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FLYING BAILS (MULTI SIGNED)

FLYING BAILS (MULTI SIGNED)
FLYING BAILS (MULTI SIGNED)

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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, lightly rubbed. Very good condition. Signed very nicely by Statham in blue ink to his frontispice photograph and also signed to title-page by Statham's fellow England bowlers Fred Trueman, Frank Tyson and Ken Higgs. Additionally signed by Malcolm Marshall to next page. Statham and Tyson have dedicated their autographs to Don (Crossley), co-founder of the CMS (from whose collection this comes).

Date
1961
Publisher
Stanley Paul
Author
Brian STATHAM

£80.00 (Code: 91839)

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