the finest book written about the game of cricket
Beyond a Boundary
Hutchinson, 1963.
First edition. 8vo. Original back paper covered boards lettered in gilt in pictorial dustwrapper designed by Peter Chadwick. A very good copy indeed, in a very good dustwrapper, some browning to the rear panel, tape strengthening to the rear and light edge wear.
James' cricketing memoir, thought by John Arlott to be "the finest book written about the game of cricket" (Wisden 1964). It's strength is that it covers philosophy, politics and the social history of West Indian culture as a means of putting cricket in context, giving it a claim to be much more than a book on cricket and giving rise to it's most famous and oft quoted extract, "What do they know, that only cricket know?".
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