A CRICKETER'S YARNS. EDITED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION, BY F.S. ASHLEY-COOPER. WITH A FOREWORD BY P.F. WARNER. London, 1926. 8vo. 202pp. 32 plates. Original cloth, covers faded. Posthumous reminiscences of the 19th century Nottinghamshire batsman Richard Daft. Padwick, 7200. [ref: 55667] £20.00 enquire buy |
An interesting two page signed autograph letter from Richard Daft to Charles Pratt Green. Regarding his forthcoming publication Kings of Cricket. Headed Radcliffe-on-Trent and dated 20th April 1892: In franked envelope, addressed in Daft's hand: 'C.P. Green Esq, Beresford House, Great Malvern.' ...I am writing my publishers & when I get their reply I will write Mr. Allcock [sic] direct. I don't think there will be any objection at all to his making quotations from the work when he thinks well & as you say it would be an excellent help to the sale when it appears in Book form... Daft (1835-1900) played for Nottinghamshire between 1858 and 1891. At one time regarded as the best professional batsman in England. He headed the first-class averages in 1867 and was second in 1869, 1870, 1871 and 1873. [ref: 12997] £250.00 (including VAT) enquire buy |
KINGS OF CRICKET. REMINISCENCES AND ANECDOTES WITH HINTS ON THE GAME. WITH INTRODUCTION BY MR. ANDREW LANG. Bristol, (1893). 8vo. 274pp. Portrait frontispiece and many text illustrations. Original decorative cloth. Good condition. Reminiscences of the 19th century Nottinghamshire batsman Richard Daft. With chapters on The All-England and The United Elevens. The introduction by Andrew Lang is an outstanding contribution to the literature of cricket. Britton, Cricket Books. The 100 Best, 1929: 'reminiscences of the past players are invaluable.' Padwick, 7199. [ref: 15384] £35.00 enquire buy |
KINGS OF CRICKET. REMINISCENCES AND ANECDOTES WITH HINTS ON THE GAME. WITH INTRODUCTION BY MR. ANDREW LANG. Bristol, (1893). 8vo. 274pp. Portrait frontispiece and many text illustrations. Original decorative cloth, covers soiled and worn. Reminiscences of the 19th century Nottinghamshire batsman Richard Daft. With chapters on The All-England and The United Elevens. The introduction by Andrew Lang is an outstanding contribution to cricket literature. Britton, Cricket Books. The 100 Best, 1929: 'reminiscences of the past players are invaluable.' Padwick, 7199. [ref: 15386] £20.00 enquire buy |
KINGS OF CRICKET. REMINISCENCES AND ANECDOTES WITH HINTS ON THE GAME. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW LANG. Bolton, 1893. 4to. xiv+274pp. Portrait frontispiece and 68 full-page portraits. Original pictorial cloth, gilt, top edges gilt, with calf spine and corners. Spine and corners rubbed. LIMITED LARGE PAPER SUBSCRIBERS' EDITION, SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY THE AUTHOR. Reminiscences of the 19th century Nottinghamshire batsman Richard Daft. With chapters on The All-England and The United elevens. The introduction by Andrew Lang is an outstanding contribution to cricket literature. Britton, Cricket Books. The 100 Best, 1929: 'reminiscences of the past players are invaluable.' Padwick, 7199. [ref: 38985] £250.00 enquire buy |
KINGS OF CRICKET. REMINISCENCES AND ANECDOTES WITH HINTS ON THE GAME. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW LANG. Bolton, 1893. 4to. xiv+274pp. Portrait frontispiece and 68 full-page portraits. Original pictorial cloth, gilt, top edges gilt, spine and corners rebound in half morocco. LIMITED LARGE PAPER SUBSCRIBERS' EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Reminiscences of the 19th century Nottinghamshire batsman Richard Daft. With chapters on The All-England and The United Elevens. The introduction by Andrew Lang is an outstanding contribution to cricket literature. Britton, Cricket Books. The 100 Best, 1929: 'reminiscences of the past players are invaluable.' Taylor, Catalogue of Cricket Literature, 1906, page 39: 'edition de luxe, 150 copies.' (A rare error in Taylor's Catalogue). Padwick, 7199. [ref: 15382] £250.00 enquire buy |
