Great Days in New Zealand Cricket :: R. T. (Richard Trevor) Brittenden soon to be presented for sale on the wonderful BookLovers of Bath web site!
Wellington: Bailey Bros. & Swinfen, 1958, Hardback in dust wrapper.
Includes: Match statistics; Black & white photographs; Frontispiece;
From the cover: With only one test victory to its credit, and that but recently, New Zealand might be considered poor material to provide great cricketing days. Nevertheless the sudden change of fortune, the victory snatched from defeat, the tension of a last wicket stand with the clock ticking towards six, may be found at Carisbrook, the Basin Reserve or Eden Park just as surely as at Lords, Old Trafford or the Oval. New Zealands Saturday afternoon players have their memories of great days in the sun no less than the participants and watchers of Country Championships, and Sheffield Shield or Currie Cup competitions. And while the wearers of the silver fern who may be called great are …
Introduction by: John Reid
Very Good in Very Good Dust Wrapper. A little wear to the edges of the dust wrapper.
Red boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 195 pages. 8¾” x 5¾”.
Of course, if you don’t like this one, may I entrance you with a variety of books within my Sport Cricket catalogue?
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