Before the Lights Went Out: The 1912 Triangular Tournament

Ferriday, Patrick and Frith, David

ISBN 10: 0956732100 / ISBN 13: 9780956732101

Published by Von Krumm Publishing, Hove, U.K, 2011

About this Item

235 x 160mm. pp. 327. English text. Hardback edition of 'Before the Lights Went Out: The 1912 Triangular Tournament'. Black and white photographic illustrations. Bound in original black boards. Housed in light blue pictorial dust jacket. Previous owners details to f.e.p, some toning to edges, and crease to top right corner of page 266. Binding strong. No underlining. See images. 1kg. Extra postage overseas.

Seller Inventory # 050305

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Before the Lights Went Out: The 1912 Triangular Tournament
• Publisher: Von Krumm Publishing, Hove, U.K
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0956732100
• ISBN 13: 9780956732101
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First U.K. Hardback Edition.
• Condition: Very Good -
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

The 1912 Triangular Tournament was the culmination of the work of cricketers in three continents over half a century. The county game in England, the inter-colonials' in Australia and the cricket-loving Randlords in South Africa all led to international competition which then took on a life of its own. As cricket adopted an increasingly business-like nature, fortunes were made and lost during the last decades of Victoria's reign and by the time the new century dawned the game had reached a level of organisation and professionalism undreamt of only three decades earlier. The vast wealth and influence of South African businessman Abe Bailey enabled him to indulge his ambition of bringing the three test-playing nations together. The summer of 1912 would show how far the game had come....