Cricket Branson V M (1 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Adelaide, Rigby Ltd., 1933. Small oblong folio, 40 pages (including the covers) with illustrations on 24 pages (16 full-page) and the front cover. Two-colour pictorial card covers recently reattached, with the spine reinforced on the verso; an excellent copy of an absolute rarity. A satirical attack on the tactics of the English cricket team in the infamous Bodyline test series of 1932-33. 'The Book has been written for the new regime of cricket; the batter, bruise and bust cricket, which has been thrust upon us. This travesty of an erstwhile noble sport demands new techniques to master it . We find after years of research that all previous books on cricket dealt mainly with batting, bowling, fielding and records. It is not now sufficient to wield a polished bat, to execute a classic leg-glance or a neat on-drive' - you get the drift. The delicious irony is that this copy has the contemporary ownership details of a young Jeff Pash (1916-2005), then aged about 17. A few years later, in 1939, he was awarded the Magarey Medal as the 'Fairest and Most Brilliant' player in the South Australian National Football League.…