DAY TWO WISDENS & SPORTING MEMORABILIA WISDEN CRICKETERS’ ALMANACKS paper, split to base of front wrapper, board and spine paper. Minor soiling where it meets the spine paper, slight and wear to wrappers otherwise in 983 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1920. breaking to front internal hinges good/very good condition - cricket 57th edition. Original hardback. The otherwise in good condition. £50/70 original boards in poor condition Advertising leaflet for Wisden tennis with wear, dampstaining, 995 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1929. balls loosely inserted - cricket discolouration and slight bowing, 66th edition. Nicely bound in black £60/80 wear to corners, spine paper gilts in boards, with very good original generally good condition, the front 989 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1924. wrappers preserved, with titles and board gilts poor. Breaking to internal 61st edition. Original hardback. decoration in gilt to spine. Very good hinges and some light staining to last Stain to front board, minor wear to condition - cricket £60/80 few advertising pages. Inner board extremities, some creasing to 996 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1930. contents in good condition - cricket spine paper, minor bumping to 67th edition. Original paper £100/150 corners and very slight bowing to wrappers. Some ‘light’ front board otherwise in good 984 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1921. discolouration to spine block, very condition - cricket £300/400 58th edition. Original hardback. The minor wear and small loss to base of original boards in poor condition 990 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1925. spine paper otherwise in good with wear, dampstaining, 62nd edition. Original paper condition. Signed to top border of discolouration and slight bowing, wrappers. Broken spine block, loss front wrapper by Kent & England worn and broken corners, spine to spine paper, chipping to wrappers Captain, A.P.F. Chapman - cricket paper gilts in generally fair/ good otherwise in good condition - cricket £60/80 condition, the front board gilts poor. £40/60 997 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1931. Some breaking to internal hinges 991 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1927. 68th edition. Original paper and some light staining to last few 64th edition. Original paper wrappers. ‘Light’ discolouration to advertising pages. Inner pages in wrappers. ‘Light’ discolouration to spine block, very minor wear and good condition - cricket £100/150 spine block, some wear and small small loss to spine paper otherwise in 985 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1922. tear to top of front wrapper, minor good/very good condition - cricket 59th edition. Nicely bound in black staining to wrappers, very minor loss £60/80 boards, with excellent original to spine paper otherwise in good 998 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1932. wrappers preserved, with titles and condition. Sold with a rebound 1926 69th edition. Original paper decoration in gilt to spine, red edition, lacking wrappers and title wrappers. ‘Light’ discolouration to speckled page edges. Press cuttings page plus some advertising pages at spine block, very minor loss to base loosely laid down to front end paper. front and rear. Qty 2 - cricket of spine paper, chip to front wrapper Very good condition - cricket £60/90 otherwise in good+ condition. Initials £60/80 992 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1927. of Kent & England Captain, A.P.F. 986 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1922. Bound in quarter leather green Chapman to front wrapper - cricket 59th edition. Original paper boards, with original wrappers £60/80 wrappers. Wear to head and base of preserved, with gilt to top edge and 999 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1933. spine paper with small loss affecting titles in gilt to spine. Minor wear and 70th edition. Original paper edges of front and rear wrappers, soiling to wrappers otherwise in wrappers. ‘Light’ discolouration to minor bumping to corners otherwise good condition - cricket £50/70 spine block, very minor loss to spine in good condition - cricket £60/80 993 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1928. paper, minor wear to wrappers 987 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1923. 65th edition. Original paper otherwise in good condition - cricket 60th edition. Nicely bound in black wrappers. ‘Light’ discolouration to £60/80 boards, with excellent original spine block, very minor wear and 1000 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1933. wrappers preserved, with titles and loss to spine paper otherwise in Bound in quarter leather green decoration in gilt to spine, red good/very good condition - cricket boards, with original wrappers speckled page edges. Very good £60/80 preserved, with gilt to top edge and condition - cricket £60/80 994 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1929. titles in gilt to spine. Minor wear and 988 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1923. 66th edition. Bound in brown soiling to wrappers otherwise in 60th edition. Original paper boards, with original wrappers good condition - cricket £50/70 wrappers. Wear and loss to spine preserved, with titles in gilt to front 1001 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1935. 