Knight's Sporting Auctions Auction of Cricket, Wisden Cricketers' Almanacks, Football and Sporting Memorabilia - 3 Day Auction (#2) 09/07/2021 10:30 AM BST Closed Starts Ending 09/07/2021 10:30 AM BST Auction Info View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBidsViews Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 1301-1400 of 1708. Previous|1...1112131415161718|Next Lot #1291 Earlier cricket autobiographies and biographies. Thirty eight biographies, the majority hardbacks with generally good dustwrappers. Subjects include R.E.S. Wyatt, Freddie Brown, Eric Hollies, E.R.T. Holmes, Walter Hammond, Denis Compton, Godfrey Evans, A.C. Maclaren, Bill Bowes, Jack Fingleton, also Australians Keith Miller, Don Bradman, Sidney Barnes, Neil Harvey etc. G - cricket View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1292 Cricket biographies. A good selection of fifty six mainly modern hardback biographies, with some histories, the majority with good dustwrappers. Subjects include Tom Graveney, Archie Jackson, Walter Hammond, Michael Vaughan, Fred Rumsey, Ian Botham, Andrew Flintoff, Imran Khan, Mushtaq Ahmed, Brian Close, Mike Atherton, Jack Hobbs, Pat Pocock, Keith Miller etc. G/VG - cricket View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1293 Cricket biographies. A good selection of fifty eight modern biographies, the majority hardbacks with good dustwrappers. Includes four titles signed by the subject. Signatures are Ian Botham, Farokh Engineer, Steve Waugh and Dickie Bird. Other subjects include Harold Larwood, David Gower, Ted Dexter, Jim Laker, Don Bradman, Fred Trueman, Shane Warne, Garry Sobers, Archie Jackson, Denis Compton, Mike Brearley, Hedley Verity, Len Hutton, Victor Trumper etc. G/VG - cricket View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1294 'The Cricketer's Manual for 1848 containing a brief review of the rise and progress of the manly and noble game of cricket and the laws... by "Bat" [Charles Box]'. First issue. William Brittain, London 1848. Original paper wrappers. 39pp including an apology for inaccuracies on p.39. Inscribed in pencil to the front wrapper is the rare signature of A.N. Hornby (Lancashire & England 1878-1884, three Test matches), and an ink inscription in Plum Warner's hand, 'P.F. Warner. From the Rev. F.O. Pool View details Estimates£700 - £1,000Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1295 'The Cricketer's Manual for 1848 containing a brief review of the rise and progress of the manly and noble game of cricket and the laws... by "Bat" [Charles Box]'. Second issue. William Brittain, London 1848. 38pp plus three additional advertising pages for 'The Era' to the rear. Bound in original dark purple limp cloth with gilt title to front, gilt to page edges. Padwick 798. The additional advertising pages mentioned in Weston's bibliography, but not by Padwick. Light wear to wrappers, otherw View details Estimates£400 - £500StatusUnsold Lot #1296 'The Cricketer's Manual for 1849 containing a brief review of the rise and progress of cricket, and the laws... by "Bat" [Charles Box]'. Baily Brothers, London 1849 (only issue). 48 numbered pages. Original red limp cloth covers with gilt title to front and gilt to page edges. Contains the erratum slip relating to changes in the laws, tipped in opposite the title page. Owner's signature in ink of A.W. Reynolds to front endpaper. Padwick 798. Good/ very good condition - cricket View details Estimates£300 - £400StatusUnsold Lot #1297 'The Cricketer's Manual for 1850 containing a brief review of the character, history, & elements of cricket with the laws... by "Bat" [Charles Box]'. First issue. Baily Brothers, London 1850. 102 numbered pages. Original green limp cloth covers with tooled decoration, gilt to page edges. Owner's signature in ink of George Bennett, dated May [18]50 to front endpaper. Padwick 798. Slight breaking to front internal hinge, otherwise in good condition - cricket View details Estimates£300 - £400StatusUnsold Lot #1298 'The Cricketer's Manual [for 1851] containing a brief review of the character, history and elements of cricket, with the laws... by "Bat" [Charles Box]'. Baily Brothers, London 1851. Three copies of the fifth edition, being the first, second and third issues, each with 110 numbered pages. All three issues in original green limp cloth with tooled decoration and gilt title to front, gilt to all page edges. The second issue incorporates changes to the contents page, and includes the owner's signatu View details Estimates£400 - £500StatusUnsold Lot #1299 'The Cricketer's Manual [for 1851] containing a brief review of the character, history and elements of cricket, with the laws... by "Bat" [Charles Box]'. Baily Brothers, London 1851, fourth issue incorporating further alterations to the contents page. 110 numbered pages. Original green limp cloth with tooled decoration and gilt title to front, gilt to all page edges. Owner's name inscribed in ink to page preceeding the title page, of 'George W. King. Dec. 11. 1863', followed in pencil in another View details Estimates£300 - £400StatusUnsold Lot #1300 'The Cricketer's Manual by "Bat" (Charles Box). A Short Bibliography'. G. Neville Weston. 