Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
29th, 30th November & 1st December 2024
Lot 781
Estimate: £40/60
Cricket tour books. Five titles. ‘How We Recovered the Ashes’, P.F. Warner, London 1905. Rebound in early full leather, original decorative paper wrappers retained. Wear to covers. Two hardback titles by Percy Fender in original cloth covers, ‘The Turn of the Wheel. M.C.C. Team Australia, 1928-1929’, London 1929, and ‘The Tests of 1930. The 17th Australian Team in England’, London 1930. ‘With Stoddart’s Team in Australia’, K.S. Ranjitsinhji, third edition London 1898. Original decorative front paper wrapper with tear, lacking rear wrapper and spine. Also ‘England v Australia at the Wicket’. G. Brumfitt and J. Kirby, compilers, Ilkley 1887. Bound in to blue cloth, original front wrapper preserved, lacking rear wrapper. Small loss to early page corners. Qty 5. Some faults as described, otherwise in good condition.