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BROUGHAM, H. The Irish Cricketers in the United States 1879: by One of Them. Dublin: John Lawrence and M.H. Gill & Son; London: W. Kent, printed by Humphrey & Armour, Dublin, 1880. 8° (185 x 119mm). iv + 103pp. Wood-engraved tail-piece on p. 88. Original green boards with lettering printed in white, green cloth spine (covers somewhat discoloured, a little chipping to board edges, inner hinges split and roughly repaired with adhesive tape). Provenance: Anthony Woodhouse (bookplate dated 16.3.60, sold at Vennet-Smith in 2001).
A colourful account of the tour of the Gentlemen of All Ireland in thirty-five chapters, with an appendix extracted from the New York Herald 12 September 879. Few copies survive. Allen 127; Goldman p.112: ‘very scarce’; Taylor p.57; Padwick 5772.
A colourful account of the tour of the Gentlemen of All Ireland in thirty-five chapters, with an appendix extracted from the New York Herald 12 September 879. Few copies survive. Allen 127; Goldman p.112: ‘very scarce’; Taylor p.57; Padwick 5772.
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