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

Held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
21st, 22nd & 23rd March 2025

Lot 854
Estimate: £50/70
Hammer: £50
‘Spalding’s Official Cricket Guide 1909’. Fourth year of publication. Compiled and edited by Jerome Flannery, New York 1909. Bound in later red cloth boards, gilt title to spine, speckled page edges, original decorative paper wrappers retained. Padwick 4047. Ownership stamp of K.A. Auty Library of Ontario to front endpaper. Front and rear internal hinges with tape reinforcement. Some creasing to original front wrapper, pages trimmed a little tightly by the binder, otherwise in good/ very good condition.
First published in 1890 as ‘The American Cricket Annual’, from 1898 the publication was renamed ‘The American Cricket Annual and Golf Guide’, and was subsequently incorporated into Spalding’s Official Cricket Guide in 1904 after a lapse of two years

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