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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° (180 x 121mm). Half-title, wood-engraved tail-piece on p. 88. (Stitching a bit weak towards the end.) Original green boards with lettering printed in white, green cloth spine (head and tail of spine a little chipped, corners bumped, a little rubbed, front inner hinge cracked). Provenance: ‘Reed June 3, 1880 / from /Oxford’ (inscription on pastedown).
FIRST EDITION of this colourful and appropriately witty 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 1879. Few copies survive. Allen 127; Goldman p.112: ‘very scarce’; Taylor p.57; Padwick 5772.
FIRST EDITION of this colourful and appropriately witty 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 1879. Few copies survive. Allen 127; Goldman p.112: ‘very scarce’; Taylor p.57; Padwick 5772.
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