![[WYATT, C.G.A. AND L.R. FYFE]. The Tour of the West Indian Cricketers, August and September 1886. [Georgetown], Demerara: Argosy Press, 1887. 8° (201 x 135mm). 92pp., mounted frontispiece photograph of the team (offset onto title). Original printed boards backed in green cloth (spine rather worn, boards rather soied and discoloured, corners rubbed, front inner hinges weak). Provenance: A.E.Winder (bookplate) -- purchased from J.W. McKenzie in 1988.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2014/CSK/2014_CSK_10766_0043_000(wyatt_cga_and_lr_fyfe_the_tour_of_the_west_indian_cricketers_august_an115954).jpg?w=1)
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[WYATT, C.G.A. AND L.R. FYFE]. The Tour of the West Indian Cricketers, August and September 1886. [Georgetown], Demerara: Argosy Press, 1887. 8° (201 x 135mm). 92pp., mounted frontispiece photograph of the team (offset onto title). Original printed boards backed in green cloth (spine rather worn, boards rather soied and discoloured, corners rubbed, front inner hinges weak). Provenance: A.E.Winder (bookplate) -- purchased from J.W. McKenzie in 1988.
THE FIRST WEST INDIAN CRICKET BOOK, describing the tour to Canada and the United States by a team drawn from Jamaica, Demerara and Barbados. Lawrence Fyfe, the captain, contributes a highly readable ‘Memory’ by way of introduction, whilst the rest of the book is based on Guy Wyatt’s diary of the tour. The team played thirteen matches (none first class). W.O. Collymore, who is absent from the team photograph, is said to have ‘played the fewest number of times of any of the men. He was unsuccessful at scoring’. Allen 132; Taylor p.107; Goldman p.202; Padwick 5520.
THE FIRST WEST INDIAN CRICKET BOOK, describing the tour to Canada and the United States by a team drawn from Jamaica, Demerara and Barbados. Lawrence Fyfe, the captain, contributes a highly readable ‘Memory’ by way of introduction, whilst the rest of the book is based on Guy Wyatt’s diary of the tour. The team played thirteen matches (none first class). W.O. Collymore, who is absent from the team photograph, is said to have ‘played the fewest number of times of any of the men. He was unsuccessful at scoring’. Allen 132; Taylor p.107; Goldman p.202; Padwick 5520.
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