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BARRIE, J.M. The Allahakbarrie Book of Broadway Cricket. [Privately printed, 1899].
Small 4º (143 x 109mm). Half tone illustrations, some full-page, original limp Japanese vellum wrappers, front wrapper with title lettered in gilt (wrappers slightly soiled and discoloured); modern green buckram box.
FIRST EDITION. Barrie's team of authors and artists was founded in 1887. According to his own account in The Greenwood Hat, 'Allahakbar' was African for 'Heaven help us', and his less than skilfull team therefore became the "'Allahakbars', aftewards changed with complimentary intention to 'Allahakbarries' (see Janet Dunbar, J.M. Barrie, 1970, p. 111). Broadway was both where the team played and the name of their opponents. This celebratory publication of the annual engagement is very rare, copies only being circulated among team members and close friends of Barrie's. Taylor p. 28; Padwick 1296.
Small 4º (143 x 109mm). Half tone illustrations, some full-page, original limp Japanese vellum wrappers, front wrapper with title lettered in gilt (wrappers slightly soiled and discoloured); modern green buckram box.
FIRST EDITION. Barrie's team of authors and artists was founded in 1887. According to his own account in The Greenwood Hat, 'Allahakbar' was African for 'Heaven help us', and his less than skilfull team therefore became the "'Allahakbars', aftewards changed with complimentary intention to 'Allahakbarries' (see Janet Dunbar, J.M. Barrie, 1970, p. 111). Broadway was both where the team played and the name of their opponents. This celebratory publication of the annual engagement is very rare, copies only being circulated among team members and close friends of Barrie's. Taylor p. 28; Padwick 1296.
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