Knight's Sporting Auctions Auction of Cricket, Wisden Cricketers' Almanacks, Football and Sporting Memorabilia - 3 Day Auction (#7) 18/11/2022 10:30 AM GMT Closed Starts Ending 18/11/2022 10:30 AM GMT 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 1482. Previous|1...89101112131415|Next Lot #1299 John Arlott. Hampshire local history. Thirteen titles relating to local history, originally from Arlott’s personal collection. Titles are ‘History of Alresford’, A.J. Robertson. Two copies, one a first edition hardback, Winchester 1937, the other a revised edition of 1969 hardback with very good dustwrapper. Two hardback titles by Ralph Dutton, ‘Hinton Ampner. A Hampshire Manor’, London 1968, and ‘Hampshire’, London 1970, the latter a presentation copy to Arlott from the author. Both with good d View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1300 John Arlott. Box comprising thirty titles from the library of John Arlott, the majority hardbacks by or about Arlott, including biographies, histories etc. Some titles signed by Arlott including ‘From Hambledon to Lord’s. The Classics of Cricket’, John Arlott, Winchester 1975 (hardback), softbacks of ‘John Arlott’s Book of Cricketers’ 1982, and ‘How to Watch Cricket’, paperback 1984. Also ‘Living with a Legend’, Kathy Botham, London 1987. Presentation copy ‘To John & Pat, With love, Kathy’, and View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1301 John Arlott collection. Box comprising twenty two titles, mainly hardbacks with good dustwrappers, covering a range of non-cricketing subjects including wine and poetry. The majority are by Arlott or with contributions from him and a good number of those are signed or with handwritten dedications to his wife Patricia, sometimes affectionately referred to as ‘Patroushka’. Titles include ‘Krug House of Champagne’, London 1976. Good dustwrapper 1976. Signed to the half-title page by Paul and Remi K View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1302 ‘Neville Rogers. An Appreciation’. John Arlott. Boscombe Printing Company 1956. Privately printed. 6 pages. Gold and black cord tie to spine. Limited edition of only twelve copies produced for the Hampshire C.C.C. Centenary Fund, of which this is a proof copy and initialed by the author, Arlott. Full page portrait. Minor age toning to covers otherwise in good/very good condition. A rare Arlott edition View details Estimates£400 - £600Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1303 ‘Roy Marshall. A Biographical Note’. John Arlott. Boscombe Printing Co. 1961. Privately printed. 16 pages. Limited edition of fifty copies produced for Roy Marshall’s Benefit Fund, of which this is no. 18, signed by the author, Arlott. Rare. Very good condition View details Estimates£120 - £160Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1304 ‘Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie. A Profile’. John Arlott. Boscombe Printing Co. 1962. Privately printed. 12 pages. Limited edition of fifty copies produced for the Hampshire C.C.C. Centenary Appeal, of which this is no. 16, signed by the author Arlott. very good condition. Rare View details Estimates£120 - £160StatusUnsold Lot #1305 ‘Derek Shackleton. An Appreciation’. John Arlott. Boscombe Printing Co. 1958. Privately printed. 8 pages. Limited edition of fifty copies of which this is no. 29, signed by the author Arlott. Very good condition. Rare View details Estimates£100 - £150StatusUnsold Lot #1306 ‘Henry Horton. A Biographical Note’. John Arlott. Boscombe Printing Co Ltd 1964. Privately printed. 12 pages. Limited edition of fifty copies produced for Henry Horton’s Benefit Fund of which this is no. 35, signed by the author Arlott. Good/very good condition. Rare View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1307 ‘J.R. Gray. A Biographical Note’. John Arlott. Boscombe Printing Co. 1960. Privately printed. 12 pages. Limited edition of fifty copies produced for Gray’s Benefit Fund, of which this is no. 19, signed by the author Arlott. Very good condition. Rare View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1308 ‘V.H.D. Cannings. An Appreciation’. John Arlott. Boscombe Printing Co. 1958. Privately printed. 8 pages. Limited edition of fifty copies produced for Cannings’ Benefit Fund 1959, of which this is no. 34, signed by the author Arlott. Good/very good condition. Rare View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1309 ‘Mervyn Burden. A Memoir’. John Arlott. Boscombe Printing Co. 1964. Privately printed. 8 pages. Limited edition of twenty five copies produced for his Benefit Fund 1965, of which this is no. 17, signed by the author Arlott. Good/very good condition. A rarer Arlott edition View details Estimates£200 - £300Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1310 ‘Arthur Holt. An Appreciation’. John Arlott. Boscombe Printing Co. 1963. Privately printed. 8 pages. Limited edition of fifty copies produced for the Hampshire C.C.C. Centenary Fund, of which this is no. 33, signed by the author Arlott. Good/very good condition. Rare View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1311 ‘Leo Harrison. An Appreciation’. John Arlott. Boscombe Printing Co. 1957. Privately printed. 10 pages. Limited edition of fifty copies of which this is no. 48, signed by the author Arlott. Rare. Good/very good condition View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1312 ‘Desmond Eagar, a memoir on his retirement from first-class cricket’. John Arlott. Southampton. Hampshire C.C.C. 1958. Privately printed. 