1936. Limited edition of only twenty copies, this being number seventeen, signed by Weston. Original blue paper wrappers tipped in to modern cream cloth. Padwick 44. A scarce and useful guide to the many issues of Box's work. Minor staining to original wrappers, otherwise in very good condition - cricket View details Estimates£300 - £400Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1301 'The Cricketer's Manual by "Bat" (Charles Box). A Short Bibliography. Further Details of the Several Editions and their Variations (up to December 13th 1941)'. G. Neville Weston. Large format typescript comprising twelve pages, bound in faded green card covers with typed title on label to front cover, tipped in to modern cream cloth. Typed label laid to original inside front cover, 'Every good wish' and signed in ink by Weston. Incorporates expanded details from the original 1936 edition, and We View details Estimates£400 - £500StatusUnsold Lot #1302 'Chats on the Cricket Field'. W.A. Bettesworth. London 1910. Original green cloth with gilt title to front cover and spine. Presentation copy from the author with a colour sketch by Bettesworth to the page preceding the half title page, of a toucan perched on a holly branch with a label hanging from its beak inscribed 'The Rev. H.A. Rhodes from the Author. Christmas 1910'. Sale plate of H.A. Cohen laid down to inside front cover. Padwick 7175. Small nicks to head and foot of the spine paper, oth View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1303 'Present Pastimes of Merrie England interpreted from ancient Mss. and annotated by F.C. Burnand...'. F.C. Burnand with illustrations by J.E. Rogers. Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London 1873. 32pp with eleven full colour illustrations including a section and illustration of a batsman, wicketkeeper and fielder in Robin Hood style attire. Original decorative pictorial boards with replacement spine. Padwick 7040. Some wear to original boards, breaking to internal hinges, internally in very good condi View details Estimates£30 - £50StatusUnsold Lot #1304 'Laws of Cricket Illustrated'. Charles Crombie. Published by Perrier, London 1907. Complete first edition with twelve colour prints with interleaving and Perrier advertising page to rear. Original decorative boards. Padwick 7012. Wear and soiling to boards, internally in good/ very good condition - cricket View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1305 'Fifty Years of Sport- At Oxford, Cambridge and the Great Public Schools' Eton, Harrow and Winchester. Volume III. Edited by R.H. Lyttelton, A. Page and E.B. Noel. London 1922. Red calf with colour schools emblem to front covers and gilt to spine. Gilt to top page edges, other pages untrimmed. Includes some 160 pages on cricket with photo illustrations throughout. Padwick 1344. Wear and rubbing to boards and spine, otherwise in good condition - cricket View details Estimates£25 - £35StatusUnsold Lot #1306 W.G. Grace. Two titles, originally from the library of W.G. Grace, relating to the origins of the Grace family. 'A Descriptive & Architectural Sketch of the Grace Mausoleum in the Queen's County...', William Shaw Mason, Faulkner Press, Dublin, 1819, limited to fifty copies. Illustrated with portraits of the Grace family, the mausoleum and other family properties. Bookplate of 'Sheffield Grace 1829' to inside front cover. Bound in maroon leather with modern replacement spine. Also 'Lines Written View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1307 'The Game that is Romance. Cricket Verses'. G.D. Martineau. A rare and interesting typescript comprising a collection of sixty cricket verses by Martineau written between c.1924 and 1958. 77pp bound in brown card boards, typed title label to front and gilt title to spine. The poems are presented in five sections titled 'Mainly Reflective', 'The Young Idea', 'Heroic Memories', 'Test and Championship', and 'War Years', and the author has recorded when and where each poem was originally published. View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1308 'An Almanac of Twelve Sports'. William Nicholson 'with words by Rudyard Kipling'. William Heinemann, London 1898. Comprises a calendar for the year, each month illustrated by a sport with accompanying verse by Kipling. Cricket is represented in 'June'. Large format with original pictorial boards. Padwick 6989. Some flaking to spine, age toning to boards, breaking to internal hinges, tear to gutter of endpaper. Internally in good condition - cricket View details Estimates£250 - £350StatusUnsold Lot #1309 'Nottinghamshire Cricket Scores and Biographies from 1838'. Volumes I, II and III. Compiled by C.H. Richards. 1888, 1890 & 1891. Volumes I and II, printed and published by George Richards of Nottingham, bound together in red cloth with title page, 'Fifty Years of Nottinghamshire Cricket 1838-1887' and frontispiece carte de visite style original photograph of the 'Nottinghamshire County Eleven 1866'. Volume Three '1888-89-90', printed and published by Charles H. Richards, in original green paper View details Estimates£150 - £250StatusUnsold Lot #1310 'Cricketing References in Norwich Newspapers 1701-1800 arranged in chronological order'. J.S. Penny 1979. 63pp typescript with 10pp preface. Refers to the formation of a new club in Norwich in 1745 and the first recorded game which took place at Stokeferry reported on 28th May. Bound in blue cloth, gilt title to spine. Padwick 2433-1. G - cricket View details Estimates£20 - £30StatusUnsold Lot #1311 'The Sportfolio. Portraits and biographies of heroes and heroines of sport and pastime'. George Newnes, London 1896. Originally published in parts. Many illustrations. Bound in publisher's decorative cloth with colour illustrations and gilt, with a title-page and index at the front. Later title label to spine. Comprises full-page pictures of sportsmen of the day, with short pen pictures. The cricketers are Abel, J.T. Brown, Fry, W.G. Grace, Gunn, F.S. Jackson, Lohmann, Macgregor, Maclaren, Read, View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1312 'G.L. Jessop. A Complete Record of his Performances in First-class Cricket'. C.J. Britton. First edition, Birmingham 1935. Original blue and beige cloth. VG - cricket View details Estimates£15 - £25Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1313 'The Fight for the Ashes in 1934'. Jack Hobbs. First edition London 1934. Good original dustwrapper. Some staining to original cloth boards, otherwise in good condition - cricket View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1314 Association of Cricket Statisticians publications. Box comprising a selection including over ninety A.C.S. publications including 'A Statistical Survey' for seasons 1863-1881, 'Complete First-class Match List' Volumes I-V covering 1801-1998. 