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 1401-1482 of 1482. Previous|1...89101112131415|Next Lot #1399 John Arlott. Two boxes comprising a good selection of hardback (two softback) titles all written, edited or compiled by John Arlott. The majority with dustwrappers. Titles include ‘Indian Summer’, 1947, Arlott’s first published work on cricket. Four signed titles, ‘Hampshire County Cricket’, 1958, signed by Arlott to the title page. ‘Fred, Portrait of a Fast Bowler’, 1971, signed by Trueman to the title page and by Arlott to label laid down. Dustwrapper with some faults. ‘Arlott on Cricket. His View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1400 Neville Cardus. Box comprising twenty one titles, the majority first editions, all by Neville Cardus. Earlier first edition titles with dustwrappers include ‘Cricket’ 1930, ‘English Cricket 1945’, ‘Autobiography’ 1947, ‘The Essential Neville Cardus’ 1949, ‘Second Innings’ 1950, ‘My Life’ 1965 etc. First editions lacking dustwrappers are ‘A Cricketer’s Book’ 1922, ‘Days in the Sun’ 1924, ‘The Summer Game’ 1929, ‘Good Days’ 1934 (two copies), ‘Australian Summer’ 1937, ‘Cricket All The Year’ 1952, View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1401 E.W. Swanton signed books. Box comprising twenty hardbacks and two softback titles, all with the exception of one signed by Swanton, the majority first editions with dustwrappers, signed and dated in the 1990s. First edition signed titles with dustwrappers include ‘Denis Compton, a cricket sketch’ 1948, ‘Elusive Victory’ 1951, ‘Cricket and the Clock’ 1952, ‘Best Cricket Stories’ 1953, ‘West Indian Adventure’ 1954, ‘Report from South Africa’ 1957, ‘Cricket From All Angles’ 1968, ‘Sort of a Cricke View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1402 Derbyshire County cricket histories. ‘History of the Derbyshire County Cricket Club’, Walter J. Piper, Second edition, Derby 1897. Front board detached and with loss to one corner. ‘The Rise of Derbyshire Cricket 1919-1935’, L. Eardley Simpson, Derby 1936. Some soiling to original paper wrappers, otherwise in good/ very good condition. ‘A History of Derbyshire County Cricket Club 1870-1970’. John Shawcroft. Derby 1970. Original green boards. Limited first edition of 250 copies, this being number View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1403 Midland county cricket histories. Box comprising thirty mainly modern hardbacks and softback titles and booklets, some earlier titles with the odd signed. Includes titles for Nottinghamshire (Qty 11), Warwickshire (9), Worcestershire (5), Leicestershire (4), and Northamptonshire (1). Earlier and signed Nottinghamshire titles include ‘Nottinghamshire Cricket Scores and Biographies Season 1892’, C.H. Richards, Nottingham 1892. Rebound in modern boards with original wrapper laid down to front cover View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1404 Lancashire, Yorkshire and ‘The Roses’ cricket histories. Box comprising a good selection of over forty hardback books, booklets and brochures relating to cricket in Lancashire and Yorkshire. Some title signed and/ or limited editions including ‘History of Yorkshire County Cricket 1833-1903’, R.E.S. Holmes, London 1904. Ownership signature in ink of ‘P.F. [Plum] Warner’ to inside front cover, dated 9th September 1904, and small notes slipped in in the hand of Irving Rosenwater. Boards faded, othe View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1405 West Country cricket. Box comprising twenty six hardback books and booklets covering cricket history and statistics in Hampshire, Glamorgan, Gloucestershire and Somerset. Signed and limited edition titles include ‘Hampshire Cricket Statisitcs 1895-1968’, Roy Webber, Bournemouth 1969, unnumbered limited edition of 200 copies. ‘Gloucestershire Road’, Grahame Parker, London 1983, signed by David Graveney and Phil Bainbridge. ‘Somerset County Cricket Club Players, Photographs and Statistics 1891-200 View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1406 London and South East Counties cricket histories. Box comprising a selection of twenty six mainly hardback histories of Essex, Middlesex and Surrey cricket. Earlier and/ or signed titles include ‘Surrey Cricket and Cricketers 1773 to 1895’, R.S. Holmes, London 1896, original paper wrappers, rear wrapper detached. ‘Surrey Cricket, It’s History and Associations’, Lord Alverstone & C.W. Alcock, London 1902, binding a little loose. ‘Middlesex County Cricket Club’ Vol. I 1864-1899, A.J. Ford, Vol. II View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1407 Kent and Sussex cricket histories. Box comprising over thirty hardback titles, booklets and brochures relating to cricket in Kent and Sussex. ‘The History of Kent County Cricket’, Lord Harris, London 1907. Dedication in ink to inside front cover ‘For A.W. Shelton and Notts C.C.C. with thanks, J.H. Thorpe, June 1934’. Sold with Appendices ‘E’ to ‘H’, faults to Appendix ‘E’. ‘Twenty Years of Kent Cricket 1879 to 1898’, F.E. Marshall, Benenden 1899. Original front paper wrapper, lacking rear wrappe View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1408 ‘Scores and Mode of Dismissal of “W.G.” in First Class Cricket. With summary of results 1865-1895’. London 1896. Compiled by Rev H.A. Tate. First edition 1895, original decorative colour paper