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Published by Mousehold Press, United Kingdom, Norwich, 2006
ISBN 10: 1874739412ISBN 13: 9781874739418
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. For much of cycling's Fabulous Fifties it was Brian Robinson alone who flew the flag for Britain abroad - that is until three young men set out to emulate his success, starting from ground zero. This book tells the story of how, along with fellow Yorkshireman Vic Sutton and South Londoner John Andrew, the intrepid Tony Hewson set off to conquer the European racing scene, first off in an old, battered, converted ex-WD ambulance, then in an oil-leaking pre-war Wolseley with a caravan in tow. Variously mistaken for gypsies, terrorists, undertakers, even market traders, these were our original cash-starved, have-a-go pioneers, whose inspiration prompted Tom Simpson and succeeding generations of would-be stars to cross the Channel. It is an often hilarious sometimes sad but never bitter saga of daring-do that found the trio rubbing shoulders with Coppi, Anquetil, Van Looy and the other greats of the era. It tells of how Andrews won a place in the prestigious Mercier-BP trade team and of how Sutton conquered the headlines with a brilliant display of climbing in the mountaains of the 1959 Tour and its relates Hewson's own pickings of primes and placings in after-Tour criteriums.It also provides a wonderfully evocative insight into what life was like in France and Belgium back in that far-off era. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by Mousehold Press, United Kingdom, Norwich, 2010
ISBN 10: 1874739552ISBN 13: 9781874739555
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 2010 is the centenary of the introduction of the Pyrenees into the Tour de France route. It was a contentious decision at that time to send riders on their primitive bicycles into the high mountains. How Tour organiser Henri Desgrange was tricked by his assistant, Georges Steines, into agreeing to direct his riders over 2,000-metre cols is one of the great legends of Tour history. The 1910 race was won by the French champion Octave Lapize, who added to the controversy on the top of the Col du Tourmalet by shouting out to the Tour officials, 'Vous etes des assassins! Oui, des assassins!' - 'You are murderers! Yes, murderers!' For Lapize himself, this was his only Tour victory, but he was an outstanding one-day classics rider and also a fine track cyclist, winning a bronze medal at the 1908 Olympics. During the First World War Lapize, a fighter pilot in the French army, was shot down in June, 1917, and died in a hospital the following month. For all his initial misgivings, Desgrange had no hesitation in calling the Pyrenean venture a great success and those high cols immediately became an indispensable part of any Tour route. In the 100 years since Octave Lapize's first epic ascent the Tourmalet has figured 73 times. Author, Jean Bobet, writes: In the early 1950s, my brother Louison and I were living in the Eastern suburbs of Paris. Each time we went training, we would cycle past the Cafe Lapize in Villiers-sur-Marne. This Lapize seemed to follow us everywhere. At the time, Lapize toe straps were the only ones on the market. At the Montlhery motor racing circuit there was the famous slope known as the Cote Lapize, which determined the outcome of every race held there. Back in Villiers-sur-Marne, you couldn't find Octave Lapize at the cafe any more. We knew he had been killed in the war, the 1914-18 one. People even said he died a hero. The Cafe Lapize belonged to the champion's father. One day, I ducked under the arbour at the entrance and went inside. Across the large room, I came face to face with the great Octave Lapize, in a large pastel drawing on the wall, resplendent in his French champion's tricolour jersey. I was looking at the portrait of a true aristocrat. An inscription underneath read Winner of the Tour de France, Paris-Roubaix (three times), Paris-Brussels (three times).' I spent fifty years thinking about Octave Lapize. Then, one day, I decided to follow his tracks and tell his story. Thanks to him, I experienced the golden age of cycling at the beginning of the twentieth century. The Lapize years. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by Mousehold Press, United Kingdom, Norwich, 2003
ISBN 10: 1874739285ISBN 13: 9781874739289
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Golden Stages celebrates the centenary of the Tour de France. Sixteen leading cycling writers have explored what it is that makes the Tour such a majestic and moving event. They have each selected and told the story of a particular Stage. Together, their accounts (one or more from each decade) add up to a history of the Tour, and they show how much has changed in the 100 years - the bicycles, the roads, tactics and organisation. But they also show what has not changed - the extravagant scale of the race; the mystique of the maillot jaune; and the courage of all who compete. Those things have remained the same - and they are vividly portrayed in this unique book. Here you will read about how Greg LeMond beat Fignon in the last 250 metres of the 1989 race, and how a puncture nearly cost him his third Tour victory; the stage that marked the turning point in the great career of Eddy Merckx; the Forclaz col where even the world's greatest climber, the Eagle of Toledo, could not drop Master Jacques; the legendary Rene Vietto's 'sacrifice' which made him one of the most popular men never to win a Tour; the slowest, and some say the hardest-ever stage in Tour history; the day the Colombians came to Alpe d'Huez; Lance Armstrong's return to the top after defeating cancer in the Prologue of 1999; the day on Les Arcs when Indurain's fabulous reign came to an end; and the famous break through the Alps by the 'Devil' himself, Claudio Chiappucci, that emulated the great Fausto Coppi, 40 years earlier. And much, much more. Contributors: Alex Bannister; Adrian Bell; Keith Bingham; John Deering; David Harmon; Luke Evans; Graeme Fife; Marguerite Lazell; John Pierce; Matt Rendell; Chris Sidwells; Rik Vanwalleghem; John Wilcockson; Les Woodland; Charlie Woods; Richard Yates. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Mousehold Press, United Kingdom, Norwich, 2013
