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VERE HODGE, H.S., [GILI, Phillida, illustrator], [COWDREY, Colin, foreword], [OAKESHOTT, Walter, introduction].

Compton Chamberlayne: the Compton Press, 1975. [Cricket Poetry] LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xx; 72 [4]. With occasional woodcuts by Gili. One of just 500 copies thus. Publisher's marble-effect pastepaper over boards, with titles in black to spine. Deep pink endpapers. A fine, as-new copy. A collection of poems about cricket published by the executors of the Tonbridge Classics teacher and cricket enthusiast, known affectionately as 'Vera.'. Item #59994

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