'Cricketers' series for first-class and Minor Counties, South African, Australian, West Indies etc. Odd duplication. Also thirteen issues of 'The Cricketer International Quarterly Facts and Figures' Winter 1976- Spring 1989, twenty one issues of 'The White R View details Estimates£25 - £35Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1315 'The Cricket Statistician'. Complete run of Volumes 1-20, June 1973- December 1977 published by The Association of Cricket Statisticians. Original typescripts as issued, bound in four volumes in red cloth with gilt titles to covers and spine. The first issue comprises a list of approx. ninety members, many well known contributors to the history and statistics of the game. Padwick 3136. Very good condition - cricket View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1316 'Sefton Cricket Club 1862-1925'. J.D. Lynch. Printed by W. Williams, Liverpool 1926. Padwick 2216. Light wear to wrapper extremities, otherwise good. Also 'Annals of Teignbridge Cricket Club 1823-1883'. Compiled by G.W. Ormerod. Privately printed 1888. Some wear to boards, breaking to internal hinges, otherwise in good condition. Qty 2 - cricket View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1317 Lancashire cricket. Box comprising a good selection of over fifty modern booklets and brochures relating to Lancashire County, League and Club histories, including the odd signed limited edition. Clubs featured include The Northern Club, East Lancashire Club, Cotton Town, Egerton, Eagley, Rawtenstall, Bootle, Orsmkirk, Blackpool, Bradshaw etc. G/VG - cricket View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1318 Club histories. Twenty three books and brochures including 'Northumberland's Non-League Cricket Clubs', B.D.R. Stevens 1978, limited to 120 copies. 'Cream Teas and Nutty Slack [County Durham]', Jack Chapman 2003, signed by the author. Other clubs featured include Corbridge, Reading, Camden, Royston, Ashington, Tynemouth, Finchampstead etc. Odd duplication. G/VG - cricket View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1319 The Cricket Society. A selection of Society journals and yearbooks including 'The Journal of the Cricket Society', Vol 1, nos. 1-4. Vol 12, nos. 1 and 4, and a complete run of vols. 13-16. Cricket Society Newsletter nos. 51-60, 1958-1960. Three Yearbooks for 1958-1960. Sold with 'The Cricket International Quarterly Facts and Figures', thirty four issues for the period Winter 1975 to Summer 1987. Qty 69. G - cricket View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1320 Association of Cricket Statisticians. Box comprising a good selection of mainly A.C.S. publications including 'Complete First-Class Match List' vols. 1-5, 1801-1998. 'Statistical Survey' for seasons 1863-1881. A.C.S. International Cricket Yearbook for seasons 1989-2011. Various histories of cricket grounds, player biographies etc. Odd duplication. Qty 90. G/VG - cricket View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1321 Cricket tour books 1950's-1960's. Good selection of thirty tour books for the period. Authors include O'Reilly, Fingleton, Moyes, Miller, West, Harris, Swanton, Gilligan, Wellings, Arlott, Cutler, Dale, Peebles, Medworth etc. The majority of books with dustwrapper. Odd faults, otherwise in good condition - cricket View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1322 Cricket tour books 1960's-1990's. Good selection of thirty seven tour books for the period. Authors include Compton, Wellings, Batchelor, Mackay, Lindwall, Fortune, Ross, Mores, Clarke, Haigh, Laker, Arlott, Frith, Berry, Martin-Jenkins, Benaud, Simpson, Roberts, Close etc. The majority of books with dustwrapper. Odd faults, otherwise in good condition - cricket View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1323 The Ashes and other tour books 1950's-1990's. Good selection of thirty six tour books for the period. Authors include Mason, Mulvaney, Frith, Valentine, Martin-Jenkins, Worrell, Arlott, Benaud, Miller, Wellings, Batchelor, Lee, West, Compton, O'Reilly, Botham, Brearley, Fortune etc. The majority of books with dustwrapper. Odd faults, otherwise in good condition - cricket View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1324 Cricket tour books 1950's-1990's. Two boxes comprising a good selection of sixty six tour books for the period. Authors include Swanton, Frith, Arlott, Benaud, Batchelor, Martin-Jenkins, Fortune, Compton, Roberts, Wellings, Harris, O'Reilly, Fingleton, Medworth, Miller, Brearley, Eagar etc. Two titles signed by the author, 'Battle for the Ashes', David Frith 2005, and 'Bumper', R.S. Whitington 1953. The majority of books with dustwrapper. Heavy duplication. Odd faults, otherwise in good conditio View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1325 'P.G.H. Fender. A Biography'. Richard Streeton. London 1981. Red file containing Streeton's original draft working typescript for the book first published in 1981. The script heavily annotated by hand with amendments and editor's mark-up for typesetting, a hand drawn illustration for the design of the title page etc. Sold with a copy of the hardback book with good dustwrapper. Good condition - cricket View details Estimates£100 - £150StatusUnsold Lot #1326 Cricket and general sporting interest. Five titles including 'Lanyard Lyrics', R.P. Keigwin, London 1913. Staining to boards, some breaking to page block. 