Cricket Encyclopedia by Alan Rustad

Cricket Encyclopedia (Illustrated Guinness Cricket Reference in Dust Jacket)

A large illustrated A-to-Z reference to cricket, with player profiles, career statistics and historic scorecards

Bibliographic Specifications

• Title: Cricket Encyclopedia
• Author: Alan Rustad
• Publisher: Guinness Publishing Ltd, Enfield, Middlesex
• Publication Date: 1995
• ISBN-13: 9780851126500
• ISBN-10: 0851126502
• Binding: Publisher's red cloth hardcover, spine lettered in cream, with a printed illustrated dust jacket.
• Physical Format: Large illustrated quarto hardcover, 256 pages. With many black-and-white photographs and reproductions of scorecards.
• Language: English

Official Condition Report

• The Book: Very Good Plus (VG+)
• Exterior / Boards: The plain dark red cloth boards are clean and free of visible marks. The spine is red with cream lettering, clean and unfaded, and the spine ends and corners appear square and tidy. The fore-edge and top edge are clean.
• Interior: The pages are cream, crisp and clean, with no foxing or markings visible. The binding is tight. A tiny dark mark appears on the scorecard on page 83, apparently part of the printed scorecard or a minor printing flaw.
• The Dust Jacket: Present. The glossy illustrated jacket is clean front and back, and the flaps show no tears. A small price sticker (£17.95, with a '108' sticker over it) sits on the lower back cover beside the barcode. The jacket is protected in a durable archival-type plastic cover.

Synopsis & Historical Value

Published in 1995 by Guinness Publishing, this large illustrated encyclopedia of cricket is arranged in the manner of an A-to-Z reference. It brings together player profiles, career statistics and reproductions of historic scorecards.

Alongside the biographical and statistical entries are articles on matches and traditions of the game, illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs. It is a handsome, heavy volume that works equally well as a source for settling arguments and as a book to browse.

For the collector of sporting literature, it is a clean, well-kept copy of a substantial Guinness cricket reference, complete with its illustrated dust jacket.

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