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‘Shadows Over the Wicket with the British Empire XI Seasons 1940 to 1945’ by ‘The Official Scorer’, E. Hoskin. Printed and published by John Jennings, Gloucester, 1946. Original decorative card wrappers. Hoskin was the official scorer for the British Empire team and this was his copy signed in ink by him to the title page with further signatures of players and others to the title page and inside front cover. Signatures are W. Taylor (Umpire), J.F. Mendle (M.C.C., Scotland & Oxfordshire), E.B. Eytle (Sussex & West Indies), W. Murray-Wood (Kent & Oxford University), E.G. Murphy (Combined Services), W.M.E. White (Cambridge University & Northamptonshire), J. Collinson (Middlesex & Worcestershire), W.S. Clark, W.H.R. Andrews (Somerset), D. Stewart (Scotland), J.V. Daley (Surrey), and the collector H.W. Warner. Also signed to inside photograph pages by Ray Smith (Essex) and C.B. Clarke (Barbados, Northamptonshire, Essex & West Indies). Padwick 941. Good condition.