'Behind the Stumps', Godfrey Evans, London 1951. 'The Week-end Cricketer', A.C.L. (Leo) Bennett', London 1951. Original dustwrapper with some loss. 'The Book of Cricket', Pelham Warner, London 1945. 'Barclays World of Cricket', E.W. Swanton, London 1980. Good dustwrapper. Sold with three general sports interest titles include 'Play! The Best S View details Estimates£15 - £25Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1327 Pelham Warner. 'M.C.C. 1787-1937 reprinted from 'The Times' M.C.C. Number May 25 1937'. The Times Publishing Company. London 1937. Bound in full calf leather, top edge gilt. M.C.C. colours and gilt title to front and spine. Signed presentation copy from Warner to S. Garner, dated 30th December 1949. Accompanied by a short original typed letter from Warner to Garner referring to Charles Barnett (Gloucestershire & England 1927-1948), and enclosing a copy of the book. Slight bumping to corners and View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1328 'Cricket. World Series Cup 1981-1982 Season'. Richie Benaud. Lansdowne Press, Sydney, Australia 1982. Original hardback. Signed to the title page by Benaud. Small loss to otherwise good dustwrapper. VG. Rarely seen - cricket View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1329 'Cricket. An Anthology for Cricketers'. Samuel J. Looker. London 1925. Publisher's red cloth. Unusually, a signed presentation copy inscribed in ink to the title page,'"All for the Game". Samuel J. Looker 20th October 1930'. Light foxing and age toning, otherwise in good condition - cricket View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1330 Yorkshire signed cricket biographies and histories. Box comprising a good selection of thirty nine mainly modern hardbacks and softbacks, each signed by the authors and/ or contributors. Biographies signed by the subject include Johnny Wardle, Don Wilson, David Bairstow, Geoff Boycott, Ray Illingworth etc. Includes 'Fire and Ashes' 2009, signed to pages by Boycott, Old, Gough, Jarvis, Close, Athey, Illingworth, A. Sidebottom, Silverwood, Dawson, Moxon, Hampshire, White, Hoggard and Vaughan. Othe View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1331 The Ashes. Box comprising a good selection of thirty two signed modern titles covering Ashes from 1948 onwards. The majority hardbacks with good dustwrappers. Each signed by the authors and/ or contributors. Signatures include Jonathan Rice, Patrick Eagar, Peter Baxter, Peter Hayter, Matthew Engel, Richie Benaud, Jonathan Agnew, Huw Turbervill, Scyld Berry, Michael Atherton, Gerald Howat, Robin Marlar, Gideon Haigh, Mark Waugh etc. G/VG - cricket View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1332 Australian signed cricket histories and biographies. Box comprising a good selection of thirty three mainly modern titles, the majority hardbacks with good dustwrappers. Each signed by the authors and/ or contributors. Subjects covered include 'The Invincibles', Bradman, Ashes etc. Signed biographies include Ray Lindwall, Dennis Lillee, Shane Warne, Adam Gilchrist, Steve Waugh etc. Includes 'A Complete History of Australian Cricket 1803-1995', Jack Pollard 1995, in five softback volumes in slipc View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1333 'Somerset County Cricket Facts and Figures from 1891 to 1924'. Compiled by F.J.C. Gustard. Taunton 1925. Very good condition. Sold with 'Essex County Cricket Club Facts and Figures 1894-1947', Sir Home Gordon, Chelmsford 1947. Slight age toning to wrappers, otherwise in good condition. Qty 2 - cricket View details Estimates£50 - £70StatusUnsold Lot #1334 'The Book of Cricket. A Gallery of Famous Players'. Edited by C.B. Fry. London 1899. Nicely bound in green half leather with marbled end papers and page edges. Raised bands to spine, gilt title to front and spine. Minor wear to boards and spine extremities, splitting to front internal hinge, otherwise in good condition - cricket View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1335 Australia tour to England 1926. 'Test Cricket'. Small 48pp booklet issued by brewers Samuel Allsopp & Sons Ltd of Burton on Trent in 1926 for the Australian tour to England. Contains biographies and photographs of the tourists, tour fixtures and cricket records. Minor creasing to wrappers otherwise in very good condition - cricket View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1336 'Scores of the Cricket Matches between Rugby & Marlborough', E.S. Andrew, London 1904. Decorative red cloth. Age toning to covers and fading to spine, minor foxing to early pages, otherwise in good condition - cricket View details Estimates£20 - £30StatusUnsold Lot #1337 Cricket biographies. Box comprising twenty two titles, mainly biographies, the majority modern hardbacks with some earlier titles. The majority with signature of the subject on piece, card or label laid down, with the odd title additionally signed by the author or contributor. Players signatures include Don Bradman, Ray Lindwall, Lindsay Hassett, Sachin Tendulkar, Syndey Barnes, Ian Redpath, Tony Lock, Walter Hammond, Bill O'Reilly, Frank Tyson etc. Odd faults to earlier titles, otherwise in goo View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1338 West Indies histories and biographies. Fifteen titles including biographies, histories and statistical records relating to West Indies cricket, each signed or multi-signed by the author or subject. Signed biographies include Clyde Walcott, Roy Marshall, Frank Worrell and Brian Lara. Author's signatures include Peter Baxter, Peter Hayter, Tony Cozier, Brunel Jones, David Dobson, David Tossell, Ivo Tennant, Brian Scovell etc. Odd signature on piece/ card laid down. Also 'Wisden Caribbean Cricket. View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1339 Signed general cricket books. Box comprising thirty one modern titles, signed mainly by the author, with the odd player's signature. Subjects covered include tours, histories, Bodyline, cricket humour, broadcasting etc. Biographical subjects include Ken Barrington, Brian Lara, Imran Khan, Ranji, C.B. Fry, Jack Hobbs, Jack Ryder etc. Authors' signatures include Christopher Martin-Jenkins, Brian Scovell, Christopher Sandford, Iain Wilton, Gideon Haigh, Dean Allen, Marc Fiddian, Richie Benaud etc. