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1st Penguin edition. VG pbk. ISBN 0140104453. 17381. eng
120 pages, illustrated by Roy Raymonde, foreword by Trevor Bailey. eng
256 pages, illustrated, glossary, names index, general index, previous owner dedication on the front endpaper. eng
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. Clean bright boards with no bumping to corners. A lovely clean crisp tight copy. Dust jacket not price clipped, torn or creased with a little fading to spine. 256pp.. From 1877 when Gregory and Lillywhite found themselves as opposing skippers in the first ever Test, through to the latter day heroes - such as Gooch, Gower, Border, Richards, Imran Khan and Azharrudin, this book profiles them all, from every Test-playing nation.
208 pages, illustrated, statistics, bibliography, light tanning to page edges. eng
No 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 with very tiny nicks and minor creasing to edges and traces of storage. 356pp. Centenary history of the Welsh County Cricket Club. With statistics and photographs.
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or marked or creased with faint traces of handling. 300pp. The story of the County side from its earliest days including all their triumphs and Championship wins. With statistics and photographic illustrations.
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 240pp. A lavishly illustrated book covering the history of cricket in Lancashire and the foundation of the County Club which also looks at the conditions of players and life in the surrounding areas, placing the development of the game in an historical context. Foreword by Clive Lloyd.
First edition, 298pp., frontis., plates, orig. purple cloth, unevenly faded.
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and a bump to upper front corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with a little creasing and repaired tear to lower front corner. Detailed work on the personalities, statistics and enthusiasm of Yorkshire cricket from the 1830s onwards.
618 pages, illustrated, statistical section, bibliography, index. eng
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
4to, pages not numbered. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white, with a forward by David Gower. This edition includes coverage of the 1986-7 Ashes Series. The jacket pictures are by Patrick Eagar. eng
318 pages, illustrated, statistics, index of players. eng
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
114 pages. Features: Tribute to Tunnicliffe; Numbers 1 to 32 London (great photos of address numbers); The Appeal of Blue Peter; Four Paws for Freedom; London's Keystone Personalities; Charles Ledger - Adventurer Extraordinary; Belloc in Love; Mechanical Music in the West Country; Back to the Peacock Days of Cricket; History in Wax; A Penchant for Pin Cushions; The Man of the Mask; The Noble Chianti; Marianne North - the travels of a happy artist; Winter in Old Russia; Childhood in the 19th Century; and more. Average wear. Sticker removal mark in upper corner of front cover. A sound copy of this great issue. Book
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
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
32 pages. Features: Children and Dogs Amuse Each Other; Britain Without Sign-posts; Cover photo of Mrs. Michael Menzies (the former Kay Stammers) playing tennis; Some Candidates for the New Derby - Photos of 11 fine horses; Wilfred Taylor - Broadcasting the Derby; Sport Lives On; Rapier Sums Up the New Derby; Winchester Avoid Defeat by the M.C.C. (cricket news); Derbys and Oaks of the Last War - photos of winning horses from 1915-1918; Now is the time to know something about a rifle - Sir Pelham Warner changes his bat for a gun - brief article with 13 photos; Bombay Hunt's Gymkhana (near Bombay) - 13 photos; How They Race at Beersheeba - six photos of camel racing in Palestine; Stowe Too Strong for Bedford - 14 cricket photos with brief captions; Roehampton Sunday - six photos of the Red Cross Lawn Tennis Tournament, including photos of Murray Deloford, Mrs. Frank Strawson, Miss G.M. Harvey, and Rosemary Thomas; Photos of theatre stars Evelyn Laye and Robert Helpmann (in drag); Movie news and photos; Centuries Plentiful in Public Schools Cricket; Sergeant Braddock rejoins marines at age 52; Openings along coverfold, otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A worthy example of this vintage wartime issue Book
130 pages, illustrated, index, small repairs to jacket rear, page edges tanned. eng
1st edition. Hardback in dustjacket. VG/VG. One public library stamp, and date label on the rear endpaper. 12091. eng
Proof copy, 132 pages, illustrated, foxing to page edges, previous owner name on front cover and front endpaper. eng
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely 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 very minor traces of storage. 160pp. The story of the 1981 Cornhill Test when Ian Botham came back from a bad period in his career to receive the accolade of 'The Greatest Test Innings Ever' for his staggering second century at Old Trafford.
B9781020018169Hardback. New. hardcover