Red or Dead.

UK,thick 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1.] FINE+/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,red background with b/w lettering to front,b/w lettering and colour portrait photograph of Bill Shankly to spine and black lettered prose extract to rear - horizontally across the centre of the dw/dj a football field's white half-way line with kick-off circle illustrated dw/dj,with white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Head of spine minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain white paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,blocked red ink printed letters to spine/backstrip,a red headband and immaculate contemporary b/w photographic illustrated endpapers. UK, thick 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,5-720pp [paginated] includes First + Second Halves comprising 90 chapters,The Argument III - in 2 parts; to front and as last page; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,a biblical epigram,1st part of The Argument III,title separator page, b/w Shankly photographic 1st+2nd Half separator pages and to the rear 4pp sources and acknowledgements and 6pp blanks.
In 1959,Liverpool Football Club were in the Second Division.Liverpool Football Club had never won the FA Cup.Fifteen seasons later, Liverpool Football Club had won three League titles,two FA Cups and the UEFA Cup. Liverpool Football Club had become the most consistently successful team in England.And the most passionately supported club.Their manager was revered as a god. Destined for immortality.Their manager was Bill Shankly. His job was his life.His life was football.His football a form of socialism.Bill Shankly inspired people.Bill Shankly transformed people.The players and the supporters.In 1974,Liverpool Football Club and Bill Shankly stood on the verge of even greater success.In England and in Europe.But in 1974,Bill Shankly shocked Liverpool and football.Bill Shankly resigned.Bill Shankly retired. 'Red or Dead' is the story of the rise of Liverpool Football Club and Bill Shankly.Of one man and his work.And of the man after that work.A man in two halves.Home and away. Red or Dead. David Peace was chosen as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists in 2003.He is the author of 'The Red Riding Quartet',adapted by Channel 4 in 2009, 'GB94', which was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 2004,and 'The Damned United', which was made into a film in 2009.These were followed by 'Tokyo Year Zero' in 2007 and 'Occupied City' in 2009,the first two books of his acclaimed Tokyo Trilogy. Please browse my inventory further,for a wider range of other non-fiction and fiction football-related titles available.
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