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Paper covers. Condizione: Fine. No Jacket. New edition. Owner's signature on cover. Weight: 1.0 Language: English.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. pp.728+xliv. +(viii unnumbered). 27.5 x 21cm. Double column. Chart. Map. Black and white line illustrations throughout the text, and some full page. 2 folding panoramas (Auckland and Nelson), LACKS that of New Plymouth. Colour lithographic frontispiece. On a preliminary blank page a colour printed presentation "To Mr. A. P Freeman N.Z. Cricket Tour, 1922-3" by "W.A. Carpenter, Governor's Bay". NOTE: The preliminary pages, including the title pages, are bound after the index. Hard cover in half leather. The spine heavily decorated in gilt in compartments. Title 'Brett's Historical Series Early New Zealand' with decoration in gilt to upper cover. Short splits at head and foot of the spine. Slight edge wear. Scattered foxing to the end papers and to page edges. The text block clean. Old tape marks to one of the title pages. Pieces torn from the top margins of two leaves with no loss of text. A fair copy. (Weighs c.2.75kg so extra postage if shipped out of the UK). * The Mr. A. P. Freeman to whom the book was presented was the English cricketer who played 1st. class cricket for Kent either side of the First World War, taking in all 3,775 wickets, second only to Wilfred Rhodes. Freeman played in two Test Matches in Australia, in 1924-5 coinciding with the presentation of this book, and also played against the West Indies in 1928, and South Africa in 1927-8 and 1929. He was a brilliant fielder.(www.espncricinfo.com).

Modern red cloth binding. Condizione: V.g. No Jacket. 1st edition. Owner's ink stamp and extract from a bookseller's catalogue on front pastedown. Weight: 1.0 Language: English.

2 VOL MIXED SET (PGS 1-560 ONLY - NOT A COMPLETE 728pp COPY) uarto, green half leatherbound green buckram boards [with 2nd vol being illus light card wrappers only], gilt lettering/decoration & raised bands to vol 1, gilt lettering & illus/decoration to vol 1, aeg to vol 1, frontispiece to vol 1, illus, G+ (vol 1- top of spine flapping loose but still tentatively attached, other heavy scuffing to spine & leatherwork- surface loss, moderate scuffing to boards, moderate discolouration & foxing to eps, moderate foxing to pages throughout vol 1, moderate cracking to some gutters esp. front & rear- rear board shaky, cm closed tear to fore-edge of frontis, vol 2- heavy cracking & tearing to spine & wrapper edges- valiant attempts at tape repair, wrappers also heavily soiled & loose, contents reasonably clean with minor foxing throughout).

Quarto, red heavy boards, half bound in brown leather, gilt text, illus & borders to spine & boards, page edges speckled red, unpaginated prelims, + 728pp + xliii, extensive illus, VG- (frontispiece missing & large section of panoramic view of new plymouth missing [all others present], heavy soiling, scuffing & fading to boards & spine, spine lightly cocked, front& rear gutters fully cracked, heavy soiling to pastedowns & prelims/terminals, moderate to heavy foxing to pages, page 15-16 loose, previous owner's name in ink to fep).

Paper covers. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 1st edition. Owner's signature on front cover. Weight: 1.0 Language: English.