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1340 Cricket tour histories. Box comprising thirty eight mainly modern hardbacks relating to cricket tours. Twelve titles signed by the author. Tours featured include M.C.C. to Australia 1958/59, 1963/63, to South Africa 1964/65, to West Indies 1968, Australia to West Indies 1960/61, 1964/65, to England 1964, 1968, 1972, Signed titles are by E.M. Wellings, Bobby Simpson, Richie Benaud, Alan Ross, Scyld Berry, Vic Marks, Frank Tyson, Angus Fraser, Graham Gooch, Brian Close, Ian Chappell, and Merv Hugh View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1341 Cricket books and ephemera. Two boxes comprising a selection of mainly modern (one early) cricket reference books, histories, the odd biography etc., also a selection of mixed ephemera including modern scorecards, programmes, auction catalogues, Lord's tickets, menus, correspondence etc. Contents include 'Imperial Cricket', P.F. Warner, London 1912, original full red morocco, gilts to front cover and spine. All pages edges gilt. Limited subscribers edition of 900 copies, this being number 95. He View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1342 'Body-line?'. Harold Larwood. Elkin Matthews & Marrot, London 1933. Original but worn dustwrapper with loss, otherwise in good condition. Sold with 'Jardine Justified', Bruce Harris, London 1933. Qty 2. Some age toning and wear - cricket View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1343 'Sidelights on Sayers'. Philip L. Scowcroft, Witham 1981. 21pp original typescript of an article published by The Dorothy L. Sayers Historical and Literary Society including a three page section on 'Cricket and Dorothy L. Sayers', in which he describes the interest in cricket held by Sayer's character, Lord Peter Wimsey, and the novels in which those references appear. Scowcroft also identifies other works by Sayers in which cricket is referenced, and acknowledges her knowledge and enjoyment of View details Estimates£100 - £150StatusUnsold Lot #1344 'Some Interesting Links of Yorkshire Cricket'. J.W. Overend 1918'. Original pictorial covers with image of 'Yorkshire County Wranglers at Cambridge' (Lockwood, Peate, Ullyett and Emmett). Tipped in to modern blue cloth. Contents include a history of Yorkshire cricket, early clubs, festival matches, portraits of the Pudsey Britannia team of 1875, Wilfred Rhodes etc. Padwick 2872. Some age toning to wrappers, rusting to staples, otherwise in good condition - cricket View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1345 'Cricket Characters. The Cricketer Caricatures of John Ireland'. Christopher Martin-Jenkins. London 1987. Good dustwrapper. G/VG - cricket View details Estimates£15 - £25Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1346 Signed Somerset and Gloucestershire books. Eighteen modern titles, the majority hardback histories with the odd biography, each signed by the author. Signatures include Alain Lockyer, Peter Roebuck, Eddie Lawrence, Gavin Turner, Brian Close, Fred Rumsey (Somerset), Andy Stockhausen, Graham Parker, Dean Hayes, Grenville Simons, Andrew Hignell (Gloucestershire) etc. Minor faults to the odd title, otherwise in good/ very good condition - cricket View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1347 Somerset books, annuals, benefit brochures etc. Titles include 'Sunshine, Sixes and Cider. The History of Somerset Cricket', David Foot 1986. Multi-signed to front end paper, half title page by thirty two Somerset (and other) players. Signatures include Buttler, Compton, De Bruyn, Groenweld, Hildreth, Kieswetter, Leach, Munday, Overton, Petersen, Rose, Strauss, Trego, Trescothick etc. Sold with a good selection of Somerset related histories, biographies, brochures etc. Qty 35. G/VG - cricket View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1348 Mixed cricket books. Eight titles including two by Pelham Warner, 'Lord's 1787-1945' 1946, and 'Gentlemen v Players' 1950. Also 'A Correct Account of all the Cricket Matches which have been played by the Marylebone Club and all other Principal Matches from the year 1786 to 1822 inclusive. Henry Bentley 1823'. Published by Roger Heavens. Cambridge 1997. Limited edition facsimile reprint no. 78/400. Catalogue for 'The Brockbank Cricket Collection' exhibition held in Manchester 1986. 'The Cricket C View details Estimates£30 - £50StatusUnsold Lot #1349 'Stump High!'