Cricket by Steel, A.G.; Lyttelton, R.H.; Lang, Andrew; [Cricket]; - 1890

London, Longmans Green, 1893, 1893. Paperback. Fair. 5th edn. thoroughly revised. HB. Illustrated cloth. G-. Spine faded and bumped, front cover faded and damp stained, rear cover badly damp stained with mould not ffep, signs of damp and mould on rear pastedown, rear fep and last100 pages of text, nearly all pages show signs of damp. Inthe "Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes.

Reading/reference copy only. Complete, 429 pages, illustrated. Pages, with some random spotting are stained at lower edge/corner to varying degrees and pages at the back of the book are wavy. Front hinge split but holding. Name on each of the front paste down and ffep.

Southampton: Ashford Press Publishing. Reprint of the 1888 edition, xv + 429 pages, illustrated, index, (The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes). . Very Good. Hardcover. First Thus. 1987.

London: Longmans Green, 1888. Hardcover. Good. 8vo. Wear to extremities. Cracked hinges. Dedication to verso of ffep. Heavy foxing to endpapers and prelims, moderate elsewhere.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1890. No dust jacket. Hardcover. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. Minor wear on boards. Spine is slightly cocked. Spine ends are worn and bumped, with one or two small nicks. Leading corners are a little worn; lower front leading corner is split. Page block is foxed. Front hinge is slightly cracked. One or two cracks in rear hinge. Binding is visible at two or three points. Some foxing on pages. Text and illustrations remain clear. AF. Hardcover. Acceptable. Used.

Longmans, Green and Co, 1890. 4th. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. a much owned and used copy. evident repair signs. foxing and markings. a few inscriptions. heavy, may require extra postage outside South Africa. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

ASHFORD, 1987. Hardback. Good/No Dust Jacket. NO ORIGINAL DW BUT I CAN SUPPLY WITH A BLANK WISDEN COVER, I HAVE MANY

LONGMANS, 1893. Hardback. Good/No Dust Jacket. PRETTY GOOD FOR THE AGE

England: Ashford Press, 1987. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint. 135mm x 195mm. Minimal wear to cloth. Internally clean. Binding good. 429pp.

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1888. xiii, [1], 429pp. With half-title and frontispiece. Original publisher's decorative cloth. Some rubbing and marking to extremities and spine, some foxing to text. Later armorial bookplate of the Barons Raglan, bearing the name 'Cefntilla', to FEP. The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes was an ambitious sports publishing project conceived by Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort (the name derived from the Duke's country house, Badminton) and dedicated to the Prince of Wales, 'one of the best and keenest sportsmen of our time'. Between 1885 and 1902 some 33 separate works were published, each profusely illustrated, detailing the history and details of the sporting activity in question. Following the death of Fitzroy James Henry Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan (1788-1855), commander of allied forces during the Crimean War, 1,623 of his friends, admirers, and comrades purchased the estate of Cefntilla Court in Monmouthshire Wales, presenting… Read More