A HISTORY OF RUGBY,
by Wallace Reyburn
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Jacket has tears and gaps at edges (crudely taped together); small white-out to endpaper. GOOD book in VERY GOOD price-clipped d
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McCrae, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Arthur Barker Ltd, Winsley Street, London 1971 Hardcover, 5¾" x 8¾" (14½cms x 22½cms), with dust jacket Jacket has tears and gaps at edges (crudely taped together); small white-out to endpaper. GOOD book in VERY GOOD price-clipped dust jacket This is the first book to provide the full story of the growth of rugby throughout the world. From the starting point at Rugby School in 1823 the growth of the game is traced to countries as far removed as Scotland, and New Zealand, Fiji and Japan. It includes the origins of the game in the Big Eight rugby countries (the Home Counties, France, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa); Club Rugby - its different development in the Southern Hemisphere; the International Championship; great Touring sides (All Blacks, Springboks, Lions); the future of the game. Includes 29 b&w photographs.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pegasus Book Orphanage (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 42425
- Title
- A HISTORY OF RUGBY,
- Author
- Wallace Reyburn
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover, 5¾" x 8¾" (14½cms x 22½cms), with dust jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Jacket has tears and gaps at edges (crudely taped together); small white-out to endpaper. GOOD book in VERY GOOD price-clipped d
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Arthur Barker Ltd, Winsley Street, London
- Date Published
- 1971
- Pages
- 148 pages
- Keywords
- Sports Rugby History Rugby All Blacks Springboks Lions
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