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Oxford: Oxford Publishing Company, 1970. 1st Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Good. 57. Oxford Publishing Co., Oxford, 1970. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. A very good+ copy of the first hard cover edition in a Good unclipped ,30s(£1.50), dust-jacket. There is a long gift inscription in ink on the pastedown/front endpaper, else the text is unmarked, pristine, and the binding and jacket are bright and fresh in appearance. DJ spine is a little faded. has signs of shelfwear with a few small chips.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988. 1st Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 1st 1988. Slightly better than very good condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper. The Zulu War and the Last Black Empire in South Africa. B/w photos. Light page edge browning and foxing to outer page edges. Wrapper is edge-creased. 

London: Robson Books, 2001. 1st Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. 1861053908. Very Good. First edition. HB. Cloth and pictorial dustjacket. 208pp. With b&w photos in plates. Pioneering biography of the cricketer who led a colourful life off the field as well as being famous on it. DJ unclipped (£16.92). No inscriptions, or other markings. Looks unread.

Solihull: Helin & Company Limited, 2010. 1st Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. DJ not clipped, small single word owner's name written on FFEP

London: Library Association Publishing, 1991. 1st Edition. Hardback. Near Fine/Very Good. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine book in Very Good DJ. 1st edition. DJ is clean, no tears or ships, very light edge wear. DJ Unclipped, original £45 price sticker still in place on inside front flap. Book has clean and bright contents, the beginnings of a few foxing spots on upper edge. No inscriptions, or other markings, looks unread.

Feltham: Paul Hamlyn, 1968. 1st Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Good. 591. Hard cover with dust jacket. Small tears on edges of DJ. Moderate surface wear on DJ edges. Not price clipped, 30/-. Red boards. Clean, tight pages. Strong binding. Possibly unread. Small neat owner inscription on pastedown behind DJ. Colour and black and white illustration. 591 pages with index.

London: Faber & Faber, 2014. 1st Edition. Hardback. Near Fine/Near Fine. Condition: Near Fine/Near Fine. DJ unclipped (£17.99). No inscriptions, or other markings. Looks unread. Frank Keating's work adorned the Guardian for four decades from 1973 until shortly before his death in early 2013. In his heyday Keating's fizzing wordplay and sheer joie de vivre thrilled readers. They saw him not just as a journalist but as a fan who shared their own delight in sport for its own sake and in the stars who made it watchable. He also had a special rapport with many of the greats such as Barry John and Ian Botham. From the 1970s to the 1990s he attended nearly all the great sporting events. Later he became a nostalgist with a matchless gift for bringing the past to life. But his happy, rosy, sunlit view of sport was always subject to magnificent outbreaks of literary bad temper, especially when confronted by committee-room idiots and officious gatemen. The Highlights includes much of his best writing in the… Read More

London: BCA, 1981. 1st Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. Very good book in Good DJ. Previous owner's name on FFEP. DJ has wear to upper edge and a crease up the centre of the front.