J W McKenzie Cricket Books

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THE PLAY GROUND; OR, OUT-DOOR GAMES FOR BOYS.
A BOOK OF HEALTHY RECREATIONS FOR YOUTH. CONTAINING UPWARDS OF A HUNDRED AMUSEMENTS, INCLUDING GAMES OF ACTIVITY AND SPEED; GAMES WITH TOYS, MARBLES, TOPS, HOOPS, KITES, BALLS; AND FULL INSTRUCTIONS IN ARCHERY, CRICKET, CROQUET, AND BASE BALL.
New York, Dick & Fitzgerald, 1866.
8vo. 116pp. misnumbered [1-3], 4, [11],12-120+[19]pp. publisher's advertisements. With 124 woodcut illustrations. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards (including an illustration of two cricket bats), covers soiled and worn. Rebacked. Staining to lower corner of preliminary pages.
Instructional sporting treatise. Cricket, pages 64-82, with 13 woodcut cricket illustrations, (including one leaf with six images). Other sports covered include baseball, pages 83-92; croquet, pages 93-101; foot-ball, (including rugby), pages 101-103; and golf, pages 109-110. Not recorded by Gaston, Bibliography of Cricket, 1895, Taylor, Catalogue of Cricket Literature, 1906, Goldman, Bibliography of Cricket, 1937, or Padwick.
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THE SPORTFOLIO.
PORTRAITS AND BIOGRAPHIES OF HEROES AND HEROINES OF SPORT AND PASTIME.
London, 1896.
Folio. 140pp. 140 illustrations. Original pictorial cloth illustrating cricket, football, tennis, golf and other sporting themes, with a central vignette of W.G. Grace. All edges gilt, corners worn.
Short biographies and portraits of famous sportsmen. Includes the following cricketers from the Golden Age: R. Abel, C.B.Fry, W.G. Grace, F.S. Jackson, A.C. MacLaren, W.W. Read and A.E. Stoddart. Padwick, 7249.
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TURNER, (Herbert K.).
THE WORLD'S ALL SPORTS WHO'S WHO FOR 1950.
Hove, 1950.
8vo. 381pp. Illustrated. Original cloth in chipped dust-wrapper.
With details of all contemporary sportsmen. These include cricketers, footballers, boxers, tennis players, golfers, etc. With a chapter: From Grace to Bradman by Jack Hobbs. Padwick, 7258.
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