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

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

Lot 577
Estimate: £100/150
Hammer: £60
West Indies. ‘The Barbados Cricketers’ Annual for 1896-97. Third year of publication’. Edited and compiled by J. Wynfred Gibbons. Printed at the Globe Office, Barbados 1897. Bound in modern brown cloth, gilt title to spine, original front wrapper retained, lacking rear wrapper. Padwick 3677. Loss and damage to fragile front wrapper and first few pages, with expert repair to wrapper and tape repairs to gutter. Heavy age toning throughout and wear to page corners and edges, tear to preface page, otherwise in generally good condition. A rare Annual.
The Annual ran for twenty issues from 1894/95 to 1913/14.

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