Alston, RexMareMagnum
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A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 116 pages. "An aid to the appreciation of first-class cricket, and a guide to the laws." Helpful diagrams and glossary of cricket language.
Full green cloth boards worn and faded at edges. Tattered dust jacket. Small stain on side page ends. Tight binding. Large oblong format: 15 1/2"w x 10 3/4"h. 128 pages. Many b&w and color illustrations.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 151 pages. Full lavender cloth boards. Light wear and small tears to dust jacket. Beautiful illustrations by Garth Williams.
First edition, 298pp., frontis., plates, orig. purple cloth, unevenly faded.
Lots of information on the activities of the Household Brigade in 1876. Page edges gilt. 314 pages. Four portrait engravings. Wear to top/base of spine and cover corners.
4to., First Edition, with 41 coloured reproductions (a number full-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. This major exhibition is sponsored by Sotheby's. Loosely inserted are the separately printed flier bearing a personal message from Henry Wyndham, Chairman of Sotheby's, and exhibition admission ticket no. 329 (which misspells 'Sotheby's'). The extensive introduction is by Stephen Green, curator of the MCC Museum. With index.
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, free endpapers lightly browned, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in red, a very good, clean copy. Keynes, A47.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
Inscribed by the Author to Tom (now Lord Pendry) on front end paper. Bookmark colour impression to one page. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with minor traces of storage. 362pp. Stories from the great cricketers about that period from 1919 and 1962 of amateur and professional cricketers - gentlemen and players, including old stagers such as Frank Woolley, Percy Fender and others to more recent players like Jim Laker, Godfrey Evans, Peter May and very many more.
Ex-library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Covers show edgewear at lower edge. 112 pages with large b&w illustrations and photos throughout. Subjects covered in text include: Balloonists, Brass bands, bathing, Batty's hoppodrome, Catch clubs, Circuses, Cock fighting, Cyclorama, Cricket, Derby, Donkey rides, Hangings, Hyde park, Jockey club, Magic Lantern, Pleasure gardens, Prize fighting, Horse racing, Street traders, thames, Thaumatrope, Village entertainment, etc.
Book is in excellent condition with some light foxing to the page ends. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears, now wrapped in protective cover. Previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book. 277 pages, content include: Rise of modern ball games, Early american cricket, Players, Clubs, Baseball's boom and cricket's survival, etc. Short b&w photo section.
Book is in excellent condition with very light edge wear only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind and is in impressively fine condition with tipped-in color plates and b&w prints, map endpapers showing the locations of the text. Dust jacket is price clipped and is extensively repaired at edges with scotch tape. Contents include The pleasure gardens, White conduit house, Marylebone gardens, Jenny's whim, Bagnigge wells, Islington spa, Sadler's wells, Highbury barn, Bermondsey spa, The English grotto, Finch's grotto gardens, Florida gardens, The Yorkshire stingo, etc.
Sm. 8vo., First Edition; brown cloth gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full green cloth boards with black mushrooms decoration. Light wear and discoloration to dust jacket. 5 3/4"w x 7"h. 48 pages. Pictures by Erik Blegvad.
8vo., First Edition, neat but lengthy inscription on front free endpaper; green buckram, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
8vo., Second Edition; red cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case. Considerably updated and extended version of the first edition of 1984. Over 600 new players are added and the details of many others revised. Already scarce in this condition.
Signed 'Tom - with best wishes - Alan' to title page. No other marks or inscriptions. Appears unread. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards, very minor bump to top of spine and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with tiny crease to top of spine. 256pp. The Outcasts CC is England's most infamous wandering cricket club and its pursuit of the noble ideals of cricket tend to be accompanied by a good deal of beer, sex and curry - not necessarily in that order - and even the attention of the emergency services. Scarce signed copy.
Signed 'To Tom (now Lord Pendry) with best wishes to a long time parliamentary friend (Sir) Alan Haslehurst (MP)'. Book and jacket appear in otherwise mint condition. 320pp. An entertaining tale of how a group of friends with a mutual interest in cricket and beer formed a side called the Outcasts Cricket Club and how they took on two village sides in Essex and one in Yorkshire.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; brown cloth, backstrip lettered in yellow, pictorial endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
22932 AAVV GROUND RULES A CELEBRATION OF TEST CRICKET . n. d., BARNEY SPENDER PER CITIBANK 2003 , Testo inglese - In-4 - leg. in piena pelle cuciture a vista con impressione a secco al piatto diciture oro al dorso e al piatto - pp. 464 - moltiss. ill. a col. - come nuovo
8vo.. First Edition, with numerous photographs, illustrations and facsimiles in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. SCARCE.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, 34pp typescript in photofacsimile, with a plate; printed wrapper, slide-bound as issued, a near fine copy. Privately compiled and produced record of one of the most well-known touring cricket elevens. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, free endpapers lightly browned, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in red, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly sunned to a lighter shade but crisp and complete. Uncommon in the dustwrapper. Keynes, A47.
London, 1893, 8vo legatura originale tutta tela , pp. XIV-430 con num.me fig. n.t. + num. tav. f.t. ("The Badminton Library").
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece and numerous plates in monochrome; original series binding of brown cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, brown buckram back blocked and lettered in gilt, brown top, a very good, bright, clean copy.
