Buy this book on-line CHARTLTON, Sir Bobby with LAWTON, JAMES: : Sir Bobby Charlton: My Manchester United Years - THE AUTOBIOGRAPHYLONDON.HEADLINE PUBLISHING GROUP,2007. ISBN 9780755316199.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1.] NMINT/NMINT.Wrapped+protected from day of issue/purchase; so no owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt, football match monochrome photograph with Charlton's red+white colour highlighted shirt to front with bright,crisp,gilt,grey and red letters,thumbnail Charlton figure photograph repeated to spine/backstrip and with similar coloured lettering to spine,rear panel with b/w football action photograph and a couple of his manager's quotes in red+gold letters; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present. Both head+foot of spine/backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top edge inevitably but lightly toned,fore-edges brighter,but all clean and without blemish; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,unread,apart from my own collation. Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, original taupe coloured paper-covered boards with Charlton's bright,crisp,blocked gilt facsimile signature to lower corner of front board,and similar bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip,a red+black striped headband,immaculate white background endpapers with Charlton's repeated superimposed,thumbnail figure photographs from front+rear dw/dj panel designs to respective sets of endpapers.Front board has 'ghosting' shadow from front panel's photograph and with subject's name from book's title too.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,ixpp+1-388pp [paginated] includes acknowledgements,a prologue,26 chapters+an epilogue,24pp contemporary b/w+colour biographical photographs in 3 blocks of 8pp apiece; 16pp in b/w in 2 blocks and 8pp mixed - colour+b/w between,pp86/7 and pp182/3 and pp294/5 respectively,Club statistics,an index and picture credits.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication with blank reverse,a contents list/ table,and 2pp blanks at rear.
This first volume of autobiography,covering his childhood years and his years with Manchester United,has an easy, flowing narrative and a host of memorable passages about key moments.The horror of the Munich air crash looms large.Sir Bobby is also interesting on his austere childhood in Ashington,Northumberland, where he was born into a mining family.Sir Bobby comes across as a man of fundamental decency,it is impossible not to be touched by his romantic devotion to his wife Norma or to Manchester United,the two great pillars of his life.
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