HOWAT , GERALD: - Cricket’S Second Golden Age : The Hammond- Bradman Years

Hodder & Stoughton 1989 First VG/VG some edgwear 300pp 35 b/w photos illustrations 8.5 x 5.5 520g ¶ This book tells of the golden age of cricket, which was dominated by two of the greatest modern batsmen, W R Hammond and D G Bradman. This was the period from nineteen hundred and nineteen to nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, the inter-war years, and is fascinatingly revealed by an author who is always conscious of the issues in the game and of the background of life outside it.