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193764 pages. Features: Circus cover illustration; Interesting one-page photo ad says "You Can Play 9 Holes of Golf on 3 Slices of Bread", includes image of woman putting from on top of three slices of bread; Nice one-page ad for Frigidaire fridges; Only Let Me Live (short story); The Romance of Albania's Soldier-King and his strange little Balkan State - photo-illustrated article on King Zog; Call of the Hell Cats (short story); Safety First (short story); The Organist (short story); Dust over Canada - interesting article on million of dollars are spent to fight soot, dust and dirt; The Judges Robbed Me! - photo-illustrated article on how ultra high speed movie cameras are used to decide the winners of horse races; Cornishman's Chance (short story); Canada's Place in Cricket - article with photo of the Canadian cricket team in Britain last year; Palmolive ad features images of the Dionne Quints; Richard Hudnut cosmetics ad features photos of Canadian radio stars Billie Bell, Jean Haig and Kathleen Kidd; Colgate ad features illustraion of the Dionne Quints; Movie news with photos of Paul Muni, Charles Winninger, Mirian Hopkins, Robert Taylor, Barbara Stanwyck, Flora Robson, Laurence Olivier, and others; Half-page Quaker Puffed Wheat ad features four adorable photos of Shirley Temple on Vacation; Business News; Quarter-page ad for the 1937 C.N.E.; Nice two-page Oldsmobile ad shows a green Oldsmobile Six Coach with Trunk; Sweet Caporal ad features photo of daschunds "Wanda" and "Otto" owned by Mrs. Herbert Yuile of Westmount, Quebec; When the Sun Runs a Temperature - beauty article; Vintage one-page Heinz ad entitled "In the best regulated families" shows mother and kids with cans of soup; Cooking article; World Sayings; Colour Lifebuoy and Rinso ads inside back cover; Nice colour-photo back cover ad for Maxwell House Coffee features dancer Paul Haakon, tennis star Carolyn Roberts, accordion player Charles Wright, and Mrs. John Carver; and more. Above-average wear and soiling. A worthy copy of this vintage issue. Book
189495 pages. Six black and white photographic plates. Olive green cloth-covered boards feature colour illustration of cricketeer on front. A charming vintage guide to the game. Possibly an early reprint. Narrow openings in binding at pages 16, 49 and 65. Hairline opening along front hinge. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy of this charming cricket collectible. Book
194032 pages. Features: Children and Dogs Amuse Each Other; Britain Without Sign-posts; Cover photo of Mrs. Michael Menzies (the former Kay Stammers) playing tennis; Some Candidates for the New Derby - Photos of 11 fine horses; Wilfred Taylor - Broadcasting the Derby; Sport Lives On; Rapier Sums Up the New Derby; Winchester Avoid Defeat by the M.C.C. (cricket news); Derbys and Oaks of the Last War - photos of winning horses from 1915-1918; Now is the time to know something about a rifle - Sir Pelham Warner changes his bat for a gun - brief article with 13 photos; Bombay Hunt's Gymkhana (near Bombay) - 13 photos; How They Race at Beersheeba - six photos of camel racing in Palestine; Stowe Too Strong for Bedford - 14 cricket photos with brief captions; Roehampton Sunday - six photos of the Red Cross Lawn Tennis Tournament, including photos of Murray Deloford, Mrs. Frank Strawson, Miss G.M. Harvey, and Rosemary Thomas; Photos of theatre stars Evelyn Laye and Robert Helpmann (in drag); Movie news and photos; Centuries Plentiful in Public Schools Cricket; Sergeant Braddock rejoins marines at age 52; Openings along coverfold, otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A worthy example of this vintage wartime issue Book
1918Features: Sensational ad for Chas. Baker & Co's inside front cover for Correct College and School Outfits features young lad in top hat and older youth in bowler hat with walking stick; Title page illustration of British troops defending a home on the railway near Marcelcave; General Fochs - The Allied Leader (article); Ludi Humaniores - A Please for Cricket (article); Great Guns - Monster Cannon of Days Gone By (article); Page of photos of personalities of the hour includes Brig.-General Guy Livinston, Major-General Sir Hugh Trenchard, Lieut.-General Sir David Henderson, The Earl of Derby, M. Clemenceau, Viscount Milner, Austen Chamberlain, Baron Burian and Lord Bertie; G.K. Chesterton discusses 'My Mission to London' by Prince Lichnowsky; Half-page photo of British sailors on the deck of a Monitor behind her 6-inch gun; Excellent half-page photo from a Spanish mail-steamer off Cadiz which has been stopped by a U-boat which appears surfaced in the background with many crew members visible; Photos of scenes in Greece, France, Flanders, and London; Photos of curiosities of the war - a steel German sniper's mask, Canadian troops fixing detonators of Mills bombs in their trench, etc.; The Effects of Wind in Air Fighting (article); One-page illustration entitled "The New Battle of the Somme - British Troops Stemming the German Flood"; Article about Typhoid Fever; One-page illustration entitled "Our Fighting Retreat From Armentieres - The Five Days Defence of Erquinghem; Two pages of photos of troops where some of the fiercest fighting has taken place, and elsewhere in the front line; Centrefold image of a British field artillery battery in close action, with gas-masked gunners; Aided by "Reds" and "Whites" - Our Petrograd Embassy (8 photos); Where Germany Profits by Civil War - five photos from Finland and the Aalands; Roll of Honour - photos of 21 officers including Leiut.-Col. N.B. Elliott-Cooper who died of wounds; Photo of "The Women of Pervyse" - The Baroness T'Serclaes and Miss Mairi Chisholm have maintained a concealed dressing-station since the early days of the war; Photo of the automatic mono-wheel stretcher-carrier (like an extended wheelbarrow) which allows a single troop to move an immobile commrade; Nice two-colour Greys Cigarette ad on back cover features the woman trooper, Mrs. Christian Davis who fought in three battles and died in 1739; and more. 36 pages including several pages of marvelous vintage ads, most of which are illustrated. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent WWI-era issue. Magazine
1985A small number of classified section listings highlighted with pale colour. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy and no bumping to corners. 131pp. This issue includes EF Benson and 'Mapp and Lucia', Jean Rhys, Kenneth Grahame and 'Wind in the Willows', cricket magazines, Hank Janson pulp fiction, F Scott Fitzgerald and Dylan Thomas.
