Catalogue for the auction of
Wisden Cricketers’ Almanacks
and Cricket Books

Held on Saturday & Sunday
14th & 15th September 2024

Lot 418
Estimate: £60/90
Hammer: £100
Surrey cricket. Three titles. ‘Old Cricket and Cricketers’, H.H. Montgomery (Bishop of Tasmania), London 1890. Original pictorial paper wrappers, contained in modern grey cloth clamshell box. Padwick 817. ‘Surrey Cricket and Cricketers’, R.S. Holmes, London 1896. Bound in later green cloth, original pictorial wrappers retained. Padwick 2682. ‘The Epic of the Oval’, E.B.V. Christian, privately printed 1930. Original brown card wrappers, tipped in to modern tan cloth. Padwick 1022. Slipped in is a single page typed letter from the author to H.S. Altham accompanying the book. Good/ very good condition.

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