AUTHOR’S COPY INCLUDING A LETTER FROM KENT AND ENGLAND CRICKETER COLIN COWDREY : A KENTISH GARNER

Colin Clair’s very readable account of various aspects of Kentish life covers William Caxton, Hop-growing in Tudor times, Penshurst Place, Queen Elisabeth I’s travels and of course Kent Cricket in a chapter titled from Crawte to Cowdrey. Laid in is a typed and partly hand written letter from the Kent and England cricketer Colin Cowdrey, written in September 1970 following Kent’s long awaited win in the County Championships. He writes ‘ I still cannot believe it - to think that Kent are now the champions after 57 years! It’s a dream come true. How lucky I am with my team. P.S. What a wonderful lifelong supporter you have been’. Cowdrey was the first player to make 100 appearances in Test cricket and also the first batsman to score a Test century, both home and away, against six other countries. Additionally laid in is a hand written letter from a history master at Sir Roger Manwood’s School expressing his enjoyment of the text and requesting permission to quote from its pages.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: First edition hardback volume in very good condition, crisp and clean throughout. Yellowed dust jacket has been protected using adhesive clear plastic. Colour frontispiece photograph of the Rt Hon and Most Rev Geoffrey Francis Fisher, the Lord Bishop of Canterbury. Very well illustrated throughout in black and white. 158 pp plus index.