ISBN 10: 1874739668ISBN 13: 9781874739661
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. At the age of 20, Dennis Horn won his first English Rose - the emblem of a National track champion. Throughout the 1930s he rapidly graduated from the rough and tumble of makeshift grass track racing at country fairs and gala sports days in provincial towns to assail the heights of British track cycling on the great urban cycling bastions of the time - the hard-surfaced stadiums of London's Herne Hill and Manchester's Fallowfield - and become the star of British track racing. Every year from 1931 to 1938 he was awarded the season-long Meredith Trophy to add to those legendary gold and silver cups he'd won in fiercely contested track battles in front of crowds of tens of thousands. It was a cycling scene entirely unique to Britain in the years before World War II. But this is more than a simple tale of a strapping rural lad who took on and beat the streetwise metropolitan champions of his era. Dennis Horn, son of a Fenland blacksmith, proved himself to be as astute as any of his urban contemporaries at treading the fine line between amateurism and professionalism as defined by the puritanical British cycling establishment of their day. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by Mousehold Press, United Kingdom, Norwich, 1998
ISBN 10: 1874739102ISBN 13: 9781874739104
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by Mousehold Press, United Kingdom, Norwich, 2010
ISBN 10: 1874739579ISBN 13: 9781874739579
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. This is a biography of Brian Robinson, racing cyclist. Brian Robinson, the first Englishman ever to complete the Tour de France, went on to make a career as a professional cyclist in what is generally regarded as one of the toughest eras in a very tough sport. He adapted to French life, the continental style of racing and the taxing demands of a long season with clear-headed tenacity. For all the British riders who later followed him to Europe - and there have not been many since his days as a lone coureur anglais, still a comparatively rare breed - he was, without dispute, the great pioneer. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by Mousehold Press, Norwich, United Kingdom, 2001
ISBN 10: 1874739196ISBN 13: 9781874739197
Seller: Victoria Bookshop, BERE ALSTON, DEVON, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First. 12mo. slight crease to front cover. Book.
Published by Mousehold Press 2020-03-04, Norwich, 2020
ISBN 10: 1874739900ISBN 13: 9781874739906
Seller: Blackwell's, London, United Kingdom
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paperback. Condition: New. Language: ENG.
Published by Mousehold Press, United Kingdom, Norwich, 2011
ISBN 10: 1874739587ISBN 13: 9781874739586
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Cyclo-Cross is a fast, exciting, colourful and energy-sapping sport, with races taking place over every type of terrain in all weather conditions. Where and when did it emerge as a recognised sport and who were the early champions? When was the British Cyclo-Cross Association formed and who were the men and women that made the rules and organised the sport in Great Britain? Who were the early champions and who were the greatest multi-champions? How did British riders perform on the international scene and what is the history of classic races such as The Three Peaks? This book endeavours to answer these, and many other questions about the British Cyclo-Cross Association, highlighting all its problems and successes until 2001, when cyclo-cross was brought under the wing of British Cycling. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Mousehold Press 2005-03-21, Norwich, 2005
ISBN 10: 1874739366ISBN 13: 9781874739364
Seller: Blackwell's, London, United Kingdom
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paperback. Condition: New.
Published by Mousehold Press, Norwich, 2002
ISBN 10: 1874739234ISBN 13: 9781874739234
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Condition: Used - Very Good. VG paperback. First Edition. With colour illustrations. A clean, bright copy.
Published by Mousehold Press 2002-08-02, Norwich, 2002
ISBN 10: 1874739226ISBN 13: 9781874739227
Seller: Blackwell's, London, United Kingdom
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paperback. Condition: New. Language: English.
Published by Mousehold Press 2018-10-01, Norwich, 2018
ISBN 10: 1874739811ISBN 13: 9781874739814
Seller: Blackwell's, London, United Kingdom
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paperback. Condition: New. Language: eng.
Published by Mousehold Press, Norwich, 1999
ISBN 10: 1874739129ISBN 13: 9781874739128
Seller: Lazy Letters Books, Market Rasen, United Kingdom
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Terry Loan (illustrator). As new.
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Published by Mousehold Press 2019-02-21, Norwich, 2019
ISBN 10: 1874739870ISBN 13: 9781874739876
Seller: Blackwell's, London, United Kingdom
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paperback. Condition: New. Language: ENG.
Published by Mousehold Press 2014-05-07, Norwich, 2014
ISBN 10: 1874739714ISBN 13: 9781874739715
Seller: Blackwell's, London, United Kingdom
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paperback. Condition: New. Language: ENG.
