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FLYING BAILS

FLYING BAILS

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Second volume of cricket autobiography, following on from Cricket Merry-Go-Round. John Brian Statham (1930-2000) was a naggingly accurate medium-fast bowler for Lancashire and England in the Fifties and Sixties.

8vo. 160pp. Portrait frontis., 15 pages of photographs. Dust-wrapper, laminated and attached to boards. Wrapper is rubbed and lightly marked. Light foxing to page edges. A fair copy, but good for reading.

Date
1961
Publisher
Stanley Paul
Author
Brian STATHAM

£5.00 (Code: 82711)

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