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George Giffen
With Bat and Ball: Twenty-Five Years' Reminiscences of Australian and Anglo-Australian Cricket. London: Ward, Lock, 1898. 8°, half tone plates (several detached and frayed at outer margin), original maroon cloth gilt (extremiities rubbed). PROVENANCE: G.H. Hirst, signature on front pastedown. FIRST EDITION. Padwick 3336 -- R.G. BARLOW. Forty Seasons of First-Class Cricket. Manchester: John Heywood, [1908]. 8°, plates and facsimile autographs of over 300 county cricketers, original blue cloth gilt. PROVENANCE: G.H. Hirst, signature in pencil on front pastedown. FIRST EDITION. Padwick 7298 -- Hedley VERITY. Bowling 'em Out. London: Htuchinson, [1936]. 8°, plates (some light browning of plates), original green cloth (slightly soiled). PROVENACE: title signed by the author, inscribed by Hirst in pencil on front pastedow. FIRST EDITION. Verity had been coached by Hirst at Eton. Padwick 746. With George Brooking 55 Years Cricket Memories (Liverpool, 1948), presentation copy from the author to Hirst; and one other book with ownership inscription of G.H. Hirst. (5)
With Bat and Ball: Twenty-Five Years' Reminiscences of Australian and Anglo-Australian Cricket. London: Ward, Lock, 1898. 8°, half tone plates (several detached and frayed at outer margin), original maroon cloth gilt (extremiities rubbed). PROVENANCE: G.H. Hirst, signature on front pastedown. FIRST EDITION. Padwick 3336 -- R.G. BARLOW. Forty Seasons of First-Class Cricket. Manchester: John Heywood, [1908]. 8°, plates and facsimile autographs of over 300 county cricketers, original blue cloth gilt. PROVENANCE: G.H. Hirst, signature in pencil on front pastedown. FIRST EDITION. Padwick 7298 -- Hedley VERITY. Bowling 'em Out. London: Htuchinson, [1936]. 8°, plates (some light browning of plates), original green cloth (slightly soiled). PROVENACE: title signed by the author, inscribed by Hirst in pencil on front pastedow. FIRST EDITION. Verity had been coached by Hirst at Eton. Padwick 746. With George Brooking 55 Years Cricket Memories (Liverpool, 1948), presentation copy from the author to Hirst; and one other book with ownership inscription of G.H. Hirst. (5)
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