Published by Mousehold Press 2001-07-16, Norwich, 2001
ISBN 10: 1874739188ISBN 13: 9781874739180
Seller: Blackwell's, London, United Kingdom
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paperback. Condition: New.
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Published by Mousehold Press 2002-11-29, Norwich, 2002
ISBN 10: 1874739234ISBN 13: 9781874739234
Seller: Blackwell's, London, United Kingdom
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paperback. Condition: New.
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Published by Mousehold Press, Norwich, 1999
ISBN 10: 1874739137ISBN 13: 9781874739135
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Condition: Used - Very Good. VG paperback. 1st ed. A tidy copy. Poems and photographs of Norfolk.
Published by MOUSEHOLD PRESS, NORWICH, 2004
Seller: Ron Weld Books, Great Yarmouth, United Kingdom
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Excellent fine interior and cover, no inscriptions, contains several black and white photos.
Published by Mousehold Press, Norwich, 2005
ISBN 10: 1874739382ISBN 13: 9781874739388
Seller: Trinders' Fine Tools, Clare, Sudbury, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: See Description. Dust Jacket Condition: None. First Edition. x, 136 pages, black and white illustrations, appendices giving Suffolk DA Officials, 1928-2004, Suffolk DA Trophies. Foreword by Joyce Amner, First Lady President, 1985-1987, Winged Wheel Editor, 1976-1980. Soft covers, ex-library with the following ex-library marks -small identification label at bottom of spine, small label with bar-code and withdrawn stamp on half-title, together with evidence of removal of record sheet from the upper edge of half-title, Suffolk Council accession label to rear of half-title. Nonetheless a very good, little-read copy, in protective plastic cover; now scarce.
Published by Mousehold Press, Norwich, England, 1996
ISBN 10: 1874739064ISBN 13: 9781874739067
Seller: Babushka Books & Framers, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Foreword by Robin Page ( Presenter of One Man and his Dog).
Published by Mousehold Press, United Kingdom, Norwich, 2008
ISBN 10: 1874739528ISBN 13: 9781874739524
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Vin Denson was a racing cyclist for almost half a century, and his career ran the full cycle. He began as he ended - as a typical English clubman, riding the weekly club time trial and strapping on a saddlebag for the weekend hostel tour. In between were eight glorious years spent as a professional on the Continent when he rode with and against the very best riders of his era. During that period he worked selflessly in the engine room of the peloton; he was the original 'super domestique', and Jacques Anquetil and Rik Van Looy thought the world of him, even if they showed their gratitude in totally different ways. But he was also capable of winning on his own account. In addition to many other successes, Vin was the first Briton to win a stage of the Tour of Italy, and stages in the tough Dunkirk 4-Days race. His victory in the Tour of Luxemburg made him the first British winner of a national European tour. The Full Cycle is a long overdue account of the splendid career of a 'Gentle Giant' of the road whose passion for cycling has never died; it is also a story of loyalty, courage and friendship. To this day he remains one of the most popular and easily recognised of British ex-professional riders and is frequently in demand as guest of honour at club dinners up and down the country. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Mousehold Press, Norwich 2000., 2000
ISBN 10: 1874739145ISBN 13: 9781874739142
Seller: Hay Cinema Bookshop Limited, Hay on Wye, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
1st edition. 8vo. [x] + 267pp. B/w. illustrations. Paperback in original pictorial wrapps. with black spine lettered in white and yellow, slightly rubbed. ISBN 1874739145 US$10.
Published by Mousehold Press, United Kingdom, Norwich, 2011
ISBN 10: 1874739617ISBN 13: 9781874739616
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Mousehold Press, Norwich 2005., 2005
ISBN 10: 1874739404ISBN 13: 9781874739401
Seller: Hay Cinema Bookshop Limited, Hay on Wye, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
1st edition. 8vo. xiv + 335pp. B/w. illustrations. Paperback in original pictorial wrapps. with creased beige spine lettered in black. ISBN 1874739404 US$11.
Published by Norwich Mousehold Press, 1999
Seller: The Old Station Pottery and Bookshop, Wells-next-the-Sea, NORFO, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
1st edn. Illustrated card covers (paperback). 63pp. Illustrated throughout by b/w photos. A collection of photos and verse celebrating Norfolk. SIGNED by KEITH SKIPPER and SAM ROBBINS. Near FINE copy.
Published by Mousehold Press, Norwich, 2012
ISBN 10: 1874739633ISBN 13: 9781874739630
Seller: C & J Read - Books, Great Yarmouth, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. pp.249, illustrated with 24 pages of photographs. Pictorial glossy card covers with tiny pen mark on front endpaper. Fine.
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Published by Norwich Mousehold Press, 2010
Seller: Virginia Bank Books., ACLE, Norfolk, NOR, United Kingdom
(9492) Paperback. 159 pages. B.w. illustraitons. Fine in a fine papercover. No markings or inscriptions. Unread book.
Published by Norwich Mousehold Press Reprinted, 2010
Seller: Virginia Bank Books., ACLE, Norfolk, NOR, United Kingdom
(9490) Paperback. 171 pages. Fine in a fine papercover. Unread book.