It's Been a Piece of Cake by Brian Johnston

It's Been a Piece of Cake (Collectible Cricket Tribute in Dust Jacket)

Brian Johnston's Affectionate, Anecdotal Profiles of the Test Cricketers He Most Admired

Bibliographic Specifications

• Title: It's Been a Piece of Cake: A tribute to my favourite Test cricketers
• Author: Brian Johnston
• Publisher: Methuen London, London
• Publication Date: 1989
• ISBN-13: 9780413167705
• ISBN-10: 0413167704
• Edition Details: First published in Great Britain, 1989.
• Binding: Publisher's red cloth boards with a green illustrated dust jacket.
• Physical Format: Octavo hardcover, 274 pages. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and numbered plates.
• Language: English

Official Condition Report

• The Book: Very Good Plus (VG+)
• Exterior / Boards: The red cloth boards are clean and bright, with no visible wear or marks. The spine is straight. The page block edges are lightly toned.
• Interior: The title page and text pages seen are clean, with no markings or foxing. The binding is tight. Black-and-white photographs and numbered plates are included.
• The Dust Jacket: Present. The green illustrated jacket, with cricket bats and stumps and a photograph of the author holding a cake on the front, shows light wear at the edges and a few small marks at the top edge. The back flap has a vertical crease and slight toning. Protected in a durable archival-type plastic cover.

Synopsis & Historical Value

Published by Methuen in London in 1989, It's Been a Piece of Cake: A Tribute to My Favourite Test Cricketers gathers Brian Johnston's affectionate profiles of the players he most admired, ranging from Patsy Hendren to Allan Border and taking in most of the great post-war names.

Each chapter is a short portrait built around personal anecdote, written in the light-hearted, conversational manner that made Johnston one of the best-loved voices in British broadcasting. The closing pages turn to the leading England players of the late 1980s.

For collectors of cricket literature and of Johnston's work, it is a warm and readable record of the game and its personalities by one who watched and described it for decades.

Author Profile: Brian Johnston

Brian Alexander Johnston (1912-1994) was a British cricket commentator, author and television presenter. He joined the BBC's Outside Broadcasts Department after the war and began his long association with cricket commentary in the summer of 1946. He became the BBC's first Cricket Correspondent in 1963 and took over presenting Down Your Way in 1972.

His books include two autobiographies and fourteen other titles, among them Now Here's a Funny Thing, It's Been a Piece of Cake and Someone Who Was. He died on 5 January 1994.

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