New Zealand Rugby Football : Some Hints and Criticisms

Published by Whitcombe & Tombs [1929], Auckland, 1929

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Water damage and staining to spine. 4mm missing to cloth at head of spine. Binding a little shaken, with split to gutter at frontispiece. Supplied with a dust-jacket from a later reprint edition.; Second edition (in same year as the first edition). No date [1929]. 128, (2) pages + frontispiece + 9 illustrations on 8 leaves + in-text illustrations. Brown cloth boards with black lettering on front board. Contents: Dedication; Preface; Chapter I - Football Criticisms; Chapter II - The Game: The Meaning of it: How to Play it; Chapter III - Reflections; General Index. "The thought of writing a small book on Rugby Football has often come across my mind during the last twenty-five years, when I have been reading from time to time the rubbish which accounts itself football history in most books on the subject written in New Zealand. [.] Some little book of the sort has to be written by somebody, and I propose to save other people the trouble. " - from the author's preface. [Reference: Bagnall H1505].

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Title
New Zealand Rugby Football : Some Hints and Criticisms
Author
Hunter, Irwin
Publisher
Whitcombe & Tombs [1929], Auckland
Publication year
1929
Condition
Fair
Dust jacket
No Dust Jacket
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
Second Edition.

Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB

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