Mailey Arthur (20 results)

Condition: Fair. 1934. Cheap Edition. 244 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth boards with lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Pages and binding are presentable with common faults. Text is legible throughout. Some issues present such as cracking, inscriptions, inserts, moderate foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Bin…

Condition: Good. 1959. Book Club Edition. 174 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild s…

Wraps are significantly rubbed and worn, staples are rusted centre pages have detached from to rest of the text. There is some spotting and wear throughout the text, two additional pages of Mailey's cartoons have been attached with stamp hinges between the adverts at the rear of the booklet We believe this is one of several soft…

40 pp, oblong format 195 x 300mm, index, b&w photographic and line illustrations, has been folded in half, spine and wrappers rubbed, minor tears to centre of front wrapper and pages 1/2 & 3/4, pages browned and some with light foxing, else good copy in illustrated, limp card wrappers. Index to "The Globe" Cricket Hints, printed…

Arthur Mailey (1886-1967) spanned a generation of Australian cricket, playing against Victor Trumper and Donald Bradman. He was a leg-break and googly bowler in 21 Test matches for Australia between 1921 and 1926. His famous return of 10 for 66 was for the 1921 Australians against Gloucestershire at Cheltenham. First Edition, 3r…

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. 32pp, bw ills. Or pictorial grey wraps. Bookseller label to front (Swains, Sydney), ink stain and prev owner name to front cover, spine splitting at top and bottom, minor edge wear. Decent copy and scarce survivor of this fragile publication featuring cartoon style sketches by Australi…

SOFTCOVER. W C Penfold and Co., 1925. First edition. A fair copy of this very rare publication. This copy has been subject of a professional restoration to the worn wraps which has now preserved them for the future. Foxing throughout which is heaviest on the first and last pages and quite light elsewhere. No other previous owner…

Issued during the 1921 Australian tour. Mailey travelled around with the team, sketching skits and impressions of the different counties and cultures he experienced. Thus we have scenes from matches with Leicestershire, Yorkshire, United Services, MCC, Surrey, Oxford and Cambridge universities and the first two Test matches. Pap…

Condition: Very Good. Sydney, NSW Bookstall Company, 1928. Quarto, [24] pages with numerous illustrations. Original colour-pictorial front wrapper (unevenly trimmed at an early stage, now expertly lined with tissue, with the margins reinstated) and modern replacement rear wrapper; contemporary ownership stamp on the inside front…