8vo. xiv, [2], 465pp, [7]. With two photographic portrait plates. Original publisher's navy cloth-backed decorated paper boards. Lightly rubbed and marked. Internally clean and crisp.

A manual providing instruction on the organisation, laws, and rules of games for Indian Army servicemen, issued by the Services Sport Control Board in the final year of the Second World War.

In addition to lengthy directions for the coordination of sports typically played by British armed forces - including cricket, boxing, rugby, and association football - regulations for more incongruous pastimes are provided, amongst them baseball and basketball, as well as recreational activities evidently influenced by their locale, including Kabaddi, and 'Wrestling, Indian Services Style'.