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TOUR BOOKS -- Official Souvenir Score Book of the Gentlemen of Philadelphia vs. Gentlemen of England [P.F. Warner’s team]. International Cricket Matches at Wissahickon, Haverford, Manheim. Philadelphia: Frank V. Chambers, 1898. Oblong 4° (194 x 268mm). 48pp., half tone illustrations of the teams and grounds. Original pictorial wrappers (the whole slightly creased where previously folded). Provenance: A.D. Taylor (his label as a ‘collector of cricketana’ on title) -- Sir Julien Cahn (pencil attribution and his usual light blue envelope). Taylor p.80; Goldman p.157; Padwick 4901.
With two others from the Cahn collection, both pre-visit: Official Program to commemorate the First Visit of a Marylebone Cricket Club team to Philadelphia. Philadelphia: 1905. Large 8°. Original pictorial wrappers (the whole with fold mark, slightly worn). A report on the matches, subsequently printed on one leaf, has been tipped into this copy (not recorded in Padwick). Taylor p.80; Goldman p.157; Padwick: 4903 -- Official Program commemorating the Second Visit of a Team from the Marylebone Cricket Club to Philadelphia. Philadelphia: 1907. Large 4°. Original pictorial wrappers (the whole with central fold mark, rear wrapper slightly distressed). Includes an article disclosing 'The secret of the “Googlie”’, and another on ‘Some facts about the M.C.C. and Lord’s’. Taylor p.80; Padwick 4901; not in Goldman.
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