10 for 66 and All That by Arthur Mailey

Book Description

Secondhand. Fair condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Heavy foxing to foredges and preliminary pages. Binding is still good. Fading to spine. No dust jacket. Book is in a non-adhesive protective cover. First edition.

Arthur Mailey's (1886-1967) classic autobiography, first published in 1958, is a wry and engaging account by a talented cricketer from a very different era - full of zest, varied, quick, shifting the point of attack, sometimes extravagant, frequently brilliant and always thoughtful.

10 for 66 and All That is a reminder of the glory days of cricket - amateurs and professionals, Bradman, Noble and Trumper batting, and Barnes, O'Reilly and Fleetwood-Smith with the ball. Mailey played 21 test matches for Australia during the 1920s as a spinner bowler.