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Boys’ cricket fiction. ‘The Last Lap. A School Story’. Walter Rhoades. Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press 1923. Original pictorial cloth. Signed presentation copy with handwritten dedication in ink to front endpaper ‘To J.B. [Jack] Hobbs, As a small return for the many delightful hours his superb batting has given to a fellow member and humble admirer, Walter Rhoades, Dec. 1923’. Padwick 6330-3. Some wear and soiling to boards, slight breaking to internal hinges, otherwise in good condition.