wrappers. Front wrapper partially detached, some loss to spine, otherwise in good condition. Sold with two editions of ‘Routledge’s Handbook of Cricket’, Edmund Routledge, Routledge’s Sixpenny Handbooks, London. One undated, possibly first edition, the other dated 1864. Both in original decorative colour b View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1409 Gordon Ross. ‘The Cricket Quarterly. A Journal devoted to the Noble Game of Cricket’ 1963-1970. Volumes I-VIII. Edited by Rowland Bowen. Eastbourne, Sussex. Complete. Gordon Ross’ personal copies. All eight volumes uniformly bound in green cloth with original card wrappers retained, with Ross’s bookplate to inside front cover or front endpaper of each volume. Prefaces and Indexes bound in to Volumes I-VI and slipped in to Volume VIII, Volume VII lacking preface and index. Sold with three similar View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1410 ‘Toby, the Yorkshire Tyke, with which is incorporated the Yorkshire Busy Bee’ 1884-1885. A weekly illustrated periodical with some cricket and sporting content. Complete run of issues from Vol VII no. 164, 4th October 1884, to Vol. VIII no. 202, 27th June 1885. Bound as one volume in blue cloth and quarter leather. Vol VII no. 188 bound in out of sequence. Pagination suggests each issue may be lacking four advertising pages to rear, otherwise complete. ‘Toby 1884’ crudely annotated to front boar View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1411 ‘The Arena Incorporating University and Public School Life, and Amateur Sport’ 1912-1913. Periodical published monthly by Iliffe & Sons, London. Bound in beige cloth in three volumes, with title page and index to front of each volume, original front wrappers retained. Comprises articles on sports and other activities at universities, colleges and schools, including good coverage of cricket, rugby, football and other sports. Complete run of nineteen issues from Volume I no. 1, March 1912, to Vol View details Estimates£100 - £150StatusUnsold Lot #1412 ‘Ranji. A Centenary Album’. Vasant Raiji, Bombay 1972. Original decorative gold boards. Some wear to and creasing to boards, otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£20 - £30Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1413 ‘Life and Reminiscences of Robert Abel in the Cricket Field. Told by Himself’. Edited by H.V. Dorey. London 1910. Original pictorial paper wrappers retained. Padwick 7268. Old tape repair to spine, minor wear and loss to wrappers, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Rare View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1414 Bodyline. ‘In Quest of The Ashes’. D.R. Jardine. London 1933. Unusual to see with original dustwrapper. Some faults to dustwrapper, minor internal foxing otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1415 ‘Shaw & Shrewsbury Sports Co. Ltd. Summer Catalogue’ c.1920. Sold with three books on the laws of the game, ‘Another Look at the Leg Before Wicket Law’, Leonard W.K. Martin, 1979. Signed to inside front cover by the author. Also ‘Laws of Cricket’, M.C.C. 1920, and ‘How’s That. Every Cricketer’s Guide to Umpiring’, H.W. Lee 1947. Qty 4. Odd faults, overall in good condition View details Estimates£25 - £35Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1416 Instructional and cricket histories. Five hardback titles. ‘Cricket’, Hon R.H. Lyttelton, London 1898, and ‘Cricket For Beginners’. Claude E. Benson, London 1913, both with ownership name in ink of R.L. Arrowsmith to front endpaper and bookplate of Roger Heavens. ‘Cricket’, W.L. Murdoch 1893. ‘The Jubilee Book of Cricket’, K.S. Ranjitsinhji 1898. ‘Cricket and How to Play It’, Gilbert Jessop 1925. Also two softbacks, ‘The Game of Cricket as it should be played’, Hobbs, Tate & Strudwick 1948. ‘Pin View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1417 Australia tour 1934. ‘The Australians in England’. Small 20pp souvenir brochure for the Australian tour of England. Published by the Manchester Guardian. Pictorial covers. The booklet contained in the envelope it was posted in by The Manchester Guardian to a Mr Fletcher in Halifax on the 6th June 1934. The booklet appears to have been hardly ever taken out of the envelope and is in remarkably good pristine condition. Includes compliement slip View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1418 ‘Who’s Who of Cricketers’. Philip Bailey, Philip Thorn and Peter Wynne-Thomas. London 1984. Dustwrapper. Signed to the player entries by over sixty players. Signatures include Appleyard, Arnold, E. Barlow, Bill Bowes, G. Evans, Graveney, Greatbatch, Hadlee, Langford, Ormrod, Parfitt, Sneddon, Statham, W. Sutcliffe, Trueman, Virgin, Willis, J. Wright etc. Good condition View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1419 ‘Twenty Years of Gloucestershire County Cricket Club 1870-1889’. Scores made in county matches by the Gloucestershire County Cricket Club. Bristol, Arrowsmith 1889. Poor original front wrapper with loss and staining, lacking rear wrapper, child like scribble and paint to odd internal page, possibility of an odd page missing, bound in modern blue boards with gilt titles to front board View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1420 ‘The English Game of Cricket: Comprising a Digest of its Origin, Character, History and Progress...’