{"product_id":"alan-hill-bill-edrich-signed-limited-edition-1994-119589","title":"Bill Edrich.","description":"\u003ch4 class=\"srb-faux-head\"\u003esigned limited edition of author's bindings\u003c\/h4\u003eThis is a handsome author's binding of Alan Hill's great biography of the first-class cricketer, Bill Edrich, signed by Hill and the foreword's author, Denis Compton. Hill was a prominent English biographer of cricketers who also published biographies of the likes of Herbert Sutcliffe, Jim Laker, and Brian Close. Edrich was one of a family of cricketers, whose show-stopping career playing for England spanned from 1938 to 1955. Compton had a similarly spectacular career playing for England, 1937-1957. Lord's Cricket Ground named stands after both of them in 1991.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNumber III of XX limited edition copies for the authors and publishers, signed by both authors in pen on limitation page; 8vo; green endpapers, 16 pages of illustrations, a few more in-text images and tables in appendices; publisher's green morocco, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, green slipcase; a very good copy; xx, 267pp.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"HILL, Alan; COMPTON, Denis (foreword).","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57446887162231,"sku":"119589","price":311.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/119589.jpg?v=1788959384","url":"https:\/\/shapero.com\/en-us\/products\/alan-hill-bill-edrich-signed-limited-edition-1994-119589","provider":"Shapero Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}