Famous Cricketers No 39 - D.C.S.Compton

BIBLIOGRAPHY Denis Compton has not surprisingly been the subject of a great deal of cricketing literature of varying standards of scholarship. He has been well served in the quality of his main biographers. These include: Denis Compton - A Cricket Sketch E.W.Swanton Sporting Handbooks 1948 Denis Compton - The Generous Cricketer Ian Peebles Macmillan & Son 1971 Denis Compton - Cricketing Genius Peter West Stanley Paul 1989 Denis Compton - The Official Biography Tim Heald Pavilion Books 1994 Other books carrying the name of the subject include the following ghosted memoirs; Testing Time For England Stanley Paul 1948 - an account of the M.C.C.’s tour to Australia and New Zealand in 1946/47 Playing For England Sampson, Lowe & Martin 1948 - both these books cover his early life and career in some detail In Sun And Shadow Stanley Paul 1952 - an account of his somewhat unhappy second trip to the Antipodes in 1950/51 Test Diary Kaye Press 1964 End Of An Innings Oldbourne Press 1958 Cricket And All That Pelham Books 1978 with W.J.Edrich Compton On Cricketers Past And Present Cassell 1980 Two excellent accounts of the wonderful summer of 1947 are: Vintage Summer John Arlott Eyre & Spottiswoode 1967 Brylcreem Summer Eric Midwinter Kingswood Press 1991 Other publications include: Denis Compton - Our Greatest All Round Sportsman John Allen Pitkin Pictorials 1949 The Denis Compton Annual 1951-57 The Compton Book Daily Graphic Souvenir 1949 Compton Handbook Ealing Dean Cricket Club 1949 benefit souvenir A recent 1997 publication is: Denis Compton - The Untold Stories Of The Greatest Sporting Hero Of The Century Norman Giller Reference books and magazines: Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1937 to 1965 South African Annual 1948/49 W.A.Baker Australian Cricket Volume 2 1945/46 to 1976/77 Ray Webster New Zealand Cricket Almanac A.H.Carman Wisden Book of Test Cricket Bill Frindall The Cricketer magazine 1936-1964 76