THE RATTLE OF THE STUMPS. This item is unavailable.THE RATTLE OF THE STUMPS

Cricket autobiography. Reminiscences of keeping wicket for Australia in the 1920's including four tours to England. Small 8vo. 160pp. 20 pages of photographs. Dust-wrapper,very good. Signed, dated and dedicated by Bert Oldfield to front endpaper. There is also a further hand-written note by Oldfield slipped in, asking the recipient to bring back a box of cigars from London. The recipient was Russell Page, who was the Liaison Officer on the SS Orsova, and seemed to be a personal friend of Oldfield.