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LOWE, (R.H.).
A CRICKET ELEVEN. AN ANTHOLOGY OF CRICKET SHORT STORIES WITH VERSES. EDITED BY R.H. LOWE.
London, 1927.
8vo. 351pp. Illustrated. Original cloth.
SIGNED AND DATED BY A.G. POWELL on the front endpaper. Powell played for Essex between 1932 and 1937. Contributors include Charles Dickens, Hugh de Selincourt and P.G. Wodehouse. Padwick, 6089.
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LOWE, (R.H.).
A CRICKET ELEVEN. AN ANTHOLOGY OF CRICKET SHORT STORIES WITH VERSES. EDITED BY R.H. LOWE.
London, 1927.
8vo. 351pp. Illustrated. Original cloth.
AN INTERESTING ASSOCIATION ITEM. PRESENTED BY ARTHUR WAUGH TO A.E. KNIGHT, SIGNED, INSCRIBED AND DATED on the front endpaper: To Albert E. Knight with all kind New Year wishes from his friend Arthur Waugh Jan 1 1937. Arthur Waugh has contributed the first story in this book, The Umpire Talks. He has twice corrected the printed text of his story in ink. On page 9, five lines from the bottom, chairs has been altered to chains, and on page 14, second line, he has deleted Darling and inserted Trott. Waugh (1866-1943) was an author and literary critic. His sons were the authors Alec and Evelyn Waugh. Knight (1872-1946) played for Leicestershire between 1895 and 1912. He played three Test matches for England in 1904. Padwick, 6089.
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LUCAS, (E.V.).
A HUNDRED YEARS OF TRENT BRIDGE. EDITED BY E.V. LUCAS.
Nottingham, Privately printed for Sir Julien Cahn, Bart., 1938.
Small 8vo. (xi)+80pp. Colour frontispiece (by Wm. Nicholson) and 28 plates. Original decorative cloth, covers soiled.
Published to commemorate the centenary of Trent Bridge Cricket Ground. Padwick, 2506.
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LUCAS, (E.V.).
A HUNDRED YEARS OF TRENT BRIDGE. EDITED BY E.V. LUCAS.
Nottingham, privately printed, 1938.
Small 8vo. 80pp. Colour frontispiece (by Wm. Nicholson) and 28 plates. Original decorative cloth, spine soiled.
SIGNED IN INK BY FIFTEEN CRICKETERS ON THE FRONT ENDPAPER, INCLUDING NINE MEMBERS OF THE SUSSEX YOUNG AMATEURS TEAM WHICH PLAYED LEICESTERSHIRE YOUNG AMATEURS AT LEICESTER 11th AUGUST 1947. Published to commemorate the centenary of Trent Bridge Cricket Ground. Swanton, World of Cricket, 1966, page 138-139: 'E.V. Lucas, [a] fine cricket poet, but a greater essayist...his greatest service to the game's literature lay more in essays like A Hundred Years of Trent Bridge, written shortly before his death in 1938.' Padwick, 2506.
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LUCAS, (E.V.).
A one page signed autograph letter from E.V. Lucas to Stephen Wheeler. Headed 41 Sloane Street, S.W.1. Dated 2nd November 1921. In original stamped envelope, addressed in Lucas' hand.
'...Thank you for that very nice book. Having read it I am now sending it on to another Old Lady...'. Lucas (1868-1938) began his writing in Punch magazine in 1904. He became a prolific author and also contributed a regular column titled: A Wanderer's Notebook for the Sunday Times. In 1924 he became Chairman of the London publishers Methuen & Co. Swanton, World of Cricket, 1966, page 138-139: 'E.V. Lucas, [a] fine cricket poet, but a greater essayist...his greatest service to the game's literature lay more in essays...'
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LUCAS, (E.V.).
CRICKET ALL HIS LIFE. CRICKET WRITINGS IN PROSE AND VERSE.
London, 1950.
8vo. 216pp. Original cloth in dust-wrapper. Good condition.
Cricket anthology, includes the author's cricket anecdotes, historical essays, and poems. Padwick, 6724.
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LUCAS, (E.V.).
MR. PUNCH'S COUNTY SONGS. ILLUSTRATED BY E.H. SHEPARD.
London, 1928.
4to. 92pp. Profusely illustrated. Original cloth-backed boards, covers soiled.
Includes cricket songs, Gloucestershire, Hampshire and The Two Roses, with cricket illustrations by E.H. Shepard. Not recorded by Goldman, Bibliography of Cricket, 1937. Padwick, 6490-1.
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LUCAS, (E.V.).
READING, WRITING AND REMEMBERING. A LITERARY RECORD.
London, 1932.
8vo. xvi+339pp. Profusely illustrated. Original cloth, covers slightly soiled. Ex-library copy with labels inside front and back covers.
Autobiography of the famous English essayist, poet and author, with much cricket interest. Padwick, 6720.
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LUCAS, (E.V.).
SONGS OF THE BAT.
London, privately printed for the Author, 1892.
Very small 8vo. 8pp. Original printed wrappers.
Cricket poems. Published by the author who had hoped that Albert Craig, the Surrey Poet, would sell it at the Oval. Craig however was not interested, as he was not involved in its publication. In his autobiography Reading, Writing and Remembering, published in 1932, Lucas recalls: 'Poets...don't sell the work of other poets. The result was that it was never sold at all and, as I was also the publisher, I still possess several hundred copies.' Some of these songs were later published in Willow and Leather. Taylor, Catalogue of Cricket Literature, 1906, page 91, does not record the author. Goldman, Bibliography of Cricket, 1937: 'Scarce and difficult to procure.' Padwick, 6581.
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LUCAS, (E.V.).
THE HAMBLEDON MEN. BEING A NEW EDITION OF JOHN NYREN'S 'YOUNG CRICKETER'S TUTOR'...EDITED BY E.V. LUCAS.
London, 1907.
8vo. xxviii+252pp. 21 plates. Original cloth, cover slightly soiled.
A reprint of Nyren, Young Cricketer's Tutor, with a new introduction by E.V. Lucas. Also includes biographies of the Hambledon cricketers and their contemporaries by Arthur Haygarth, and articles on and by William Clarke. Other contributors include Rev. John Mitford and Rev. James Pycroft. Goldman, Bibliography of Cricket, 1937: 'A gem of cricket literature...will one day be a cricket rarity.' Padwick, 390.
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