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Playing for England
by COMPTON DENIS
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Leicester, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Sampson Low, 1948. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. Signed by Author. (London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd 1948). First UK Edition. Publisher's blue boards with gilt lettering to the spine. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND BY THE 1948 AUSTRALIAN CRICKET TEAM (THE INVINCIBLES). A near VG copy (neat initials on the front paste-down), fading to the spine and wear to the spine tips). In a supplied VG+ D/W. Inscribed by the author (Best wishes/ Denis Compton to the photographic frontispiece). Additionally signed by the 1948 Australian Cricket Team, including, inter alia: Donald Bradman, Lindsay Hassett, Sid Barnes, Colin McCool, Keith Miller, Arthur Morris, Doug Ring, Sam Loxton, Ron Hamence, Neil Harvey, Bill Brown, Ian Johnson, Ray Lindwall, Keith Miller, Arthur Morris, Ron Saggers, W A Brown + a few non-related autographs including Bill Edrich. Reg Simpson, George Mann, Trevor Bailey, Norman Yardley, and several others. Photographs/scans available upon request.
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Details
- Bookseller
- James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 355490718201
- Title
- Playing for England
- Author
- COMPTON DENIS
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Sampson Low
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1948
Terms of Sale
James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
We can personally take Visa, Mastercard and debit/Maestro cards. All books are are returnable if found not to be as described, please contact us first. James M Pickard (Rare Books) is proud to be a full member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association (ABA), the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) and The Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association (PBFA).
About the Seller
James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
Biblio member since 2006
Leicester
About James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
James M Pickard (Rare Books) is proud to be a full member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association (ABA), the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) and The Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association (PBFA).
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...