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Buy this book on-line DIGANCE, RICHARD: : RUN OUT IN THE COUNTRY - A Novel. [Author SIGNED copy.]LONDON/MACMILLAN,1983. ISBN 0333352777.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.FINE/NFINE. No owner inscrptn,author's handwritten, blue ink signature to ffe,and no price- clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy, laminated colour cartoon pictorial artwork illustrated dw/dj by Graham Thompson; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges - no major nicks or tears present - a small portion/section of the spine/ backstrip minimally,imperceptibly,sunned/ faded.An unread copy - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners.Top-edge very lightly and minimally dust-soiled, fore-edge bright,crisp and clean; contents bright,tight and pristine.Bright,clean, unblemished,publisher's original,bright lemon cloth bds with bright,black ink stamped letters to spine/backstrip with bright,immaculate,plain white eps,apart from SIGNED ffe already mentioned.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn,1-203pp [paginated] includes half-title+title pages,contents list/table,6 chapters,non-credited b/w oval vignette illustrated chapter head-pieces; b/w line illustrated chapter tail-pieces,match statistics,a glossary and 6pp blanks to rear.
It all started on a rainswept afternoon in December.London solicitor Peter Jackson and his office junior,Winston Waites, stared through the steamed-up windows at the rush-hour bustle,wishing the summer months were still with them.Jackson lamented for the days he sweated behind the stumps during Little Dow's one-day campaigns.Winston was fond of cricket too,turning out for Creek whenever the opposite sex and hangovers allowed.That cold pre-Christmas night a challenge was made,the wicket-keeper's gloves were thrown down and the following June,Winston navigated his side from the decaying streets of East London through the twisty lanes of Buckinghamshire where nestled Little Dow.The air filled with cockney rhyming slang and pleasurable prittle-prattlings as the two sides mingled before the game.But enough of the old 'rabbit' me old china,your presence is required at Lord Smythe's meadow. . .
Richard Digance was born in East London on the same day and in the same hospital as John Lever,the Essex and England bowler,although he cannot recall any cricketing conversations with the left-hander that day; in fact it took many years for Digance to realise that his nursery mate was left-handed.The two have still not been introduced,mainly because Digance is reluctant to meet anybody who surpasses his own skills.Owing to this and the quiet life he leads in Saffron Walden, and even though he is an accomplished broadcaster on Capitol Radio (then 1983),a fine musician and the author of four books,he has not met W.G. Grace (a cricketing legend),Chas and Dave (exponents of obscure cockney rhyme),nor top writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.His favourite colour is green and he hopes to be a model when he grows up.
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