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Brightly Fades the Don
Author(s): Fingleton, J H
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Volume Condition: | Very Good |
| Dust Jacket: | Yes |
| Dust Jacket Condition: | Good |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher Name: | Collins |
| Publication Year: | 1949 |
| Publication Place: | London, UK |
| Book ID: | 014761 |
| Catalogue(s): | Uncategorized |
256pp, black and white photographic frontispiece, 20 black and white plates. Blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Lightly sun-faded spine, spine ends lightly rubbed and rounded, corners lightly rubbed. Gutter stretched at half-title page. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight volume. Dust jacket has moderate shelf wear with chipping along edges, loss at spine ends and at the top of front and rear cover, price unclipped. Australian cricketer J H Fingleton tells the story of the Australian tour of England in 1948 and gives some delightful portraits of English county cricket clubs, their grounds and their players and askes why England failed so sadly. Appendix details test scores and averages.