1945. First edition, first impression. 190pp, with colour plate frontispiece piece and numerous further monochrome plate illustrations and drawings in text. In orange cloth-covered boards with black lettering on front and spine. Illustrated coloured endpapers.  8vo. Cloth is worn and marked, lightly rubbed and rounded at corners and tips of a sunned spine. Doodle on front panel. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Published in 1945 for the 1945-46 soccer season, and produced to war economy standards.
The first volume in a seris of football annuals published by Evans Brothers between 1945 and the 1960, see described as the very first mass market soccer annual and as such a key piece of football fan history.
