London: Seeley Service & Co. No publication date [1950]. 672pp. Colour-plate frontispiece, plus sixty-one [all extant] unpaginated b/white halftone plate illustrations throughout, with intext facsimiles. Book clean. Spine firm, but slightly cocked. Gilt title there-on. Boards bumped on foredge corners, buckram backstrip bumped and colour-stripped head and heel. Tinted top edge, tanned endpapers, flecked foredge, otherwise leaves clean. Illustrated [laid-in] dustjacket chipped, edgeworn and nipped, plus general soiling. A stand-alone, Volume XXX [30] in 'The Lonsdale Library' series of sporting books. Extensive contents of forty-one chapters, cover Beginnings, Early Games, Various English Counties, England vs Australia, ditto South Africa, New Zealand, India, West Indies, Village Cricket and more. Book weight approx. 1.14 KG. Book weight approx. 1.05 KG. * Buyers outside Australia - This item will incur extra postage charges as it weighs over 1KG. Please email for quote. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.. Hardcover [Original Cloth]. Good/Fair +.

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Bookseller: Diversity Books, IOBA (AU)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 004200
Title: THE HISTORY OF CRICKET
Author: Parker, Eric
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good
Jacket Condition: Fair +
Edition: First Edition.
Publisher: Seeley Service & Co.
Place of Publication: London
Keywords: NOISBN, SPORT, CRICKET, CRICKET HISTORY, SERIES: THE LONSDALE LIBRARY
Bookseller catalogs: Sports & Outdoor Recreation; Cricket;

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