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‘Chronicles of a Country Cricket Club’. A. Eric Bayly and Walt Briscoe. First edition, London 1900. Original pictorial cloth covers, gilt title to spine. Comprises twelve humorous tales of an unnamed cricket club. One features the visit to the club of a well-known apparent Parsee, Banjherat. A Parsee team had last toured England in 1888 and a full-India team toured in 1911. Ranjitsinhji was entrancing Sussex and England at the time but Banjherat was not quite whom he was assumed to be. Padwick 6833. Minor wear to board extremities and spine, internally in very good condition.