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G. NEVILLE WESTON
"My Cricket Collection" [and:] "Cricket Literature"
[Kidderminster: G.T. Cheshire, 1929]. 2 parts in one vol., 8vo., green dividing leaf, mounted photograph of the Bat and Ball Inn on limitation leaf, original green buckram (endpapers renewed). PRESENTATION COPY TO H.S. ALTHAM (one-page autograph letter signed from Weston to Altham, dated Kidderminster, 29 June 1929, loosely inserted, reading: "A few years ago I read your wonderful book -- 'The History of Cricket' and it inspired me to start a cricket book collection. I am venturing to send you a little book that I have written and trust it will be of some interest to you").
FIRST ISSUE. NO. 5 OF 12 COPIES signed by the author. As Altham inspired Weston, so Weston's book inspired Desmond Eagar who wrote: "I am never tired of looking at this small work, which tempted me to try and do the same thing" (See the Eagar Sale, 21 April 2005, lot 13). Padwick 41.
"My Cricket Collection" [and:] "Cricket Literature"
[Kidderminster: G.T. Cheshire, 1929]. 2 parts in one vol., 8vo., green dividing leaf, mounted photograph of the Bat and Ball Inn on limitation leaf, original green buckram (endpapers renewed). PRESENTATION COPY TO H.S. ALTHAM (one-page autograph letter signed from Weston to Altham, dated Kidderminster, 29 June 1929, loosely inserted, reading: "A few years ago I read your wonderful book -- 'The History of Cricket' and it inspired me to start a cricket book collection. I am venturing to send you a little book that I have written and trust it will be of some interest to you").
FIRST ISSUE. NO. 5 OF 12 COPIES signed by the author. As Altham inspired Weston, so Weston's book inspired Desmond Eagar who wrote: "I am never tired of looking at this small work, which tempted me to try and do the same thing" (See the Eagar Sale, 21 April 2005, lot 13). Padwick 41.
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