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BEST SPORTING STORIES

BEST SPORTING STORIES

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A compendium of classic sports fiction, including cricket, golf, soccer and boxing, published during the Second World War and contributed by such leading writers as Bernard Darwin, Arthur Conan Doyle and Rudyard Kipling.

8vo. 448pp. Dust-wrapper. Wrapper lightly worn with a few minor tears and losses to edges. First edition. Good condition.

Date
1942
Publisher
Faber and Faber Ltd
Author
J. WENTWORTH DAY (ed.)

£20.00 (Code: 103384)

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