A SCOTTISH FOOTBALL HALL of FAME.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. NMINT/NMINT. Wrapped+ protected from day of issue/purchase,so NO owner inscrptn and NO price-clip to dw/dj - last copy. Bright,crisp,clean,wrap-around colour pictorial artwork of the new Hampden Park background with 8 cigarette card sized Scottish players contemporary b/w portrait photographs to each panel superimposed over the artwork with white letters within purple panels to front+spine/backstrip; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean without any blemish contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner TIPs – pristine - 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 panels with black lettering to spine/backstrip and immaculate/clean plain pale yellow sets of endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,7-254pp [paginated] includes acknowledgements,a personal preface,an introduction,list of 100 Scottish footballers,16 chapters with an interval talk with Jock Stein between chapters 9 and 10 and 'Extra time for Jonathan' (a poem), between chapters 15 and 16,24pp contemporary b/w thumbnail players' portrait photographs in 1 block, between pp128/9,an Addendum,Football Roll of Honour and a bibliography; plus [unpaginated] half-title with b/w facsimile reproduction illustrations to its reverse,title page and contents list/table and to the rear,a list of author's other work/titles. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional for a book of it's 25+ year-old age,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation. Who has ever seen Jim Baxter at his best and can forget it? Or Denis Law flying high, Gordon Smith full of grace on the wing or Jinky Johnstone at his cheekiest? Football memories are made of moments like these.And they are all in A Scottish Football Hall of Fame along with profiles of one hundred of the best players in the country's colourful history - players like Bobby Templeton, Alan Morton, Jimmy Delaney, Kenny Dalglish and Ally McCoist to name only a few of the greats who inspired whole generations of Scotland supporters.Their stories,as told here,are thrilling, tragic and funny.Men who were once household names are captured in their sporting immortality and introduced to a new generation who never saw them play.But this volume is more than a mere catalogue of players who have worn the dark blue of Scotland. It is an original overview of the beautiful game as it developed north of the Tweed by a man who still remembers seeing his first Hampden game at the age of seven.John Cairney's deep and enduring love of football shines through on every page as he recounts one illuminating anecdote after another.As he says in the introduction to this book: 'Football is more than a mere game in Scotland,it is a part of the Scottish psyche.' Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - 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. **