IN THE COVERS. THE BEST CRICKET WRITING OF THE YEAR. London, 1996. 8vo. 272pp. Original cloth in dust-wrapper. Good condition. Cricket anthology. [ref: 30205] £6.00 enquire buy |
JIM. THE LIFE OF E.W. SWANTON. London, 2004. 8vo. (8)+354pp. Illustrated. Original cloth in dust-wrapper. Good condition. A biography of the author and broadcaster E.W. Swanton. This was The Cricket Society Book of the Year in 2004. [ref: 44375] £8.00 enquire buy |
MORE CRICKET ON THE AIR. A FURTHER SELECTION FROM B.B.C. BROADCASTS. London, 1988. 8vo. 190pp. 16 plates. Original cloth in dust-wrapper. Good condition. A further selection of cricket radio broadcasts. [ref: 13641] £6.00 enquire buy |
MORE THAN A GAME. A CLASSIC CRICKET COLLECTION. EDITED BY DAVID RAYVERN ALLEN. London, 1995. Large 8vo. 254pp. Original cloth in dust-wrapper. Good condition. Cricket anthology. [ref: 38802] £8.00 enquire buy |
PETER PAN AND CRICKET. London, 1988. 8vo. 192pp. 16 plates. Original cloth in dust-wrapper. Good condition. On the playwright and author J.M. Barrie and his love of cricket. [ref: 51239] £7.00 enquire buy |
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 SIR AUBREY SMITH'S DAUGHTER 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. ................................................................................................................................... LONG [ref: 39260] £25.00 enquire buy |
THE ESSENTIAL JOHN ARLOTT. FORTY YEARS OF CLASSIC CRICKET WRITING. EDITED BY DAVID RAYVERN ALLEN. London, 1989. Large 8vo. 320pp. Profusely illustrated. Original cloth in dust-wrapper. A selection of John Arlott's writings on cricket. [ref: 35693] £9.00 enquire buy |
THE EWBANK ENQUIRY. A SEARCH FOR THE ELUSIVE '...SCORES' OF A CRICKETING MILITARY MAN AND THE STORY OF HIS FAMILY'S CONNECTION WITH THE GAME... Farnham, 2012. Oblong 4to. 66+138+288+(1)pp. Illustrated. Handsomely bound in quarter morocco, preserved in cloth slipcase. Good condition. LIMITED EDITION of 85 numbered copies, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. An examination of the books of Sussex cricket scores published in India by Major George Ewbank. [ref: 62183] £75.00 enquire buy |
THE FIELD BOOK OF CRICKET. FROM 1853 TO THE PRESENT. London, 1991. 8vo. 275pp. Illustrated. Original cloth in dust-wrapper. Good condition. Cricket anthology. [ref: 46994] £8.00 enquire buy |
THE PUNCH BOOK OF CRICKET. London, 1985. 4to. 174pp. Profusely illustrated. Original cloth in dust-wrapper. Good condition. Cricket articles published between 1841 and 1984 which appeared in Punch. [ref: 27630] £8.00 enquire buy |
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