6 pages. Limited edition of twenty copies of which this is a proof copy, signed by the author Arlott. Rare. Good/very good condition. A rarer Arlott edition View details Estimates£150 - £250StatusUnsold Lot #1313 ‘The Compleat Cricketer. A short sketch of H.S. Altham’. E.W. Swanton. Bournemouth 1960. Limited edition of twenty five copies, this being an ‘Out of Series’ copy, signed by Altham and Swanton. Good/very good condition View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1314 ‘Readers’ Guide to Hampshire Cricket’. Desmond Eagar. Privately published 1964. Green boards with gilt titles to front. 12pp. Limited edition of only twenty five copies, this being number 23. Signed to the title page by Eagar. Good/very good condition. Rare View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1315 ‘Alletson’s Innings’. John Arlott. First edition London 1957. Original green cloth, limited edition number 167 of 200 produced, signed by Arlott. Good/ very good condition View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1316 West Country Umpires. Sam Cook and Peter Eele. Edited by Richard Walsh. Privately published by Richard Walsh Books 1996. Limited edition no. 34/50. Bound in original brown cloth and signed by Eele and Walsh. Additionally signed to limitation page by David Shepherd, and to internal page by Ray Julian. Includes a colour photograph of Shepherd signing the book. VG View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1317 ‘Gloucestershire Wicket-keepers’. Andy Wilson. Richard Walsh Books, Somerset 1996. Limited edition no. 42/50. Signed to title page by Wilson and Jack Russell. VG View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1318 ‘J.J?’. Alan Gibson. Richard Walsh Books, Taunton 1992. Limited edition no. 42/50. Signed to the title page by the author, Gibson, and to the frontispiece photograph by the subject, Jack Davey. VG View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1319 David Battersby. Four limited edition titles by Battersby, privately published in Cheltenham, each signed by the author. Titles are ‘My Summer of 1977’ 2017, no. 80/100. ‘An extensive account of Glamorgan CCC’s First Ever Game’ 2019, no. 8/55. ‘New Zealand- The 1927 Tour of the United Kingdom’ 2020, no. 56/88. ‘Martin Horton’s New Zealand Cricket Coaching Bulletins’ 2022, no. 11/85. VG View details Estimates£50 - £80StatusUnsold Lot #1320 Red Rose Books. K. Martin Tebay and Gerry Wolstenholme. Five limited edition softback titles by Tebay, published by Red Rose Books, Bolton. Each signed by Tebay unless stated. ‘Charlie Hallows’, 2008, no. 74/125. ‘Four In Four and Plenty More’, 2008, unnumbered edition of 137 copies, unsigned. ‘Lancashire’s Record Tenth Wicket Partnership’, 2010, unnumbered edition of 50 copies. ‘Who’d a Thowt It?’, 2011, unnumbered edition of 25. ‘Bravo, Johnny [Briggs]’, 2011, no. 46/55. Three limited edition View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1321 K. Martin Tebay. Red Rose Books 2010-2013. Nine titles including five ‘Monographs on Lancashire Cricket’ issue nos. 3-6 and 9. Each edition limited to twenty five copies, issues 4, 6 and 9 numbered and signed by Tebay, issues 3 and 5 unnumbered and unsigned. Published by Red Rose Books 2011-2012. Also four further limited edition titles published by Red Rose Books, all signed by Tebay, ‘Captain Moggridge’ 2010, no. 32/50, ‘The Return of “Mac”...’ 2013, no. 18/25, and two out of series, ‘Lancashi View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1322 K. Martin Tebay. Five limited edition titles by Tebay, published by Red Rose Books, each signed by the author. ‘Johnny Briggs. Ashes Century, Ashes Hat-trick’ 2007, no. 38/200. ‘Four in Four and Plenty More’ 2008, no. 49/137. ‘Charlie Hallows. 1000 Runs in May, 1928’ 2008, no. 49/125. ‘No Native Er’e Did That Before’ 2009, no. 34/108. ‘”Boy” Briggs and his Lordship’ 2010, no. 33/125. Sold with two titles edited by Bob Hilton relating to Neville Cardus, ‘My Dear Michael’ 2007, no. 137/500, and ‘ View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1323 ‘Sir Home Gordon, Bart- An Affectionate Retrospect’. Irving Rosenwater. Printed for private circulation, Newnham 2000. Limited edition number 54 of sixty numbered copies produced and signed by the author of which nos. 11-60 were for sale. Crease to front wrapper, otherwise in very good condition View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1324 ‘Cricket Books. Great Collectors of the Past’. Irving Rosenwater. Privately printed by J.G. Eccles, Inverness, for the author 1976. Nine portraits. Full green leather with gilt to top edge. Limited edition number 159 of 200 copies of which 190 were for sale, signed by Rosenwater. Very good condition View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1325 ‘Thomas Verity, Eminent Victorian’. Irving Rosenwater 1999. Limited edition ‘No. 8 of 12 proof copies specially run off’ for private circulation and not for sale, signed by Rosenwater and dated 1999. Three page loosely bound article further annotated by Rosenwater to the final page, ‘Printed in July 1999 for forthcoming (Autumn) Cricket Society Journal’. Excellent condition. Rare View details Estimates£80 - £120StatusUnsold Lot #1326 Irving Rosenwater Collection. A superb collection of thirty eight limited edition monographs, articles and a speech written by Rosenwater, each numbered copy ‘No. 1’ and signed by Rosenwater, all originally retained by and held in his personal collection. The majority are contained individually in an envelope annotated in Rosenwater’s own hand.Twenty eight titles were printed for private circulation, in original card wrappers. ‘Geoffrey A. Copinger. A Tribute’ single page ‘specially run off’ 199 View details Estimates£3,000 - £5,000Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1327 ‘The Wisden Book of Cricket Memorabilia’. Marcus Williams & Gordon Phillips. Oxford 1990. Blue and black quarter leather limited edition, limited to 100 copies, numbered and signed by the authors Phillips and Williams, this being no. 12. In slip case. VG View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1328 ‘Well, Well, Wells!’