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A HISTORY OF CRICKET

A HISTORY OF CRICKET
A HISTORY OF CRICKET

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One of the classic's of cricket literature, originally serialised in The Cricketer. Altham is among the finest of cricket historians and this book has been updated, reissued and repackaged many times since 1926. With a foreword by Lord Harris.

First Edition. Large 8vo. 391pp. Frontispiece, 15 plates. Internally very good. Green cloth boards, lightly bumped and rubbed. Very good condition. Signed nicely by Altham, with a short latin phrase, to fly-leaf. The owner's name is also written to fly-leaf. Newspaper obituary of Altham slipped in. [Padwick, 57]

Date
1926
Publisher
George Allen & Unwin
Author
Harry Surtees ALTHAM

£75.00 (Code: 79199)

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