A Cardus For All Seasons.

London England: Souvenir Press, 1985. Hardback. Price clipped to D/J. As a man who watched and chronicled for our delight more than fifty years of cricketing, before and after the Second World War, none was better qualified to explore and understand the peculiar magic of this most English games. In this, the latest in a series of collections of Cardus' writing on cricket (including many peices previously unpublished in book form, we see the shifting emphasis, the rise and fall in trends and personalities, that he monitored so fluently over those years. Whatever the Cardus style - romantic or satirical, laudatory or sharply condemning - he remains a joy to read, and as much cricket's mentor as he ever was; for the criticisms he levelled at an era long gone are remarkably relevant to the game as it is played today. 237 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.) . First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Harback.