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SOME RECOLLECTIONS OF CRICKET

SOME RECOLLECTIONS OF CRICKET

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The author (1807-1894) was the sixth son of the sixth Duke of Bedford and President of M.C.C. in 1835. He was Member of Parliament for Bedfordshire between 1832 and 1848 and played his cricket for Woburn and for Flitwick and was a founder member of the Bedfordshire club. This little work was first published in 1879 for private circulation in an edition of 12. This is an exact facsimile reprint, introduced by John Arlott.

8vo. 39pp. Cameo portrait frontispiece. Black silk book-marker. Small bookplate sticker to front pastedown. Dust-wrapper, very good. Ltd edition 19/100.

 

Date
1979
Publisher
Ewell: J.W. McKenzie
Author
Lord Charles James Fox RUSSELL

£55.00 (Code: 72821)

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