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Paginated 231:332.
128 pages, illustrated by Richard Gregory, foreword by Rodney Marsh, light creasing to covers. eng
1st edition. Hardback in a protected dust jacket. VG/VG. ISBN 0340241918.23149. eng
1st printing, 288 pages, illustrated, index. eng
1st printing, 288 pages, illustrated, index. eng
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked, torn or creased. 274pp. A collection of the finest cricket writings by a host renowned sportsmen to John Cleese.
VG/VG . clean tidy copy internally. owner sticker to ddwp.
Front endpaper removed. Signature of a previous owner on the inside front cover. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall eng
A biography that creates a vivid picture of Sussex and English cricket over nearly three decades and the gradual decline in the late 30s. 215 pages.
xiii + 411 pages, statistics, addendum, bibliography. 23166. eng
xiii + 411 pages, statistics, addendum, bibliography. eng
Pages 77 - 120. Features: Photos of Hatfield, Lord Salisbury's Great Mansion where Elizabeth Tudor spent her youth; Photos taken aboard the S.S. United States; Great aerial photo of the S.S. United States entering Southampton Docks at the end of her transatlantic record-setting maiden run from New York; Rumania's Foreign Minister Mme. Anna Pauker is number one in the ranks of women communists; Interesting page of illustrations present a new technique of radar navigation which optically weds the radar picture to the actual chart; Photos of demonstration of underwater radio transmission; The houses of the iron age in Ultima Thule-Jarlshof excavations; Great photos show how Iron Age Shetlanders lived; The Army's university at Shrivenham; Scenes at the military college of Science; Photos of General Eisenhower - the Republican's candidate - and some possible Democrat candidates; Fantastic centerfold photo of the Republican convention which selected General Eisenhower as Republican Presidential candidate; Photos of personalities of the week, including open golf champion Bobby Locke and D.J. Hulbert, hero of the Eton v. Harrow cricket match; Photo of the U.S. battleship Missouri in Portland Harbour; Dr. Hewlett Johnson supports claims of germ warfare on the Chinese by the U.S.; Nice ad for the Humber 8-seater Pullman Limousine on back cover; and more. Back cover loose but present. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
Pages: 281-320. Features: Cover photos of Adlai Stevenson's triumph in Chicago; Photo ad for Grants Stand Fast Whisky inside front cover features Alan Melville; One-page Ford car ad; Esso Petrol one-page ad features tigers; South African Airlines ad; Large photo portrait of Adlai Stevenson; Turning Point in Cyprus? - The Eoka Cease-fire Declaration - six photos including Archbishop Makarios and Dighenis; Two pages of photos of the delegations which attended the London Conference on Suez; Prince Charles and Princess Anne help sailors pull a rope; Photo portraits of Princess Margaret; Photos of the Queen in Oban, Mull, Skye, Barra and South Uist; Photo of nine heads of the Arab League; Story and eight photos of newly oil-rich Saudi Arabia; Great centerfold photo of delegates at the opening session of the Suez Conference in London (holding by one staple); 14 photos of personalities of the week, including Lake Ontario swimmer Brenda Fisher, Sir Otto Lund, Cardinal Griffin, Archbishop of Westminster, Baron Von Neurath and Admiral Lynde D. McCormick; Miss Pat Smythe at the Brighton horse show; Thousand-year-old trees a few inches high - the astonishing welwitschia, from the deserts of Angola; One-page aerial photo of raft L'Egare which had just finished an 87-day voyage on the Atlantic; Police raid Communist H.Q. in West Germany; Nice colour-photo ad inside back cover for the Illustrated London News encourages subscriptions for those flying to Australia; Nice colour Johnnie Walker ad on back cover features cricket theme; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
Pages: 801-844. Features: Great colour ad inside front cover for British Motor Corporation (BMC) features illustration of elephant pulling massive log; Nice one-page Rover car ad; Cover photo of the Queen and her husband arriving at Ascot on Royal Hunt Cup Day; Dramatic cricket photos - test match between England and Australia; Review of the First or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards on parade at Windsor; Photos of ten personalities of the week, including Mr. Michael Arlen, Golda Myerson, Thomas J. Watson, and Professor James J. Guest; Swiss Everest climbers; Royal Polo; Churchill and Truman; King Faisal of Iraq; Seven illustrations of Britain's first 'motors only' road - the preston by-pass; Nice two-page photo montage of seeded tennis players for the Wimbledon singles titles; One page with three large photos of a gathering of heroes - scenes from the Queen's review of holders of the Victoria Cross (V.C.); Magnificent centerfold photo of the Queen arriving in horse-drawn carriage at London's Hyde Park to review 300 holders of the Victoria Cross; Photos from the Troodos Mountains 'Sweep' in Cyprus - terrorists and a deadly fire; Photos of Krushchev and Tito; The vanished crown of Mary of Modena - a counterfeit of the seventeenth century found under a royal diadem of the eighteenth; Mrs. Nasser votes in Egypt; Photos from East Germany - Russina withdrawals; Photo of fourteen Canadian Victoria Cross (V.C.) recipients on their arrival at Portsmouth; Arrival of 14 Australian recipients of the Victoria Cross at Tilbury Docks; Arrival of 10 Indian recipients of the Victoria Cross at Tilbury Docks; One-page ad for Wolseley cars; Nice colour-photo ad inside back cover for Ilford colour film features Stonehenge and a Marilyn Monroe look-alike; Nice colour ad on back page for Midland Bank Gift Cheques; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
hardback (no D/J), medium size, corners bumped. page edges foxed, titled spine, slight rounding to head & tail of spine
1933BIB322504London: John Wisden & Co Ltd. 1933. 12mo approx 10.5x17.5cm. Good Condition. Illustrated with two Black and White Plates portrait & five cricketers. Original condition - corners rubbed and very small section of spine missing. Spine creased and small loss to spine ends. Cricket bat page marker string present but marker missing. 719 pages. . Good. Seventieth Edition. Softcover. John Wisden & Co Ltd paperback
No inscriptions or marks. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or torn with slight traces of handling. 240pp. This is a fascinating acount of a club supposedly dominated by dour professionals. The fact is, indeed, more interesting than any fiction and this book is a colourful narrative crammed with personality and tales of exceptional performance.
