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

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

Lot 571
Estimate: £30/40
Hammer: £45
‘Cricket Humour. Stories & Sketches by Arthur Mailey’. The Market Printery, Sydney 1956. Colourful pictorial wrappers. Tipped in to modern navy cloth with gilt title to spine, incorrectly dated ‘1936’. The frontispiece features a printed sketch by Mailey of Ian Johnson, with the signature of Mailey in ink on piece laid down above. Padwick 6882. Light foxing and age toning, otherwise in good/very good condition.

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