. Compiled by Andy Wilson for the Andy Wilson Benefit Fund 1953. Signed to players' photographs by seventeen Gloucestershire players. Signatures are C.J. Scott (two signatures), G. Wiltshire (two), C. Cook (three), D.A. Allen, A.S. Brown, A.E. Wilson (five), H.A. Henson, J.F. Crapp (two), C.A. Milton (two), G.M. Emmett, G.E. Lambert, T.W. Graveney, M. Young, J. Mortimore, 'Bomber' Wells, D.G. Hawkins, and J.V.C. Griffiths. Tape reinforcement to spine, some wear to paper wrappers, ot View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1350 Withdrawn View details StatusUnsold Lot #1351 Cricket tour books etc. Box comprising twenty seven tour books and annuals. Titles include three by Monty Noble, 'Gilligan's Men [M.C.C. to Australia 1924/25]' London 1925, 'Those "Ashes". The Australian Tour of 1926', London 1927, and 'The Fight for the Ashes 1928-29' London 1929. Also 'Duleep. The Man and his Game', Vijay Merchant, Commemoration Volume, Bombay 1963. Excellent dustwrapper and ‘Cricket Who’s Who. The Cricket Year Book 1910’. H.V. Dorey. Five 'News Chronicle Cricket Annual' View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1352 Tour guides and benefit brochures 1940s-1950s. Official and unofficial tour guides to England include South African 1947, 1951, New Zealand 1949 and West Indies 1950. Odd duplicate. Benefits and testimonial brochures include Hedley Verity 1943, Cyril Washbrook 1948, Denis Compton 1949, Willie Watson 1956 etc. G - cricket View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1353 Australia tours to England 1934-1961. Six tour guides including three official guides, for 1934 edited by A.W. Simpson, 1948 R.C. Robertson-Glasgow, and 1956 Gordon Ross (Playfair). Also 'Fight for the Ashes', C.G. Macartney, Findon 1948, 'The Fight for the Ashes', Archie Ledbrooke, Cherry Tree 1948, and 'Rothmans Test Cricket Almanack' 1961. G - cricket View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1354 Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji, Sussex & England 1893-1920. Original ink signature of Ranji on card. Mounted with a copy photograph of Ranji with W.G. Grace and others. Framed and glazed. Overall 13'x13". Sold with a modern copy of the Vanity Fair caricature of Ranji. Framed and glazed. Overall 6"x10". Qty 2. G - cricket View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1355 Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji, Sussex & England 1893-1920. Rarely seen real photograph postcard of Ranjitsinhji in military attire wearing cap. Title to lower border 'Sri Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji 1906-1933'. Postcard by 'The Roary Photo Co'. 3.5"x5". Sold with four mono postcards of Ranji in cricket attire, Wrench Series, Thiele, photo by Hawkins and Star Series. Plus six cigarette/trade cards, all featuring Ranjitsinhji. - cricket View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1356 Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji, Sussex & England 1893-1920. 'Personalities Stamps Series' first day cover issued 27th September 1973, with three affixed stamps including a green Ranjitsinhji stamp. VG - cricket View details Estimates£30 - £40StatusUnsold Lot #1357 Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji, Sussex & England 1893-1920. 'Ranji. A Centenary Album'. Vasant Raiji, Bombay 1972. Original decorative gold boards. Presentation copy to Marcus with handwritten dedication to inside front cover from the author, dated 10th August 2000. Minor wear to boards, otherwise in good/ very good condition - cricket View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot #1358 Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji, Sussex & England 1893-1920. 'Ranjitsinhji. Prince of Cricket'. Percy Cross Standing. Bristol 1903. Original pictorial wrappers. Minor wear to spine otherwise in good condition. Sold with 'With Stoddart's team in Australia. Being the Record of the 1897-8 Tour'. Prince K.S. Ranjitsinhji. London 1898. Paper cover edition. Some wear to spine, rear wrapper almost cleanly detached and 'Spaldings Athletic Library. Cricket Guide and how to play Cricket'. Prince Ranjitsinhji. Lon View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1359 Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji, Sussex & England 1893-1920. 'The Hon. F.S. Jackson'. Percy Cross Standing. London 1906 with Introduction by Ranjitsinhji. Original green boards with image of Jackson to centre front cover. Sold with 'With Stoddart's team in Australia, being the record of the 1897/98 tour'. K.S. Ranjitsinhji. Fourth edition, London 1898. Green boards with original picture to front cover of Ranjitsinhji in batting pose. Breaking to front internal hinge, ex libris and 'Cricket'. Fry, Ranjit View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot #1360 'The Jubilee Book of Cricket'. K.S. Ranjitsinhji. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh 1897. First edition. Large format, photographic frontispiece portrait of the author, original cream buckram, gilt coat of arms to upper board. Slight browning and minor soiling otherwise in good condition. The book contains a handwritten letter dated 1904 which briefly mentions A.E. Stoddart, England Captain. 'Oh, A.E. Stoddart the renowned cricketer had dinner with Joe and me tonight. He seems a very nice ch View details Estimates£50 - £70StatusUnsold Lot #1361 'Stone Alone. The Story of a Rock 'n' Roll Band'. Bill Wyman. paperback edition. London 1991. Signed to title page by Wyman plus in addition, Viv Richards, Neal Fowles and one other?. The book a little bumped at the top right hand corner, pages browned to edges otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1362 Cigarette cards. Gallaher's 'Types of the British Army' 1898. Two complete sets each of fifty cards, one unnumbered set with 'Three Pipes Tobacco' in green to verso, the other set, numbered 51-100, with brown backs. Varying degrees of staining to the backs of the three cards of the green backs and nos. 53, 77, 90 and 96 of the brown backs, slight rounding to corners of the odd card, overall in good condition View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1363 Military cigarette cards 1901-1976. Eight complete sets of cards. Sets are John Player & Sons, 'Regimental Uniforms' 1912, blue backs, full set of fifty, and a full set of fifty brown back second series. 'Military Uniforms of the British Empire Overseas' 1938 (50). 