Lillywhite James (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Twenty-Fourth Year. Hardback copy, no dustjacket as issued. 260pp + 31pp catalogue to rear. B/w advertisments, tipped-in b/w photograph of 'Lord Sheffield's XI. v. South Africans'. In removable protective clear sleeve. Not library copy, no inscriptions, ffep detached, with old tape mark and hole, stain to inside front cover. (60/2).

Original Printed Boards. Condition: Good. pp. 295 plus advertising. Frontisp: photogravure [Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji]. Edited By Charles W. Alcock. Original orange cloth covered card binding. Advertising on endpapers.

Ex library, sm octavo, orange buckram covered soft boards, black lettering to front board, previous owner's pencil lettering to spine, printed inside boards, frontispiece, ads + 276pp + 20pp ads, VG- (minor creasing, soiling, light rolling to lower corner of front board, heavy fading to front board text and title and rear board text, minor scuffing to extrems, light scuffing, fading/discolouration to spine and chipping to base, minor lime green marking to spine, handwritten title to spine, minor library markings to front board, pencil annotation to front board).

Original Printed Boards. Condition: Good. pp. 276 plus advertising. Frontisp: Original mounted photograph [The Nottinghamshire Eleven of 1884] . Edited By Charles W. Alcock. Original orange cloth covered card binding. Advertising on endpapers.

Thirty-Eighth year of issue, covering the 1881 season. This annual is commonly known as 'Green Lilly' and was published between  1865 and 1885. The third issue (1867) is known as the "twenty-third edition" due to its incorporation with The Young Cricketer's Guide. Issue after 1885 incorporated with James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual. Small 8vo. 218pp + [6]. Original green paper wrappers. Front wrapper and title-page detached. Clear tape to spine and to edge of front wrapper. Original owner's name to front wrapper. [Padwick, 1088].

A complete set from 1865 to 1885, 21 editions bound separately. Known as the "Green Lilly", it succeeded Frederick Lillywhite's Guides, and contains a wealth of statistcial information for the cricket student. Each bound in green cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. All have their original wrappers (front and back) apart from the 1870 edition (26th) which is bound without wrappers. The wrappers to the 1875 edition are trimmed to edges. One or two of the books are more heavily trimmed to the edges, particularly the 1872, but no text is lost. These books were once part of the collection of Joe Goldman and were sold in the famous sale of his collection in 1966 as lot 143. Each book has his bookplate inside. There is some light staining to some of the boards but the contents are excellent. A superb set of this collectable annual, with a distinguished provenance. [Padwick, 1088].