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BY HOOK OR BY CUT

BY HOOK OR BY CUT
BY HOOK OR BY CUT

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SIGNED

Les Favell (1929-87) was a free-scoring opening bat for New South Wales and South Australia, who played in 19 Tests for Australia including a hundred in the Madras Test of 1960.

8vo. [viii] + 238pp. 30 pages of photographs. Dust-wrapper, slightly rubbed. Very good condition. Signed nicely by Favell to fly-leaf - and also by his wife and two children, to whom the book was dedicated.

Date
1970
Publisher
Adelaide: Investigator Press
Author
Les FAVELL

£38.00 (Code: 78156)

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