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192 pages, illustrated, statistics, dusty covers, rusty staples, page edges tanned. eng
1st edition. VG hbk bound in pictorial boards. Cartoons by Jeff Hook. With chapters by Allan Border, Robin Smith, Richie Benaud, Graham McKenzie, Frank Tyson, Trevor Bailey, Bill Lawry, Alan Davidson, David Lloyd, Ian Chappell, Henry Blofeld, Derek Randall, John Gleeson, Peter Roebuck, Arthur Morris, Keith Stackpole, Neil Hawke, Norman O'Neill, Doug Walters, Bob Willis, Dennis Lillee, Tony Greig, Dickie Bird, Brian Johnston, Ian Redpath, Godfrey Evans, Greg Chappell, Ian Wooldridge, Colin Cowdrey, Steve Waugh, Allan Lamb, Graham Gooch, Mark Taylor, Dean Jones, Terry Alderman, Rodney Marsh and Simon O'Donnell. ISBN 0958784167. 20019. eng
224 pages, illustated, photographs by Philip Brown, appendix. eng
Neat inscription on front end paper. No other marks. A very clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked laminated boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped, not torn with very minor handling to upper edge. 128pp. The full story of how the Ashes were gloriously reclaimed by England for the first time in 16 long years. A scarce book.
8vo., First Edition, with 57 plates on 16; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
VG/VG price-clipped. no inscriptions. lovely clean copy. a lifetime of cricket writing by its greatest character post-war.
xii+ 193 pages, illustrated, appendices, statistics, bibliography, index. eng
64 pages, illustrated. eng
8vo., First Edition, with plates; brown cloth, backstrip lettered in yellow, pictorial endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
238 pages, illustrated, index. eng
Illustrated, includes articles by Ian Botham, Gary Lineker and Phil Neale. eng
1st edition. Good in green cloth with black lettering. Bookplate on the inside front cover. 10938. eng
Single sheet, a near fine copy. Signed simply 'Wavell' in the writer's usual manner, the letter is written to Geoffrey Moore, founder of the Buccaneers Cricket Club, and demonstrates the soldier's keen and continuing interest in the sport. It is noteworthy that Wavell was particularly proud of his membership of the MCC at Lords. The letter confirms that Wavell will propose the toast at the Buccaneers' annual dinner (held at Lords). Field-Marshal Earl Wavell (1883-1950) was one of the twentieth century's most distinguished British soldiers. Following considerable success against the Italians in North Africa, his career reached its peak with his appointment as Supreme Allied Commander, South West Pacific, ABDA (American, British, Dutch and Australian) Command in 1942 and subsequently as an outstanding Viceroy and Governor General of India from 1943-1947. He was recognised also as a scholar, compiling the well-known anthology of poetry 'Other Mens's Flowers' (1944). The bulk of Wavell's papers are now housed in the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives at King's College, London. Founded in 1930, The Buccaneers is one of the oldest and most famous 'wandering' clubs in English cricket (a 'wandering' club has no fixed home ground but plays as an away team relying on the hospitality of the home clubs against which it competes). The Club's history has been written twice, by Clifford Bax in 1956 and more recently by Howard Spencer. ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS SIGNED BY WAVELL ARE EXTREMELY SCARCE.
Single sheet, 8vo., a near fine copy. Signed simply 'Tedder' in the writer's usual manner, the letter is written to Geoffrey Moore, founder of the Buccaneers Cricket Club, and demonstrates the airman's keen and continuing interest in the sport. Tedder was President of Surrey County Cricket Club from 1953 to 1958. The letter regretfully declines Moore's invitation to attend the Buccaneer's annual dinner (held at Lords): 'I've already got a date I can't budge!'. Marshal of the RAF Arthur William Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder (1890-1967) was one of Britain's most distinguished air commanders. Educated at Whitgift School and Magdalene College, Cambridge, he transferred from the Dorsetshire Regiment to the Royal Flying Corps in 1916, serving in France from 1915- to 1917 and in Egypt from 1918 to 1919. He was then commissioned in to the (new) Royal Air Force where was appointed Director of Training from 1934 to 1936, after which he became Commander RAF Far Eastern Forces. During WWII he was head of RAF Middle East Command, controlling Allied air operations in the Mediterranean and North Africa, including the evacuation of Crete and the defeat of Rommel; his air power was a vital component of Montgomery's victory at El Alamein. Having been promoted to Air Marshal, Tedder then took part in the early planning for D-Day, and was subsequently appointed Deputy Supreme Commander Allied Forces Europe (the most senior such British position) immediately beneath General Eisenhower, on whose behalf he signed at the German Surrender in 1945. In 1947 he delivered the Lees Knowles lecture, afterwards published as 'Air Power in War'. Following his retirement he served as Chancellor of Cambridge University and Vice-Chairman of the Board of Governors of the BBC. Founded in 1930, The Buccaneers is one of the oldest and most famous 'wandering' clubs in English cricket (a 'wandering' club has no fixed home ground but plays consistently as an 'away' team relying on the hospitality of the 'home' clubs against which it competes). The Club's history has been written twice, by Clifford Bax in 1956 and more recently by Howard Spencer. ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS SIGNED BY TEDDER ARE EXTREMELY SCARCE.
xvi + 201 pages, illustrated, statistics, page edges browned. eng
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, foxing to end papers and page edges and no bumping to corners. 77pp. Biography of John Wisden whose name has been imortalised by the publishing of Wisden's Cricketer's Almanack from 1864 to today and known as the 'bible of cricket' John Wisden was a first class cricketer around the middle of the 19th century. Illustrated. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
164 pages, illustrated. eng
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very minor foxing to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very minor traces of storage. 311pp. Autobiography of the cricketing life of Simon Hughes who played firstly for Middlesex and then Durham County teams. It is also a revealing account of other cricketing stars of the period.
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. Clean tight pages with well-foxed unmarked boards and pages, sunned spine and no bumping to corners. 80pp. A privately printed account of the history of cricket at Nottinghamshire's ground of Trent Bridge. Coloured frontispiece by Sr William Nicholson and twenty-eight photographs. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
hardback (no D/J), medium size, touch sunned to spine. 1 corner bumped. page edges foxed, some pages foxed. with photographs, index, appendix(es).
1st UK edition. Creasing to the covers, else VG pbk. ISBN 0715386123. Illustrated by Jeff Hook. 17895. eng
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.
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 or torn with very slight creasing to upper edge. 63pp. The story of how the Lord's Taverners raised ú10 million for charity (to 1990) from their early work in cricket to all the other sports that came along. With a wealth of photographs of the many celebrities who helped them on the way.
oblong format, 68 pages, illustrated. eng
oblong format, 68 pages, illustrated, covers creased. eng
