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GUBBY ALLEN: MAN OF CRICKET

GUBBY ALLEN: MAN OF CRICKET

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Biography of Gubby Allen, the Middlesex and England captain who went on to become one of cricket's longest-running administrators.

 Large 8vo. 311pp.  24 plates. Light foxing and marks to page edges and endpapers. Dust-wrapper, very good condition. Signed by Gubby Allen in ink to title-page (not dedicated). Also signed nicely by Allen and Jim Swanton to two cricket-themed bookplates, one laid down to front pastedown and one to fly-leaf.

Date
1985
Publisher
Hutchinson, Stanley Paul
Author
Ernest William SWANTON

£40.00 (Code: 80093)

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