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ENGLAND AND AUSTRALIA, 1920-21, AND OTHER TEST AUTOGRAPHS. An autograph book, oblong 8, with ex libris of Jennie Parkin, June 8 1917, containing the autographs of individual cricketers on several preliminary and one or two later pages, together with the following team autographs and original caricatures: Warner's Army & Navy XI (15 signatures), England v. Victoria 1920 (11 signatures of the Victoria team), Players XI (16 signatures on 2 sheets), Players XI (14 signatures on 2 sheets), Australia [v. England 1920/21] (W. W. Armstrong, J. Ryder, C. G. Macartney, C. E. Pellew, J. M. Taylor, W. H. Oldfield, J. M. Gregory, Arthur Mailey, G. Kelleway, Warren Bardsley, H. L. Collins), L. H. Tennyson and 10 other English players (in pencil on one sheet), England [v. Australia] 4th Test February 11 [1921] (14 signatures on one sheet), England XI in Australia 1920-1 (17 signatures, including the manager), Australia Touring in England 1921 (15 signatures), an original pen-and-ink cartoon by Arthur Mailey of a woman smoking signed and titled 'Her First Cigarette', England v. South Africa, Birmingham [1924] (11 England signatures on one sheet, 6 South African signatures on one sheet), Yorkshire (11 signatures), Worcestershire (10 signatures), 5th Test [Melbourne, 1920-21] Australia (12 signatures on one sheet) and England (15 signatures on one sheet, including the rare autograph of A. Dolphin as a Test player), one leaf containing 9 original pen-and-ink caricatures by Arthur Mailey signed and titled 'People I have met', and West Indies 1923 (17 signatures). Soft leather binding (a few leaves loose, several adhesive tape repairs at inner margins, some thumb-soiling, split in front pastedown).