Description and condition:

Green cloth hardback, dustcover, 8vo, 192pp, b/w illustrations.

Good or better copy with lightly marked boards, mild foxing to EPs, else nice clean pages. In good, clipped, dustcover with small loss, now protected.

Contents:

“The book mirrors the whole world of cricket, its poetry, its humour, its organisation, its history. It tells you of the age-old craft of the ball-makers and of how a Test match is televised.” With contributions by: Sir Donald Bradman, Len Hutton, Denis Compton, D.S. Sheppard, A.V. Bedser, R.T. Simpson, W.J.Edrich, Jack Hobbs, H.S. Altham, John Arlott, Edmund Blunden and Frank Chester.