MILNE, Alan Alexander. For the Luncheon Interval; Cricket and Other Verses, London: Methuen, [1925], 8°, FIRST EDITION, original printed wrappers, uncut. [Padwick 6500] With the second edition of the same work -- Sir James Mathew BARRIE. Allahakbarries C. C. 1899. Foreword by Don Bradman, London: James Barrie, 1950, 8°, reprint, illustrations, original cloth, dust-jacket. [Padwick 1296] With a one-page typed letter from Barrie to Ashley-Cooper dated Adelphi Terrace House, 29 Nov. 1929, unsigned, stating: "I can't remember, it is so far away, how many of the little Allahackbarrie booklets were printed. There must have been over twenty, as I think about that number were promised on the grand occasion ... very few survive. There was a still smaller and rarer one a few years earlier ...." (creased). (3)

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MILNE, Alan Alexander. For the Luncheon Interval; Cricket and Other Verses, London: Methuen, [1925], 8°, FIRST EDITION, original printed wrappers, uncut. [Padwick 6500] With the second edition of the same work -- Sir James Mathew BARRIE. Allahakbarries C. C. 1899. Foreword by Don Bradman, London: James Barrie, 1950, 8°, reprint, illustrations, original cloth, dust-jacket. [Padwick 1296] With a one-page typed letter from Barrie to Ashley-Cooper dated Adelphi Terrace House, 29 Nov. 1929, unsigned, stating: "I can't remember, it is so far away, how many of the little Allahackbarrie booklets were printed. There must have been over twenty, as I think about that number were promised on the grand occasion ... very few survive. There was a still smaller and rarer one a few years earlier ...." (creased). (3)

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Allahakbarries C. C. of 1893 had been followed by The Allahkbarrie Book of Broadway Cricket for 1899. The above book is a reprint of the latter.

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