Foto de Stock: A capa pode ser diferente.
Ver em tamanho grande.
W G's Birthday Party
por Kynaston, David
- Usado
- Muito Bom
- Capa dura
- first
- Condição
- Muito Bom/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0701134968
- ISBN 13
- 9780701134969
- Livreiro
-
nr Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
Formas de pagamento
Sobre este item
London, UK: Chatto & Windus, 1990. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 160pp. Green cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Lightly bumped spine ends. Photographic endpapers. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has minor shelf wear, light chipping to edges, price clipped. 8vo. Unique and highly entertaining cricket book recalling Grace's fiftieth birthday and the Gentlemen v Players match at Headquarters before going beyond the boundary to reveal the colourful lives and sometimes tragic fate of its participants in this shrewd insight into the late Victorian world.
Sinopse
On a hot morning in July 1898, the sporting world gathered at Lord's to celebrate the fiftieth birthday of WG Grace, the greatest cricketer the game has ever seen. Grace was cheered onto the field by a packed crowd as he captained the Gentlemen, the privileged old guard of the Establishment. Their opponents in this annual match were the Players, cricketers for whom the sport was a precarious livelihood rather than a summer pastime. This three-day encounter represented the climax of cricket's Golden Age, and the unstoppable arrival of the professional game that would dominate the twentieth century. In WG's Birthday Party, David Kynaston tells the story of one of the most thrilling matches in cricketing history, as well as the colourful and sometimes tragically moving lives of the members of both teams. Using the Gentlemen vs Players contest as a lens through which to examine the hierarchy and tensions endemic in cricket at the beginning of the modern era, he presents a lively, moving, richly detailed and massively entertaining portrait of late-Victorian society. It is social history at its most compelling, from 'the most entertaining historian alive' - Spectator.
Avaliações
(Entrar ou Criar uma conta primeiro!)
Detalhes
- Livreiro
- BookAddiction
(GB)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 007598
- Título
- W G's Birthday Party
- Autor
- Kynaston, David
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Muito Bom
- Condição de sobrecapa
- Very Good
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Edição
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0701134968
- ISBN 13
- 9780701134969
- Editorial
- Chatto & Windus
- Local de publicação
- London, UK
- Data de publicação
- 1990
- Palavras-chave
- Cricket, history of sport, W G Grace
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Termos da venda
BookAddiction
Payments
All major credit cards accepted (by telephone if you prefer not to enter your card details on line), bank transfer, paypal, cheque.
Queries?
If you have any queries regarding your purchase, please email in the first instance.
Need to Return a Book?
You may return any book for a full refund of the book price for any reason, provided you notify us by email within two weeks of our dispatching the book that you intend to return the book, stating your reasons, and that the book arrives back with us within 30 days of that notification. Outgoing and return shipping costs will only be refunded if there was an error on our part.
Dispatch
All books dispatched with two working days of receipt of payment.
Sobre o Vendedor
BookAddiction
Membro de Biblio desde 2021
nr Canterbury, Kent
Sobre BookAddiction
Based in the leafy hamlet of Chartham Hatch, just a few miles from the historic Cathedral city of Canterbury, BookAddiction offers beautiful, illustrated and collectible used books and a selection of unique works on paper.BookAddiction was established in 1999 (originally trading as The Virtual Bookshelf). We are members of the book-selling co-operation, Ibooknet, which extends the highest professional and ethical standards, and are in the process of joining the Provincial Booksellers' Fairs Association (PBFA).Follow our blog, on books and book collecting at www.bookaddictionuk.wordpress.uk or visit our website at www.bookaddiction.co.uk.We welcome inquiries about our books and endeavour to respond promptly. Please ask away, Offers always welcome.
Glossário
Alguns termos que podem ser usados ??nesta descrição incluem:
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
