Hardback. Very Good. ISBN 0715377272 9780715377277 [GB]

UK: David & Charles. Very Good/Very Good. Date: 1980. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo 0715377272 Dust jacket complete. Green cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. Numerous photographs and illustrations. 160 pages clean and tight. The village cricket match retains a timeless pastoral charm. The `blacksmith and braces' image has gone, and standards may equal those of cricket at higher levels; but the nearby church stands solid, the pub claims antiquity and the passing generations turn up to watch. This handsome book vividly evokes the story - and the continuity - of village cricket round the country: its origins, its customs, its eccentricities and its seriousness. Gerald Howat talks to officials and spectators, describes remarkable matches and individual performances of the past, unearths interesting club records - scores, club expenses, disciplines imposed on players - and looks to the future. Over 2,000 villages in Britain play cricket, and it began as a village game - first under aristocratic patronage, then under squire or parson. Recently some commercial patronage, such as that of John Haig and Co Ltd and The Cricketer, has come to village teams. Ground, transport, food and finance have remained the real and eternal problems; the joys have been such that these have often been overcome. As John Arlott points out in his Foreword, the author has taken on a task no one has tackled before: he has looked at ...

Newton Abbot, Devon, UK: David & Charles, Date: 1980. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 160pp, black and white illustrations. In green cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine (boards are strong, clean and square, very slightly rounded at spine ends). Internally neat, clean and bright. Firmly bound. In its original, unclipped dust jacket (very slightly bumped on lower edge). A delightful book looking at the phases of change in village cricket alongside the changes in village life. With a foreword by John Arlott and many pictures and a racy, informative text packed with anecdotes and examples. 1980. David & Charles ISBN 0715377272 9780715377277 [GB]

ISBN10: 0715377272, ISBN13: 9780715377277, [publisher: David & Charles Publishers, Newton Abbot, Devon, United Kingdom] Hardcover First Edition 160pp, ill. throughout, foreword by John Arlott. Interesting history of village cricket and lots of old photos Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
[Yaxley, SUFFOLK, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1980]

DAvid and Charles, Date: 1980 Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng. 1st Edition.. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 1980. DAvid and Charles ISBN 0715377272 9780715377277 [CA]