Cricket by Constantine (40 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Cricket in the Sun by Learie Constantine, The World Famous West Indian fast bowler. 28 illustrations. Published by Stanley Paul & Co Ltd. "jacket wear and tear inside is clean and tight" BBSDJ.

Condition: Good. No edition remarks. 131 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white plates. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Dedication to front free endpaper, dated 1946. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces rubbed and marked. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled.

Condition: Good. No Edition Remarks. 131 pages. No dust jacket. Black 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 shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Gilt lettering is darkened.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. undated, black boards with rubbed titles spine, wear to edges spine ends and corners, frontispiece, 132pp, pages clean and good condition.

Condition: Good. 1966. First Edition. 178 pages. Green pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are slightly bowed. Slight forward lean to text block. Light wear to unclipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners. Light tanning to spine and edges.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN:

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Dust Jacket in fair condition. No date found. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,350grams, ISBN:

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. . (illustrator). First Edition. Further cricket stories for the West Indies.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hard Back Copy in very good condition. The Book is clean & Tightly bound throughout, and with No Inscriptions. The D/J shows signs of wear, However despite the minor scrapes there are no major damage. Free Postage within the UK.

8vo; original green cloth; pictorial dustwrapper, somewhat marked and edgeworn; pp. 269; black-and-white photographic plates; a little foxing to page edges. Good to very good condition. "Learie Constantine holds back no tricks; he illustrates his advice with fascinating inside stories of the men against whom he has used the tactics he describes. Bradman, Larwood, Verity, Edrich, Compton, Ponsford, Hammond, Mailey, Oldfield, and a host of others.".

Hard with Dust Jacket. Condition: Good in near fine dust jacket, Illustrated with photographs (illustrator). Good in near fine dust jacket,207pp. A little rubbed around the edges. Internally fine, all pages clean and tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 192p hardback in black cloth, light wear, some marks on boards and endpapers, sticker on title page, pages clean and neat, good condition Language: English.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. FIRST EDITION with dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class post.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Tatty. . (illustrator). First Edition. Constantine Autobioraphy.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards, minor bump to top of spine, spine ends slightly rubbed and no bumping to corners. 131pp. Sir Learie Constantine's account of his life and cricketing career. With 28 photographic illustrations. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery. Size: 8.75 x 5.75 inches.

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Re-bound by library. Undated. Foxing. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,400grams, ISBN:

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Smaller sized staple bound paperback in very good condition. Covers are sunned. Edges, corners and spine ends are bumped and rubbed. Page block and page edges are tanned. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Not price-clipped. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description: 269 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 19 cm. Subjects; Cricket Batting. Cricket Bowling. 3 Kg.

Condition: Fair. 1949. First Edition. 269 pages. Grey pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Pages are lightly tanned at the edges, with light foxing. Occasional thumb marks to pages edges. Binding has remained firm. Boards have slight shelf wear with bumping to corners. Spine ends are a little crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Slight forward lean to text block. The unclipped dust jacket has moderate edge wear, tears and chips to edges and spine ends. Moderate tanning to spine and edges Loss to spine ends.

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket (Cricket, Sports) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. undated. jacket is chipped, creased and a bit stained, mostly from inside. ownership inscription. light marks. contents remain clear, sound and intact. fairly good copy.[SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Undated but 1946. Owner's names and inscription on front free endpaper. Light foxing. Binding tight. Black cloth worn along joints and at spine head/foot; corners slightly bumped; gilt lettering on spine a little dull and rubbed. Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket).

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Not price-clipped. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description: 269 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 19 cm. Subjects; Cricket Batting. Cricket Bowling. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. HARDBACK. Undated. Circa 1947. Includes 28 black & white illustrations. Small name on the front end paper. No other inscriptions. Clean & tight. JACKET IS IN POOR CONDITION. Front flap is not price-clipped: 15/-net. Jacket is now under clear removable covers. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref 6677.3. Cricket in the Sun by Learie N. Constantine.

1st.ed. Dust jacket a little worn at edges, with red stain on back panel. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Good dustjacket Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Good dustjacket.

Hardcover. V GOOD D/W V GOOD SOME FOXING TO PAGE EDGES SMALL CHIPPING TO TOP & BOTTOM OF D/W SPINE FBBB; 9495.

Thoughts and views on the game from Sir Learie Nicholas Constantine (1901-71), Trinidadian-British cricketer, administrator, politician and lawyer. He was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1940. 8vo. 192pp. Frontispiece, 14 pages of photographs. Black cloth - no dust-wrapper. Good condition.

The great West Indian all-rounder Learie Constantine describes the methods behind his technique in all facets of the game. 1st Edition. 8vo. 269pp. 10 pages of photographs including the frontispiece. Internally clean and bright. In the original bright green cloth, slight wear else very good.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Ed. Please contact O'Connell's Bookshop Adelaide (est. 1957) to check availability etc. We have many thousands more books in our shop than appear on line. Some small edge pieces missing from DJ corners. Couple of previous owner's names.