Recovered Ashes by Warner (5 results)

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.

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardback book (near fine) in dust jacket (near fine)Trivial bruise at the top corner of the rear board otherwise the main book would be like new. Occasional slight touches of shelf wear on the jacket which has no chips or tears and is not price clipped. Mailed the same or next working day in a cardboard book box.

A detailed account of the 1903-04 England cricket tour of Australia under Plum Warner, supported with many wonderfully evocative photographic plates of cricket matches in progress and players at leisure. "Cheap" edition - published the year after the first edition. Paperback. 8vo. 208pp. Cameo portrait frontis. of Warner. The paper covers are chipped and creased and the spine is strengthened. Foxing throughout. A fair/good copy. [Padwick, 4434].

A detailed account of the 1903-04 England cricket tour of Australia under Plum Warner, supported with many wonderfully evocative photographic plates of cricket matches in progress and players at leisure. A "cheap" edition was published in 1905. First Edition. Large 8vo. xxviii + 340pp. Cameo portrait frontis. of Warner (tissue-guard), 81 photographs on plates and in the text. Owner's name to fly-leaf. Original blue decorative cloth with St.George & dragon crest embossed in white to front cover between MCC orange and yellow stripes. Edges of the spine rubbed, also head and tail, corners bumped. Prelims and pastedowns grubby in places. Good condition. [Padwick, 4434].