How We Recovered the Ashes by P F Warner (7 results)

Condition: Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. xl, 340pp, numerous black and white photographs. Blue cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Red endpapers. 8vo. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket not price clipped.

Soft cover. Condition: Poor. First Edition. All original 208 pp in seventeen chapters, soft bound with decorated Kangaroo and Lyon top cover. This copy with with 15% loss to top of cover and missing paper spine. Publisher's ads to front and rear. Gatherings tight. P F Warner was Captain of the M.C.C. team and his full page photo portrait is bound in as frontispiece. JPG images with pleasure.

hardback. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Limited Edition. hardback, limited edition to mark the 100th anniversary of the publication of the first edition, 400 copies printed of which this is numbered 17, a near fine tightly bound copy in a near fine pictorial dust wrapper, b&w illustrations, liv + 340pp. A new preface by Marina Warner and a foreword by Gerald Howat.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The captains' account of the victorious England tour of Australia in 1903-4 in which they regained the Ashes. Original blue cloth with MCC trim, Edges and corners bumped. Frontis + numerous plates. Scattered foxing to prelims, bookplate to front pastedown, covers rubbed and worn at extremities with tape reinforcement to foot of spine. A good copy. A heavy book that will require extra charges if shipping overseas. From our large stock of cricket books and publications.

Author's portrait frontis; many photos, 9 x 5.5, half leather, marbled boards, 340 pp, covers worn, front hinge broken and taped with clear cello tape (inside and out), extremities bumped and fraying, ex-lib (Rittenhouse Club), pp edge toned, a decent copy if it hadn't been for the broken front hinge and the ham-handed repair job. Rebinding candidate. Cricket.

Condition: Very Good. Condition Notes: Leather a little rubbed at the corners and raised bands. Pages gently tanned with scattered spotting throughout.; Hardback [½ Leather]. ; Measures 8" x 5" (0.8 kg); pp 208; 2nd edition, 1st printing, [First Published: London: Chapman & Hall, 1904] Contains: Black & white photographs; Appendix; Top edge gilt; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #181206 || Hardback [½ Leather] (No Dust Wrapper.).