#2SIDES: MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY. [Text written by David Winner.]

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj - price printed to rear panel.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,subject's colour portrait photographic illustrated front panel of dw/dj with silver gilt+black lettering,rear panel with subject's portrait montage'd thumbnail colour photographs; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges lightly toned but still 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 silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip,a black head and tailband and plain grey endpapers - front free endpaper illustrated with fingerprint impressions. UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,v-xpp+1-271pp [paginated] includes acknowledgements,Harry Redknapp foreword, contents list/table,30 chapters, 16pp contemporary auto+biographical colour photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp86/7 and pp183/83 respectively,an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,b/w advert for another titled subject's autobiography with blank verso to rear,along with 4pp blanks.
Rio Ferdinand is one of the finest footballers of his generation - a Champions League and Premier League-winning centre back who began life as an ambitious kid on the council estates of south-east London only to grow into one of the game's greatest stoppers.
Candid,outspoken and supremely honest,this is his story: from the early days as a schoolboy trying to impress the local kids on the muddy pitches of Peckham,through to picking up the Champions League trophy on a rainy summer's night in Moscow. '#2Sides' is the tell-all account of a unique life in the game.On winning and losing; on defending and attacking; on managers and fellow players; on friendships and rivalries; on the ups and downs of the beautiful game; and on playing for club,country and for yourself - this is a full spectrum of life at the very top of the footballing tree,and a superb retrospective of a truly fascinating career.
Born in Peckham in 1978,Rio Ferdinand began his football career at West Ham,making his Premier League debut in 1996.Following a transfer to Leeds United,where he reached the Champions League semi-final,Rio became an integral part of a Manchester United side that won six Premier League trophies,and a Champions League title.He also won 81 caps for England,captaining the side on a number of occasions.
David Winner is a writer and journalist whose books include 'Brilliant Orange: the Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football','Those Feet: A Sensual History of English Football' and 'Stillness and Speed',the biography of Dennis Bergkamp. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!
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