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Sport’s first celebrity: W.G. Grace

Amazing Grace and Gilbert: The Last Years of W.G. Grace – two biographies of the cricket Champion

10 October 2015

9:00 AM

10 October 2015

9:00 AM

Amazing Grace: The Man who was W.G. Richard Tomlinson

Little, Brown, pp.413, £25, ISBN: 9781408705179

Gilbert: The Last Years of W.G. Grace Charlie Connelly

Bloomsbury, pp.190, £10.99, ISBN: 9781472917584

Should you wish to have a good copy of the 1916 edition of Wisden, cricket’s annual bible, you should be prepared to part with at least £5,000 and, quite possibly, much more than that. This reflects its rarity — the Great War ensured that the almanac had a limited print run — but also the significance of its contents.

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