The Half Birthday Book

The Cricketer's Autograph Birthday Book: Illustrated with numerous Full-page Half-tone Gravures, after Action-photographs, by George W. Beldam; and One Hundred and Thirty Autographs of Celebrated Cricketers in facsimile.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good-. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Pages 103 to 106 are detached but present. Otherwise very good. Previous owner's name and address on half-title page: "G Thomas[?] Eglinton Rd Dunedin 30/9/12". ; xi, [1], (342) pages + frontispiece + plates. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Paper illustration of W. G. Grace on front board. Page dimensions: 224 x 161mm.This book is arranged by days of the year. The left-hand pages have short biographies of cricketing figures, sometimes including examples of their signatures in facsimile. The right-hand pages have spaces for collecting actual autographs. This book has over a dozen actual autographs filled in on these blank spaces. We are unsure if these are of cricketers or not. Following is a list of all of the actual signatures in this book, as we have been able to decipher them (there may be a few spelling errors due to the illegibility of the signature or the illiteracy of the bookdealer), and the days on which they are found: Feb 27: V[?] Winchester; Mar 1: H J Trevethick 1/10/12; Mar 28: D C Kibblewhite; Mar 31: Clare Nicholson; Apr 21: [?] Siams; May 9: Pat March; May 10: J M Park; May 12: R S M Innes; June 30: W H Harvey 3/10/12; Jul 20: H S Hamilton[?] 1/10/12; H S M Simpson; Aug 7: [?] Miller; Aug 20: W R Brown; Sep 11: G F Lomas; Oct 5: L[?]andyside; Oct 7: [?] Alsop; Oct 8: D J Pinel; Nov 19: Len Withers. ; 8vo. Artikel-Nr. 12644

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