. B.D. ‘Bomber’ Wells. Nottingham 1981. Limited edition number 298/500 signed by Wells to limitation page. Original hardback. Good copy with good dust wrapper View details Estimates£15 - £25Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1329 ‘With the Bookplate of A.E. Winder’. David Rayvern Allen. J.W. McKenzie, Ewell 2008. Limited edition no. 124/175. Signed to limitation page by the author. Good dustwrapper. VG View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot #1330 ‘Shane Warne. My Illustrated Career’. Shane Warne. London 2006. Leather hand bound limited edition number 344 of 1000 copies produced, signed by Warne to the limitation page. In green slipcase, including the six limited edition photographs of Warne reproduced from the book. Excellent condition View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1331 ‘Cricketers and The Law’. J.W. Goldman. Privately published 1958. Un-numbered limited edition of 350 copies, with handwritten dedication, ‘Presentation to my friend Ron Richardson’ and nicely signed by Goldman. Biographical extract of Goldman from the M.C.C. Annual Report of 1979 taped down to front endpaper. Some age toning and nicks to otherwise good dustwrapper. The book in good condition View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1332 ‘Peter May. A Biography’. Alan Hill. London 1996. Foreword by Denis Compton. Limited edition bound in quarter leather and marbled boards, in slip case. Limited to 126 copies of which nos. 26- 100 were bound in quarter leather, this being no. 33, signed by Colin Cowdrey and the author. Sold with three first edition hardback autobiographies, each signed by the player. ‘All Round View’, Imran Khan, London 1988, ‘Gooch. My Autobiography’, Graham Gooch, London 1995, and ‘Courtney. Heart of the Lion’, View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1333 ‘The Lord of Lord’s. The Life and Times of Lord Frederick Beauclerk’. Mike Thompson. Newnham on Severn 2017. Original maroon cloth in pictorial slip case. Limited edition of 63 copies, this being number 28, signed by The 14th Duke of St. Albans and the author. Not previously sold by Knights. VG View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1334 ‘Jim. The Life of E.W. Swanton’. David Rayvern Allen. London 2004. Green quarter leather and red cloth with gilt illustration to front board, raised bands and gilt title to spine. Limited edition of only fifteen copies produced, this being number 9, signed by the author. Not previously sold by Knights. Slipped in is an official M.C.C. menu for the ‘Anniversary Dinner and Dinner to the Australian Touring Team’ held at Lord’s, 3rd May 1989. Signed in ink, ‘Jim Swanton’, to front cover. VG View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1335 ‘The Celebrated Goldman Sale: being a facsimile of the original catalogue of the extensive collection of books on cricket formed by J.W. Goldman Esq 1966’. Irving Rosenwater. London 2002. Limited edition of 100 copies produced, of which nos. 16-100 were published in blue card covers, this being no. 31, signed by the author. Excellent condition View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1336 ‘The ‘Don’ vs The Rest’. The scorecards of the minor cricket matches played by Sir Donald Bradman. 1920/21 to 1962/63’. Compiled by Alfred James. Sydney 2006. Limited edition of 100 copies signed by the author, this being number 30. VG View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1337 ‘The Chronicle of W.G.’. J.R. Webber. Nottingham 1998. Original stiffened wrappers. Limited ‘Subscriber’s Edition’ of 440 copies, this being no. 440. Signed by Webber and two direct descendents of W.G. Grace. VG View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1338 Kent. ‘The Story of Cantebury Cricket Week 1842-1992’. Christopher H. Taylor. Ashford 1991. Signed to title page by John Shepherd, Richard Ellison and Chris Tavare, to last page by Doug Wright and Derek Underwood, also to pages by John Shepherd, Graham Johnson, Brian Luckhurst, Mike Denness, Alan Ealham, and Godfrey Evans (twice). Sold with ‘Early Memoirs of Frank Woolley’ as told to Martha Wilson Woolley. Ashurst, Kent 1976. Limited edition no. 27/1000. Signed to the limitation page by Woolley. View details Estimates£25 - £35Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1339 ‘The Noble Cricketers: A Poetical And Familiar Epistle’ by John Wolcot. Facsimile reprint of the rare poem published by J. Bew in 1778, with a new introduction and notes by John Goulstone. Ewell 2010. Limited edition hardback of 100 numbered copies of which this is number 11, signed by Goulstone. Dustwrapper. VG View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1340 ‘Horan’s Diary. The Australian Touring Team 1877-1879’. Edited by Frank Tyson. Nottingham 2001. Limited edition no. 92 of 330 copies produced, signed by the Editor. Good dustwrapper. VG View details Estimates£25 - £35Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1341 ‘Britcher’s Scores 1790-1805’. A boxed set of the fifteen issues in facsimile, with a commentary by David Rayvern Allen. Christopher