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‘South African Cricket Tour 1947’. Official souvenir brochure for the South African tour of England. Edited by A.W. Simpson. Pictorial covers. Fully signed in blue ink to inside pen pictures by all seventeen playing members of the South African touring party. Signatures are Melville (Captain), Nourse, Mitchell, Viljoen, Rowan, Lindsay, Tuckett, Begbie, Dyer, Fullerton, Plimsoll, Payn, Ovenstone, Mann, Dawson, Harris and Smith. Also signed to the pen pictures by ten England players, Edrich, Hardstaff, Bedser, Wright, Evans, Simpson, Dewes, Watson (signature faded), Knott and Cook. Heavy wear and splitting to wrappers with old tape repairs, rusting to staples, vertical fold. Internally in generally good condition.