PAGEANT OF CRICKET
Huge Coffee Table Book by David Frith
Foreword by Sir Donald Bradman AC
'This is the realisation of an old, old dream. In the absence of a super heavyweight illustated history of cricket, I have produced one for myself . . . ' writes David Frith in his Introduction.
And what a superb illustrated history it is! Davd Frith, acknowledged as one of today's leading writers on cricket, has sifted through some half million items - books, albums, postcards, photographs and pictures, in commercial and private collections - to select the wealth of illustrations that fill these lavish pages.
An amazing 2000 pictures - many of them great rarities - offer an unrivalled pictorial panorama of the 'summer game', from even earlier than the cradle days of Hambledon, through the monumental career of the great W G Grace, the roundarm and overarm revolutions, the expansion of overseas touring, and the eventful inter-war years, to the post war cavalcade of modern cricketing giants who followed in the wake of Bradman. From evocative vintage items to modern colour photography, this feast for cricket lovers provides a unqiue visual record of cricket past and present.
All the great names of the game stride up to the crease in these pages, as do the generations of village, club and school cricketers who, perhaps, are the very lifeblood of the sport. Pageant of Cricket portrays, as no book has done before, the continuity and the diversity of this wonderful, controversial, arresting game called cricket.
- Hardcover Book with Dust Jacket
- First Edition 1987
- Scarce and Valuable Title
- Great Coffee Table Book
- Size 22cm W x 29cm H
- 640 Pages in Good Condition
ISBN 0679419810
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