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(London, Hutchinson, 2004). 8vo; original black boards; spine gilt; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. x + 310, incl. index; monochrome photographic plates. NEW. "The record-breaking achievement of Bannister, Brasher and Chataway made the front pages around the world, heralding what historians may come to regard as the most significant sporting triumph of the twentieth century. On hearing the news, the Oxford Union passed a motion that they should adjourn for 3 minutes 59.4 seconds. Congratulations poured in from around the world. The telegram from Paavo Nurmi said simply: 'Well done Britain.' . . . This is the story of the long quest for the 'Magic Mile', almost two hundred years in the making. The methods the runners used, the secrets they uncovered, were passed like a baton through the generations, until the quest reached its climax on 6 May 1954, when Roger Bannister, Christopher Chataway and Chris Brasher united to achieve the impossible." .

(London: Playfair Books, for the Barbarian Football Club, 1955). 8vo; original blue cloth, lettered in silver gilt to spine; no dustwrapper; pp. 275; plates. Joints chafed; backstrip sunned; bottom fore-corner of upper board gnawed; moderate foxing throughout; ownership inscription to half-title; penned page references to half-title; occasional annotations. Fair condition. 'Barbarians of considerable renown existed, it can be said at once, many centuries before 1890, the year in which W. P. Carpmael, of Blackheath, led such a successful invasion of the powerful Rugby territories of Yorkshire and the Midlands that immediately afterwards it was decided to form a representative touring club and give it a name dignified by the famous victory of Arminius over Varus and his legions "somewhere in Germany" about two thousand years ago. The writer does not pretend to know whether the adoption of such a compelling name was due to a sense of history or to the unfailing instinct of men who serve… Read More

(Port Elizabeth: Triolit, 1986) 0620101938. English translation by Malcolm Hacksley. 210 x 148 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. (xii) + 75; map; plates, largely in full colour. Crease to upper cover; wrappers slightly soiled and curled. Good condition. Experiences of a river and ocean canoeing marathoner. .

(Cape Town: Highbury Safika Media, 2009) 9780620447515. 195 x 124 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. (iv) + viii + 291, incl. index; full-colour plates and illustrations to inner wraps. Fine condition. "John Smit is the world's most capped Test captain and an icon of South African rugby. Under his leadership the Springboks have won a World Cup, two Tri-Nations titles and a Test series against the British & Irish Lions. In this autobiography, Smit reveals for the first time: What it takes to lead the world's most complex rugby team; The inner workings of South African rugby politics; His relationship with World Cup-winning Springbok coach Jake White and his successor Peter de Villiers; How the 2007 World Cup was won and why the 2003 World Cup was an unmitigated disaster; The most complete account of Kamp Staaldraad ever published; How he inadvertently contributed to Springbok coach Nick Mallett losing his job; Why losing the 2007 Super 14 final to the Bulls remains the low… Read More

(London: Charles Buchan's Publications Ltd., 1966). 284 x 204 mm; saddle-stitched pictorial wrappers; pp. 62 + (ii); numerous photographs and other illustrations, in monochrome and full colour; some adverts. Wrappers very slightly curled; moderate browning; occasional fox spot. Good to very good condition. This is the 'Cup Final Souvenir', with pages 29-43 devoted to each team's run to the final, in which Manchester United would go on to beat Leicester City 3-1. There is also a spotlight on Leicester City, then nicknamed 'the Filberts', as well as other highlights, such as "The Glory of Hibernian ... It Will Return But It Will Take Time," and "My Story," by Maurice Cook, of Fulham. .

(Scarborough: Scarborough FC Supporters Club, 2004). 206 x 145 mm; pictorial wrappers; unpaginated (but pp. 129); photographs of teams, games, players and programmes, some of which in colour. Very good condition. Uncommon. Scarborough Football Club, which enjoyed a period in the Football League between the late 1980s and late 1990s, was dissolved within a few years of the publication of this book, produced to coincide with the club's 125th Anniversary Season. A new club, Scarborough Athletic, which plays in the eighth tier of English football and retains the Seagull badge of Scarborough FC, continues the tradition. .

