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CRICKET MERRY-GO-ROUND (MULTI SIGNED)

CRICKET MERRY-GO-ROUND (MULTI SIGNED)
CRICKET MERRY-GO-ROUND (MULTI SIGNED)
CRICKET MERRY-GO-ROUND (MULTI SIGNED)

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Cricket Autobiography of John Brian Statham (1930-2000), naggingly accurate medium-fast bowler for Lancashire and England in the Fifties and Sixties

8vo. 192pp. Photographic frontis., 14 pages of photographs. Bookplate to front pastedown. Dust-wrapper, very good. Signed to title-page by Statham and Ken Higgs. Also signed to fly-leaf by more Lancashire cricketers, including Statham (again), Cyril Washbrook, Ken Grieves, Tommy Higson, Jack Bond, Bob Bennett, David Hughes and Neil Fairbrother. A cigarette card of Statham is also laid down to title-page.

Date
1956
Publisher
Stanley Paul
Author
Brian STATHAM

£45.00 (Code: 91701)

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