After the Ball

A Book of Sporting Memories

by Alan D. Mickle

F. W. Cheshire, 1959, [First Edition], lightly illustrated with black and white illustrations, hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, minor discolouration to top front and spine of cover, dustjacket in fair condition with a little crumpling, discolouration, chipping, small tears and some damage and tearing to spine of jacket (see photographs)

“Sport – every kind of sport – has been the author’s abiding interest throughout his eventful life.  For instance, he became a member of the Melbourne Cricket Club in 1901.
But sport, whether it was cricket, cycling, football, horse-racing, boxing, wrestling, fishing, tennis or one of the more obscure games of his youth, like egg-cap, duckstone, cross-tig, stag-knife or toodle-em-bucks, has not been an entirely serious business with him; his cheering sense of what is funny keeps his memories sparkling.  Anecdotes about others, anecdotes against himself – this is the stuff of the book, which is enlivened by his own delightful mocking caricatures.”