Arlott John Edited By (14 results)

hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, a very good tightly bound copy in a bright pictorial price clipped dust wrapper, dated to front free endpaper else text unmarked and clean, 308pp.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. These are stories concerned less with cricket than with the cricketers. Runs are important, of course, strokes and scores and innings, but it is the character and personality of the players that make the stories live. They will appeal simply as stories to someone with no knowledge of cricket at all, and are certain to delight all who know and love the game. Illustrations. 148 pp. Very slight foxing to end pages and edge. Wear and a couple of tears to D/J. Price clipped.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket Very Good. First Edition. 1,144 pages. Numrous B&W illustrations. Very clean black background dustjacket with light wear to edges and corners, not price-cipped. Very clean dark blue hardback binding. Pages very clean. Line drawings by Carl James (illustrator).…

Willow Books, 1986. Hardback, d/j, 8vo, xvii,224pp. Top edge a little spotted, d/j slightly bumped. A good copy. 0002182068.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression 1977 SIGNED by Fred Trueman very good hardback, foxing inside endpapers, glue residue on spine and front and rear boards, in a very good dust wrapper, corners and edges rubbed, light foxing and browning inside cover. Protected by clear removable archival covering. Date in ink at the top of front endpaper. 280 pages. Illustrations. Signed by Author(s).…

First edition. Hardcover. Top edge slightly foxed, o/w fine in like dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First Thus. This copy is in new, unmarked condition bound in brown cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dust wrapper is in new condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Few writers and broadcasts on cricket can have given so much pleasure as John Arlott. From 1946 when he made his first live commentary for the BBC at Worcester to his retirement after the Centenary Test in1980 his unmistakable Hampshire voice was synonymous with test cricket in England. A prolific journalist, notably as Cricket Correspondent of the Guardian from 1968 to 1980. This sparkling collection includes pieces on legendary figures, the village game, counties and grounds, county professionals and much else. Ref V V 3.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Laminated pictorial hard boards. 26x19cm. 157 pages. Spine is intact. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class with tracking next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref hm. The International Cavaliers' Cricket Book. Published 1969.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 152 pages, nicely illustrated, a series of extended essays on eight important captains of cricket (MacLaren, Warner, Jardine, Sellers, Wooller, Surridge, Cheetham and Worrell) by eight highly regarded contributors (Cardus, Peebles, Bowes, Kilburn, Thomas, Chapman, Duffus and CLR James respectively). Bookplate of a previous owner on front pastedown, and Arlott has SIGNED on this bookplate, the circumstances of which action has been described, in pencil on the front free end paper, by the 'owner', Book and jacket are both in Good+ condition - book has the occasional mark internally, and light foxing marks on edges of text block; while the jacket has minimal wear and marks, is not price-clipped and now poly-protected. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 280 pages, well illustrated, a book published to accompany a BBC television series. Phelps puts cricket into its "historical and social context" as well as compiling an 80-page anthology; Arlott looks at cricket's past and future, and Trueman outlines "Players of my time", with stats by David Frith. SIGNED on front free end paper by F S Trueman. Below his signature has been added, in laid-down form, a very good SIGNATURE, of John Arlott. A tight copy, though the binding is a little cocked. Jacket is poly-protected. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. A hardback book with both book and jacket in fine condition, dated 1989, First Edition. Forty years of classic cricket writing edited by David Rayvern Allen.

Condition: Good. Fading to spine/cover edges. Tanning/fading/marks/scuffs/tears to dustjacket. Some foxing to textblock edges. Inscription on ffep. Tanning to pages, darker around edges. Some marks to pages. Text good.

Hard Back. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. FINE H/b as new in D/j. The New Complete Imbiber. First Edition Collins 1986. Profusely illustrated. 224 pp. Profuse mix of renowned Contributors & illustrators - Please see our image of all names. C Ray's entertaining and instructive vinous miscellany [Food/ Drink] As rich as ever - a heady mix of fact and fiction - a joy to read. Fine / Nr.Fine [ Book- fine throughout, no inscs] Dust Jacket not price clipped, no notable defect. 224pp. 245x165mm. NB. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Published by Readers Union in 1975 of Devon, England. Hardcover. Book 1st published by Lutterworth Press in 1974. Book condition: Very Good. Red cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Inside pages are in good order. Dust Jacket condition: Good. Jacket has a few creases. See photograph. Dims: 220mmm x 140mm x 10mm. 148 pages.…