ROBERTS, E. L. Test Cricket Calvacade 1877-1947, London: Edward Arnold, 1948, 8°, second edition, folding coloured frontispiece, later red cloth. [Padwick 4343] Front pastedown with small self-caricature by Arthur Mailey at head, signed, and with autographs of members of the 1949-50 Australian touring team to South Africa, including Ray Lindwall and Neil Harvey, below; facing free endpaper with 18 autographs of the MCC touring team to South Africa 1948-49 led by F. G. Mann, on recto, verso of the same page with autographs of 14 South African cricketers; half title with tipped-in official autograph sheet of the "MCC South African Tour 1956-57"; the book with other loosely-inserted autographs on card including an official autograph sheet of the "Tour in South Africa 1948-49" (removed from an album and possibly cropped at head).

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ROBERTS, E. L. Test Cricket Calvacade 1877-1947, London: Edward Arnold, 1948, 8°, second edition, folding coloured frontispiece, later red cloth. [Padwick 4343] Front pastedown with small self-caricature by Arthur Mailey at head, signed, and with autographs of members of the 1949-50 Australian touring team to South Africa, including Ray Lindwall and Neil Harvey, below; facing free endpaper with 18 autographs of the MCC touring team to South Africa 1948-49 led by F. G. Mann, on recto, verso of the same page with autographs of 14 South African cricketers; half title with tipped-in official autograph sheet of the "MCC South African Tour 1956-57"; the book with other loosely-inserted autographs on card including an official autograph sheet of the "Tour in South Africa 1948-49" (removed from an album and possibly cropped at head).

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