[Rarebooks] Roger Bannister FIRST FOUR MINUTES (1955) signed

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    Bannister, Sir Roger Gilbert 
    First four minutes 
    London: Putnam & Co Ltd, 1955 

¶ FIRST EDITION OF THE QUINTESSENTIAL RUNNING BOOK; being Bannister's own 
account of his running career 1946-54 and especially of the famous race at Oxford 
on 6 May 1954, when he became the first man to run a mile in less than four 
minutes--a stunning achievement that has been compared with climbing Mount 
Everest or landing on the Moon: "In a way," says Frank Deford, "Roger Bannister 
was the last hero in sport. All that have followed, however great, have only 
been celebrities, stars, superstars." 

¶ This is the first printing, SIGNED by the author on the titlepage, and VERY 
SCARCE thus. 


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