Lot 80
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LILLYWHITE, Frederick. The Guide to Cricketers. London: Piper Brothers; sold by R. Ackermann and printed by W. H. Crockford. 8°, 106p. including full pink sheet. Blue half morocco gilt preserving original blue paper covers (covers slightly soiled and rather discoloured). THE VERY RARE SIXTH EDITION, ‘the rarest issue of the series’ according to A.D. Taylor in 1906, a view which Goldman shared. The Eagar copy, in red morocco with original blue wrappers bound in, established a world record when it sold for £18,000 hammer in these rooms in April 2005 (Christie’s, The Library of E.D.R. Eagar, 21 April 2005, lot 100). The Curry copy, without wrappers or the full pink sheet or advertisements, sold the following year for £9,600 (Christie's, The Guy Curry Cricket Library, 4 May 2006, lot 145). Allen p. 55; Britton p. 27; Goldman p. 126; Smith 6; Taylor p. 65; Padwick 1086.
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LILLYWHITE, Frederick. The Guide to Cricketers. London: Piper Brothers; sold by R. Ackermann and printed by W. H. Crockford. 8°, 106p. including full pink sheet. Blue half morocco gilt preserving original blue paper covers (covers slightly soiled and rather discoloured). THE VERY RARE SIXTH EDITION, ‘the rarest issue of the series’ according to A.D. Taylor in 1906, a view which Goldman shared. The Eagar copy, in red morocco with original blue wrappers bound in, established a world record when it sold for £18,000 hammer in these rooms in April 2005 (Christie’s, The Library of E.D.R. Eagar, 21 April 2005, lot 100). The Curry copy, without wrappers or the full pink sheet or advertisements, sold the following year for £9,600 (Christie's, The Guy Curry Cricket Library, 4 May 2006, lot 145). Allen p. 55; Britton p. 27; Goldman p. 126; Smith 6; Taylor p. 65; Padwick 1086.

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LILLYWHITE, Frederick. The Guide to Cricketers. London: Piper Brothers; sold by R. Ackermann and printed by W. H. Crockford. 8°, 106p. including full pink sheet. Blue half morocco gilt preserving original blue paper covers (covers slightly soiled and rather discoloured).

THE VERY RARE SIXTH EDITION, ‘the rarest issue of the series’ according to A.D. Taylor in 1906, a view which Goldman shared. The Eagar copy, in red morocco with original blue wrappers bound in, established a world record when it sold for £18,000 hammer in these rooms in April 2005 (Christie’s, The Library of E.D.R. Eagar, 21 April 2005, lot 100). The Curry copy, without wrappers or the full pink sheet or advertisements, sold the following year for £9,600 (Christie's, The Guy Curry Cricket Library, 4 May 2006, lot 145). Allen p. 55; Britton p. 27; Goldman p. 126; Smith 6; Taylor p. 65; Padwick 1086.
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