Jack in the Box by Jack Bannister
Jack in the Box (First Edition in Pictorial Dust Jacket)
A Television Commentator's Day-by-Day Diary of England's 1991 Home Series Against the West Indies
Bibliographic Specifications
- Title: Jack in the Box: A TV Commentator's Diary of England v West Indies
- Author: Jack Bannister
- Publisher: Macdonald Queen Anne Press, London
- Publication Date: 1992
- ISBN-13: 9780356207711
- ISBN-10: 0356207714
- Edition Details: First published in Great Britain in 1992.
- Binding: Publisher's red cloth boards with a pictorial dust jacket.
- Physical Format: Octavo hardcover, 176 pages.
- 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. The spine appears straight and the corners are sharp. The top edge is clean.
- Interior: The pages are clean and cream, with no foxing, markings or stains. The binding is tight.
- The Dust Jacket: Present. The pictorial jacket carries colour cricket photographs and is bright and clean, with no visible tears. It is protected in a durable archival-type plastic cover.
Synopsis & Historical Value
Published in London in 1992, Jack in the Box is a diary of England's home series against the West Indies in the summer of 1991, written by BBC television cricket commentator Jack Bannister. It follows the series day by day.
Bannister takes the reader into the commentary box and gives his behind-the-scenes view of the five Tests and the cricket played in them. The series was drawn 2-2, and the diary records it as it unfolded.
A clean, handsome copy in its colour pictorial jacket, this will appeal to collectors of cricket literature and to readers who remember the West Indies sides of the early 1990s.
Author Profile: Jack Bannister
John David Bannister (1930-2016), known as Jack, was born in Wolverhampton and played county cricket for Warwickshire, beginning in 1950. After his playing days he became a familiar voice on BBC television cricket coverage from 1984 to 1994, first as a summariser and from 1988 as a commentator. He later worked for TalkSport.
Among his other books is Durham C.C.C.: Past, Present and Future, written with David Graveney and published by Queen Anne Press in 1993.
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