Naas by Edward Griffiths

Naas (First Edition, First Impression in Dust Jacket)

The Official Biography of South Africa's Springbok Flyhalf Naas Botha

Bibliographic Specifications

• Title: Naas: the official biography
• Author: Edward Griffiths
• Publisher: Leo Publishers, Pretoria
• Publication Date: 1989
• ISBN-13: 9780620132244
• ISBN-10: 0620132248
• Edition Details: First Edition, First Impression.
• Binding: Publisher's dark green cloth boards with a silver-blocked rugby kicker emblem on the back board, in a photographic dust jacket.
• Physical Format: Octavo (8vo), 256 pages.
• Language: English

Official Condition Report

• The Book: Very Good (VG)
• Exterior / Boards: Dark green cloth boards with slight rubbing and a small area of wear and chipping at the bottom edge of one board. The black spine with cream lettering is clean, and a small pink dot sticker sits near its foot. The silver rugby kicker emblem on the back board is intact.
• Interior: The pages are cream, clean and legible, with no foxing, markings or loose hinges. The text block is tight.
• The Dust Jacket: Present. The glossy photographic jacket carries a yellow 'English' corner flash and shows some scuffing and light marks to the front. A small stock label with a blacked-out portion sits on the back near the publisher's logo, and a pink dot sticker is on the spine. Protected in a durable archival-type plastic cover.

Synopsis & Historical Value

Published in Pretoria in 1989 by Leo Publishers, Naas is the official biography of Naas Botha, the Springbok flyhalf who drew wide public interest and no small controversy in South African sport.

Edward Griffiths follows Botha's career with Northern Transvaal and the Springboks, and includes the views of teammates and rugby officials. It is a record of one of the best-known figures of South African rugby in the apartheid-era sporting landscape.

A collectible first edition, first impression in its original photographic dust jacket, of interest to collectors of South African sporting history and rugby biography.

Author Profile: Edward Griffiths

Edward Griffiths is a sportswriter and rugby administrator. He worked at Business Day and as editor of the Sunday Times, and in 1995 became the first chief executive of SARFU. He later served as general manager of SABC television sport.

Besides this biography of Naas Botha, he wrote biographies of Kepler Wessels and Kitch Christie, and the rugby histories The Springbok Captains (with Stephen Nell) and One Country: the Greatest Year Springbok Rugby (1996).

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