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

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

Lot 524
Estimate: £30/50
Hammer: £75
‘The C. Christopher Morris Cricket Library and Collection’. Official brochure for the collection held at The Haverford College Library, Haverford, Philadelphia. 14pp illustrated card brochure comprising details of the Committee and Advisory Group date stamped, ‘As at March 15, 1969’, and history of the library. Padwick 30. Attached is an initialled business card of Charles H. Winter Jr. with handwritten note to verso regarding the death of J.H. Lister, whose funeral Winter had attended. Sold with three original newsletters issued by the College Library, nos. 39, 40 and 41 (November 1989 to November 1990), each signed by the Secretary, Murray C. Haines, three similar issues of ‘Stumps and Bails’ for June 1992, August 1992 and October 1992, and two photocopied pages of information about cricket and the library, both signed by Haines. Padwick 30-1. Qty 9. Good/ very good condition.

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