Grace by Darwin Bernard (13 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. 1st Thus. pp 128.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket Very Good. 128 pages. B&W photographic and line drawins. Clean green background dustjacket with light wear to edges and corners, not price-clipped. Very clean bottle-green hardback binidng with light wear to boards' corners and spine-ends. Very clean pageas.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Good. Reprint. 122pp; foxing to text block; a few black marks to rear red cloth board. Jacket chipped with top half inch missing at head of spine and marks to rear. Duckworth's Great Lives series.

Hardback. 1978. Illustrated edition. A near fine copy only marked by very light tanning of the page edges. The d/w is unclipped and very good with light edge rubbing and a hint of sun fading of the spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. The boards are rubbed and marked.Some tanning.Tightly bound.[R.M]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Thus. W. G. GRACE Bernard Darwin. Introduction by John Arlott. Duckworth & Co, London. 1978 First thus. ISBN 0715610376 128pp Illustrated Hardback This copy is in very good condition in a price clipped dustwrapper that is sunned to the spine. William Gilbert "W.G." Grace, (18 July 1848 - 23 October 1915) was an English amateur cricketer who was important in the development of the sport and is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest players of all time. Universally known as "W.G.", he played first-class cricket for a record-equalling 44 seasons, from 1865 to 1908, during which he captained England, Gloucestershire County Cricket Club, the Gentlemen, MCC, the United South of England Eleven and several other teams. He came from a cricketing family: the appearance in 1880 of W.G. with E. M. Grace, one of his elder brothers, and Fred Grace, his younger brother, was the first time three brothers played together in Test cricket. Right-handed as both batsman and bowler, Grace dominated the sport during his career. His technical innovations and enormous influence left a lasting legacy. An outstanding all-rounder, he excelled at all the essential skills of batting, bowling and fielding, but it is for his batting that he is most renowned. He is held to have invented modern batsmanship. Usually opening the innings, he was particularly admired for his mastery of all strokes, and his level of expertise was said by contemporary reviewers to be unique. He generally captained the teams he played for at all levels because of his skill and tactical acumen. Grace qualified as a medical practitioner in 1879. Because of his medical profession, he was nominally an amateur cricketer but he is said to have made more money from his cricketing activities than any professional cricketer. He was an extremely competitive player and, although he was one of the most famous men in England, he was also one of the most controversial on account of his gamesmanship and his financial acumen. He took part in other sports: he was a champion 440 yard hurdler as a young man and also played football for the Wanderers. In later life, he developed enthusiasm for golf, lawn bowls and curling. Ref W4.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. 7.5 x 9.5"; 128pp; large format paperback; illustrated; introduction by John Arlott; good copy; Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. HARDBACK IN JACKET 1978. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Jacket has a little edge wear. Front flap is price-clipped. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref m34. W.G.Grace by Bernard Darwin. Published by Gerald Duckworth & Co, London. …

Cloth. Condition: Good Plus. First Edition. 139 pages. True First British Edition. Life of quite possibly the great cricketer ever. Grace was also very fond of his golf as a recreation. Name on ffep commensurate with the age of the book, light cover wear, no foxing or other damages. Small packet of newspaper clippings regarding Grace laid in. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.…

Condition: Very Good. First illustrated edition hard back binding in publisher's original moss green paper covered boards, gilt title and author lettering to the spine, pea green end papers. Quarto 10½'' x 8¼''. Contains 128 printed pages of text with monochrome portrait frontispiece, illustrations and photographs throughout. Fine condition book in Very Good condition price clipped dust wrapper with a small scuff mark to the top front corner, very light sun fading to the spine. 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 0715610376 SPORT [Cricket].…

The famous golf writer Bernard Darwin ventured into cricket writing with this elegant biography of W.G. Grace. Third Edition. Small 8vo. 122pp. A very good copy in dustwrapper. Dustwrapper with small portion missing to back cover.

New edition of Darwin's famous biography of Grace first published 1934, now with an introduction by John Arlott. 8vo. 128pp. Profusely illustrated. Dust-wrapper, very good.