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WILLIAM CAFFYN
Seventy-One Not Out: the Reminiscences of William Caffyn, edited by "Mid-On" [R.P. Daft]
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood, 1899. 8vo., half-tone plates, original red cloth, silver lettering and motif of stumps and balls in blind. FIRST EDITION. With loosely inserted 1½p. ms letter from Caffyn to an unknown correspondent, dated 4 Castle St., Hertford, 8 April [18]95, asking if Surrey C.C.C. has "taken the grant of me", and in some anguish because he has not heard from Mr. Alcock "since December last". Britton p. 9; Goldman p. 171; Taylor p. 21; Padwick 7398.
[and:]
GEORGE GIFFEN
With Bat and Ball: Twenty-five years Reminiscences of Australian and Anglo-Australian Cricket
London: Ward, Lock, 1898. 8vo., half-tone plates (half-title spotted), original green cloth gilt. FIRST EDITION of three published. EXCELLENT COPY. Britton p. 16; Goldman p. 27; Taylor p. 49; Padwick 3336. (2)
Seventy-One Not Out: the Reminiscences of William Caffyn, edited by "Mid-On" [R.P. Daft]
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood, 1899. 8vo., half-tone plates, original red cloth, silver lettering and motif of stumps and balls in blind. FIRST EDITION. With loosely inserted 1½p. ms letter from Caffyn to an unknown correspondent, dated 4 Castle St., Hertford, 8 April [18]95, asking if Surrey C.C.C. has "taken the grant of me", and in some anguish because he has not heard from Mr. Alcock "since December last". Britton p. 9; Goldman p. 171; Taylor p. 21; Padwick 7398.
[and:]
GEORGE GIFFEN
With Bat and Ball: Twenty-five years Reminiscences of Australian and Anglo-Australian Cricket
London: Ward, Lock, 1898. 8vo., half-tone plates (half-title spotted), original green cloth gilt. FIRST EDITION of three published. EXCELLENT COPY. Britton p. 16; Goldman p. 27; Taylor p. 49; Padwick 3336. (2)
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