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SWANTON IN AUSTRALIA WITH MCC 1946-1975 (JOHN WOODCOCK'S COPY)

SWANTON IN AUSTRALIA WITH MCC 1946-1975 (JOHN WOODCOCK
SWANTON IN AUSTRALIA WITH MCC 1946-1975 (JOHN WOODCOCK

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SIGNED

Jim Swanton's account of the eight separate visits he made to Australia while covering England cricket tours.

8vo. 251pp. 16 pages of photographs. Dust-wrapper, very good. Signed and dedicated by Swanton to fellow cricket writer/journalist John Woodcock to title-page. Also signed by Woodcock to fly-leaf.

Date
1975
Publisher
Collins
Author
Ernest William SWANTON

£30.00 (Code: 99561)

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