This is the first edition of 'Cricket and All That' by famous cricketers Denis Compton and Bill Edrich.  It is signed by both authors.

The book is in good condition, the dust cover is intact and uncreased and the interior is clean.

Cover Blurb:

CRICKET AND ALL THAT

Cricket has provided many illustrios partnerships  Hobbs and Sutcliffe, Larwood and Voce, Miller and Lindwell - but surely none more exciting than Compton and Edrich.‘

Their playing careers were shaped in the Thirties and prospered after the war years in a country desperately seeking an antidote to austerity. ln 1947, that golden summer of sunshine and runs, they gave pleasure to countless lovers of the game by their daring and prodigious batting feats. Denis Compton set aside Jack Hobbs’ long-standing record of 16 hundreds in a season with 18 centuries and totalled 3,816 runs; Edrich with 12 hundreds, scored 3,539 runs, which far exceeded his run revel in 1938 when between 30 April and 31 May he completed 1,000.


They were associates with the same intent - to enjoy their cricket. Yet at the wicket they differed so much in style. Compton was a boyish-looking figure whose strike play was often compounded on impulse; Edrich, sturdy and belligerent, was capable of playing the fastest bowling off the front foot. 

For England and for Middlesex they met all the great players, many of whom became their close friends. Now they pool forty years of cricketing memories and opinions, remembering the games past with its fun and its imperfections and examining the present. Not for Compton and Edrich any rancour or envy at the material rewards to be gained by the modern player. Cricket for them has always meant a pursuit of high skill, good humour and agreeable company, a conviction that runs throughout their renewed partnership. This is a book of clarity and freshness which will make compulsive reading for all who put the game first and its politics a ragged second.