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All on a Summer's Day by Hughes, Margaret - 1953

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All on a Summer's Day

by Hughes, Margaret

  • Used
  • Hardcover
London: Stanley Paul, 1953. Hb, 191pp, portrait frontis of the author, b/w photos. READING COPY only with heavy foxing along edge of page block and first/last few pages. Dj has loss in several places. Foreward by Neville Cardus. Heralded as " the first serious book on professional cricket written by a woman", the author describes her childhood, how she became fanatical about cricket, character sketches of international cricketers and reports and views about post-war Test matches as well as county matches.. Hard Cover.
  • Bookseller Glynn's Books GB (GB)
  • Format/Binding Hardcover
  • Book Condition Used
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Stanley Paul
  • Place of Publication London
  • Date Published 1953
  • Keywords Cricket, Sports, Cricket Biography, English Cricket, Cricket History, Test Cricket

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ALL ON A SUMMER'S DAY

by Hughes, Margaret

  • Used
  • very good
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
Very Good
Edition
First Edition.
Binding
Hardcover
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1
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Diversity Books, IOBA
Korumburra, Victoria, Australia
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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 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. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" -… Read More
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