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FIELDS OF PRAISE. THE OFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE WELSH RUGBY UNION (MULTI SIGNED)

FIELDS OF PRAISE. THE OFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE WELSH RUGBY UNION (MULTI SIGNED)
FIELDS OF PRAISE. THE OFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE WELSH RUGBY UNION (MULTI SIGNED)

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SIGNED

Highly-regarded official history of the Welsh Rugby Union, published during their centenary year.

1st edition. 8vo. 505pp. Colour frontis. Dust-wrapper, very good. Signed to fly-leaf by 16 Welsh rugby stars of the 1970s, including Dawes, Gareth Davies, Mervyn Davies, Gareth Edwards, Evans, Hopkins, Barry John, Quinnell, Roberts, Taylor, Thomas, JPR Williams, Norster, Gerald Davies, and Morris. Also signed by Gareth Williams to half title-page. Signed photographs of Jonathan Davies and Robert Jones are laid down to further endpapers and a sticky label signed by J.J. Williams is laid down to title-page.

Date
1980
Publisher
Cardiff: University of Wales Press
Author
David SMITH & Gareth WILLIAMS

£100.00 (Code: 98098)

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