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London : Eyre & Spottiswoode, (1971). First edition. Arlott on the immortal Fred Trueman (1931-2006) - with complete career statistics compiled by Bill Frindall.
Demy 8vo. 192pp. Photo plates. Original boards; some spotting of edges, but a very good copy in a lightly sunned, slightly nicked and price-clipped dust-jacket. Contemporary (Christmas 1971) gift inscription on front free endpaper.

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Bristol : J. W. Arrowsmith, 1903. First edition. The Hon. Arthur Bligh with seven stories - "The Golf Cure", "A Draco of Cricket", etc.
Crown 8vo. 298,[ii]pp. Original maroon cloth, blocked and lettered in gilt and red; lightly rubbed; a few slight marks; some spotting of endpapers and edges, but a very good copy of an uncommon title. Contemporary ownership inscription of A. L. Pelham - presumably the author's uncle, the Hon. Arthur Lowther Pelham (1850-1929). Padwick 6102.

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London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1892 [but 1891]. First edition. A popular schoolboy cricketing allegory which remained in print for many years - "Life is simply a cricket match - with Temptation as bowler".
Narrow crown 8vo. 58,[ii]pp. Original red and white diagonally striped silk, with title on white silk label on upper cover; top edge gilt; covers lightly tanned and slightly soiled; outer leaves a little tanned; a few marks, etc., but a good copy of a fragile and attractive production. Gift inscription dated Christmas 1891 to Frederick J. Partridge from his uncle and aunt.

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London : Eveleigh Nash, 1912. First edition. A guide to batting with thirty-two action photographs from the Olympian Fry - published in the National Library of Sports and Pastimes series. As a batsman who topped the first-class averages six times and the first batsman to hit six consecutive centuries (as well as being an international footballer and holding the world long-jump record), Fry was perhaps uniquely qualified for the task - he was a top-class writer too.
Crown 8vo. (256),(16)pp. Plates. Original cloth; mild spotting of edges; two plates slightly loose, but otherwise a very good copy in the original photographic dust-jacket - slightly torn and somewhat chipped, but a substantially complete and highly unusual survival. Padwick 696.

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London : for J.F. & C. Rivington ; T. Payne & Son ; R. Baldwin [etc.], 1790. An important eighteenth century edition of Hoyle, revised by Charles Jones - and including for the first time a section on "Goff, or Golf" - "Light Balls are used when playing with the wind, and heavy ones against it". Although compressed into the last three pages of the book, this would appear to be the first extended description of golf in any work of this kind. Also included are sections on cricket (the Star and Garter Rules of 1774), tennis ("a Net hangs across the middle"), billiards, etc., as well as whist, chess, backgammon, etc.
Crown 12mo. viii,290,[ii]pp. Two plates (billiards). Bound in a smart recent full pigskin; red title label, a few very minor marks; one leaf slightly nicked, but a clean, crisp and attractive copy. Donovan & Murdoch 330.

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Nottingham : Boots Wholesale Printing & Stationery Department, [1900]. First edition. A highly useful compilation, with births and deaths of cricketers, the laws, names and addresses of umpires, an article on cricketing curiosities by Alfred J. Gaston, and comprehensive listings of all scores of fifty or more, annual batting averages, Australian records, county records, partnership records, bowling averages, blank pages for notes, etc. The first blank page for notes has been annotated in pencil with some figures relating to Jessop and Fry in the 1901 season.
Crown 8vo. [vi],l,366,[xxxii],[2],[viii] pp. Original pictorial cloth; lightly rubbed and a touch bowed; a few marks; endpapers a little spotted, but still a very good copy. With two neat ownership inscriptions dated 1900 and 1960. Padwick 118.

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London : Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1896. First edition. Reminiscences of Read's own distinguished career with Surrey and England, but also a substantial illustrated history of the game, with "more about the early days of the game, particularly as practised in or near London, than is to be found in existing works". Read also deals with the evolution of bat, ball, wicket, cricketing attire, etc.
Post 8vo. [ii],268,[ii]pp. Plates. Map. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards; a touch rubbed; boards lightly worn; a few spots, but a very good copy of a rather fragile production. Padwick 911.

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London : Methuen & Co., 1901. First edition. Captain (later Colonel) Trevor, long-serving cricket correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, with some charming studies, mainly on cricket away from the glare of the headlines - the pavilion cricketer, early cricket training, soldier cricket and cricketers, second-class cricket, county committees, country-house cricket, the leading batsmen, village cricket, the morality of the cricket field, literary cricket (including Arthur Conan Doyle as a player), cricket tours, cricket for women, suburban cricket, public school cricket, Australian influences, cricket in India, cricket as a profession, etc. Edited by E. T. Sachs.
Crown 8vo. (xx),(300) + (48)pp advertisements dated March 1901. Original pictorial enamelled cloth - a design of ball, belt and sun in red and blue - lightly worn and a little marked; endpapers a little cracked and tanned; a little shaken and slack, but a good copy still of an attractive production. Padwick 6780.

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London : John Wisden & Co. 1917. Roll of Honour of war-dead cricketers. Obituaries of Alfred Lubbock and others. Frank Field's bowling feat. Plum Warner in London batting figures.
Foolscap 8vo. Rebound in a smart Wisden style cloth, retaining the original wraps; very good.

£295

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London : Michael Joseph, (1954). First edition. Her first murder mystery - murder before cricket.
Crown 8vo. (240)pp. Original black boards, blocked and lettered on spine in gilt; very good in the original Freda Nichols dust-jacket - a design in green, pink, khaki and black on white - with a faint inked date on spine, but otherwise just very slightly nicked and fingered. Barzun & Taylor 3523. Hubin p.434. Padwick 5956.

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