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DENIS COMPTON: CRICKETING GENIUS (MULTI SIGNED)

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The first cricket biography to cover the whole of Compton's life.

8vo. 184pp. 8 b/w plates. Dust-wrapper, very good. Signed to title-page by Compton and also by Peter Parfitt, Tom Graveney, Charlie Knott (who also writes "By far the best batsman that I ever bowled at - and a gentleman") and Dennis Baldry (who also writes "The very best of all time"). Further signed by his grandson Nick Compton and by Desmond Haynes to fly-leaf.

Date: 1989
Publisher: Stanley Paul
Author: Peter WEST

£80.00 (Code: 96223)

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