Lot of Four Vintage Cricket Books
by various
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Livingston, Montana, United States
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About This Item
Hardcover. Blunden, Edmund. Cricket Country. London: The Imprint Society, 1945. Reprint. Green cloth with black and gilt spine label. Green jacket. Back of jacket features advertisement for British radio broadcasting to occupied Europe. Edge wear and chipping to jacket. Very Good in good jacket. Brodribb, Gerald, ed. The English Game: A Cricket Anthology. London: Hollis & Carter, 1948. First edition. Green cloth with red and gilt spine label. Green, white and black illustrated jacket with 10s., 6d. price. Frontispiece portrait of John Myren (1764-1837). Several black and white illustrated plates throughout. Minor bumping and wear to boards, significant chipping and wear to jacket. Very good in fair jacket.Constantine, Learie N. Cricket in the Sun. London: Stanley Paul & Co., n.d. [1947]. First edition. Black cloth and gilt spine titling. Green and white jacket with 15s. price. Frontispiece and 27 other half-tone illustrations. Bumping and edge wear to boards. Wear and chipping to jacket. Very good in good jacket. Synge, Allen, ed. Strangers' Gallery: Some foreign views of English Cricket. London: Lemon Tree Press, 1974. First edition. Green cloth with gilt spine titling. Green, black and white illustrated jacket, price-clipped. Profusely illustrated in black and white. Bumping to spine ends and light edge wear to jacket. Very good in very good jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Elk River Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 36192
- Title
- Lot of Four Vintage Cricket Books
- Author
- various
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Elk River Books
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Livingston, Montana
About Elk River Books
Elk River Books offers a curated selection of used and collectible books, specializing in outdoor literature, western history and authors from the Rocky Mountain West.
Glossary
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...