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ALL ON A SUMMER'S DAY

by Hughes, Margaret

First Edition

Price: $46.75


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Book desription: London: Stanley Paul, 1953. 191pp., b/white halftone plate author portrait frontispiece, plus unpaginated, candid and action illustrated plates throughout, supported by intext, line-drawn 'pie-charts'. Book clean and square. Bright gilt title on nominally bumped backstrip. Plain green boards unmarked. Original seller's sticker affixed to front pastedown, minimal text-block flecks and splotches. Pictorially-illustrated, loose-plastic protected dustjacket price-clipped, lightly edgeworn and abraded. " . . . the first serious book on professional cricket written by a woman . . . " A true 'cricket tragic', Margaret Hughes tells of her early childhood, and how she first became a cricket fanatic . . . It covers the period 1930 to 1952 and encompasses both domestic and international matches. Contents of this scarce cricket book include: Prelims., Foreword (Neville Cardus), Part 1/ Cricket Characters. Part 2/ The Game's The Thing, Index. Book weight approx. 420g. PLEASE NOTE: LISTED BOOKS ARE NOT STORED AT SHOP PREMISES. DIGITAL PHOTO AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. First Edition. Hardcover and Dustjacket. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

  • Bookseller: Diversity Books AU (AU)
  • Bookseller Inventory #: 006435
  • Format/binding: Hardcover
  • Book condition: Very Good
  • Jacket condition: Very Good
  • Edition: First Edition
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Publisher: Stanley Paul
  • Place: London
  • Date published: 1953
  • Keywords: NOISBN, Sport Biography, Cricket, England, Hughes, Margaret
  • Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Sports; SPORTS & RECREATION / Cricket;

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