In the Nick of Time. Peter Kirsten's Life in Cricket
by Vice, Telford
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0670869147
- ISBN 13
- 9780670869145
- Seller
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About This Item
(Johannesburg: Viking, 1996) 0670869147. Signed inscription from Peter Kirsten to half-title. 8vo; original grey boards, lettered in white on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xii + 226, incl. index; plates. Some foxing to edges and endpapers; earlier owner's name signed on front free endpaper. Very good condition. "His enormous talent, for years the preserve of Western Province, Derbyshire and later Border, was suddenly and spectacularly unleashed at the World Cup in 1992. And there could be no more fitting epitaph to a distinguished career than the century scored at the second Test at Headingley in 1994. As an innings, it meant a great deal - to his team, his country, and to the man himself. Here was a 39-year-old legend fulfilling his destiny - not with bitterness at the wasted years, but with all the unbridled joy of the nine-year-old who had scored a century for Selborne against Dale 30 years earlier. This vibrant book is more than just a limited look at the brilliant career of one cricketer: it is the saga of 22 of the most important summers in the history of South African cricket." .
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- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13515
- Title
- In the Nick of Time. Peter Kirsten's Life in Cricket
- Author
- Vice, Telford
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0670869147
- ISBN 13
- 9780670869145
- Publisher
- (Johannesburg: Viking, 1996) 0670869147
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 1996
- Keywords
- Signed copy. South African Cricket. Isolation years. Rebel Tours Sport
- Bookseller catalogs
- Sport;
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