Saunders, Newnham on Severn 2003. Published in a limited edition of 212, each set signed by Sir Tim Rice, President of M.C.C., this copy being number 38. Before Britcher, scores were notched on sticks of wood. He was among the first to put them down on paper and between 1790 and 1803 he produced an annual pamphlet listing the principal scores of the year, not just View details Estimates£140 - £180StatusUnsold Lot #1342 ‘The Essential Denison’. A boxed set of facsimile editions of the six volumes of Denison’s Cricketers’ Companions 1843-1847 and his sketches of the players, together with hardback book ‘The Essential Denison’ by David Rayvern Allen. Christopher Saunders, Newnham on Severn 2008. Limited edition number 38 of 212 copies produced, signed by Mike Brearley, President of the MCC. The set is housed in a quarter leather book box with slipcase. Very good condition View details Estimates£140 - £180Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1343 ‘Sir Aubrey. A Biography of C. Aubrey Smith. England Cricketer, West End Actor and Hollywood Filmstar’. David Rayvern Allen. J.W. McKenzie, Ewell, 2005. Limited edition number 76 of 150 copies produced, signed by Honor Cobb, daughter of Sir Aubrey Smith and the author. Excellent dustwrapper. VG View details Estimates£30 - £50StatusUnsold Lot #1344 ‘Denis Compton. Cricketing Genius’. Peter West. The Denis Compton Trust 1989. Limited edition no. 492/500 signed by Richard and Nicholas Compton. In slipcase. VG View details Estimates£25 - £35Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1345 ‘Sussex County Cricket 1728-1923’. Compiled by “Leather Hunter” A.J. Gaston. Brighton 1924. This ‘Autograph edition bound in Art Linen’ is tipped in to original blue cloth covers with gilt title to front, original decorative card wrappers retained. Presentation copy with dedication in ink to title page, ‘To my friend B.W.N. Russell[?] Esq. in appreciation of many acts of kindness and courtesy, Alfred J. Gaston’. Ownership name of N. Jenkinson to front endpaper. According to Padwick 2769, this au View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1346 ‘Henfield Cricket and its Sussex Cradle’. H.F. & A.P. Squire. Hove 1949. Bound in original green cloth. Padwick 2748. Minor staining to boards, otherwise in very good condition. Sold with two softback Sussex histories, ‘250th Anniversay of the Nobel Sport at Slindon Cricket Club’, 1981, and ‘James H. Parks and his 1937 “World Record”’, Norman Epps, Hove 2017. Limited edition no. 81/100 signed by Parks. G/VG. Qty 3 View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1347 ‘Sussex Cricket and Cricketers’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Merritt & Hatcher Ltd., London 1901. Limited edition of only thirty copies produced, this being number twenty four. Bound in black leather and marbled boards, original pale green paper wrappers retained. Comprises a series of seven articles by Ashley-Cooper originally published in ‘Cricket’ in 1900 and 1901. Formerly the property of A.J. Gaston, with handwritten annotationin ink to front wrapper in Gaston’s hand, ‘Alfred J. Gaston, File copy n View details Estimates£1,000 - £1,500StatusUnsold Lot #1348 ‘Feats, Facts, and Figures of 1899’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Published for private circulation by Merritt & Hatcher, London 1899. First year of issue, of which only twenty copies were produced. 51pp. Original pale blue paper wrappers with replacement spine. Presentation copy with inscription in ink in Ashley-Cooper’s own hand to ‘F.A. Brooke Esq., 11 Dec. 1899. Copy no. 14’. Contained in a marbled board box with green calf and gilt title to spine. Padwick 920. Very rare. G/VG View details Estimates£1,000 - £1,500StatusUnsold Lot #1349 M.C.C. tour of Australia 1932/33 ‘Bodyline’. ‘Oh! Those Ashes’. A.H. Barratt, cartoons by Tom Fisher. Nottingham 1933. Private and Limited edition. Dedicated to ‘The Lord Mayor of Nottingham (Councillor H. Seely Whitby, J.P.). Rare post ‘Bodyline’ tour booklet. Printed by R. Milward of Nottingham. Original decorative black covers, tipped in to modern black cloth with gilt title to spine. Presentation copy with nice handwritten dedication ‘To my friend George Ward from H. Seely Whitby, Lord Mayor View details Estimates£200 - £300StatusUnsold Lot #1350 ‘From Commons to Lord’s. A Chronology of Cricket 1700-1799’. Volume I (1700-1750), Volume II (1751-1770) and Volume III (1771-1780. Ian Maun, 2009. Volumes I and II both limited edition no. 52/220. Volume III no. 52/125. The first edition signed to the limitation page by Maun and President of the M.C.C., Derek Underwood. The second volume signed to the limitation page by Maun. Small ink mark to front cover of Vol. II, otherwise in very good condition. Qty 3 View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1351 John McKenzie publications. One title is a signed limited edition, ‘The Art of Nicholas Felix’, Gerald Brodribb, limited edition no. 6 of 25 copies, signed by Brodribb. Sold with five facsimile reprint publications, ‘St. Ivo and The Ashes’, R.D. Beeston, 1978. ‘The Grand Matches of Cricket Played in England from 1771 to 1791’, W. Epps, 1981. ‘Lillywhite’s Illustrated Hand-Book of Cricket’, 1988. ‘Curiosities of Cricket by An Old Cricketer’, 1989. ‘Recollections of Lord’s and the Marylebone Crick View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1352 M.C.C./ England tours. John McKenzie publications. Five facsimile edition hardbacks with dustwrappers, of which two are limited editions. ‘Shaw and Shrewsbury’s Team in Australia 1884-5’, 1985, limited edition no. 