AGONY & ECSTASY: My Diary of an Amazing Rugby Season. [Author/subject** SIGNED copy.]

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn. FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn but co-author/subject's handwritten blue ink signature - without dedication - to title page and no price-clip to dw/dj; price printed to rear panel of dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy laminated,subject's portrait colour photographic illustrated dw/dj panels with yellow+red lettering to front and slightly sunned red+yellow and white lettering to spine; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present. Top edges bright and clean,fore-edges with a small splash stain/blemish in top 1/3rd with only mild affectation to last four pages' concomitant spot to page edge,else otherwise bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-264pp [paginated] includes 23 chapters and an epilogue,16pp contemporary auto+biographical colour photographs in 1 block, between pp90/1, Match facts and figures; plus [unpaginated] half-title,subject SIGNED title page,a contents list/table and 2pp blanks at the rear.
The 2001 British and Irish Lions Tour to Australia was perhaps the most dramatic and exciting ever.On the pitch,the rugby was stunning,laceratingly quick and brutally physical.
Off the pitch,a potent blend of controversy, intrigue and division kept the pot boiling.
At the centre of the whirlwind was the calm force of captain Martin Johnson,the only man ever to lead two British Lions tours.
'AGONY & ECSTASY' is his diary of the Australian trip - the inside story of a fascinating six weeks which has already gone down in rugby folklore. The injuries,the rows,the passion and the drama are all captured,together with Johnson's own views.
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