Ian Botham by Simon Wilde
Ian Botham (Hardcover First Edition in Dust Jacket)
A Biography of England's Swashbuckling All-Rounder Set Against the Culture and Politics of His Era
Bibliographic Specifications
- Title: Ian Botham: The Power and the Glory
- Author: Simon Wilde
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster, London
- Publication Date: 2011
- ISBN-13: 9781847376480
- Edition Details: First published in Great Britain, 2011. Hardcover issue.
- Binding: Publisher's dark cloth hardcover with a photographic illustrated dust jacket.
- Physical Format: Octavo hardcover biography, 374 pages.
- Language: English
Official Condition Report
- The Book: Very Good Plus (VG+)
- Exterior / Boards: The plain dark grey/black cloth boards are clean and square, with no visible damage.
- Interior: The text pages are clean and cream-toned, with no markings. The binding is tight and the book opens flat. The page edges are lightly toned.
- The Dust Jacket: Present. The colour photographic wrap is bright and clean, with a small nip or chip and some creasing at the head of the spine and light edge wear along the top edge. The flaps are intact, and the rear flap carries the author note. Protected in a durable archival-type plastic cover.
Synopsis & Historical Value
Ian Botham: The Power and the Glory, by Simon Wilde, was published by Simon & Schuster in 2011. It is a biography of the England all-rounder, covering his cricketing career and the larger-than-life public persona that grew around him.
Wilde presents Botham as a risk-taking entertainer and champion, a sporting great whose talent, energy and swagger arrived in an era short on personalities. The book sets his career against the wider cultural and political backdrop of the time, and the 1981 Ashes series is central to the story.
A solid, clean copy in its photographic dust jacket, suited to cricket collectors and readers of sporting biography.
Author Profile: Simon Wilde
Simon Wilde was born in Leeds in 1960 and read English Literature and Classics at Bangor. He has written for The Times and Sunday Times since 1998 and is currently the cricket correspondent of the Sunday Times.
His books include Ranji: A Genius Rich and Strange (1990), Letting Rip (1994), Shane Warne: Portrait of a Flawed Genius (2007) and England: The Biography (2018). Three of his books have been shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, and his 2023 book The Tour won the MCC/Cricket Society Book of the Year Award.
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