157/200. ‘The Cricketing Record of Major Wharton’s Tour 1888-9’, 1987, limited edition no. 126/200. Others are ‘The Log of “The Old Un” from Liverpool to San Francisco 1886’, 1994. ‘With the M.C.C. in Australia (1907-1908), Major Philip Trevor, 1999. ‘Lord Harris’s Team in Australia 18 View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1353 Australia tours to England. John McKenzie publications. Six hardback facsimile reprints with good dustwrappers, of which three are limited editions. Titles are ‘The Australian Cricketers’ Tour... in 1878’, P.E. Reynolds, 1980, no. 43/150. ‘The Australians in England’, C.F. Pardon, 1983, no. 116/120. ‘The Australians in England [1884]’, C.F. Pardon, 1984, unnumbered limited edition of 150 copies. ‘The Third Australian Team in England’ 1989. ‘The Doings of the Fourth Australian Cricket Team in Eng View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1354 ‘Frederick Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores And Biographies Of Celebrated Cricketers. Volumes I-IX, XI-XIV, and ‘Arthur Haygarth’s Cricket Scores and Biographies’, Volume XVI. Cambridge 1996-2003. Reprints of the original volumes covering the period 1746-1854. Limited editions each of 500 numbered copies, various limitation numbers. Published by Roger Heavens. Hardbacks, Vol. XVI with dustwrapper. Qty 14. Very good condition View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1355 ‘The Chronicle of W.G.’. J.R. Webber. Nottingham 1998. Original stiffened wrappers. Limited Subscriber’s Edition of 440 copies, this being no. 323. Signed by Webber and the Grand Daughter and Great Nephew of W.G. Grace. Sold with two orders of service, one for the 150th anniversary of Grace’s birth 1998, the other for the centenary of Grace’s death 2015, each with accompanying anthology booklet. VG View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1356 Martin Wilson. Two limited edition titles by Wilson, both published by Christopher Saunders, Newnham on Severn and signed by the author. ‘An Eighteenth Century German View of Cricket’, translated into English by Wilson 2007, no. 24/100. ‘Dawn’s Early Light. Cricket in America before 1820’ 2008, no. 73/160. VG View details Estimates£20 - £30Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1357 ‘Cheltenham Cricket Week. A Review of the Games from 1878 to 1905. Together with a brief outline of other important matches played in the district’. Alfred D. Taylor. Cheltenham 1906. 2nd Edition, 62pp plus advertising to rear. Padwick 1943. Original decorative paper wrappers. Some wear and minor soling to wrappers, front wrapper and first page cleanly detached. Front wrapper with odd nicks and small loss to one corner, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Rare View details Estimates£140 - £180Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1358 ‘The Cricket Field: An Illustrated Record & Review’. Volume II 1893. Bound volume of issues nos. 29, 6th May 1893, to 52, 30th December 1893, lacking issue nos. 33, 34, 39, 40 and 42. Bound in red quarter leather boards with title page and index to front, gilt title to spine, red speckled edges. Some wear to boards and spine papers with small loss to foot, breaking to internal hinges. Vertical fold to some issues, otherwise internally in good condition. A scarce publication View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1359 Cricket book selection. ‘The Log of the “Old Un” From Liverpool to San Francisco 1886’. Facsimile reprint published by John McKenzie, 1994. ‘Daily Worker Cricket Handbook 1948’, A.A. Thomas, signed by Leslie Compton. ‘Sketches at Lord’s’. Michael Down and Derek West 1990. Hardback edition with good dustwrapper. ‘A Guide to Cricket. A Weekly Record of the Game’. Tony Laughton, Newnham 2013, softback signed by David Frith. ‘Eton and Harrow at Lord’s Since 1805’, Robert Titchener-Barrett, London 19 View details Estimates£20 - £30Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1360 South Africa. Four titles, all original hardback unless stated. ‘South African Cricket 1927-1947’, Vol. III, Louis Duffus, Johannesburg 1948, and ‘1947-1960’, Vol IV, Brian Bassano 1996 (softback). ‘Springbok Glory’, Louis Duffus, London 1955, dustwrapper with some faults. ‘Pitch and Toss’, Roy McLean, London 1957, with dustwrapper. Sold with thirteen issues of the ‘South African Cricket Annual’ for 1951/52, 1952/53, 1954, 1956, 1959, 1960, 1961/62, 1963-1965, and 1967-1969. Odd faults, generall View details Estimates£30 - £40StatusUnsold Lot #1361 Pakistan histories and biographies. Eight hardbacks with good dustwrappers. ‘First-Class Cricket in Pakistan’, Vols. I to V (1947/48- 1974/75), and three biographies of Imran Khan by Patrick Murphy, London 1983, Ivo Tennant, London 1994, and Christopher Sandford, London 2009. Also four softback titles, two signed, ‘Babes of Cricket to World Champion’, Shuja Ud_Din Butt, Karachi 1996, signed by Butt. ‘Wounded Tiger’, Peter Oborne, London 2015, signed by Oborne. ‘Summer of Swing’, Khadim Hussain B View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1362 Arthur Mailey. ‘Mailey’s Googlies. County and Test Cricket Sketches by the Great Australian Bowler’. Graphic Publications. London 1921. Original pictorial covers. Minor ageing and wear to covers, rusting to staples, otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1363 ‘The Men from Australia- a Souvenir in pen & picture’. Captaincy, batting, bowling and slip-fielding by H.L. Collins, J.M. Gregory and A. Mailey. Cartoons by Arthur Mailey. Cassell & Co Ltd. London 1926. Original pictorial covers. Vertical