The Story of Football, 1964, Series 561 (matt)

The Story of Football was one of only two books published in series 606c (The Story of Cricket was the other).  The book was written by Vera Southgate and was illustrated by Jack Matthew.

This topic was later revisited in the 1970s in Learnabout Football – but the later book has none of the charm of this one which is more about the history than the rules of the game.  Only the first edition was ever published with a dustwrapper.

This copy:

This copy has matt boards and is in very good condition inside and out – a bit of rubbing to one edge of spine and small pen mark to cover (see photos).  Otherwise not much wear and nice, clean pages.  It dates to around 1970 and has an original revised price on the back.