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A Cricket Odyssey by Scyld Berry
by Scyld Berry
- Author
- Scyld Berry
- Publisher
- Pavilion Books Limited in association with Michael Joseph Limited
- Year
- 1988
- Edition
- First published
- Binding
- cloth
- Pages
- 214
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781851453108
- Condition
- Very Good Plus (what this means)
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Catalogue no.
- TCB-000477
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About this copy
A Cricket Odyssey (First Edition in Pictorial Dust Jacket)
A Cricket Journalist's Account of England's Controversial 1987-88 Tour, with a Foreword by Tim Rice
Bibliographic Specifications
- Title: A Cricket Odyssey: England on Tour 1987-88
- Author: Scyld Berry
- Publisher: Pavilion Books Limited in association with Michael Joseph Limited, London
- Publication Date: 1988
- ISBN-13: 9781851453108
- ISBN-10: 1851453105
- Edition Details: First Edition, first published 1988. With a foreword by Tim Rice.
- Binding: Publisher's green cloth boards in a pictorial dust jacket. No lettering to the boards.
- Physical Format: Octavo (8vo), 214 pages. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs.
- Language: English
Official Condition Report
- The Book: Very Good Plus (VG+)
- Exterior / Boards: Plain green cloth boards, clean and square, with no visible marks or wear. The spine is sound. The fore-edge and top edge show light toning.
- Interior: The pages are clean and legible with light, even toning. The binding is tight and the text block is free of markings, with no foxing seen. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs.
- The Dust Jacket: Present. The pictorial green jacket carries a cricket photograph to the front and a photo collage to the back. There is small chipping or nicking at the head of the spine and slight edge rubbing at the back. Protected in a durable archival-type plastic cover.
Synopsis & Historical Value
A Cricket Odyssey: England on Tour 1987-88 is Scyld Berry's account of an England cricket tour that took in the 1987 World Cup in India and Pakistan, the Bicentenary Test in Australia in 1988, and a New Zealand leg. It was published in London by Pavilion Books in association with Michael Joseph.
The tour was a controversial one, and Berry, a leading cricket journalist, reports it at close quarters. The book is illustrated with photographs and opens with a foreword by Tim Rice.
This is a clean, collectible copy of a first edition in its original pictorial dust jacket, of interest to collectors of cricket literature and followers of England's overseas touring history.
Author Profile: Scyld Berry
Scyld Berry, born in 1954, is an English journalist and cricket correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. He began as a cricket journalist in 1976 and has written for the Observer, Sunday Correspondent, Independent on Sunday, Sunday Telegraph and Daily Telegraph. He reported on more than 400 England Test matches and edited Wisden Cricketers' Almanack for four years.
His other books include Cricket Wallah (1982), Train to Julia Creek (1985), The Observer on Cricket (1987), Cricket: The Game of Life (2015) and Disappearing World (2023). Cricket: The Game of Life won the Cricket Writers Club Book of the Year.