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VG/good+ dj has some tarnish marks to rear panel, and rubbing to corners, with 1 closed split. price-clipped. no inscriptions. foxing to right edge of textblock - but not internally.
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.
187428059Sydney: Town and Country Journal 1874. Very good condition. 6 portraits of members of the Victoria State cricket team: Cooper Cosstick Gibson Carr Laughnan Conway published in the Town and Country Journal. Woodcut with modern color. 7 x 5 1/2" on newspaper 11 1/2 x 8". Clean on trimmed newspaper page slt ruffled at top margin not affecting image. Town and Country Journal unknown
2021BIB331245Adelaide: Published by Author. 2021. Small Quarto Size approx 19x28cm. Fine condition in pictorial laminated boards. No DJ as issued. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Signed by the author. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. This is a heavy book and will cost more to ship. Please contact us for a precise quote for your part of the world. 576 pages. Forewords by both Ian and Greg Chappell. . As New. 1st Edition. Hardback. Published by Author hardcover
187820325London: Vanity Fair 1878. Fred Spofforth 1853 - 1926 the player also known as "The Demon Bowler" was arguably the Australian cricket teams' finest pace bowler of the 19th century. Spofforth was the first bowler to take 50 test wickets and the first to take a test hat trick on January 2 1879 where a bowler takes three wickets in consecutive deliveries. Published on July 13 1878. Color chromolithograph 10 x 14 1/2". Sml. crease near the title otherwise very good condition. Vanity Fair unknown
185412798Leeds; Webb Millington & Co. c. 1854 1854. Octavo pamphlet in paper wraps. 8 unsigned pages of captioned hand-coloured woodcuts inner forme blank. Golden yellow covers; title and vignette within border to upper cover; advertisements to lower cover. Date from gift inscription to first page. Covers scuffed and rubbed; small marginal tear to foredge of contents continues to covers; spine re-stitched. Small numeral in ink to second page. A rare children's book from a prolific Yorkshire printer and publisher. Eight illustrations depict various games played by children at a birthday paper including marbles cricket 'shuttlecock' and a now obscure bat-sport known as 'trap-bat and ball'. As an ancestor to cricket trap-bat involves a batsman with a paddle-shaped bat hitting a walnut-sized ball called a 'knurr' from a fixed position 'the trap'. Webb Millington & Co. were a an Otley-based printer of chapbooks toy books and jobbing ephemera operative from c. 1832-1882. Publishing through London agents such as Dean and Son they produced a variety of juvenilia from 'stock blocks'. Much of their output is now rare as the factory was destroyed in a fire in 1882. A record of sporting cousins to cricket the illustrations in this book are an exceedingly rare depiction of provincial English bat-sports. COPAC and Worldcat do not locate any copies world-wide. We locate no records of this volume going through auction and find one record only of any book in the Uncle Tom's Treasury series. Leeds; Webb, Millington & Co. [c. 1854] paperback
188053817- Une feuille 19 x 28 cm. Rousseurs.
