![[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). Mounted frontispiece photograph of the team. (Faint offset onto title, light even browning throughout.) Original printed boards backed in green cloth (head and tail of spine a little chipped, one longer split at head, covers rather soiled and rubbed, endpapers spotted). Provenance: ‘H. Laurie / from / F.B. Smith, Esq / Provost Marchal / Inspector of Prisons / 15th August 1900’ (inscription in red ink on endpaper and signature on front cover).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2015/CKS/2015_CKS_10457_0162_001(wyatt_cga_and_lr_fyfe_the_tour_of_the_west_indian_cricketers_august_an012556).jpg?w=1)
![[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). Mounted frontispiece photograph of the team. (Faint offset onto title, light even browning throughout.) Original printed boards backed in green cloth (head and tail of spine a little chipped, one longer split at head, covers rather soiled and rubbed, endpapers spotted). Provenance: ‘H. Laurie / from / F.B. Smith, Esq / Provost Marchal / Inspector of Prisons / 15th August 1900’ (inscription in red ink on endpaper and signature on front cover).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2015/CKS/2015_CKS_10457_0162_000(wyatt_cga_and_lr_fyfe_the_tour_of_the_west_indian_cricketers_august_an103037).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). Mounted frontispiece photograph of the team. (Faint offset onto title, light even browning throughout.) Original printed boards backed in green cloth (head and tail of spine a little chipped, one longer split at head, covers rather soiled and rubbed, endpapers spotted). Provenance: ‘H. Laurie / from / F.B. Smith, Esq / Provost Marchal / Inspector of Prisons / 15th August 1900’ (inscription in red ink on endpaper and signature on front cover).
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 Halifax Cricket Tournament. An Account of the Visit of the American Twelve of Philadelphia, August 1874. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1874. 8° (186 x 120mm). (Light even browning, light waterstain on ‘Reference Table’ and final leaf of text.) Original wrappers, title on front wrapper within an acanthus leaf cartouche (slight tears and minor losses to covers, a few stains, spine quite chipped). This attractively designed pamphlet, ‘published for private circulation only’, reports on a series of matches between America (represented by the visiting Philadelphians), Canada and England (represented by 60th Royal Rifles based in Halifax). Allen 118; Goldman p. 98; Taylor p. 51; Padwick 4084 & 4085.
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 Halifax Cricket Tournament. An Account of the Visit of the American Twelve of Philadelphia, August 1874. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1874. 8° (186 x 120mm). (Light even browning, light waterstain on ‘Reference Table’ and final leaf of text.) Original wrappers, title on front wrapper within an acanthus leaf cartouche (slight tears and minor losses to covers, a few stains, spine quite chipped). This attractively designed pamphlet, ‘published for private circulation only’, reports on a series of matches between America (represented by the visiting Philadelphians), Canada and England (represented by 60th Royal Rifles based in Halifax). Allen 118; Goldman p. 98; Taylor p. 51; Padwick 4084 & 4085.
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