The Hambledon men: being a new edition of John Nyren's 'Young Cricketer's Tutor' by E V Lucas - 1907

Phoenix House, 1954. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1954. First Edition Thus. 252 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Black and white plates throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Heavier to endpapers and pastedowns. Previous owner's inscriptions to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Very slight crushing to spine ends. Clipped jacket has light edgewear with chips and creasing. Light tanning to spine and edges. Wear marks overall.

Sportsman Book Club, 1952. Hardcover. Good. 1952. No Edition Remarks. 252 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Contains black and white illustrations. Well bound and clean pages, with mild tanning to text block edges. Moderate rub-marking and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers with inscriptions to front. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Boards are slightly bowed.

Phoenix House Ltd, 1954. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1954. No edition remarks. 252 pages. Dust jacket over green cloth. File copy. Book is in better condition than most examples of this age. Neat, clean, well bound pages with very minimal foxing, tanning and thumbing. Small inscriptions and neat labels may be present. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Heavy tanning to spine and edges. Visible rubbing and marking all over.

Sportsman's Book Club, 1952. Reprint. Hardcover. Acceptable. Significant wear to wrapper, small tears to all edges and top and bottom of spine which have some slight loss, spine very slightly darkened. Has been internally reinforced with special non acidic archive tape, wrapper now in clear removable protective sleeve, not price clipped. No inscriptions, illustrated. Clean copy internally with little reading wear. Heavy book which will require additional postage outside the UK.

Henry Frowde, 1907. Hardcover. Good. 1907. No Edition Remarks. 252 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pencil markings to front pastedown and free endpaper. Top textblock edge dyed gilt. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Minor wear marks to boards.

London: Henry Frowde, 1907. 252 pages. 4 1/2 in x 6 1/2 in. Frontispiece illustrated with black and white plate, a page from a sketch book of George Shepherd, about 1790. 21 more b/w plates in text. Pages clean, good condition.Many names. Lovely little book. Endpapers lightly yellowed. Small booksellers label at bottom of front paste down endpaper. Green cloth with gilt decorative design on upper cover and spine. Gilt title on spine. Head/tail of spine, edges and corners ligthly worn. Corners bumped. VG. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.