![LEACH, E.A. Union County Cricket Club, Hand Book Season 1904. New Jersey: Union County Cricket Club, 1904. 8° (230 x 153mm). 22pp. Illustrations, fielding diagrams at end. Original orange pictorial wrappers. A portrait of the author, who was President of the Club, appears in an advertisement for the New Jersey Land and Investment Co. on p. 19. A copy letter from him, inserted inside this and presumably every other copy, apologises for the ‘peculiarities of some of the positions’ in the fielding diagrams, the printer not having permitted him to correct mistakes. Padwick 4069.
WALKER, R. St. G. History of The Staten Island Cricket and Tennis Club 1872-1917. Livingstone, Staten Island: 1917 [press of H.R. Elliot, New York]. 4°. 24pp. Half tone team portraits throughout. (Corners lightly creased.) Original grey stiffened wrappers, front cover with crest of the Club in red and title lettering in blue, sewn with red cord. Goldman p. 184: ‘scarce’; Padwick 4079.
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LEACH, E.A. Union County Cricket Club, Hand Book Season 1904. New Jersey: Union County Cricket Club, 1904. 8° (230 x 153mm). 22pp. Illustrations, fielding diagrams at end. Original orange pictorial wrappers. A portrait of the author, who was President of the Club, appears in an advertisement for the New Jersey Land and Investment Co. on p. 19. A copy letter from him, inserted inside this and presumably every other copy, apologises for the ‘peculiarities of some of the positions’ in the fielding diagrams, the printer not having permitted him to correct mistakes. Padwick 4069.
WALKER, R. St. G. History of The Staten Island Cricket and Tennis Club 1872-1917. Livingstone, Staten Island: 1917 [press of H.R. Elliot, New York]. 4°. 24pp. Half tone team portraits throughout. (Corners lightly creased.) Original grey stiffened wrappers, front cover with crest of the Club in red and title lettering in blue, sewn with red cord. Goldman p. 184: ‘scarce’; Padwick 4079.
With 50 other paper-bound programmes, pamphlets and booklets, most preserved in envelopes according to State. These include a number of fixture cards for clubs and leagues, many with K.A Auty provenance. Also an account of the Incogniti C.C American tour 1913, two copies formerly in the C.C. Morris Cricket Library; and vol. I no. 14 of Gleason’s Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion (Boston: 2 August 1851), with wood-engraving of the Eleven of New England on the first page.
WALKER, R. St. G. History of The Staten Island Cricket and Tennis Club 1872-1917. Livingstone, Staten Island: 1917 [press of H.R. Elliot, New York]. 4°. 24pp. Half tone team portraits throughout. (Corners lightly creased.) Original grey stiffened wrappers, front cover with crest of the Club in red and title lettering in blue, sewn with red cord. Goldman p. 184: ‘scarce’; Padwick 4079.
With 50 other paper-bound programmes, pamphlets and booklets, most preserved in envelopes according to State. These include a number of fixture cards for clubs and leagues, many with K.A Auty provenance. Also an account of the Incogniti C.C American tour 1913, two copies formerly in the C.C. Morris Cricket Library; and vol. I no. 14 of Gleason’s Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion (Boston: 2 August 1851), with wood-engraving of the Eleven of New England on the first page.
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