Brightly Fades The Don. by Fingleton. J.H - 1949

Collins, 1949. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1949. 256 pages. Green pictorial dust jacket over green cloth with gilt lettering. Inscription to front endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. The unclipped dust jacket has heavy edge wear, with tears, chips and areas of loss.

Collins, 1949. Hardcover. Good. 1949. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.

Collins, 1949. Hardcover. Good. 1949. No Edition Remarks. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Gilt lettering is darkened.

Collins, 1949. Hardcover. Good. 1949. Second Impression. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Contains black and white photographic plates. Deckled edges. Clean pages with mild tanning and notable foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Mild tearing to front endpaper. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable mottling to boards. Mild tanning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing to ends.

Collins, 1949. Hardcover. Good. 1949. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.

Collins, 1950. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1950. Third Impression. 256 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Contains black and white photographic plates. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout, heavier at end-papers, paste-downs and text-block edges. Plates are bright and clear. Some occasional mild cracking to gutters throughout however binding remains reasonably firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Moderate tanning to spine. Unclipped jacket has heavy edge-wear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and creasing.

Collins, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Fair. 256 Pages. The jacket is a bit shelf rubbed and edge worn, with closed tears along the edges, despite this the jacket is intact and protected in cellophane. The boards are strong, clean and bright. Internally, there is a previous owners inscription on the front end page, overall clean and complete. Tightly bound. r*28/01/2022. [Ak]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

COLLINS, 1949. Hardcover. Good/Poor. Signed by previous owner. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed, marked, creases, chipped, torn and edge worn. A large piece of the bottom panel is missing. Now protected in cellophane. The condition of the book is given in terms of the book's age. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London, UK: Collins, 1949. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 256pp, black and white photographic frontispiece, 20 black and white plates. Blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Lightly sun-faded spine, spine ends lightly rubbed and rounded, corners lightly rubbed. Gutter stretched at half-title page. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight volume. Dust jacket has moderate shelf wear with chipping along edges, loss at spine ends and at the top of front and rear cover, price unclipped. Australian cricketer J H Fingleton tells the story of the Australian tour of England in 1948 and gives some delightful portraits of English county cricket clubs, their grounds and their players and askes why England failed so sadly. Appendix details test scores and averages.

London, UK: Collins, 1949. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. h/b 256 pages, condition is very good, minor edge wear to the DJ. An owenrs name to the flyleaf.