel of dw/dj with capitalised,white-lettered title and other white-lettered author names,a red spine/ backstrip with similarly coloured+lettered part-title and author's names as the front's; sub-title in capitalised black letters and publisher's capitalised,black lettered+ illustrated colophon to foot of same,rear panel with sports action colour photograph. Negligible shelf-wear,bumping,and minimal creasing to edges and corners - front panel with unobtrusive faint writing indent impressions - but no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges lightly toned but bright and clean without foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears unread apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,original plain maroon cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt lettering,and immaculate plain black endpapers. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,9-240pp [paginated] includes 17 chapters,8pp subject's contemporary biographical colour photographs in 1 block, between pp112/13,an Appendix of Career statistics; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages, Acknowledgements and Thanks page,and a Contents list/table.                             Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and particularly internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of its 15-yeqar-old age.It is only the exterior minor fault described that prevents a slightly higher grading.Despite that,it really is still an exceptional,exemplary example for its cleanliness,brightness and lack of major detracting faults.                                Shane Williams has spent almost a decade thrilling the rugby world with his evasive running skills and a box of tricks that has left the best defenses grasping thin air, disproving the notion that size matters in modern professional rugby. He's been called the little wizard, the artful dodger, and a whole host of other superlatives, but wherever Williams has played, the crowd have been on the edge of their seats.                                           When he entered his 20s, Williams looked set for a life of relative obscurity playing scrum half for his local side, Amman United. All that was to change, however, when he was plucked from nowhere by then Neath coach Lyn Jones, and his rise to become Wales's most dangerous strike runner was meteoric. Following his international debut at 21, Williams lit up Wales’s 2003 World Cup campaign, toured with the British Lions to New Zealand in 2005, and went on to become an integral part of the Grand Slam-winning Wales side of 2005 and 2008. In 'SHANE', Williams reveals the inside story of his incredible rugby career so far, the personal trials that have come with success, and how he has managed to defy the odds to become a living Welsh rugby legend.                                      Shane Williams currently plays for the Ospreys. Delme Parfitt is head of sports content at the South Wales Echo and has previously worked for Wales on Sunday and Westgate Sports Agency. He is also the co-author of autobiographies by Gareth Thomas and Mark Ring.              Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!         N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE.    ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence, then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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