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YORKSHIRE AND BACK: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF RAY ILLINGWORTH (MULTI SIGNED)

YORKSHIRE AND BACK: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF RAY ILLINGWORTH (MULTI SIGNED)
YORKSHIRE AND BACK: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF RAY ILLINGWORTH (MULTI SIGNED)

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Cricket autobiography of a former captain of Yorkshire, Leicestershire and England, one of the few men in recent times to bring back the Ashes from Australia, a feat he achieved in 1970-71.

8vo. 192pp. 16 pages of photographs. Owner's small labels to front pastedown. Dust-wrapper, lightly rubbed. Good. Signed to title-page by Illingworth and his fellow Yorkshire cricketers Fred Trueman, Brian Close, Ken Taylor and John Hampshire.

Date
1980
Publisher
Queen Anne Press
Author
Ray ILLINGWORTH

£36.00 (Code: 90396)

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