fold, some soiling to wrappers, wear to some pages edges, small ink annotation to rear wrapper, otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1364 Arthur Mailey. ‘Mailey’s Googlies. County and Test Cricket Sketches by the Great Australian Bowler’. Graphic Publications. London 1921. Original pictorial covers. Some ageing and wear to covers, rusting to staples, otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1365 Australian tour to England 1926. ‘The Men from Australia- a souvenir in pen & picture’. Cartoons by Arthur Mailey. London 1926. Tipped in to navy blue cloth with gilt title to spine, original decorative wrappers retained. Some wear and staining to original wrappers and internal foxing, otherwise in good condition. ‘The Fight for the Ashes in 1926’, P.F. Warner, London 1926. Original blue cloth. Signed in ink to the title page by Warner and dated 18th May 1957. Slight fading to spine, otherwise i View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1366 ‘-And Then Came Larwood’. Arthur Mailey. London ‘Cheap Edition’ 1934. Original green cloth and red title to spine. Odd minor faults to otherwise good dustwrapper. G/VG View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1367 ‘Defending the Ashes 1932-1933’. R.W.E. Wilmot “Old Boy”. Melbourne 1933 with good original colour dustwrapper. Five photo plates are signed in ink by the featured player. Signatures are Don Bradman (two signatures), R.E.S. Wyatt, Gubby Allen and Bill O’Reilly. Small loss to dustwrapper at rear, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Rare in dustwrapper View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1368 ‘Nottinghamshire Champions 1981’. Peter Wynne-Thomas, Nottingham 1981. Booklet produced to commemorate Nottinghamshire winning the County Championship in 1981. Profusely signed to inside covers and title page by twenty nine past and present players with a further ten signatures on pieces or labels laid down. Thirty nine signatures in total including ‘Basher’ Hassan, Newell, M. Harris, Hacker, Fell, Lindo, Cook, Curzon, Clay, Hendrick, Oakden, Millman, Pipe, Shipston, K. Poole, Smales, Dessaur et View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1369 ‘A Century of Philadelphia Cricket ‘. Edited by J.A. Lester, Philadelphia 1951. Original blue cloth with nice bright gilt title to spine. Presentation copy signed to the front end paper by the editor, Lester, and two other contributors, Percy H. Clark and C.C. Morris, with a lengthy handwritten dedication ‘To Sir Pelham Warner, an all time cricket great...’ signed by Morton L. Newhall of Greenwood, Virginia, dated 16th November 1956. The title was ‘Dedicated to the memory of the Newhalls who est View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1370 ‘Cricketers’ Carnival’. Learie Constantine. London 1948. Nicely signed and dedicated to half title page, ‘Every good wish. Learie Constantine. The Author’ and dated ‘Aug. 1948’. Original dustwrapper with tape repairs to edges. The book in good/ very good condition View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1371 ‘Rags. The Autobiography of Derek Randall’. Nottingham 1992. Profusely signed to inside covers, endpapers and pages by Randall and over two hundred Test, Nottinghamshire and other County players. Signatures include Tattersall, Woolmer, Moss, Denness, Rutherford, Shuttlesworth, Statham, Amiss, Titmus, Logie, Hendrick, Bolus, ‘Bomber’ Wells, Rice, Willis, ‘basher’ Hassan, Lamb, Gower, Broad, French, Afford, Croft, Curtis, Gatting, Foster, Marshall, Munton, Harper, Horton, Azharuddin, Higgs, Dilley View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1372 ‘Essex County Cricket Club. The Official History’. David Lemmon and Mike Marshall. London 1987. Hardback with dustwrapper. Thirty signatures to the front endpapers and title pages. Signatures include Alastair Cook, Peter Siddle, Adam Wheater, Glenn McGrath, Jamie Porter, John Stephenson, John Childs, Peter Such, Nick Knight, Adam Seymour, Mark Ilott, Graham Gooch, John Lewis, Nasser Hussain etc. G/VG View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1373 ‘The History of Hampshire County Cricket Club’. Peter Wynne-Thomas. Christopher Helm, Bromley 1988. Hardback with dustwrapper. Over one hundred and eighty signatures in total to the front and rear endpapers, title pages and the odd internal page. The majority of signatures annotated in pencil with the player’s name. Earlier signatures include Ingleby-Mackenzie, Heath, B. Harrison, L. Harrison, Shackleton, Sainsbury, White, Cottam, Rice, Taylor, Gilliat, Turner, Jesty, Wheatley, Murtagh, Rayment, View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1374 ‘The Complete Who’s Who of Test Cricketers’. Christopher Martin-Jenkins. First edition London revised edition 1987. Original hardback with good dustwrapper. Signed to the player profiles by seventy three players including three signatures of Dickie Bird, Chris Balderstone and Barry Richards to the front endpaper and title page. The majority signed to pages with some on labels laid down. Signatures include Arnold, Botham, Cope, Dexter, D’Oliveira, Graveney, Hampshire, R. Hutton, Jameson, Kenyon, View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1375 ‘For England and Yorkshire’. Herbert Sutcliffe. London 1935. Dustwrapper. Nicely signed in black in ink to front endpaper, ‘Sincerely yours, Herbert Sutcliffe’. Good/ very good condition. Sold with ‘A Who’s Who of Yorkshire County Cricket Club’, Tony Woodhouse, Breedon Books, Derby 1992. Multi-signed to player profiles by over fifty Yorkshire cricketers, the