Seeley Service & Co Ltd 1950. First edition, super octavo, light brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to slightly darker brown cloth spine, gilt publisher's logo to spine & front board, frontispiece, 672pp, illus, VG (dampstaining to spine & rear board, some browning & foxing to page edges, owner's name & address in ink to front pastedown, bookseller's stamp to fep, moderately heavy browning to eps) in d/w, VG- (moderate browning to spine, heavy creasing to upper edges, 3cm tears with loss to upper corners & folds & spine sides, moderate tanning, price clipped)

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Bookseller: Hard To Find Books (NZ)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 189886
Title: The History of Cricket
Author: PARKER, ERIC
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Seeley Service & Co Ltd 1950
Keywords: first edition Eric Parker sport history cricket

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