In Celebration of Cricket

Hardback. Slight shelf wear to top edge of spine of D/J. Slightloy sunned spine to D/J. Foreword by Sir Leonard Hutton. This first-rate anthology, compiled and introduced by the editor of The First Cuckoo, focuses on the lives and careers of fifty of the greatest cricketers of all time, from W. G. Grace to Barry Richards.The Masters, as gregory has dubbed them, are seen through the eyes of the finest cricket writers - and sometimes of their colleagues or adversaries. This splendid celebration contains essays on myriad aspects of the game, punctuated by unusual sidelights and apercus, from the statistical to the psychological, contributed by masters of cricker, masters of cricket writing, and not a few masters of both. Illustrated. 336 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).