The Daily Telegraph Football Chronicle by Norman Barrett
The Daily Telegraph Football Chronicle (Illustrated 1993 Season-by-Season Football History)
A Season-by-Season Account of the Soccer Stories That Made the Headlines from 1863 to the Early 1990s
Bibliographic Specifications
- Title: The Daily Telegraph Football Chronicle: A season-by-season account of the soccer stories that made the headlines from 1863 to the present day
- Author: Norman Barrett
- Publisher: Carlton (Stanley Paul), London
- Publication Date: 1993
- ISBN-13: 9780091782283
- ISBN-10: 0091782287
- Edition Details: This edition first published in 1993.
- Binding: Publisher's illustrated hardcover boards, issued in a glossy illustrated dust jacket.
- Physical Format: Large illustrated hardback, roughly quarto size. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white and colour photographs.
- Language: English
Official Condition Report
- The Book: Very Good Plus (VG+)
- Exterior / Boards: The illustrated boards beneath the jacket are white-ish, clean and bright, with no visible damage. The spine is straight, and the corners and edges appear sound.
- Interior: The pages are clean and white and the text block is tight. No foxing, markings or damage are visible.
- The Dust Jacket: Present. The glossy illustrated jacket is bright and clean with no visible tears. It is protected in a durable archival-type plastic cover.
Synopsis & Historical Value
The Daily Telegraph Football Chronicle, compiled by Norman Barrett and published in London in 1993, tells the story of the game season by season from 1863 to the early 1990s. It is arranged chronologically with a British focus, in the manner of a newspaper archive.
Match reports, feature articles, brief statistics, quotations and news in brief carry the reader through each year. Special features cover football heroes and the laws of the game, and a dedicated spread is given to each World Cup finals.
The book is lavishly illustrated with hundreds of photographs, black-and-white and colour. It makes a handsome reference and browsing volume for collectors of football and sporting history, offered here as a clean, bright copy in its illustrated dust jacket.
Author Profile: Norman Barrett
Norman Barrett is a British sports writer and editor who has written on football and other sports for more than twenty years. In the late 1960s he planned and edited the 3,000-page partwork The Game.
He has produced numerous books on soccer, including adult and children's titles co-written with Kevin Keegan, Don Howe and Lawrie McMenemy. His other works include Purnell's New Encyclopedia of Association Football (1972) and The Telegraph Complete History of British Football.
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