Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Wisden Cricketers’ Almanacks,
Football & Sporting Memorabilia

Held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
22nd, 23rd & 24th March 2024

Lot 857
Estimate: £70/100
Hammer: £100
Alfred J. Gaston. ‘Cricket Literature for Sale’. Four page listing with prices of books, ‘Pictures, Engravings, Window Bills, &c.’ for sale by Gaston at 104 Hollingbury Park Avenue, Brighton. Undated but very likely 1924 as a run of Wisdens up to 1923 is listed. Also listed are Love’s ‘Cricket an Heroic Poem’ 1744, ‘Surrey Triumphant’ 1773, and twenty two issues of Lillywhite’s Guide described as ‘Very rare indeed’. Printed by Crowhurst of Brighton. Tipped in to modern cream cloth. Some foxing otherwise in good condition.
Albert James Gaston, cricket follower, writer and collector, published numerous books on cricket from 1886 to 1923, on Sussex cricket and biographies of Sussex players of the period.

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