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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. xiv + 260 pages, well illus, a well-chronicled survey of cricket throughout mainland Europe looking both at the history of the game in different countries as well as the situation in the late 1960s. Authored by a triumvirate of highly regarded sports people, and with a Foreword by Colin Cowdrey, Part One looks at cricket in specific countries or regions (Corfu, the Mediterranean, Rome, Portugal, Holland, Belgium, France, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, "the far North" and Eastern Europe); while Part Two looks less geographically at subjects (The Continental Tests; Within the Dark Continent; The Missionaries [early visitors and coaches, for example]; The Emigrants; The Tribes [families, for instance]; The Local Colour; and Future Federation). Appendices, Statistics on cricket in Holland and Denmark; biblio and fascinating acknowledgments; and index. SIGNED on front free end paper by what looks like A van der Toft, semi-identified below as Heineken - this is assumed to be a Heineken manager, given that Heineken was one of the three corporate sponsors of the book. Several marks to cover; some bumping on spine and corner-wear; that stray signature on the ffep; some spotting marks also on ffep; marks on top edge of text block; internally, however, extremely clean. Jacket worn and a little torn at most extremities, esp spine and corners; creasing around front flap; some foxing on inside; not price-clipped. Seller Inventory # SV22
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 260 pages. d/j worn on edges. Seller Inventory # 2941ax
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Foreword by Colin Cowdrey. First British edition. Near fine in a near fine (minor edge wear), price clipped dust jacket. . Seller Inventory # 14343
Book Description Hardback. 1969. First edition. A very good copy with light age tanning to the edges and endpapers and bookseller stickers to the ednpapers. The d/w is good with edge wear and chipping. Seller Inventory # 13359202
Book Description 1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 260pp, slight browning, clean and sound, no inscriptions, Very Good / Good dustwrapper, wrapper edges rubbed and slightly frayed, price-clipped. ISBN: 0090976509. Seller Inventory # 465021