Old Ebor (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 338pp, plus circa 30 black and white photographic plates including frontispiece. Green cloth -covered boards with gilt titles on spine. Rubbed spine ends; especially at top where cloth worn through. Cloth on corners rubbed and worn. Lender's pocket and label on front paste down. Evidence of previous label on front free end paper. A handful of small lender's stamps on verso of some plates. 8vo. A niche history of cricketing in Yorkshire in the early part of the 20th century, including the Harrogate Wicket Incident of 1904 and effects of the first world war on the game in the county. The second volume in the trilogy of Yorkshire's cricket history.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Stiff card covers so in between a h/b and a p/b with light wear on the corner tips. Previous owners modern dedication on front end page. Fascinating interviews with old Yorkshire cricketers, many of whom had fallen on hard times. Subjects included George Atkinson, Tom Emmett, George Freeman, Ephraim Lockwood, 239 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 239pp. Black and red boards with green spine. Titles and photographs to front cover. No inscriptions. Front board reinforced with yellowed sellotape to inside gutter at fep. Textblock clean and lightly tanned. Dusty and well worn at extremities this is nonetheless a pleasing collectable.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. 239 pages, a series of reprints from The Yorkshire Evening Post during winter 1897-8. This is the Second Edition. Considered as bound in soft covers though the covers' boards are relatively hard albeit with a soft spine. Talks are with such as Tom Emmett, Ephraim Lockwood and George Ulyett whilst the final part is "The Tale of the Yorkshire Nursery", Lascelles Hall. Overall in fair condition: the front cover is beginning to peel off the board at the bottom end with some small loss; some foxing and other marks on several pages; binding quite sturdy for its age, though a little cocked; internally clean and tidy though foxed in places.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Ex Library. Hardcover in very good condition for age of book. External hardcover in very good condition for age of book. Evidence of bumping, rubbing, tanning and marking across hardcovers. Minor losses across external hardcovers. Internal hardcovers in very good condition. Evidence of slight tanning and marking. Internal pages in very good condition. Evidence of tanning and spotting on internal pages and external page edges. Handwritten pencil inscription on first page. Repair on internal hardcover and first page spine. First page has sticker at the bottom. Library stamp on index page and last page. Illustrations in black and white. 239pp Overall in very good condition for age.

Hardback. Condition: G++. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. 1st Edition. Dark green pictorial (photos) boards with plain brown cloth spine. Text block tending to pull from cover. Quite clean and tight but some wear. Book is in good double plus condition with noticeable signs of wear and/or age.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Fascinating interviews with old Yorkshire cricketers, many of whom had fallen on hard times. Subjects included George Atkinson, Tom Emmett, George Freeman, Ephraim Lockwood. Small 8vo. 239pp. Original pictorial boards, professionally rebacked. Preluims spotted. A good copy. From our large stock of cricket books and publications.

The second volume in the trilogy of Yorkshire's cricket history. 1st edition. 8vo. 337pp. 8vo. Frontis of Lord Hawke + 28 plates. Original blue cloth with gilt titles and crest to front cover. Edges bumped with one small split to spine. Previous owner's name inside. A good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Leeds, Chorley and Pickersgill/ The Electric Press and the Yorkshire County Cricket Club, 1924 and 1950. Quarto, two volumes, [xii], 337 pages plus 29 pages of plates and [xii], 344 pages plus 34 pages of plates (two in colour). Original cloth slightly discoloured, bumped, rubbed and torn; edges darkened and a little foxed; second volume a little flecked on the rear cover; endpapers offset; a few very small fox marks; plates slightly yellowed; a very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. pp.x, 344 pages, 1 full-page cartoon illustration and many small photos in the text, hardback (original dark blue cloth, the upper cover with white lettering and a central design of a white flower with red petals, the spine lettered in gilt), occasional foxing but a generally very good, bright and tight copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Shaw was one of the finest English bowlers with a long career stretching from the 1860s to the 1890s. His reminiscences were collected by the noted Yorkshire cricket writer, A.W, Pullin. 8vo. vi + 200pp. Frontis with tissue guards 15 plates, light foxing to prelims. Original green clothboards, gilt, an unusually good copy, clean and bright. Owner's name to front pastedown. From our large stock of cricket books and publications.

Condition: Used - Good. Good hardback. First Edition. 1st edition, 1902, in green cloth; B&W illustrations (all present); 16pp publisher's catalogue dated 3.02 at rear. Hinges cracked & repaired; tissue guard to frontis yellowed; spine discoloured & worn, with dull & worn gilt lettering Used - Good. Good hardback.

Interviews with Yorkshire cricketers first published in the Yorkshire Evening Post during the winter months of 1897. Subjects include George Atkinson, Tom Emmett, George Freeman, Ephraim Lockwood. Second edition. Small 8vo. 239pp. Thumbnail portraits as chapter heads. Original pictorial boards, lightly rubbed and corners bumped. Repaired tear to top of front board. A good copy.

Autobiography of the great Nottinghamshire and England bowler whose long cricket career began in 1863, Shaw organised and participated in many of the early English tours to Australia. Also with a statistical chapter supplied by Alfred Gaston. First Edition. Small 8vo. vii + 200pp. Frontispiece (tissue-guard), 15 plates. Original green cloth, lightly rubbed. Original owner's name inside. Foxing to tissue-guard. A very good copy. [Padwick, 8036].