[GREEN, John Pugh].

THE TOUR OF THE "GENTLEMEN OF PHILADELPHIA" IN GREAT BRITAIN IN 1884. BY ONE OF THE COMMITTEE.
Philadelphia, 1897.
8vo. 89pp. Frontispiece (team photograph) and 1 plate. Original decorative cloth, covers soiled. Rebacked. Preserved in cloth slipcase.
PRESENTED BY THE AUTHOR TO W. ROTCH WISTER, SIGNED, INSCRIBED AND DATED on the front endpaper: For Wm. Rotch Wister Esq. With kind regards of John P. Green. 3/18/97. [18th March 1897]. Wister (1842-1911) founded the Philadelphia and Germantown cricket clubs. He was known by his contemporaries as The Father of American Cricket. First edition of the account of the 1884 Gentlemen of Philadelphia cricket tour of England, first published fifteen years after the tour took place. Bowen, Cricket Quarterly, Vol 5, page 177, (1967): 'A rare item.' Padwick, 5737.
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