CARWYN: A Personal Memoir.

UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy laminated,colour+b/w photographic illustrated dw/dj,with b/w lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present. Internally to dw/dj - light water-stain(?) to both top+ bottom edges and without adversely affecting the board's edges beneath.Dw/djs' spine/backstrip inevitably but very lightly sunned/faded.Top edges lightly dust-soiled with slight,minimal foxing,fore-edges brighter and clean without any foxing; contents bright,tight,clean - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,would appear unread apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain pale grey(?) cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,ixpp+2-165pp [paginated] includes illus list/table,7 chapters,16pp of contemporary,b/w auto+biographical photographs in 1 block,between pp70/1 and an index.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,and contents list/table.
In 1982 the world of Welsh rugby was deprived of one of its best-loved members by the death of Carwyn James.He was the first man to coach a victorious British Lions team this century,also achieved unparalleled success as coach to the Welsh champion club Llanelli, and was frequently described as the greatest coach in the world.Yet he never coached the Welsh team and was regarded as a prophet without honour in his own country.
Carwyn James was a complex man whose refusal to conform made him an aloof outsider in a cosy world of insiders.In public,as assured television broadcaster and rugby analyst,the 'Guardian' columnist who adored Neville Cardus,in private he was a modest,shy man who constantly sought to underplay his abilities.
Yet he was a fine journalist and broadcaster and an incomparable coach whose contribution to British rugby will never be forgotten.
Alun Richards biography is a very personal memoir of a man whom he regards as more of an artist than a sportsman,a rugby aesthete who nevertheless had the steel to succeed in a most competitive world.
It is a rich,warm,humorous account of the life of a man who has variously been described as 'the intellectual Welsh legend','the greatest rugby academic that Welsh rugby has ever known' and 'the prince of coaches'.It is entirely fitting that this tribute should come from the pen of one of Wales's best contemporary novelists.An uncommon title.
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