A comprehensive instructional guide to lawn bowls compiled by champion Australian bowler R.T. "Dick" Harrison, covering grip, stance, delivery, tactics, and match strategy, and incorporating three companion booklets — "The Etiquette of Bowls," "The Etiquette of Marking," and "The Romance of Bowls Manufacture" — plus a section on Henselite's rubber bowl manufacturing history. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographic plates and diagrams. This 16th edition dust jacket notes over 92,000 copies sold, reflecting its status as one of the most widely read bowls instruction texts of its era.

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Author R.T. Harrison (compiler)
Illustrator Not Stated
Publisher R.W. Hensell & Sons Pty. Ltd.
Publication Year 1976
Printed In Australia (The Dominion Press, North Blackburn, Victoria)
ISBN 0 9597152 0 7

Condition: Blue cloth hardcover in its original pictorial dust jacket, price-clipped corner not evident. Jacket shows light shelf wear with a small chip/nick to the lower front corner and mild edge wear; spine panel bright with clear black lettering on the black publisher band. Boards clean and square underneath. Internally clean and tight, text bright and unmarked.