ALLEN, (David R.).

SIR AUBREY. A BIOGRAPHY OF C. AUBREY SMITH. ENGLAND CRICKETER, WEST END ACTOR, HOLLYWOOD FILM STAR. NEW, AUGMENTED EDITION.
Published in Ewell by J.W. McKenzie, 2005.
8vo. xix+195pp. Illustrated. Original cloth in slightly marked dust-wrapper.
LIMITED EDITION of 150 numbered copies, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND HONOR COBB. A biography of the Sussex and England cricketer Sir Charles Aubrey Smith (1863-1948), who played for Cambridge University between 1882 and 1885, for Sussex between 1882 and 1896, and one Test match for England in 1889, when he became the only cricketer to captain his country in his only Test appearance. He later became famous as a Hollywood film star and appeared with, among others, Ellen Terry, Sir Charles Hawtrey and Mrs Patrick Campbell. In his screen career he appeared in many films in which he incarnated the American image of the English gentleman. He was regarded as the Grand Old Man of Hollywood, and a leading light of the Hollywood Cricket Club. This book was first published in 1982. This new edition contains much additional information and illustrations not included in the first edition. With a new foreword by his daughter Honor Cobb. ---------------------------------- The Cricket Statistician, Summer 2006: This elegantly written and attractively reprinted chronicle of the rich life of Sir Aubrey Smith...a genuinely fascinating life-story. ...................................................................................................................................
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