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Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1870. 7th edition. Bound in green quarter leather boards, lacking original paper wrappers, with title and date in gilt to spine. Pages checked, complete. Good/very good condition. Rare... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1871. 8th edition. Bound in brown boards, lacking original paper wrappers, with title and date in gilt to spine, red speckled page edges. Pages checked, complete. Slightly tighter trimming by the binder. Good/very good condition. Rare... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1873. 10th edition. Bound in brown boards, lacking original paper wrappers, with title and date in gilt to spine. Pages checked, complete. Loss to the lower right hand corner of the title page otherwise in good/very good condition. Rare... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1875. 12th edition. Bound in brown boards, lacking original paper wrappers, with title and date in gilt to spine, Gilt to top edge. Pages checked, complete. Odd light foxing spots to odd pages within the book otherwise in good/very good condition. Probably the rarest Wisden edition.... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1876. 13th edition. Bound in brown boards, with original front wrapper, lacking original rear wrapper, with title and date in gilt to spine. Pages checked, complete. Some foxing to some pages throughout the book to a greater or lesser degree, small lower corner loss to page 221/222 otherwise in good+ condition. Rare... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1878. 15th edition. Bound in brown boards, lacking original wrappers, with title and date in gilt to spine. Pages checked, complete. Very minor foxing to odd page otherwise in good/very good condition. Rare... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1896, 1898, 1900, 1906 & 1907. 33rd, 35th, 37th, 43rd and 44th editions. The first two editions are original paper editions, the 1896 lacking rear wrapper, broken page block and looks slightly incomplete, the 1898 edition with detached rear wrapper, facsimile spine but appears complete. These two books in only fair condition. The last three editions are all bound without original wrappers and lacking advertising pages. Good condition. Qty 5... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1898 to 1900. 35th-37th editions. All three editions bound as one in brown and marbled half leather boards, lacking original paper wrappers, with title and date in gilt to spine, red speckled page edges. Pages checked, lacking front and all rear advertising pages to all three editions otherwise complete. Good/very good condition. ‘Kent County Cricket Club’ handstamp to first end paper. From the library of Earl of Sondes, the original owner of... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1908. 45th edition. Bound in light brown boards, with original wrappers, with title and date in gilt to spine. Minor loss to lower front wrapper corner loss otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1912. 49th edition. Original paper wrappers. Some wear, staining and age toning to wrappers, some splitting to the hinge of the front wrapper, some loss to the spine paper otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1914. 51st edition. Bound in dark green boards, with original paper wrappers, with gilt titles to spine. Soiling to original wrappers otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1923 and 1924. 60th & 61st editions. Original paper wrappers. The 1923 edition with facsimile spine paper, some faults and staining to wrappers otherwise in generally good condition. The 1924 edition with breaking to spine block with some loss to spine paper otherwise in good condition. Qty 2... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1925. 62nd edition. Original paper wrappers. Replacement spine paper, some soiling to original wrappers otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1926 and 1927. 63rd & 64th editions. The first bound in quarter leather and the second in dark brown boards, with original wrappers, with title and date in gilt to spine. The 1926 edition is ex Aldenham School library with label to inside front board, the 1927 edition with soiled and wear to wrappers otherwise in good condition. Qty 2... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1926. 63rd edition. Original paper wrappers. Some age toning and minor wear to wrappers otherwise in good+ condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1926. 63rd edition. Original paper wrappers. Some discolouration to original wrappers, wear and some loss to spine paper otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1927 and 1936. 64th & 73rd editions. Original paper wrappers. Both editions with facsimile spine papers otherwise in good condition. Qty 2... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1928. 65th edition. Original paper wrappers. Some wear to original wrappers, some wear and minor loss to spine paper, old tape marks to back wrapper otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1929. 66th edition. Bound in light brown boards, with original paper wrappers, gilt titles to spine. Some soiling and wear to wrappers otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1934. 71st edition. Original paper wrappers. Some old staining to lower corner of the book otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1941. 78th edition. Original limp cloth covers. Only 3200 paper copies printed in this war year. Very good condition. Rare war-time edition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1942. 79th edition. Original limp cloth covers. Only 4100 paper copies printed in this war year. Very good/excellent condition. Rare war-time edition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1944. 81st edition. Original limp cloth covers. Only 5600 paper copies printed in this war year. Some soiling, wear and discolouration to covers otherwise in good condition. Rare war-time edition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanacks 1943, 1947, 1948 and 1949. Original cloth covered covers. Heavy staining and wear to the 1943 edition, the remaining three editions with some faults otherwise in good condition. Qty 4... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanacks 1966 to 1970. Original cloth covered covers. Good condition. Qty 5... View full lot details