Buy this book on-line HARRISON**, TED: : KRISS AKABUSI ON TRACK - The extraordinary story of a great athleteUK.OXFORD.LION PUBLISHING,PLC,1991. ISBN 9780745921488.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,subject SIGNED,1st edn. FINE+/FINE.No owner inscrptn,but subject's handwritten,blue ink signature and named dedication: 'Kriss Akabusi to --- (name withheld at original owner's request) Best Wishes & Enjoy the Read' (and underscore beneath) to front free endpaper,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy,subject's colour photograph,at a night-time competition stadium track meeting with red and b/w lettering to front panel of dw/dj,rear panel with subject's full-length b/w portrait photograph with potted biographical prose; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping, creasing to edges and corners,head+foot of spine gently pushed with reciprocal creasing - but no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean and without blemish; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appearing unread,apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp, unblemished,sharp-cornered,publisher's original,plain taupe cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers - signature+dedication excepted.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,subject SIGNED, 1st edn,7-223pp [paginated] includes author's introduction,15 chapters,8pp contemporary b/w biographical photographs in 1 block,between pp112/13,author's acknowledgements and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a contents list/table with blank reverse.
Kriss Akabusi,the recordbreaking 400 metres hurdler and gold medallist,has been styled 'Mr Popular' by the commentators. His fast-talking,extrovert personality has made him a firm favourite with television viewers around the world.
In public,he's excitable,a performer.The real Kriss is quieter,more thoughtful.
Born of Nigerian parents,Kriss was separated from them in early childhood.He and his young brother were alternately cared for and mistreated by foster parents in England - an unhappy time which culminated in the two boys being found alone on Kings Cross station and taken into care.Their parents had lost touch through the Biafran War.At sixteen Kriss left the children's home for the army,where his athletic prowess first began to show. . . .
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,subject SIGNED,1st edn. NFINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,but subject's handwritten,blue ink signature and named dedication: 'Kriss Akabusi to Jim "Happy Christmas 1991" Enjoy the Read' (and underscore beneath) to rectangular yellow adhesive post-it label pasted (top edge only) to front free endpaper,and no price- clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy, subject's colour photograph,at a night- time competition stadium track meeting with red and b/w lettering to front panel of dw/dj,rear panel with subject's full- length b/w portrait photograph with potted biographical prose; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top edges lightly dust-soiled and minimally but faintly spotted,fore-edges bright, clean and without blemish; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appearing unread,apart from my own collation. Bright,crisp,unblemished,sharp-cornered, publisher's original,plain taupe cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers - signature+ dedication excepted.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, subject SIGNED,1st edn,7-223pp [paginated] includes author's introduction,15 chapters,8pp contemporary b/w biographical photographs in 1 block, between pp112/13, author's acknowledgements and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages, a contents list/table with blank reverse.
Kriss Akabusi,the record-breaking 400 metres hurdler and gold medallist,has been styled 'Mr Popular' by the commentators.
His fast-talking,extrovert personality has made him a firm favourite with television viewers around the world.
In public,he's excitable,a performer.The real Kriss is quieter, more thoughtful.
Born of Nigerian parents,Kriss was separated from them in early childhood.He and his young brother were alternately cared for and mistreated by foster parents in England - an unhappy time which culminated in the two boys being found alone on Kings Cross station and taken into care.Their parents had lost touch through the Biafran War.At sixteen Kriss left the children's home for the army, where his athletic prowess first began to show. . . .
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