1999No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 163pp. This issue includes Beatrix Potter, cricket novels & stories, Elizabeth Bowen, Lindsey Davis crime novels, legendary gunfighters, London Book Fair, Anne Bronte and index, letters and classified..
1981No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked red cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn with tiny nick and chip to lower rear edge and minor traces of storage. 223pp. A vivid account of the highly controversial 1981 cricket tour of the Caribbean by one of the participants, Geoffrey Boycott. Well illustrated.
1980No marks or inscriptions to contents. Tiny crease to lower corner of front cover. A very clean very tight copy with bright boards, faint ink marks to rear, rusty staples and no bumping to corners. 32pp. Scarborough Cricket Club weekly programme and scorecard.
1988No marks or inscriptions. Crease to upper corner of front cover, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tanning to pages and no bumping to corners. 239pp. A fascinating compendium of cricket trivia, cricketer's thought and comments - many controversial - and so much more about the game.
1993No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very slight sunning to lower spine. 399pp. A resume of first class cricket played everywhere in the world from September 1992 to September 1993. With lots of statistics and well illustrated.
1991No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with very slight tanning to pages and no bumping to corners. 147pp. This issue includes Graham Greene, post-war Daphne Du Maurier, PC Wren, Beau Geste, London Mystery Magazine, Military memoirs of the age of Marlborough, Richard Hughes, collecting early cricket books.
1993No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very slight sunning to lower spine. 399pp. A resume of first class cricket played everywhere in the world from September 1992 to September 1993. With lots of statistics and well illustrated.
1973No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight booklet with bright unmarked card boards and no bumping to corners. 17pp. Description and illustrations show you how to improve your cricket game.
1949No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked slightly rubbed boards, slight tanning to pages and no bumping to corners. 342pp. Results, fixtures and reports of the activities of Yorkshire County Cricket Club for 1949, plus List of Members.
1998No marks or inscriptions. Clean bright boards with no bumping to corners. A lovely clean crisp tight copy. Dust jacket not price clipped or torn with slight creasing to edges. 184pp. This book is based on the diaries the author kept throughout his career and focuses on ten vital Tests over five tours from 1989 to 1998.
1998No marks or inscriptions. Corner crease to rear cover, no other creasing to covers or to spine. Clean bright covers with no bumping to corners. A clean tight copy with very light traces of general handling. 384pp.
1992No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. Clean bright boards with no bumping to corners. A lovely clean crisp tight copy. Dust jacket not price clipped, torn or creased with a little fading to spine. 256pp.. From 1877 when Gregory and Lillywhite found themselves as opposing skippers in the first ever Test, through to the latter day heroes - such as Gooch, Gower, Border, Richards, Imran Khan and Azharrudin, this book profiles them all, from every Test-playing nation.
1998No marks or inscriptions. Clean bright boards with no bumping to corners. A lovely clean crisp tight copy. Dust jacket not price clipped or torn with a minor crease at the top of the spine. With signs of general handling. 168pp. Description of each of the Benson & Hedges Cup Final days at Lords over 27 years. Photos, statistics and an excellent treasure trove of memories of each day of the best-loved competition in cricket.
1985No marks or inscriptions. Clean bright boards with no bumping to corners. A lovely clean crisp tight copy. Dust jacket not price clipped, torn or creased. 48pp. 'This delightful anthology, assembled by an ardent fan of our National Game, will bring hours of pleasure to every cricket fan...From Victorian salutes to the fair sex as it takes to the field for the first time, clad in knickerbockers, to hymns to the great W.G. and parodies of Kipling and P.G Wodehouse on the bungled catch..'
1995No marks or inscriptions. Very tiny crease to corner of front cover and first few pages, no other creasing to covers or to spine. Clean bright covers with no bumping to corners. A clean crisp very tight copy. 416pp.
1994No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. Clean bright covers with no bumping to corners. A lovely clean crisp very tight copy. 384pp.
1993No marks or inscriptions. Very tiny creases to corners of covers, single crease down spine. Clean bright covers with no bumping to corners. A clean crisp very tight copy. 384pp.
1990No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. Clean bright covers with traces of very light rubbing and no bumping to corners. A clean crisp very tight copy. 368pp.
1981No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean crisp tight copy with bright boards, trace of bumping to bottom of spine, none to corners. None of puzzles done. 62pp.
2005Neat inscription on front end paper. No other marks. A very clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked laminated boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped, not torn with very minor handling to upper edge. 128pp. The full story of how the Ashes were gloriously reclaimed by England for the first time in 16 long years. A scarce book.
