Ashes Glory; Allan Border's Own Story
by Border, Allan
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Gerry/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0958784159
- ISBN 13
- 9780958784153
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Swan Publishing, Byron Bay, New South Wales, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Gerry/Good. Illustrator: Photographic. Signed by Author. foreword by Greg Chappell and the records. The text is illustrated with both colour and black-and-white photography. Photographic laminated boards, showing Allan border holding up the Ashes Urn, with yellow and white coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. Photographic dustwrapper, same photographs as for underlying board, with yellow and white coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. In 1984 Allan Border was asked to pick up the pieces of Australian cricket. One era had passed with the resignation of Dennis Lillee, Greg Chappell and Rod Marsh, and mass defection of Kim Hughes and other senior players to South Africa. His one ambition? To regain the Ashes. This book tells how he did it with the "worst Australian team ever", according to English journalists, and the pain, the glory, the ups, the downs and the feeling of winning the Ashes, not only back, but the score line being 4/0. Signed by Allan border on the free front endpaper. Rubbing to the book corners and to the book panels. Creasing to the dustwrapper edges and rubbing to the dustwrapper panels. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 5), 6-159, (1) pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Cricket; Signed; Australia; Sports & Pastimes. Signed by Author. ISBN: 0958784159. ISBN/EAN: 9780958784153. Inventory No: 0113045. . 9780958784153
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- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787 (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0113045
- Title
- Ashes Glory; Allan Border's Own Story
- Author
- Border, Allan
- Illustrator
- Photographic
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Gerry
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0958784159
- ISBN 13
- 9780958784153
- Publisher
- Swan Publishing
- Place of Publication
- Byron Bay, New South Wales
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- BZDB2 Cricket, the Ashes, Allan border, 1988, signed, sport Biography & Autobiography; Cricket; Signed; Australia; Sports & Pastimes. Photographic Signed by Author Unbranded ISBN: 0958784159 EAN: 9780958784153 Border, Allan Ashes Glory; Allan Bo
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About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
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