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Carr's Dictionary of Extraordinary English Cricketers, Volume 2

This second volume contains 79 new entries. Carr had used the same cover design in 1961 for the last of the Northamptonshire County Cricket League Year Books that he edited, as well as the small illustrations on the cover and within.


(Last updated on 19/3/2021)



SBD-EC2-1: First impression


Publisher: J.L. Carr Publisher, 27 Mill Dale Road, Kettering

Year: 1980/81?

ISBN: none

Size: 130 x 94 mm

Pages: 16 pp

Staples: two

Binding: printed glossy card covers

Paper: white

Editor: (J.L. Carr)

Cover artist: (J.L. Carr)

Internal illustrations: 5 illustrations by J.L. Carr

Number in series: 95

Colophon: none

Telephone number: (0536) 514995

Printing history: none given

Number of other titles listed: none given

Printed by: not stated

Content: 78 new entries and one repeated with more detail, plus a poem by Francis Meynell.

Notes: This is one of seven titles numbered 95. The other six are: Belloc, Byron, Stevenson, Pleasing Instructor, The Young Women's Old Testament, and Margaret Wells.

The entry on Christina Willes appeared in volume 1 but gives some necessary detail that explains her literally revolutionary innovation for the game of cricket.

Image of book

Rear and front covers


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Inside rear cover