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BLACKPOOL FOOTBALL CLUB - SUPPORTERS' CLUB MAGAZINE (SPORTRAITS OF 1947)

BLACKPOOL FOOTBALL CLUB - SUPPORTERS

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A superb post-war issue of the fanzine featuring not only pieces concerned with Blackpool F.C., including Stanley Matthews, but also range of short articles on contemporary stories in cricket, boxing, snooker and billiards, nicely illustrated throughout not least by a peep-hole cover revealing caricatured stars (by Tom Webster) such as Joe Davis, Harold Larwood, Jack Hobbs and Jim Driscoll.

4to. 44pp. Paperback. Lightly scuffed along bottom edge, with a couple of small taped repairs to covers. A few minor marks and creases consistent with age. A good copy.

Date
1947
Publisher
Manchester: McMillan Graham & Co. Ltd.
Author
Henry MARKLAND (ed.)

£40.00 (Code: 100028)

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