Kings of Cricket, Reminiscences & Anecdotes with Hints on the Game. With Introduction by Andrew Lang and Illustrated by 80 Portraits of Eminent Cricketeers.
by DAFT, RICHARD:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Shaftesbury, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Bolton: Tillotson, 1893. Subscriber's large paper edition, signed by Daft and numbered 77. 4to (10 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches), pages: xiv:274:iv (the list of 106 subscribers). Original 3/4 roan, the cloth of the upper cover pictorially blocked in gilt. Endpapers browned and a little marked. Inscribed and signed by Percy de Paravicini (1862-1921), the English amateur cricketeer. Binding hopelessly repaired with sellotape - not affecting cloth sides. In need of re-backing and re-cornering and priced to allow for such.
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- Bookseller
- Bristow and Garland (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17501
- Title
- Kings of Cricket, Reminiscences & Anecdotes with Hints on the Game. With Introduction by Andrew Lang and Illustrated by 80 Portraits of Eminent Cricketeers.
- Author
- DAFT, RICHARD:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Bolton: Tillotson, 1893.
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- Sports & Games;
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Bristow and Garland
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Shaftesbury, Dorset
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