'WG' Cricketing Reminiscences & Personal Recollections
by Grace, W.G
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
-
Carlisle, Cumbria, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: James Bowden, 1899. First edition with photogravure portrait of the author to frontispiece with tissue guard and eighty pages of illustrations. Pale blue boards with white lettering and line border to front, colour illustration of author to front board, spine lightly browned, light wear to corners and spine ends, light browning to closed edges, very light spotting to endpapers, internal gutters slightly cracked at fep, frontispiece of author with tissue guard, pp very clean, unmarked, black and white photographs clear, 'A Statistical History of Cricket' to rear of book, list of publisher's books to rear of book - these pages lightly browned around edges.. First Edition. Hard. Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookcase (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 74170
- Title
- 'WG' Cricketing Reminiscences & Personal Recollections
- Author
- Grace, W.G
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- James Bowden
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1899
- Bookseller catalogs
- Sport;
- Size
- 8vo
Terms of Sale
Bookcase
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Bookcase
Biblio member since 2009
Carlisle, Cumbria
About Bookcase
A Georgian four-floor antiquarian bookshop in Carlisle's historic quarter specialising in Cumbria, Scotland, Mountaineering and rare finds. We are a friendly business, which was started by a local family and is run by friendly and experienced team members.
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- Jacket
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- Edges
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- Cracked
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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