The History Of Cricket

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]… Read more about this item

London : Seeley Service, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Series; The Lonsdale library of sports, games & pastimes ; v. 30. Physical description; 672 p. : plates, ports. ; 22 cm. Subjects; Cricket —… Read more about this item

Seeley, Service & Co., 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 672 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth. Contains black and white plates throughout. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Heavier tanning to free endpapers. Thumb-marking present. Light creasing to gutter. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends.… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item