Latest News & Items

Calling time on Just Fontaine – a French football legend, RIP

16th March 2023

We love discovering sports memorabilia with great stories. Recently we acquired one of Just Fontaine’s commemorative watches, which fills exactly that brief. The wristwatch is inscribed to dial “Just Fontaine. World Record 13 goals 1958-1998”. Fontaine, French football legend, presented one of these watches to each of the twenty two members of the French 1958 […]

Sporting Legends we have lost

19th January 2023

When we sent out our first New Stock Catalogue of the year, we realised it had been a while – too long! – since our last one in September. We reflected on the sporting legends we had lost just since September – way too many. We thought we’d like to make at least brief mention […]

Argentina wins the 2022 World Cup for the third time

22nd December 2022

Football » Football Books » Football History » BRITISH SPORTS AND SPORTSMEN: CRICKET AND FOOTBALL

BRITISH SPORTS AND SPORTSMEN: CRICKET AND FOOTBALL

BRITISH SPORTS AND SPORTSMEN: CRICKET AND FOOTBALL

Click to zoom

The fifth volume in the series of 16 produced by British Sports and Sportsmen magazine and published between 1908 and about 1936. This volume deals with cricket and football and was edited by Pelham Warner. pp1-211 deal with cricket, while the rest of the book covers Association football. The final chapter describes the careers of prominent players of the day in alphabetical order. Publication went ahead in spite of wartime difficulties, and the preface notes "it will probably be found that some of the cricketers and footballers referred to have given their lives in the war since the notices of their careers were written."

 

First Edition (another edition issued c1934). Large folio. xiii + 579pp. Frontispiece of WG Grace (tissue-guard) + 13 further photograves (tissue-guards), title illustration & many text illustrations. Orig. half green and half brown cloth, gilt title, gilt title to spine, small patches of soiling to both boards, top edges gilt, green marbled endpapers. A very good copy. No.94 of a Limited Edition of 1000 copies.

 

 

 

 

 

Date
1917
Publisher
"British Sports and Sportsmen"
Author
(Pelham Francis WARNER)

£195.00 (Code: 47736)

Add to basket
Adding...