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THE BOOK OF CRICKET: A GALLERY OF FAMOUS PLAYERS

THE BOOK OF CRICKET: A GALLERY OF FAMOUS PLAYERS

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Originally issued in 18 weekly parts, this handsome volume provides a magnificent pictorial record of the major cricketers of the day, accompanied by biographical text for each.

Folio. [iv] + 256pp. Hundreds of b/w photographs of cricketers both as single plates and in the text. Light foxing to fly-leaf with original owner's name also there. The boards and gilt are in excellent condition - perhaps the best that we have seen. A lovely copy. A very heavy item that may require extra postage costs (particularly abroad). 

Date
1899
Publisher
George Newnes
Author
Charles Burgess FRY (Ed)

£120.00 (Code: 99883)

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