1893304054Adelaide 1893. Silver prints measuring 4-5/8 x 5-3/4 in. Mounted on archival board. Very good. Silver prints measuring 4-5/8 x 5-3/4 in. A lovely set of pictures: the first being a portrait of the team showing thirteen women in uniform and hats with bats and ball front and centre. The second image is a shot of a ladies match in progress the umpire seemingly signalling a no ball.<br/><br/>On the verso of each is inscribed "Ladies Cricket Team 93" and then "Ladies Cricket Match Adelaide." These images of some interest as they preceed the formation of the first women's cricket league in Australia in 1894 under the direction of Lily Poulett-Harris. unknown books
2005Q-1419952641Ellora's Cave Publishing Inc 2005-10-07. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Ellora's Cave Publishing Inc paperback
1934144537London 28 George Street Hanover Square W.1.: Lenare 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London 28 George Street Hanover Square W.1. Lenare 1934. Two large-format gelatin silver photographs each 351 × 264 mm signed by the photographer in the negative with his studio inkstamp and manuscript reference number on the versos. Some silvering-out mainly around the edges; tiny creases to the corners of the white margins of one print; overall in excellent condition loosely inserted in the original cloth portfolio lettered in gilt on the padded front panel in excellent condition albeit with a spot of surface wear near the middle of the spine. Clarrie Grimmett the NZ-born Australian Test cricketer was one of the finest leg-spinners of his time. He is photographed in two different poses: head-and-shoulders from the side wearing his cap and blazer; and three-quarter length from the front wearing pullover and blazer with cap in hand. Lenare was the professional name of Leonard George Green 1883-1946; he specialised in society portraits at his London studio. <p>Provenance: Clarrie Grimmett originally purchased at the Christie's auction of the Clarrie Grimmett Collection sold in Melbourne on 13 May 1998. Grimmett played 37 Tests between 1924 and 1936 taking 216 wickets at an average of 24.21. His record for the fastest bowler to take 200 wickets in Tests achieved in his 36th match stood for 82 years and was broken only in 2018. His first-class record of 1424 wickets in 248 matches between 1911 and 1941 includes 513 wickets in his 79 Sheffield Shield matches. He was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1931 along with Don Bradman. He was posthumously inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame in 1996 as one of the ten inaugural members and in 2009 he was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame. 2 items. Lenare hardcover
18899545Bristol: J Arrowsmith 1889. 1st Edition. . Book Book Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. Bristol: J Arrowsmith 1889. 1st Edition . Good/No Jacket. 1889 assumed publication date. Unnumbered pages believed complete. Pocket sized softback. No back present front cover is separated and missing outside 1/4" all way around. Spine card heavily torn. Thread-bound. The final leaf recto: Gloucestershire V Kent August 1889 and verso Batting Averages in matches against Kent Lancashire Middlesex Nottingham Surrey Sussex and Yorkshire. Internally tight and unmarked. Photographs on request. Bristol: J Arrowsmith paperback
192 pages, illustrated, statistics. eng
1st edition. Hardback in dust jacket. VG/G++. ISBN 035614349X. 16241. eng
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean, very tight copy with very minor signs of use. Spine and covers uncreased. 160pp. The paintings, prints and curios included in this book form an illustrated tour through the history of the great game of cricket.
1st edition. Hardback in dust jacket. G/G++. Former public library copy. Front endpaper removed. Tape marks. Dust jacket taped down.17051. eng
192 pages, illustrated, appendix, index, crayon scrbble on the endpapers, foxing to page edges, rear of dust jacket creased. eng
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked, very slightly indented boards and no bumping to corners. 96pp. Very scarce.
295 pages, illustrated, statistics. eng
160 pages, illustrated, light creasing to dust jacket, page edges tanned. eng
Good in worn pictorial boards. Includes articles by Denis Compton, John Arlott, Neville Cardus, Godfrey Evans, Learie Constantine, Brian Close, Trevor Bailey and many others. 10908. eng
Reading copy only, poor physical condition. Includes articles by Denis Compton, John Arlott, Neville Cardus, Godfrey Evans, Learie Constantine, Brian Close, Trevor Bailey and many others. eng
19482726London: The Dropmore Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1948. Limited/Numbered Edition; First Printing. Hardcover with dust jacket. No. 83 of a limited print of 750: Near fine boards. Sage green quarter buckrum slightly faded to bottom of spine dust jacket in very good condition with slight fading to spine extremities showing some wear in accordance with age on the whole in very sound and clean condition internally the book is clean and fresh showing no signs of use some pages are still uncut 89 numbered pages followed by list of the Members of the Mary-Le-Bone Club and Index. No inscriptions. Introduction by Neville Cardus. Illustrated with wood engravings by John O'Connor. ; Wood block print; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 89 pages . The Dropmore Press hardcover
76 pages, illustrated, statistics. eng
40 pages, illustrated. eng
70 pages, illustrated. eng