'Uniforms of the Territorial Army' 1939 (50). Carreras 'History of Army Uniforms' 1937 (50). Black Cat 'Military Uniforms' 1976 (50). United Dairies 'British Uniforms of the 19th Century' 1962 (25). Willcocks & Willcocks British Caval View details Estimates£70 - £100StatusUnsold Lot #1364 Military cigarette cards 1901-1917. Various incomplete series (one complete). Ogend's Tabs 'Leading Generals at the War' 1901, eighty three unnumbered cards (odd duplicates). W.D. & H.O. Wills 'Vanity Fair Series' 1902, four unnumbered cards of White, Chesham, Hamilton and Rhodes. Wills Scissors 'Drum Horses' 1909, nine cards, five with horizontal backs, four vertical backs. 'Allied Army Leaders' 1917, five cards nos. 16, 24, 25, 28 & 40. John Player & Sons 'Badges and Flags of British Regiments View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1365 Cigarette cards. Various series 1914-1939. Ogdens Ruler Cigarettes 'Birds of Brilliant Plumage' 1914 overseas issue, fourteen cards with no frame line to fronts. W.D. & H.O. Wills 'Dancing Girls' 1915, three cards nos. 19, 24 & 26. 'Wild Flowers' second series 1937, full set of fifty. 'Dogs' 1937, full set of fifty. 'The Sea-Shore' 1938, thirty two cards nos. 2-6, 11-22, 28-31 and 34-44. 'Garden Flowers by Sudell' 1939, full set of fifty. John Player & Sons 'Game Birds & Wild Fowl' 1927, full s View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1366 Transportation cigarette and trade cards 1922-1963. Six original complete sets. Lambert & Butler 'Motor Cars' 1924 'A Series' (green back), and 1934 (grey back) (Qty 25). W.D. & H.O. Wills 'Speed' 1930 (title in white on dark background), and 1938 (dark title on white) (50). John Player & Sons 'International Air Liners' 1936, full set of fifty. 'Modern Naval Craft' 1939 (50). Godfrey Phillips 'Aircraft' 1938 (54, appears to be the varnished series). Barbers Tea 'Aeroplanes' 1956 (25). Kellogg 'A View details Estimates£60 - £90StatusUnsold Lot #1367 Non-sporting novels and biographies. Box comprising nineteen non-sporting books, the majority hardbacks, some signed by the author. First edition, first impression hardback titles include 'The President is Missing', Bill Clinton and James Patterson, London 2018, signed to official autograph label laid to half title page by both authors. 'For the Record', autobiography by David Cameron, London 2018, limited edition signed by Cameron. Also ten first edition, first impression hardbacks by Jeffrey A View details Estimates£80 - £120StatusUnsold Lot #1368 Photographic equipment. Eastman Kodak. c.1920 'No. 3A Autographic Kodak Junior' folding bed camera with Rapid Rectilinear lens by Bausch & Lomb and Kodak ball bearing shutter. Appears to feature three serial numbers, 12428 to shutter/ lens, 13460 to front panel, and 13662 to case. Original leather case. G View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot #1369 Photographic equipment. c.1912 Internationale Camera Aktiengesellschaft 'Toska 215' 9cm x 12cm vertical folding bed plate camera. Appears to be fitted with later Graflex f/6.8 90mm lens (serial no. 312184) lacking shutter. G View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1370 Joan Miró. Original drawing of a dancing bird in blue ball point pen in the artist's surreal style on a page of the artist's own letterhead with his address in Palma de Mallorca. Flamboyantly signed 'Miró' with dedication inscribed by the artist 'con un cordial saludo [with kind regards]'. Dated 31st July 1979. Accompanying original envelope is addressed to Mr. Anthony Wray of Southport. The page measures 8.25"x11.75". Mounted, framed and glazed, overall 13"x16". Light horizontal f View details Estimates£600 - £900Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1371 Railway histories. A good selection of fifty nine modern mainly hardback titles in two boxes, covering railway history, and some bus transportation, with good South West and Southern interest. Subjects covered include general histories, specific lines and routes, steam locomotion, railway art, locomotives, model trains, stations, railway postcards, London Underground, one bus history etc. Odd duplication. G View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1372 Railway histories. Thirty titles, mainly modern hardbacks, covering railway history with significant West Country and Southern interest. Subjects include steam, branch lines, Great Western, Somerset and Dorset, steam in Gloucestershire, steam in wartime, includes two histories of bus and shipping travel etc. Odd minor faults, otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot #1373 Horse Racing. Dick Francis. 'Dead Cert'. London 1962. First edition, first impression of Dick Francis' first published novel. Original hardback with very good dustwrapper, signed in ink to the title page by the author. Very good condition. Rare View details Estimates£300 - £400Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1374 Horse Racing. Dick Francis. 'Nerve'. London 1964. First edition, first impression of Dick Francis' second published novel. Original hardback with very good dustwrapper, signed in ink to the title page by the author. Very good condition. Rare View details Estimates£200 - £300Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1375 Horse Racing. Dick Francis. 'For Kicks'. London 1965. First edition, first impression of Dick Francis' third published novel. Original hardback with very good dustwrapper, signed in ink to the title page by the author. Very good condition. Rare View details Estimates£200 - £300Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1376 Horse Racing. Dick Francis. 