Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia

To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
29th, 30th November & 1st December 2024

Lot 778
Estimate: £40/60
Pre-war cricket histories. Seven hardback titles in original cloth covers unless stated. Titles are ‘The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes. Cricket’, Duke of Beaufort, London 1888. ‘Annals of the Free Foresters 1856-1894’. W.K.R. Bedford and W.E.W. Collins. Edinburgh 1895. ‘Annals of Cricket’, W.W. Read, London 1897, original stiffened pictorial boards with heavy wear and tape repair to spine. ‘With Bat and Ball’, George Giffen, London 1898, ex Sussex C.C.C. library. ‘My Book of Cricket and Cricketers’, Patsy Hendren, London 1927. ‘Curiosities of First-Class Cricket’, F.S. Ashley Cooper, London 1901, rebound in later green leather, lacking original wrappers. ‘A Century of Philadelphia Cricket’, John A. Lester, Philadelphia 1951. Odd faults as described, otherwise in good condition.

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