98 72nd edition. Nicely bound in black rear board otherwise in good/very Original hardback. Small minor boards, with excellent original good condition. Rare wartime crease to base of spine paper, minor wrappers preserved, with titles and edition - cricket £250/300 browning to internal page edges decoration in gilt to spine. otherwise in exceptional condition 1007 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1945. Good/very good condition - cricket for its year with gilts very bright - 82nd edition. Original hardback. £60/80 cricket £80/120 Only 1500 copies of the hard back 1002 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1937. edition were printed in this war year. 1015 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1949. 74th edition. Original paper Minor mark to front board, slight Original hardback. Very minor wear wrappers. ‘Light’ discolouration to dulling to spine gilts otherwise in to head of spine paper, very minor spine block, minor wear to spine good/very good condition. Rare scratch to front board otherwise in paper, minor wear and staining to wartime edition - cricket £180/250 very good condition for its year with wrappers otherwise in good gilts very bright - cricket £50/80 1008 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1946. condition - cricket £60/80 83rd edition. Original hardback. 1016 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1950, The following nine lots are from the Only 5000 copies of the hard back 1951 & 1953. The 1950 is an Hancock collection, with his bookplate edition were printed in this war year. original hardback and the other two to inside front board Minor mark/wear to edge of front are original limp cloth covered board, slight dulling to spine gilts, editions. The 1950 hardback with 1003 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1941. minor mark to back board, worn and stained boards and faded 78th edition. Original hardback. otherwise in good/very good gilts otherwise in good condition, Only 800 copies printed in this war condition. Rare wartime edition - the 1951 and 1953 edition with odd year. Some wear and staining to cricket £70/100 faults otherwise in good condition. boards, some dulling to gilts on front Qty 3 - cricket £25/35 board and spine, minor bumping to 1009 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1947. corners and very minor breaking to Original hardback. Minor marks to 1017 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1959. front internal hinges otherwise in front and rear boards, small stain to Original hardback. Very good good+ condition. Handwritten spine paper, slight loss to gilt on condition with exceptional gilts - inscription to top of first advertising spine paper, usual browning to cricket £30/50 page ‘This copy was a present internal pages otherwise in 1018 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1963. from..’ and signed in blue ink by good/very good condition - cricket Original hardback. Very good ‘Jack Hobbs’. Rare war time £50/80 condition with exceptional gilts - hardback - cricket £500/700 1010 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1948. cricket £30/50 1004 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1942. Original hardback. Very minor wear 1019 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1970, 79th edition. Original hardback. to board extremities, usual browning 1971 & 1972. The 1970 and 1972 Only 900 copies of the hard back to internal pages otherwise in very editions are original hardbacks with edition were printed in this war year. good condition - cricket £50/80 dustwrappers and the 1971 is an Some minor bumping to board 1011 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1949. original limp cloth covered editions. extremities, minor marks to boards, Original hardback. Minor marks to The 1970 with poor and tatty some dulling to gilts on front board boards otherwise in good/very good dustwrapper with small loss, the and spine otherwise in good+ condition - cricket £30/50 1971 softback edition is good condition. Handwritten inscription to condition and the 1972 hardback top of first advertising page ‘This 1012 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1947, edition has minor ‘light’ fading and copy was a present with the 1941 1948 & 1949. Original limp cloth very minor to spine paper otherwise edition from my old dear friend Jack covers. The 1947 edition with some in good+ condition Qty 3 - cricket Hobbs’. Rare war time hardback - bowing to spine, and usual £30/50 cricket £500/700 browning to pages otherwise in good condition, the 1948 edition in 1020 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1978 1005 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1943. poor condition, with bowing to to 1985, 1991 to 2008. Original 80th edition. Original hardback. spine, poor, stained and worn covers hardbacks with dustwrapper with Only 1400 copies of the hardback and the 1949 edition with bowing to the exception of the 1978 and 1985 edition were printed in this war year. spine, soiling to covers and spine which are original softback edition. Minor wear and marks to boards, paper otherwise in fair/good Some light fading to the spines of dulling to spine gilts, some bumping condition. Qty 3 - cricket £20/30 the earlier editions (1982-1993 & to corners otherwise in good 2003) otherwise in good condition condition. Rare wartime edition - 1013 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1947. Qty 26 - cricket £50/70 cricket £250/300 Original hardback. Minor dulling to front board gilts, minor browning to 1021 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack- 1006 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1944.