'Odds Against'. London 1965. First edition, first impression of Dick Francis' fourth published novel, his first in the 'Sid Halley' series. Original hardback with very good dustwrapper, signed in ink to the title page by the author. Very good condition. Rare View details Estimates£200 - £300Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1377 Horse Racing. Dick Francis. 'Flying Finish'. London 1966. First edition, first impression of Dick Francis' fifth published novel. Original hardback with very good dustwrapper, signed in ink to the title page by the author. Very good condition. Rare View details Estimates£200 - £300Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1378 Horse Racing. Dick Francis. 'Blood Sport'. London 1967. First edition, first impression of Dick Francis' sixth published novel. Original hardback with very good dustwrapper, signed in ink to the title page by the author. Very good condition. Rare View details Estimates£200 - £300StatusUnsold Lot #1379 Horse Racing. Dick Francis. Fifty two first editions (first impressions) of Dick Francis titles including novels, biography, shorts story collections and anthologies. All original hardbacks with dustwrappers. Each title signed by Francis to the title or half title page unless stated. Titles include Francis' autobiography, 'The Sport of Queens' 1957, signed to card loosely mounted to title page. Titles and dates of publication of novels by Dick Francis are 'Forfeit' 1968, 'Enquiry' 1969, 'Rat Rac View details Estimates£500 - £800StatusUnsold Lot #1380 Horse Racing. John Francome. A complete collection of all twenty five novels written by John Francombe to date. All first edition, first impression (unless stated) hardbacks with dustwrapper, each title signed by Francombe. Titles are 'Eavesdropper' 1986, 'Riding High' 1987, 'Declared Dead' 1988, 'Blood Stock' 1989, 'Stone Cold' 1990, 'Stud Poker' 1992, 'Rough Ride' 1993, 'Outsider' 1994, 'Break Neck' 1995, 'Dead Ringer' 1995, 'False Start' 1996, 'High Flyer' 1998, 'Safe Bet' 1998, 'Tip Off' 200 View details Estimates£100 - £150StatusUnsold Lot #1381 Horse riding boots. A pair of vintage black leather long riding boots with original wooden full length tree inserts with brass fittings to tops. Stamped to inside 'Style C2287. E2225. Size 8' and owner's name 'Harrison' inscribed in ink. Maker and date unknown. Used, in good/ very good condition View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1382 'On the Road'. Jackie Stewart. London 1983. Original dustwrapper. Signed to front end paper by Stewart. G/VG View details Estimates£12 - £18Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1383 Motorsport autobiographies. Four hardbacks with very good dustwrappers, each signed by the subject. Titles are 'All My Races' and 'My Racing Life' both Stirling Moss, 'Winning is not enough', Jackie Stewart, and 'Unless I'm very much mistaken', Murray Walker. Sold with two signed softback biographies by John Surtees and Barry Briggs. Qty 6. VG View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot #1384 Bowls. A pair of lignum lawn bowling balls in brown fake leather carrying case. Date unknown. VG View details Estimates£30 - £40StatusUnsold Lot #1385 Lawn bowls. Silver metal (EPNS) ink stand of a 'bowler' standing holding a ball with three more balls at his feet. To either side, two inkwells in the form of bowling balls, one with glass liner, and foliage decoration. Maker's mark to underside for 'J.D. & S.' of Sheffield, with lampshade emblem and registration no. 12426. G View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1386 Fishing. Brass fly reel by C. Farlow & Co. of The Strand, London, late 1800s. Original bone winding handle. Maker's mark of a fish to foot and engraved name and London address to side. Approx. 4" diameter. G/VG View details Estimates£50 - £80StatusUnsold Lot #1387 Sporting programmes 1887 onwards. An eclectic selection of nineteen mainly early original programmes and magazines covering a range of sports including football, ice hockey, horse racing, greyhound racing, athletics etc. Events held at Empire Pool Wembley, White City Stadium, Bangor and Salisbury race courses, R.A.F. Hendon etc. Earlier programmes include 'Queen's Jubilee. Clumber Festivities 21st June 1887', F.A. XI v R.A.F. XI football match played at Arsenal Stadium, 29th October 1947, a 'pir View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1388 Billiards. Lot 'Lance' Thackeray. Two original colour prints of billiards scenes, both published in 1902 by Landeker & Brown, London. Both prints laid to contemporary mounts and titled 'A Billiard Match'. The subjects are 'Snookered' and 'Kissing'. Each print measures 6.75"x5", framed and glazed overall 15.75"x12". VG View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1389 Motorsport. A Goodyear mono printed advertising card of Jack Brabham at the wheel, signed by Brabham. 5"x6". Mounted, framed and glazed, overall 7.5"x9.5". Sold with a colour photograph of John Surtees in race action, signed by Surtees. Framed and glazed, overall 13"x11". Qty 2. G/VG View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1390 Tennis and rugby. Two ceramic tankards by Royal Bradwell 'Sporting Series' c.1940s. Both feature images of Jack Kramer to one side and Margaret Osborne to the other. The tankards, with handles in the form of tennis racquets, slightly different sizes, 5.5" and 5" tall. Sold with a Dartmouth Pottery rugby tankard with raised images of a rugby player to one side and the ball passing through the posts to the other. Approx. 7" tall. Qty 3. G/VG View details Estimates£30 - £50StatusUnsold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1...1112131415161718|Next123456789101112131415161718 Previous 123456789101112131415161718 Next Previous 123456789101112131415161718 Next
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