HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1951* Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton.* Binding and cover condition: Light green cloth, dark green title to spine. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear to corners. VG+* Jacket condition: Black & white photo-illustrated dust wrapper on green and white background showing Evans taking a wicket, now in protected jacket. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of 12/6d. Considerable shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to spine with minimal losses. GD+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. Prelims very lightly aged. VG++* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 249 pp. text. viii pp. index, advertisements & blank pages at rear.* Description: The cricketing ?life and times? of Godfrey Evans of Kent and England ? one of the outstanding personalities in first class cricket of the fifties. His whole story from the beginning to the eve of the 1950-1951 Australian Tour. It is packed with the shrewd observations which readers will expect from ?the man who sees most of the game?!* A NEAR FINE text copy of the 1st/1st with minor age & wear. Now in protected dust jacket.*

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Bookseller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 283
Title: Behind the stumps
Author: Evans, Godfrey
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - VG++/VG+/GD+
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp.
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Place of Publication: London UK 254
Date Published: 1951-01-01

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