Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia

Held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
10th, 11th & 12th April 2026

Manchester United. ‘Tackle Soccer This Way’. Duncan Edwards. First edition, London 1958. Original hardback with good dustwrapper. Sold with six first edition hardbacks, five with original dustwrappers. Titles are ‘The Manchester United Football Book’, David Meek, London 1966. ‘Matt... United... and me’, Jimmy Murphy, London 1968. ‘Best of Both Worlds’, George Best, London 1968, pictorial covers, ex libris. ‘Father of Football. The Story of Sir Matt Busby’, David Miller, London 1970. ‘The Team that Wouldn’t Die’, John Roberts, London 1975. ‘The Day A Team Died’, Frank Taylor, London 1983, ex libris. Odd faults to dustwrappers, otherwise in good condition.
The Publisher’s Note at the beginning of the Edwards book describes commissioning Duncan Edwards to write this instructional book in October 1957. Edwards delivered the manuscript in 1958 on the eve of departing for the match in Yugoslavia which ended tragically with the Munich Air Disaster in which Edwards lost his life.

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