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Browse through an extensive range of publications including club histories, player autobiographies, coaching manuals, and financial analyses. We offer books covering women's soccer and statistics, historical perspectives, World Cup chronicles, and profiles of legendary players. Our seasonal selection includes popular annuals, perfect for holiday gifting.
Each listing provides comprehensive content descriptions, drawing on our deep expertise in soccer literature. For collectors, we take special care of books with dust jackets, protecting them with our professional-grade Archival Dust Jacket System at no additional cost.
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Charles Buchan's Football Monthly
The first issue came out over 50 years ago, in September 1951. Charles Buchan was a seasoned journalist for the News Chronicle and the BBC and had spotted a gap in the market: The circulation started at a level modern magazines would kill for - 60,000 - by 1959 it was 120,000, in 1961 it was 130,000 and at its peak in 1967 it was at an astounding 250,000 per month. In 1968 the "Boys Club" had 100,000 registered members. Charles Buchan continued his column from launch until his death in the south of France in June 1960. It must have been a sudden death, as his previous column had appeared in August as usual. The September 1960 issue has 2 pages of tributes from the world of football. We buy in and sell issues between 1951 to 1966.
Retired Players Signed Photos
Football books and magazines published in the late 1940's progressing to the early 1960's, used a unique photographic process, the photograph was taken on a large format camera the negative (the plate) created an extremely high quality finished print. The print was then hand coloured/tinted, giving an innovative effect. In many cases, features were added crowded in the background, sometimes even the ball.The best known Publisher to use this process was L.T.A Robinson in their Publication The Big Book of Football Champions; Charles Buchan also used the same agency 'Topical Colour Process Syndicate Ltd (London) in the Football Monthly Magazine and the Soccer Gift Book. We have in stock all original pages and many more, a good number are signed.