Published by Breedon Books, Derby, 1999
Seller: Wagon Tongue Books, Linden, AB, Canada
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good ++. B/W Photographs (illustrator). The author of these 128 pages was born in Derby, England in 1923. He toured Canada with an English football (soccer) team in 1950. Calgary, and later the Gulf Islands, hooked him. Read more about : Burnaston, tackle, Les Oliver, right-back, body-building, Bat Masterton, Spotted Horse, Atco, Bragg Creek, Caledonian Soccer Club, Sarah Dallison, and Galiano School. Plenty of b/w pictures from his football days and from his association with the Banff Springs Hotel and a few from body fitness days and west coast retirement. Cond : Paper wrapper is white with lettering similar. Four versions of Bert on the cover. Tight, bright, square, and clean. No names, marks, creases nor tears. Collectible and hard-to-find. ! ! Quote (p. 39) : " Frank Broome was noted for his humour. He could mimic voices and accents to perfection, I remember one day we were all in the lobby of a hotel and Dougie Taft had recently joined the team. He was in the army ar rhar rime doing his two years' National Service, which was ._._._. ." Size: 12mo.
US$ 49.83
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Add to basketNicely illustrated and lively football autobiography by the Derby County and England full-back of the late 1940s and early 1950s. 8vo. 128pp. Paperback. Very good condition.