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Cricket North & South
by Prittie, T C F
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+/VG+/ND
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. thus* Impression: Reprint.* Date: 1955.* Pub: The Sportsman's Book Club.* Binding and cover condition: Maroon cloth covered boards with faded gilt title to spine strip and none to face. Bumps but no rubs, no other visible faults. VG+* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper. ND.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, slight marks to text. Some age & toning to top & fore-edge. VG+* Illustrations: One block of 8pp. b/w photos within text.* Pages: 237 pp. text. v pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: A series of anecdotes and cricketiana assembled by T.C.F.Prittie and originally published by Hutchinson and Co. Ltd. As two volumes entitled MAINLY MIDDLESEX and LANCASHIRE HOT-POT. This book contains the best of each of the two original volumes and is only one currently available.* A NEAR VG+ copy with minor faults reducing it to VG. No dust jacket.*
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Details
- Seller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 9224
- Title
- Cricket North & South
- Author
- Prittie, T C F
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/VG+/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edn Thus, 1st. Imp.
- Publisher
- THE SPORTSMANS BOOK CLUB
- Place of Publication
- London UK. 242
- Date Published
- 1955-01-01
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About the Seller
Cocksparrow Books
Biblio member since 2019
Salisbury, Wiltshire
About Cocksparrow Books
Cocksparrow Books have been selling high quality books for over thirty years, now solely on-line. We concentrate on non-fiction items and early edition fiction (including some soft-backs). Our book condition descriptions are fully detailed to give our customers the best information possible and we are always pleased to provide further information upon request.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Spine Strip
- The material covering the spine, or the rear portion of the outside of a book.
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- ND
- no publisher's date given
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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