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written about the game of cricket” 94. JAMES, C.L.R. BEYOND A BOUNDARY Hutchinson, 1963. First edition. 8vo. Original back paper covered boards let- tered in gilt in pictorial dust- wrapper designed by Peter Chadwick. A very good copy indeed, in a very good price clipped dustwrapper with fading to the spine and wear to the spine ends. [46360] £300 James’ cricketing memoir, thought by John Arlott to be “the finest book written about the game of cricket” (Wisden, 1964). It’s strength is that it covers
96. NOBLE, M.A. THOSE “ASHES” THE AUSTRALIAN TOUR OF 1926 Cassell & Co. Ltd., 1927. First edition. Green cloth with gilt letter- ing on the spine. Forty eight photograph- ic plates. A very good copy, rubbed to extremities, front hinge fragile, internally loose and spots of foxing. [46211] £40 97. TURNBULL, M.J; ALLOM, M.J.C. THE BOOK OF THE TWO MAURICES Being Some Account of the Tour of an M.C.C. Team Through Australia and New Zealand in the Closing Months of 1929 and the Beginning of 1930. E.Allom & Co.Ltd., 1930. First edition. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. Photographs throughout. A very good copy, the spine is faded and there is with slight wear to the head of the spine. A lose signature of Maurice Allom inserted. [46209] £75 Maurice Allom was an English amateur cricketer, who played in five Tests from 1930- 1931, while co-author Maurice Turnbull played in nine Test matches for England be- tween 1930 and 1936. 98. WARNER, P.F. THE FIGHT FOR THE ASHES IN 1926 A Critical Account of the Australian Tour in England. George G Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1926. First edition. 8vo. Petrol blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, with an urn stamped in blind on the front cover. Photographs throughout. A very good copy, with a slightly tanned spine. Gift inscription to front free endpaper. [46213] £45
philosophy, politics and the social history of West Indian culture as a means of putting cricket in context, giving it a claim to be much more than a book on cricket and giving rise to its most famous and oft quoted extract, “What do they know, that only cricket know?”.
95. NOBLE, M.A. GILLIGAN’S MEN A Crit- ical Review of the M.C.C. Tour of Australia, 1924-25. Chapman & Hall, 1925. First edition. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt let- tering on the spine and a vignette stamped in blind on the front cover. Forty eight pho- tographic illustrations. A very good copy, spine and upper board slightly faded, inter- nally the occasional spot of foxing. Contem- porary ownership inscription to front free endpapers. [46210] £50
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