DESBOROUGH, William Henry Grenfell (1st baron). Fifty Years of Sport at Oxford, Cambridge and the Great Public Schools [volumes I-II Oxford and Cambridge edited by A. C. M. Croome], London: Walter Southwood, 1913, 4°, FIRST EDITION, plates (some spotting and staining of margins), original brown morocco with the university arms on vellucent panels (rubbed, scuff marks to covers), with letter to H. S. Altham from Derek Kemp loosely inserted in volume I. [Padwick 1626: cricket in vol. I, pp. 83-189] (2)

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DESBOROUGH, William Henry Grenfell (1st baron). Fifty Years of Sport at Oxford, Cambridge and the Great Public Schools [volumes I-II Oxford and Cambridge edited by A. C. M. Croome], London: Walter Southwood, 1913, 4°, FIRST EDITION, plates (some spotting and staining of margins), original brown morocco with the university arms on vellucent panels (rubbed, scuff marks to covers), with letter to H. S. Altham from Derek Kemp loosely inserted in volume I. [Padwick 1626: cricket in vol. I, pp. 83-189] (2)

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