OVER THE TOP AND BACK: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY.

UK,thick 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 001.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt, subject/author's colour photographic portrait illustrated dw/dj panels,with white+silver gilt lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,contemporary b/w subject's full-ength portrait photographic paper-covered upper board; rear board with white ink printed letters and bright,crisp,stamped silver gilt lettering also,to a black background.Similar lettering to spine/backstrip as the rear panel and immaculate plain dark blue endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3-521pp [paginated] includes 42 chapters,32pp contemporary b/w (the majority)+colour autobiographical photographs in 4 blocks of 8pp apiece between pp122/25,pp186/89,pp330/31 and pp394/95 respectively,acknowledgements,chapter head picture captions,and an index.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,contents list/table,b/w author/subject autobiographic photographic introduction page,
Across six decades,Sir Tom Jones has maintained a vital career in a risky,unstable business notorious for the short lives of its artists.With a drive that comes from nothing but the love for what he does,he breaks through and then wrestles with the vagaries of the music industry,the nature of success and its inevitable consequences. Having recorded an expansive body of work and performed with fellow artists from across the spectrum and across every popular music genre,from rock,pop and dance to country,blues and soul, the one constant throughout has been his unique musical gifts and unmistakable voice. But how did a boy from a Welsh coal-mining family attain success across the globe? And how has he survived the twists and turns of fame and fortune to not only stay exciting,but actually become more credible and interesting with age? In this,his first and only autobiography,Tom revisits his past and tells the tale of his journey from wartime Pontypridd to LA and beyond.He reveals the stories behind the ups and downs of his fascinating and remarkable life,from the early heydays to the subsequent fallow years to his later period of artistic renaissance. Raw,honest,funny and powerful,this is a memoir like no other from one of the world's greatest ever singing talents. "For a lot of years,I've answered a lot of questions,but I have never told my story before. After five decades in the music business,I feel ready and in a position to take a look back at what and how and why it all happened.This is my own personal story, from its very beginning to the present day,told the only way I know how: simply and from the heart. 'Over the Top and Back' is my story." Tom Jones. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering its prices, weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its qualifying compensation rates too!
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