Pat Pocock Patrick Collins (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. Light edge wear to DJ with several short splits. ; Signed inscription from the author on half title to Peter Smith former cricket writer for the Daily Mail. ; 8.7 x 6.1 x 0.75"; Signed by Author.

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original bottle green rexine covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine with gilt illustration of the Author to the upper panel. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains 168 printed pages of text with colour and monochrome photographs throughout, photographic end papers. Fine condition book in Very Good condition colour photographic dust wrapper with shallow rubs with a little creasing to the upper spine end and corners, not price clipped. SIGNED by the Author to the half title page 'To Coline, Best Wishes Pat'. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this preserves and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 1870066022 SPORT [Cricket].…

Cricket autobiography. Pat Pocock played cricket for Surrey from 1963 to 1986, earning a reputation as a fine off-spinner and a witty raconteur, usually against himself. He played for England on 25 occasions. 8vo. 168pp. Profusely illustrated. Dust-wrapper, lightly rubbed. Signed to half title-page by Pocock with a dedication to John Woodcock, the great cricket journalist and writer (who has also signed the fly-leaf). There is also a typed letter from Patrick Collins to Woodcock.…