Banksy: My Autobiography.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1.] FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt, subject/author biographical colour photographic illustrated dw/dj panels with white, orange and red lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present. Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate b/w sports action photographic illustrated endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,xpp+2-270pp [paginated] includes 18 chapters and career record,32pp of contemporary auto+ biographical b/w+colour photographs in 4 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp50/1,pp114/5,pp146/7 and pp210/11 respectively and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages,a dedication,contents list/table with illustrations list+picture credits to its reverse,acknowledgements,note to Les Scott (assisted in writing the book) and 4pp blanks at the rear. For ten years Banks was not only England's Number One, but was acknowledged to be the best keeper in the world - perhaps the best there has ever been.It wasn't always like this.Banks left school to become a coalman's mate,lugging heavy sacks around his native Sheffield.And his early amateur football didn't suggest his day job was going to change soon - he was released from his second club after conceding fifteen goals in two games.But only a few years later,Banks was England's first-choice goalkeeper,winning the World Cup in 1966 and making the 'Save of the Century' against Pele in 1970.It was all cut brutally short. Returning home from the Stoke City ground in 1972,his car crashed into a van and he lost his right eye.Banks struggled to come back,but the standards he'd set himself seemed cruelly out of reach.It shouldn't have been possible,but Banks did fight back,confounding medical opinion to play in the American league alongside other legends such as Pele,George Best and Franz Beckenbauer. 'banksy' is about more than just football: it's the story of a man who represents all that was admirable about the game in an era before cynicism and money tainted it - when football was a reflection of values and standards that we may never see again.It's the story of a genuine English hero - a stirring,vivid insider's account of the England team's finest years by the player who proved indispensable: Banks of England. Please contact seller @ rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,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. **