98 pages, illustrated, statistics, contributors to this benefit brochure include Curtly Ambrose, Dennis Lilee and Andy Roberts. eng
Dairy format, colour maps, signed by David Capel on the front endpaper. eng
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, dusty top of page edges, lightly tanned pages and no bumping to corners. Lower page edges untrimmed. 288pp. Autobiography of the renowned cricket commentator and music critic from the slums of Manchester who achieved fame and recognition in the Long Room at Lord's and the musical festivals of Saltzburg.
VG pbk. 20035. eng
8vo., with frontispiece, plates and illustrations in the text, free endpapers lightly browned; original series binding of terracotta buckram, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, brown top, a bright, clean copy. With personal name-stamp on front free endpaper and rear paste-down.
Features: Sensational ad for Chas. Baker & Co's inside front cover for Correct College and School Outfits features young lad in top hat and older youth in bowler hat with walking stick; Title page illustration of British troops defending a home on the railway near Marcelcave; General Fochs - The Allied Leader (article); Ludi Humaniores - A Please for Cricket (article); Great Guns - Monster Cannon of Days Gone By (article); Page of photos of personalities of the hour includes Brig.-General Guy Livinston, Major-General Sir Hugh Trenchard, Lieut.-General Sir David Henderson, The Earl of Derby, M. Clemenceau, Viscount Milner, Austen Chamberlain, Baron Burian and Lord Bertie; G.K. Chesterton discusses 'My Mission to London' by Prince Lichnowsky; Half-page photo of British sailors on the deck of a Monitor behind her 6-inch gun; Excellent half-page photo from a Spanish mail-steamer off Cadiz which has been stopped by a U-boat which appears surfaced in the background with many crew members visible; Photos of scenes in Greece, France, Flanders, and London; Photos of curiosities of the war - a steel German sniper's mask, Canadian troops fixing detonators of Mills bombs in their trench, etc.; The Effects of Wind in Air Fighting (article); One-page illustration entitled "The New Battle of the Somme - British Troops Stemming the German Flood"; Article about Typhoid Fever; One-page illustration entitled "Our Fighting Retreat From Armentieres - The Five Days Defence of Erquinghem; Two pages of photos of troops where some of the fiercest fighting has taken place, and elsewhere in the front line; Centrefold image of a British field artillery battery in close action, with gas-masked gunners; Aided by "Reds" and "Whites" - Our Petrograd Embassy (8 photos); Where Germany Profits by Civil War - five photos from Finland and the Aalands; Roll of Honour - photos of 21 officers including Leiut.-Col. N.B. Elliott-Cooper who died of wounds; Photo of "The Women of Pervyse" - The Baroness T'Serclaes and Miss Mairi Chisholm have maintained a concealed dressing-station since the early days of the war; Photo of the automatic mono-wheel stretcher-carrier (like an extended wheelbarrow) which allows a single troop to move an immobile commrade; Nice two-colour Greys Cigarette ad on back cover features the woman trooper, Mrs. Christian Davis who fought in three battles and died in 1739; and more. 36 pages including several pages of marvelous vintage ads, most of which are illustrated. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent WWI-era issue. Magazine
94 pages, statistics. eng
This is a very good softcover copy with almost no wear. Completely clean inside and out. This is a sale catalog for an auction held at Christie's South Kensingron location on November 17, 2010. Sale code: BKS- 5459. The sale consisted of sporting books and memorabilia including items from the Marylebone Cricket Club Library. 171 lots in the sale. Many illustrated in color. Prices realized sheets included. 11" high X 8" wide, 72. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