(London, The Sportsman's Book Club, 1958). A History of the Competition from 1873 to the present day, with each season's final placings in full, team and individual playing records, etc. 8vo; original burgundy boards; no dustwrapper; pp. 151; 8 black-and-white plates; regular browning throughout. Very good condition. "The County Cricket Championship, the oldest cricket competition in the world, is generally accepted as starting in the 1873 season, but, as we shall see, that is a convenient date decided upon many years later. Cricket in the counties had started very much earlier. In 1744 Kent played England at the Artillery Ground, London, but cricket in those early years was far from being on an organized basis and it was not until 1836 that Sussex, the oldest of the county clubs, was formed." .

(Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, 1995) 0798134143. 212 x 136 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. 192, incl. index; plates. Sunned on spine; gift inscription to half-title; rather foxed to ourtermost leaves, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Good condition. "This book is the final legacy from Dr Danie Craven to rugby. Eighteen months before he passed away Craven agreed to talk on tape about the contentious issues, momentous occasions, untold stories and personalities which crammed his eventful and turbulent career. ... It is all here - in Craven's own words. No rugby lover should be without The Craven Tapes." .

(London, Macdonald, 1955). With a guest chapter by C. B. Fry. 8vo; original green cloth, slightly spotted and bleached; pp. 256; black-and-white photographic plates; scattered light foxing. Good to very good condition. "Some of the individual performances given by members of the Australian Elevens last summer were anything but tough. It was written more than 1,500 years ago that the Roman Empire slid into its great decline because the young men of that Empire were no longer ordered out onto the hillsides at dawn to chop and carry firewood for the family hearths. The analogy is vividly available in the cradles of Australian cricket today." .

(Cape Town: BestRed, 2016) 9781928246138. 234 x 168 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. xix + (i) + 467, incl. index; plates. Fine condition. "Cricket and Conquest is simply the finest book ever written about sport in South Africa. It should sit alongside the works of CLR James and Ramachandra Guha in the library of every cricket lover. For the first time Odendaal, Reddy, Merrett and Winch tell the complete and unvarnished story of South African cricket: black and white and people called coloured, male and female. They have left no archive unexamined and no story unscrutinised in their quest for the truth. This book is not only a major work of scholarship, it is a work of passion: for cricket, for social justice and for a history that includes all those who ever swung a bat or bowled a ball." - Prof Tony Collins, former Director of the International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University .

(London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1949). 8vo; original green cloth; pictorial dustwrapper, somewhat marked and edgeworn; pp. 269; black-and-white photographic plates; a little foxing to page edges. Good to very good condition. "Learie Constantine holds back no tricks; he illustrates his advice with fascinating inside stories of the men against whom he has used the tactics he describes. Bradman, Larwood, Verity, Edrich, Compton, Ponsford, Hammond, Mailey, Oldfield, and a host of others." .

(Cape Town, Don Nelson, 1983). Quarto, laminated pictorial dustwrapper, pictorial endpapers, pp. 160, photographic illustrations. Light foxing on the preliminary pages and edges, owner's name on the front free endpaper. .

(London: Evans Brothers, 1956). 4to; original green boards, lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; decorative endpapers; pp. 192; plates; illustrations in text. Dustwrapper edgeworn and a bit torn, with some archival tape repairs to reverse. Very good condition, in a good dustwrapper. "This wonderful volume for the sports enthusiast is not only devoted to cricket. It also contains articles and features on rugby, soccer and basketball and the contributors are all famous men in the world of sport." .

