Kevin sheedy foreword (2 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. Huge volume. Foreword by Kevin Sheedy. Several contributors. Numerous colour and b&w photographs & illustrations throughout. Includes glossary of terms, rules of the game, index, plus author biographies. Contents in five sections: From the Beginning; The Game; The Passion; Outside the Fence; The Decades. From rear panel of dustjacket: "The Australian Game of Football celebrates the 150th anniversary of Australia's only indigenous game and covers every aspect of the game - its haphazard beginnings, the passion of its founders, its heroes, those who managed and influenced it over generations, the coaches and tacticians, its relations with indigenous Australians, the huge role of women, the media, and its amazing and constant growth from a suburban game to a national phenomenon. The book has hundreds of dramatic photos and illustrations, and covers each of the 15 decades of the life of the game in minute detail". Printed endpapers. Printed in China. Bound in original pictorial laminated boards, in publisher's matching unclipped pictorial dustjacket. A very nice clean tight solid hardcover copy. 396pp. Very large heavy book, extra shipping may be required. Uncommon. SB-73.…

224 pp, small quarto, decorated end-papers, coloured and b&w photographic illustrations and plates, fine copy in like, illustrated d/j.