The Embassy Book of World Snooker by Clive Everton

The Embassy Book of World Snooker (Illustrated Hardcover with Dust Jacket)

A Lavishly Illustrated Survey of Professional World Snooker by Its Best-Known Commentator

Bibliographic Specifications

• Title: The Embassy Book of World Snooker
• Author: Clive Everton
• Publisher: Ted Smart, Godalming, Surrey
• Publication Date: 1993
• Edition Details: First published in Great Britain in 1993. This edition produced for The Book People Ltd.
• Binding: Publisher's hardcover with black cloth-type boards and printed pictorial illustration, with pictorial dust jacket.
• Physical Format: Large format, roughly quarto, 192 pages. Heavily illustrated with colour and black-and-white photographs, with a reference section.
• Language: English

Official Condition Report

• The Book: Very Good Plus (VG+)
• Exterior / Boards: The black cloth-type boards beneath the jacket carry a printed illustration matching the jacket and appear clean and bright, with no obvious wear. The jacket spine is glossy black with a slight dark mark near the author's name.
• Interior: The pages are clean and cream, with no foxing or markings. The binding is tight, and the text pages are neat. The colour and black-and-white photographs are well preserved. The top edge of the title page shows a slightly uneven trimmed edge, as issued.
• The Dust Jacket: Present. The pictorial jacket shows some light surface scuffing, slight rubbing at the edges and a little dust or marking on the back panel. It is protected in a durable archival-type plastic cover.

Synopsis & Historical Value

The Embassy Book of World Snooker is a celebration of the professional game, past and present, produced with the co-operation of Embassy, long-time sponsor of the World Championship. It concentrates on the years since 1967, when colour television brought professional snooker into the nation's living rooms.

The book profiles players of the era alongside the history of the game, its tournaments and the seasons of the world championships, and includes a reference section. It is illustrated throughout with colour photographs, and it records the sport at a moment when its television popularity was at a peak.

Published in 1993, it is a handsome record of snooker's televised golden age, written by Clive Everton, the voice of the game for decades. It will appeal to snooker enthusiasts and to collectors of sporting literature.

Author Profile: Clive Everton

Clive Everton (1937-2024) was an English sports commentator, journalist, author and professional billiards and snooker player. He founded Snooker Scene magazine, first published as World Snooker in 1971, and remained its editor until September 2022.

From 1972 onwards he wrote more than twenty books on cue sports. Among them are Improve Your Snooker, History of Snooker and Billiards, a biography of Ronnie O'Sullivan, and Black Farce and Cue Ball Wizards, a chronicle of the scandals that have troubled the game.

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