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American Cricket and Kindred Games. New York: 1 July 1890. Volume 1 issue no. 1, 4°. 20pp. Original pictorial wrappers (all leaves detached and with numerous marginal tears). Only three issues were published this being the first. The magazine was clearly unable to compete successfully with The American Cricketer which had already been running for 13 years. Padwick 4049.
KELLY, Frederick Fitzmaurice. Centuries scored in United States and Canada 1844 to June 14th 1902. Jersey City: Kelly, 1902. 8°. 52 + 6pp. advertisements. Original black cloth, front cover gilt lettered, red edges. Provenance: Jim Hole (All Philadelphia, ownership inscription). Taylor p.59; Goldman p.41: ‘very rare’; Padwick 4039.
With two issues of Frank Leslie’s Boys of America both containing cricket articles, and one a full-page illustration (no. 25); and 3 other books, comprising Jones Wister, A ‘Bawl’ for American Cricket (Philadelphia: 1893), presentation copy inscribed to Walter P. Shipley; George Dudley Seymour, The Old-Time Game of Wicket [no place, no date, but c. 1905]; and North America in International Cricket by Rowland Bowen (Eastbourne: 1960).
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