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Buy this book on-line SHEPHERD,DAVID with FOOT,DAVID: : SHEP: My Autobiography.[Author/subject SIGNED copy.]LONDON.ORION,2001. ISBN 0752845926.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.FINE/FINE.
No owner inscrptn but author/subject's neat,blue ink signature - without dedication - to title page and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy laminated,author/subject's biographical colour photographic illustrated dw/dj panels,with gilt+white lettering to front panel and white lettering to rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+ fore-edges bright and clean lightly toned; contents bright,tight,clean - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,
sharp-cornered,publisher's original,plain black cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/
dj,SIGNED,1st edn,xi-xiipp+1-242pp [paginated] includes a foreword by Richie Benaud,19 chapters and an index,24pp contemporary b/w+colour autobiographical photographs in 2 blocks of 12pp apiece,
between pp84/5 and pp116/17 respectively,
plus [unpaginated] half-title,SIGNED title
page,dedication,acknowledgements,contents list/table and 2pp blanks at the rear.
David Shepherd gets up before 6 o'clock most days to help out his brother Bill by delivering newspapers around the village of Instow in North Devon.Bill runs the village Post Office there.
David is also the world's most trusted and respected cricket umpire.For over twenty years he has umpired tests,county games and one day matches everywhere from Trinidad to Durham and from Lords to Melbourne.
His experiences of umpiring spans three decades; the list of players whom he has umpired,known,and counts as friends reads like a cricketing "Who's Who".His knowledge of the game and his expertise is
unrivalled.David is held in rare esteem and affection by virtually everyone involved in cricket.
Beginning with an evocative account of his North Devon childhood "Shep" covers his entire cricket career in cricket beginning with playing club cricket for North Devon,England Schools and then through various stages to join Gloucestershire in 1965.He retired in 1979 and became a first class umpire in 1981.
His time as an umpire has seen cricket dominated by money; games played at night under floodlight; the introduction of a third umpire; the use of video evidence to help umpires make decisions; and,latterly, the world wide match fixing scandals.
Full of informed and trenchant opinions on cricket,past,present and future,the book contains a wealth of fascinating and amusing anecdotes from a man who has stayed at the centre of cricket for nearly
forty years never losing his love of the game or his sense of humour; Shep is a classic account by a quiet but extraordinary man.
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