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COLMAN, Jeremiah, Sir. The Noble Game Of Cricket, London: B. T. Batsford , 1941. 4, 100 plates, some coloured, original green cloth (lightly rubbed), dust-jacket. LIMITED TO 150 COPIES. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the front page "To Pelham Warner a knighted cricketer of popular personality as a token of appreciation from the author Jeremiah Colman", and underneath further inscribed: "You may search the World all round But where Englishmen are found from the frozen Polar Ocean to the far Antipodes where there's room to pitch a wicket you will find us playing cricket For King willow rules the meadows As Britannia rules the Seas" (minor spotting). With an inserted pamphlet of an exhibition of cricket pictures from Sir Jeremiah Colman's collection, 1937. Padwick 6968.