The Cricket Match - with - The Test Match Surprise. A Romance of the Cricket Field -
Hugh De Selincourt, Jack Hobbs
1924 - The Readers Library Publishing Company Ltd., London - First Reader’s Library Edition, First Edition
Two Great Cricket Fictional Works, rare in their original dust jackets.
‘The Cricket Match’ - James Barrie (of Peter Pan) thought this ‘the best story about cricket or any other game that has ever been written’, and this novel of a cricket match played in the idyllic Sussex village of Tillingfold is still the best-known and best-loved cricket story ever written.
‘Test Match Surprise’ - A fictional account by Jack Hobbs, legendary England and Surrey batsman. References: Padwick, Bibliography of Cricket, 5932, 5938.
Two duodecimo volumes (book size 17.1x10.6cm), pp. [3] 8-254; [3] 8-253 [1]. In publisher’s burgundy cloth, lettered and intricately decorated in gilt to spines and upper covers. Dust jackets without price as published. Condition: Fine in very good dust jackets with some light wear and chipping to edges, more creasing to spine and rear panel of ‘Cricket Match’. Ref: 111615 Price: HK$ 2,200
‘The Cricket Match’ - James Barrie (of Peter Pan) thought this ‘the best story about cricket or any other game that has ever been written’, and this novel of a cricket match played in the idyllic Sussex village of Tillingfold is still the best-known and best-loved cricket story ever written.
‘Test Match Surprise’ - A fictional account by Jack Hobbs, legendary England and Surrey batsman. References: Padwick, Bibliography of Cricket, 5932, 5938.
Two duodecimo volumes (book size 17.1x10.6cm), pp. [3] 8-254; [3] 8-253 [1]. In publisher’s burgundy cloth, lettered and intricately decorated in gilt to spines and upper covers. Dust jackets without price as published. Condition: Fine in very good dust jackets with some light wear and chipping to edges, more creasing to spine and rear panel of ‘Cricket Match’. Ref: 111615 Price: HK$ 2,200