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GOOGLIES: COALS FROM A TEST CRICKETER'S FIREPLACE

GOOGLIES: COALS FROM A TEST CRICKETER

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Entertaining cricket autobiography of Herbie Hordern, the Australian leg-spin bowler of the pre WW1 era who also appeared for Philadelphia.  With a foreword by M.A. Noble. Illustred by Tom Glover.

Second edition (two weeks after the first). Small 8vo. 207pp plus publisher's catalogue. Frontispiece, line drawings in the text.  Foxing to endpapers. Small gift inscription to fly-leaf. In the original illustrated dust-wrapper, rubbed to edges with a few chips. Good condition.

Date
1932
Publisher
Sydney: Angus & Robertson
Author
Herbert Vivian HORDERN

£95.00 (Code: 101450)

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