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Walter Brearley. Lancashire & England 1902-1912. Eight original hardback titles all from the collection of Walter Brearley. Each title, presented to Brearley in the period 1927-1933, is inscribed with dedication from an admirer with initials ‘W.A.H.’. Titles are ‘King’s of Cricket’, Richard Daft, Bristol 1893, ‘The Book of Cricket’, P.F. Warner, London 1922, ‘My Reminiscences’, S.M.J. Woods, London 1925, ‘The Game’s the Thing’, M.A. Noble, London 1926, ‘The Summer Game’ and ‘A Cricketer’s Book’, Neville Cardus, London 1929, ‘Cricket Memories by a Country Vicar’, R.L. Hodgson, London 1930, and ‘Body-line?’, Harold Larwood, London 1933. Slipped in to the Daft title is a two page letter from the donor, dated 10th March 1927, in which the correspondent extols Brearley’s virtues, ‘the best fast bowler I have yet seen’, ‘such an artist’ etc. All titles in good condition.