Catalogue for the auction of
Wisden Cricketers’ Almanacks
and Cricket Books
Held on Saturday & Sunday
14th & 15th September 2024
Lot 78
Estimate: £130/160
Hammer: £120
Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1881. 18th edition. Bound in brown boards, lacking original paper wrappers, with gilt titles to spine. Minor foxing otherwise in very good condition. Pages checked, book complete
The book with small printed label laid down to top of first advertising page ‘This book was bequeathed to the Warwickshire County Cricket Club under the terms of the Will of the late Colin Kendall Langley, former player, Hon. Secretary and Chairman of Committee ..... Oct 1948’. Langley played for Warwickshire from 1908-1914. On two occasions during the 2nd World War, he was ‘wounded in action’ and was unable to return to play county cricket