(Cape Town: Nasionale Boekhandel, 1956). 8vo; original mustard-coloured boards, lettered in black on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. vi + 224; plates. Dustwrapper a bit soiled and ragged, with some loss; earlier owner's inscription to front free endpaper; a little foxing. Good condition. Afrikaans text. ' "Die rampspoedigste toer wat ons nog beleef het." "Ons span was briljant, maar ongelukkig." … So het die menings uiteengeloop ná die Springbokke se 1956-toer na Australië en Nieu-Seeland. Juis omdat Suid-Afrika verloor het en die rugbykroon aan sy tradisionele "vyand" moes afstaan, is dit 'n gedenkwaardige toer. Die All Blacks het ons vasgetrap en in die bladsye van hierdie boek kan u die verhaal van daardie vastrapping lees. Dirk Kamfer het die toer meegemaak as spesiale verteenwoordiger van Die Huisgenoot en almal wat sy gewilde artikels in daardie blad gelees het, sal weet wat om van dié boek te verwag.' .

(Port Elizabeth: Yithethe maAfrika, 2011) 9780620499514. Oblong 4to; laminated pictorial boards; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 144; full-colour photographs; corresponding DVD in sleeve mounted to front pastedown. Fine condition. "This book on the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa in Nelson Mandela Bay is presented with a sense of nostalgia. It is an attempt to keep the memory alive of what transpired leading up to and during the event in our city. The magnitude, complexity and intricacies of being one of the host cities to the biggest , most popular, single sporting event in the world, was only really comprehended and understood by those in the engine room. Eight games were played in Nelson Mandela Bay. Sixty-four matches were broadcast worldwide over 31 days ... and Nelson Mandela Bay was part of it." .

(East London: Nuffield Week Standing Committee, 1985). 105 x 140 mm; saddle-stitched printed wrappers; pp. 44. Very good condition. History of the Nuffield Schools Week, with a summary of the previous year's tournament and South African Schools selection, plus team sheets for each of the 1985 competing provincial schools, also showing the school from which each player was selected. .

(London: Harper Collins, 2007) 9780007208692. 197 x 128 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. xiii + (i) + 432, incl. index. Occasional fox spot. Very good condition. 'The battery of accusations is so relentless you almost feel punch-drunk by the end ... to say this is a necessary book is an understatement." - FourFourTwo Book of the Month .

(Cape Town, Longman, 1952). 8vo, green boards, pictorial dustwrapper somewhat soiled and edgeworn, pronounced foxing to endpapers, past owner's name inside front board, pp. x + 212, including statistical summary of the tour. Moderate foxing throughout, fair condition. "During their visit to the British Isles and France, the 1951-2 Springboks made for themselves a reputation which has seldom been surpassed by any rugby football touring team. They played thirty-one matches and were victorious in thirty of them - including the five international matches against Ireland, Wales, England, France and Scotland. In the game against Scotland, in fact, the score was 44 points to nil, the largest margin ever achieved in a recognised international match." Memories of the glory days of South African rugby. .

Four photographs (between 160 x 205 mm and 137 x 203 mm) of rugby league football action. Three of the photographs are certainly of the encounter between Great Britain and France in East London on 27 July 1957, and were developed by the studio of H. A. Klausner. The fourth photograph has the hand-stamp of Barrett's News Photos, Johannesburg, and is from a training match of the same period. Largely on the back of Tom van Vollenhoven's exploits for St Helens after the Springbok star switched codes, there were efforts to launch rugby league football in South Africa during the 1950s. Three exhibition games between Great Britain and France were arranged. Although at least one source claims that the final game, scheduled for East London, did not take place, these photographs prove otherwise. The players depicted are wearing the kits of France and England, and penned notes on the reverse of two of the photographs read "Rugby League / East London 27/7/57: Great Britain scores to make 17… Read More

(Cape Town: Don Nelson, 1977) 090923826X. 8vo; original black boards; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 227; black-and-white plates. Dustwrapper rubbed and edgeworn, with some archival tape repairs to reverse; spine cocked; edges and top fore-corner of rear free endpaper fishmothed; earlier owner's name on front pastedown; some foxing to edges. Good. "Handsome, charismatic, brave and daring - these were some of the qualities that made HO de Villiers the world's most exciting rugby fullback in the late 1960s, but if there was one special quality above all others that made him South Africa's most talked about rugby player of his era, it was almost certainly his genius for succeeding gloriously by defying the traditionalists and doing precisely what they said he shouldn't be doing." .