KINGS OF CRICKET. REMINISCENCES AND ANECDOTES WITH HINTS ON THE GAME. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW LANG. Bolton, 1893. 4to. xiv+274pp. Portrait frontispiece and 68 full-page portraits. Original pictorial cloth, gilt, top edges gilt, spine and corners rebound in half morocco. LIMITED LARGE PAPER SUBSCRIBERS' EDITION. Reminiscences of the 19th century Nottinghamshire batsman Richard Daft. With chapters on The All-England and The United Elevens. The introduction by Andrew Lang is an outstanding contribution to cricket literature. Britton, Cricket Books. The 100 Best, 1929: 'reminiscences of the past players are invaluable.' Taylor, Catalogue of Cricket Literature, 1906, page 39: 'edition de luxe, 150 copies.' (A rare error in Taylor's Catalogue). Padwick, 7199. [ref: 56516] £150.00 enquire buy |
DEATH'S DOINGS; CONSISTING OF NUMEROUS ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS IN PROSE AND VERSE... London, 1826. xviii+369pp. 24 engraved plates. Original boards, neatly rebacked. Foxed throughout. A tall untrimmed copy. Includes The Game of Life; or, Death among the Cricketers, a poem by S. Maunder in which the poet draws an analogy between life and a game of cricket, pages 53-62. One plate shows Death bowling, while Time keeps wicket. Britton, Cricket Books. The 100 Best, 1929: 'Scarce.' Not recorded by Taylor, Catalogue of Cricket Literature, 1906. Goldman, Bibliography of Cricket, 1937: 'Very scarce.' Padwick, 6970. [ref: 15389] £135.00 enquire buy |
DEATH'S DOINGS; CONSISTING OF NUMEROUS ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS, IN VERSE AND PROSE, THE FRIENDLY CONTRIBUTIONS OF VARIOUS WRITERS; PRINCIPALLY INTENDED AS ILLUSTRATIONS OF THIRTY COPPER-PLATES, DESIGNED AND ETCHED BY R. DAGLEY. SECOND EDITION, WITH CONSIDERABLE ADDITIONS. London, 1827. Two volumes. 8vo.xvi+(2)+232pp. [numbered 1-224, 72 bis and 7 unnumbered pages]. Engraved frontispiece, engraved title-page and 15 engraved plates; (4)+(240)pp. [misnumbered 225-256, 259-466]. Engraved frontispiece, engraved title-page and 15 engraved plates. Lower edges of both volumes stained throughout. Half morocco, top edges gilt. Enlarged second edition, with considerable additional cricket material. In addition to The Game of life; or, Death among the Cricketers, (pages 69-72), a poem by S. Maunder, in which the poet draws an analogy between life and a game of cricket, this edition also contains eight pages of Verses in Praise of Cricket, by the Rev. R. Cotton, (pages 72 onwards), and Death and the Cricketer, by Bernard Batwell, (pages 73-84). For more information on Cotton's poem see The Cricketer, 1957, page 178. Britton, Cricket Books. The 100 Best, 1929: 'Scarce.' Not recorded by Gaston, Bibliography of Cricket, 1895, or Taylor, Catalogue of Cricket Literature, 1906. Goldman, Bibliography of Cricket, 1937: 'Very scarce...the 2nd edition is rarer than the 1st.' Padwick, 6970. [ref: 44550] £150.00 enquire buy |
VOLUMES FOR 1929 AND 1930. London, 1929-30. Two volumes. Small 8vo. 128+128pp. Original pictorial wrappers. (ALL PUBLISHED). A record of the 1928 and 1929 cricket seasons. Padwick, 1060. [ref: 53292] £25.00 enquire buy |
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