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F.S. ASHLEY-COOPER
Cricket and Cricketers
Philadelphia: The American Cricketer, 1907. 8vo., portrait frontispiece, illustrations, some full page, original red cloth, lettered and decorated in black (endpapers spotted).
PRESENTATION COPY TO CHARLES PRATT GREEN (author's inscription, dated 1907, on front pastedown). The front cover of the binding reproduces a design also used for Green's bookplate. In his introduction, George M. Newhall comments on how: "The game is growing in our country ... This little history shows that all classes and all ages would do well to indulge in the perfect game". Wynne-Thomas p. 22 (misdated 1906); Padwick 59.
Cricket and Cricketers
Philadelphia: The American Cricketer, 1907. 8vo., portrait frontispiece, illustrations, some full page, original red cloth, lettered and decorated in black (endpapers spotted).
PRESENTATION COPY TO CHARLES PRATT GREEN (author's inscription, dated 1907, on front pastedown). The front cover of the binding reproduces a design also used for Green's bookplate. In his introduction, George M. Newhall comments on how: "The game is growing in our country ... This little history shows that all classes and all ages would do well to indulge in the perfect game". Wynne-Thomas p. 22 (misdated 1906); Padwick 59.
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