Ashes Glory; Allan Border's Own Story

Swan Publishing, Byron Bay, New South Wales, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Gerry/Good. Illustrator: Photographic. Signed by Author. foreword by Greg Chappell and the records. The text is illustrated with both colour and black-and-white photography. Photographic laminated boards, showing Allan border holding up the Ashes Urn, with yellow and white coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. Photographic dustwrapper, same photographs as for underlying board, with yellow and white coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. In 1984 Allan Border was asked to pick up the pieces of Australian cricket. One era had passed with the resignation of Dennis Lillee, Greg Chappell and Rod Marsh, and mass defection of Kim Hughes and other senior players to South Africa. His one ambition? To regain the Ashes. This book tells how he did it with the "worst Australian team ever", according to English journalists, and the pain, the glory, the ups, the downs and the feeling of winning the Ashes, not only back, but the score line being 4/0. Signed by Allan border on the free front endpaper. Rubbing to the book corners and to the book panels. Creasing to the dustwrapper edges and rubbing to the dustwrapper panels. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 5), 6-159, (1) pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Cricket; Signed; Australia; Sports & Pastimes. Signed by Author. ISBN: 0958784159. ISBN/EAN: 9780958784153. Inventory No: 0113045. . 9780958784153