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GROVES, PERRY with McSHANE, JOHN: : WE ALL LIVE IN A PERRY GROVES WORLD - MY STORY

LONDON.JOHN BLAKE PUBLISHING LTD.,2006.

ISBN 1844543196.

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.Bright, crisp,clean,subject's colour portrait photograph to front with red+white lettering,thumbnail portrait and letters repeated to spine/ backstrip,rear panel with football action photograph and his quotes in red or white letters; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping, creasing to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present.Top edges bright and clean without blemish but fore-edges with minimal, sporadic spotting leading to affected pages' page-edgesS bleeding; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - virtually 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 lettered spine/ backstrip and clean plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,vii-xpp+1-278pp [paginated] includes acknowledgements,a Prologue,32 chapters and Epilogue,16pp contemporary b/w+colour autobiographical photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp117/19 (all b/w) and pp181/183 (mix of b/w+ colour; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages and a dedication. Visually the exterior appearance is spectacular for a book of it's age,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation. Perry Groves spent more than a decade in the footballing spotlight.Sometimes he was at the top,often he was at the bottom, and that's half the reasons the fans loved him so much - and still do.This is the most truthful and hilarious book about professional football you will ever read. Perry Groves was the first signing by the legendary Arsenal manager George Graham, and that unmistakeable figure with his Tin-Tin haircut and cheeky grin was a player in one of the Gunners' greatest sides. Now,he has decided to tell all about his rollercoaster years of booze binges,girl-chasing,and gambling sprees.He's a non-stop fund of hilarious anecdotes,recounting top-flight games played with a hangover,125 mph motorway chases with international stars,visits to a brothel with an England World Cup hero,and revealing how one drunken escapade ended with a group of internationals being questioned over an attempted murder charge. In an action-packed career,he was paid for black market cup fial tickets by the king of the touts out of a cash bonanza kept in a fridge,he had bizarre encounters with figures like Brian Clough and Paul Gascoigne and he witnessed George Best's amazing chat-up technique. With Perry you can find out what top-flight footballers get up to off the field - and how they behave when the dressing room door is closed.And he tells what really went on at The Tuesday Club,Arsenal's weekly players' binge where football came second to drinking. Fans still chant his name and there are websites devoted to one of the funniest men ever to hit the big time.As the lad himself says,'I always believed in enjoying every minute of life and success and having a laugh.' 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. **

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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