majority on pieces or labels laid down. Includes some earlier signatures of Brook, Burgin, Cawthray, F. Dennis, Eccersley, Foord, Lockwood, View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1376 ‘My Reminiscences’. S.M.J. Woods. London 1925. Signed to the title page in ink, ‘Sam Woods’. Original blue cloth covers. Some fading to spine, light internal foxing, otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1377 ‘The Ashes Crown the Year. A Coronation Cricket Diary’. J.H. Fingleton. London 1954. Original hardback. Dustwrapper with minor faults. Handwritten dedication in ink to title page to ‘John Arlott whose opinions on all things cricket are profound, amusing & told best of all. Kindest regards, Jack Fingleton. G View details Estimates£25 - £35Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1378 ‘The Fight for the Ashes 1953. A complete account of the Australian Tour’. Peter West. London 1953. Original green cloth. Presentation copy from West with neat ink inscription ‘To Brian [Johnston], with all good wishes and the recollection of a lot of happy days: and trusting that as usual he is still in a position to recover[?], Peter 9/11/53’. G View details Estimates£25 - £35Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1379 ‘Cricket Memoirs. Men & Matches of Bygone Days’. Vasant Raiji. Mumbai 2010, signed to inside dustwrapper by Sachin Tendulkar. Very good dustwrapper. Sold with ‘The Illustrated History of Indian Cricket’, Boria Majumdar, New Delhi 2006. Qty 2. VG View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1380 ‘Alletson’s Innings’. John Arlott. Second edition London 1958. Original green cloth with very good dustwrapper. Signed to title page by Arlott. Sold with a single page typed letter on ‘The Guardian’ letterhead, dated 18th August 1986, from Arlott to ‘Dear Juliet Smith’ sending his autograph for her collection. Very nicely signed twice in black ink. Qty 2. VG View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1381 ‘Cricket Humour. Stories & Sketches by Arthur Mailey’. The Market Printery, Sydney 1956. Colourful pictorial wrappers. Signed to top of ‘Introduction’ page by Mailey. Sunripe cigarette card depicting Mailey stapled to inside front wrapper. Nick to edge of front wrapper, light vertical fold otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1382 ‘Sussex. Know your cricket county series’. Denis Foster 1948. Findon Publication booklet signed to individual portrait pages by ten players featured. Signatures are James Langridge, John Langridge, G. Cox, C. Oakes, J. Oakes, G.H.G. Doggart, D.V. Smith, Wood, James and Webb. Rusting to staples otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1383 Jack Hobbs. Seven titles by or about Jack Hobbs. Includes a proof copy of ‘Playing For England!’, London 1931 in paper wrappers. Front wrapper cleanly detached, rear wrapper becoming detached, wear and some loss to spine paper. Neat annotated corrections throughout in ink and pencil, possibly in Hobbs’ own hand, with a handwritten ‘dedication’ in pencil to the page facing the start of Chapter I, ‘To those who have cheered me on’. Ownership name of G.A.R. Onslow to title page. Two hardback titles View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1384 ‘The 1985 Cricketers’ Who’s Who’. Iain Sproat. London 1985. Original softback comprising over 150 signatures of contemporary cricketers including Barnett, Hampshire, Mortensen, Fletcher, Hardie, Ontong, Athey, Walsh, Connor, Marshall, Maru, Parks, Tremlett, Baptiste, Ellison, Woolmer, Fairbrother, Fowler, Hayes, Watkinson, Briers, Garnham, Gower, Carr, Cowans, Gatting, Capel, Lamb, Mallender, Hadlee, Hassan, Hemmings, Randall, Botham, Crowe, Garner, RIchards, Stewart, Reeve, Amiss, Asif Din, Gif View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1385 ‘The Cricketers’ Who’s Who 1988’. Iain Sproat. London 1988. Original softback comprising approx. 150 signatures of contemporary cricketers and umpires including Agnew, Asif Din, Bainbridge, Bakker, Barwick, D.& M. Bicknell, Broad, Capel, Cottey, Coverdale, Crowe, Curran, Curtis, Donald, Fairbrother, Felton, Fletcher, Foster, French, Gifford, Gower, Hadlee, Hardy, Hayhurst, Hegg, Humpage, Hussain, Lamb, Lawrence, Lever, Lewis, Malcolm, Marks, Marshall, Moles, Munton, Nicholas, Pienaar, Pringle, R View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1386 Edward Mills Grace. Gloucestershire & England 1870-1895. ‘The Canterbury Cricket Week 1842-1891 : Its Origin, Career, and Jubilee’. E. Milton Small. Printed for the Author by J.A. Jennings, Canterbury (1892). Decorative printed paper wrappers. Signed ‘Edward Mills Grace’ to top border of front wrapper. Padwick 2089. Previously sold by Knights in the E.M. Grace sale, July 2015. Some soiling and foxing to wrappers and a few first and last internal pages otherwise in good/very good condition View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1387 ‘The Bradman Albums’. Queen Anne Press, London 1987. First edition, Volumes I & II. Cloth covers, gilt titles to fronts and spines in slip case. Formerly owned by F.S. Trueman, with letter of authenticity from Trueman’s wife. Minor soiling to spine otherwise in very good condition. Previously included in the Vennett-Smith Cricket Auction,15th November 2007. Sold with ‘Cricket Statistics Year By Year 1946-1987’, Fred Trueman & Don Mosey, London 1988. Signed by Trueman. Very good dustwrapper. VG,. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1388 ‘With the 15th Australian XI- A complete record of the team’s tour throughout Great Britain and South Africa’. Sydney Smith Jr (Manager). Sydney 1922. Original pictorial boards. Signed presentation copy to F.E. Lacey, Secretary of M.C.C., with handwritten dedication in ink from the author, ‘With best wishes and in remembrance of our many happy meetings during my first visit to the Motherland’, dated 31st October 1922. One folding plate and other illustrations. Padwick 5030. Some wear to board ex View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1389 ‘Hampshire County Cricket’. The Official History’. H.S. Altham, John Arlott, E.D.R. Eagar and Roy Webber. First edition, London 1957. Dustwrapper with odd nicks, otherwise good. Signature in ink ‘From H.S. Altham’ on label laid down to half title page and, to the inside covers and endpapers, signatures of ninety two Hampshire players with accompanying handwritten list. Four of the signatures are on pieces laid down of Cecil Paris, George Brown, Arthur Pothecary and Alan Shirreff. Other earlier s View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1390 ‘Cricket in Hertfordshire’. R.G. Simons. Published by the Hertford County Cricket Association 1996. Hardback lacking dustwrapper. Profusely signed by Hertfordshire C.C.C. players and officials to the front and rear endpapers, half title and title pages and internally. Over one hundred and thirty signatures including J. Gray, R. Simons, T. Burges H. Cutino, J. Burns, R. Smith, C. Marques, T. Morley, D. Smith, A. Burroughs, R. Jahangir, P. Driver etc. Wear to boards and spine, pages in good condit View details Estimates£25 - £35StatusUnsold Lot #1391 Albert Neilson Hornby. Lancashire & England 1867-1899. ‘Tales About Animals’ by Landseer, Le Keux and others. London 1858. View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot #1392 E.W. ‘Jim’ Swanton. Three titles by Swanton. ‘The Test Matches of 1953’ Reprinted from the Daily Telegraph 1953. Bound for John Arlott in green cloth with gilt title to spine, original paper wrappers retained, with Arlott’s instructions to the book binder annotated in pencil to the original front wrapper... View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1393 ‘Celebrities at Home. Reprinted from “The World”. First Series’. London Office of ‘The World’ 1877. Includes the preliminary pages including preface and index of the complete volume, followed by Chapter X, pp.119-127, ‘Mr. W.G. Grace at Downend’. Formerly from the John Arlott collection, bound in Arlott’s green cloth with gilt title to spine. Bookplate of A.E. Winder to inside front cover, who bought the title from Arlott. Padwick 7609 lists the complete work. VG View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1394 Cricket histories, biographies, instructional etc. Box comprising a selection of titles, mainly hardbacks, including some signed. Earlier titles include ‘Wykehamical Scores from the year 1825’, Allen Cowburn, first edition Winchester 1838. ‘The Cricket-Field’, James Pycroft, third edition, London 1859. ‘James Lillywhite’s Cricketers’ Annuals’ for 1876, 1886 and 1890 in mixed condition. ‘King’s of Cricket’, Richard Daft, Bristol 1893, damage to spine paper. ‘Seventy-One Not Out. Reminiscences of View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1395 The Ashes 2005 and 2009. England’s victories over Australia. Two multi-signed titles, ‘England’s Ashes’ 2005, twenty one signatures to pages, and ‘Bowled Over’, Stuart Broad 2009, twenty four signatures, the majority signed to the page, odd signature on card laid down. Signatures include Vaughan, Trescothick, Giles, G. Jones, S. Jones, Hoggard, Broad, Strauss, Anderson, Bell, Bopara, Broad, Collingwood, Cook, Harmison, Onions, Panesar, Pietersen, Prior, Swann, Trott (England), Gillespie, Langer, View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1396 Fairfield Books. Fifteen titles published by Fairfield Books, Bath. Includes seven hardback titles by Stephen Chalke, each signed by the author and/ or others where stated. ‘Runs in the Memory’ 1997. ‘Caught in the Memory’ 1999. ‘No Coward Soul’ 2003, also signed by Bob Appleyard. ‘Tom Cartwright. The Flame Still Burns’ 2007, signature of Cartwright on label laid down. ‘Summer’s Crown’ 2015. ‘In Sunshine and Shadow. Geoff Cope and Yorkshire Cricket’ 2017, signed by Cope. ‘Through the Remembered View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1397 Cricket biographies and autobiographies. Box comprising twenty six titles, the majority hardbacks with dustwrappers. Ten titles signed to the page by the author/ subject. Signatures are Basil D’Oliveira, Michael Holding, Graham Gooch, Dominic Cork, Nasser Hussain, Jonathan Agnew, Darren Lehmann, Darren Gough, Mike Gatting and Ed Smith. Ten signed to pieces, cards etc. laid down including Don Bradman (signature faded), Frank Tyson, Godfrey Evans, Bob Willis, Fred Trueman, Mike Atherton, Micky Ste View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1398 West Country cricket signed books. Box comprising a selection of hardback titles relating to West Country cricket signed by the author (unless stated), with good Somerset interest, the majority with good dustwrappers. Somerset titles are ‘Harold Gimblett. Tormented Genius of Cricket’, David Foot 1982, signature of Gimblett on piece laid down. ‘Coming Back to me’, Marcus Trescothick 2008. ‘Sense of Humour, Sense of Justice’, Fred Rumsey, Fairfield Books 2019. ‘Rosey. My Life in Somerset Cricket’, View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1...89101112131415|Next123456789101112131415 Previous 123456789101112131415 Next Previous 123456789101112131415 Next
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