The twelfth man: A book of original contributions brought together by The Lord's Taverners in honour of their patron Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh By Prince Of Wales

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ISBN 0304937525

Publisher: Cassell & Company Ltd 1971

Used - Very Good. This book is in very good condition. The DJ has some wear especially on the edges and spine areas. The book pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. The book is now protected with a Cellophane cover which hold the DJ together beautifully. Rubber stamp on the first page.

The Twelfth Man, in cricketing parlance, is the player who acts as a fielding substitute when a member of his side is ill or injured; more important, perhaps, it is the Twelfth Man who brings out the trays of drinks to sustain players wilting in the hot sun of an Australian, West Indian, South African, New Zealand, or even English summer’s afternoon. His Royal Highness the Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, is the Twelfth Man of the Lord’s Taverners, that remarkable Commonwealth-wide organisation of “good fellows” from the worlds of sport and the arts, dedicated to the task of raising money for charity.

The happy idea of the Twelfth Man’s fellow Taverners was to ask the writers, artists, sportsmen and show business personalities listed on this jacket to give an original piece of work of their own choice to Prince Philip. These were combined by the editor and founder-member of the Lord’s Taverners, Martin Boddey, in a book, the royalties from the sale of which go to a fund administered by Prince Philip.