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Allen & Unwin, UK, 1926. First Edition, Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Plus Plus/No Dust Jacket. Size: 9.75 inches tall by 6.5 inches. 392 rough trimmed pages. With A foreword by Lord Harris. Contents Foreword Preface Chapter I. Archaeological II. " Cricket Arrives " III. Kent, The First Champions IV. The Hambledon Club V. Lord's, And Some Early Champions VI. The Round-Arm Revolution : William Lillywhite VII. The Beginnings Of Amateur Cricket VIII. The Great Kent Eleven : Alfred Mynn And Fuller Pilch IX. William Clarke And The First All-England Eleven X. County Cricket In The " Middle Ages" XI. Amateur Cricket : 1840-1862 XII. The Coming Of W. G. XIII. The Beginnings Of International Cricket XIV. The Halcyon Days Of Amateur Cricket : 1860-1880 XV. England V. Australia: 1882-1890 XVI. County Cricket In The Eighties XVII. Amateur Cricket In The Eighties XVIII. County Cricket In The Nineties XIX. Amateur Cricket In The Nineties XX. England V. Australia: 1890-1900 XXI. The Golden Age Of Batting : Ranji, Fry, Jessop XXII. The Counties : 1900-1914 XXIII. Public Schools : 1900-1914 XXIV. Oxford And Cambridge : 1900-1914 XXV. Gentlemen V. Players : 1900-1914 XXVI. England V. Australia XXVII. South African Cricket XXVIII. Cricket After The War. Appendices. Index. Book - [SEE SCAN] - in Good Plus Plus green boards with gilt lettering - some light marking/irregular fading to the front board, small amount of wear to the top of the spine and light bumping to the extreme ends of the spine and extreme corners. Contents, faint browning to the free front end paper and half title page, yellowing to the index pages, the occasional page and page edges, previous owner's name otherwise clean and tightly bound. Hard to find First Edition. Illustrated portrait frontispiece and 15 other black and white photographs. Shipped Weight: 750gms-1kgm. Category: Sport, Fishing, Hunting, Guns Cricket Inventory No: 004996.

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