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Wisden Cricketers' Almanack Australia
South Yarra, Hardie Grant Books. 1998, Stated First Edition. (ISBN: 1864980028) Hardcover, 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Ill.: Photographic. Cricket, 500 g; XVI, 784 pages, last five pages blank, illustrated throughout with small black-and-white photographs, and full-page colour photographs and advertisements. Publish simultaneously with the 135th edition of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, this is the first printing of an Australian version of the "cricketer's bible" to record the personalities, defeats and the figures of cricket's world champions. Heading this first edition, Peter Roebuck celebrates his own recent Australian citizenship by writing the traditional Notes that introduce each new Wisden, looking back on the 1997-98 season that saw Australia triumph over New Zealand and South Africa even as its cricketers were embroiled in a bitter controversy with the game's governing body." -- front fold over blurb. Slight rubbing to the top corners of the fold over flap's. Otherwise in very good condition. Very Good/Very Good.
Offered for AUD 32.00 = appr. US$ 25.50 by: Syber's Books - Book number: 0220053
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