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HENNESSY,JOHN (with Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean): : TORVILL & DEAN.[Both authors' SIGNED,copy.]

UK.NEWTON ABBOT,DEVON.DAVID & CHARLES,1983.

ISBN 0715384767.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,authors' dedication+ signed,1st edn.FINE/VG+.No owner inscrptn, no price-clip to dw/dj.Glossy laminated, subject colour sports photographic dw/dj with negligible shelf-wear and minimal creasing to edges, corners and spine/ backstrip.Minisculely bumped to both head+foot of spine/backstrip with reciprocal creasing - no nicks or tears present.Top, rear corner minisculely rubbed,as is top edge towards head of spine/backstrip.Top+fore-edges clean, contents bright,tight and clean.Clean, black paper-covered bds with bright, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate,plain white eps.8vo,9-208pp [paginated] includes half-title page,title-page SIGNED and dedicated by both Torvill & Dean - reading:"To Toni, Best Wishes Jayne Torvill and Chris Dean". B/w sports photographic frntis (verso of half-title page),contents list,12 chapters,appendices(2),profuse b/w contemporary photographs,8pp contemporary colour photographs,and an index.See also rja2209/6, rja2210/6 + rja2236/6 [unsigned copy],for subject-related titles. Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean have carved a special niche for themselves in the British public's esteem.They have brought the Olympic sport of ice dance to a pitch whereby the whole world's attention is focused on their progress. Their appeal is on so many levels - athletic, balletic, gymnastic, melodic, romantic and, not least, patriotic.Their image is as clean-cut as the intricate patterns they trace on the ice.Their advance has been meteoric.They won their first world championship in 1981, jumping from fourth place with a programme that dazzled at the time but which they have themselves, with astonishing vision and dedication,already made to look positively old-fashioned.Innovators in almost everything they do, they set a new standard with their impression of Mack and Mabel (Mack Sennett and his lover Mabel Normand),clad appropiately in gold.They then went to the circus for inspiration and came up with another sparkling performance in Barnum on Ice.All the so-called popular sports were swept aside when they were chosen Team of the Year in 1981 by the exacting members of the Sports Writers' Association.In 1982 they became not only the critics' choice again but also the public's favourites by way of the BBC tv poll.Many a head might have been turned by so much success and so much adulation in so short a time.Yet they have remained the same unassuming young people who emerged from humble beginnings in the suburbs of Nottingham to receive invitations to Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street.In its way that may be their greatest achievement. John Hennessy has been a personal friend of Torvill and Dean since 1978.He joined the sports staff of The Times in 1948 and was Sports Editor from 1954-1979.Since 1979 he has specialised in winter sports, concentrating first on skiing and latterly skating.He has reported on the last five Winter Olympic Games for The Times, and in 1980 was awarded the bronze medal of the Olympic Order by Lord Killanin for services to the Olympic movement.This biography written the year before Torvill & Dean went on to win the gold in Sarajevo,1984. Please contact seller,because of the value of this item, for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,authors SIGNED,1st edn.
Both authors' SIGNED.

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