. Charles Box. London 1877. Original decorative green cloth with titles in gilt front and spine, with gilt illustration to front, all edges gilt. Previous owners names of ‘Walter Cairn Maitland 1883’ and Leslie Wilson 1932’ inscribed to the front endpaper, with the bookplate of Anthony Woodhouse. Laid down to the inside front cover is a fragment of a handwritten letter, ‘with best respects of the View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1421 Judge B.J. Wakley. Two hardback titles by Wakley, both published by The Sportsmans Book Club, London. Titles are ‘Bradman the Great’ 1960, and ‘Classic Centuries in the Test Matches between England and Australia’ 1965. Original cloth covers. Some staining and fading to boards, otherwise in condition View details Estimates£25 - £35StatusUnsold Lot #1422 ‘The Cricketer’s Autograph Birthday Book’. T. Broadbent Trowsdale (‘Cover-Point’). London 1906. Excellent original green pictorial cloth with gilt titles to front and spine, gilt to top page edges. Some internal foxing, otherwise in good/ very good condition View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1423 ‘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£80 - £120StatusUnsold Lot #1424 Hambledon. ‘A Grand Coronation Festival Old-Time Match at Cricket’ 1953. Official programme for the charity match between The Men of Hambledon v The Ancient Firemen, played on Broad Halfpenny Down, 30th May 1953. Horizontal fold, otherwise in good condition. Sold with ‘Hambledon’s Cricket Glory- Vol. 3 1757-1764’, Ronald Knight 1976. Includes a single page typed letter from Knight to Sporting Handbooks asking them to arrange for John Arlott to review the book for the next issue of the Wisden Alm View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot #1425 ‘Catalogue of the Sporting Library of Henry Arthur Blyth, Esq. Deceased’. Original catalogue for the auction held by Christie, Manson & Woods, 14th March 1901 ‘and the following day’. 413 lots listed with prices realised annotated in pencil. Cricket books listed as lots 92-101 include works by Bentley, Beeton, Gale, Lillywhite and Pycroft etc. Bound in brown cloth with (possibly later) gilt title to spine. Signature in pencil to inside front cover of Francis Edwards, bookseller of Marylebone. N View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1426 ‘Great Batsmen. Their Methods at a Glance’. G.W. Beldam and C.B. Fry. London 1905. First edition beautifully rebound in half leather and green cloth, raised bands and gilt title to spine, the green cloth with inlaid original gilt decoration of a batsman to front cover retained. Gilt to top edge. Blind embossed stamp ‘Presentation Copy’ to title page. Slight bumping to top corners, otherwise in very good condition View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1427 Tony Laughton. Two titles by Laughton. ‘Captain of the Crowd. Albert Craig, Cricket and Football Rhymester 1849-1909’, Childrey 2008. Hardback with good dustwrapper. ‘A Guide to Cricket, A Weekly Record of the Game. A Historical and Biographical Analysis’, Newnham 2013, softback. VG View details Estimates£20 - £30StatusUnsold Lot #1428 Peter Murray, Australia. Two titles published by Murray Books, each unusually bound to resemble a cricket ball with padded red covers and stitching. Titles are ‘World Cup Cricket. Full 2007 Programme, World Cup History & Player Profiles’ 2006, and ‘100 Years of Test Cricket. A Compact History’ 2008. G/VG View details Estimates£25 - £35Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1429 Keith Crump Collection of Cricket Memorabilia’. Original hardback catalogue for the auction held at Donnington Priory Salerooms, Dreweatt Neate and T. Vennett-Smith, 26th September 2006. With dustwrapper. Good condition. Sold with ‘The Jubilee Book of Cricket’, K.S. Ranjitsinhji, Edinburgh 1897, ‘W.G. Cricketing Reminiscences’ W.G. Grace, London 1899 (with faults), ‘Talking of Cricket’, Ian Peebles, London 1953, with reasonably dustwrapper, and two other modern titles. Odd faults, otherwise in g View details Estimates£20 - £30Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1430 ‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. 1883, 1884 and 1886. Volumes II, III and V. Volume II numbers 22 (incorrectly numbered ‘1’)- 49, 16th February to 27th December 1883. Bound in brown cloth, gilt title to spine, red speckled page edges. Title and contents pages to front. Lacking original wrappers. Lacking pp 349 & 350 with facsimile pages slipped in. pp 447-450 not present (publisher’s pagination error). Small tears to some pages. Some wear and fading to boards and spine. Volume III numbers View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1431 ‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. 1885. Volume IV numbers 80-109, 31st January- 24th December 1885. Bound in blue cloth, gilt title to spine, red speckled page edges. Title and contents pages to front. Lacking original wrappers. Complete with one statistical supplement as issued. pp 465-6 not present (publisher’s pagination error). Sussex C.C.C. bookplate to inside front cover. Previously sold by Knights as part of the Hastings C.C. collection sale of 2008. Some staining to boards, otherwi View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1432 ‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. 1887. Volume VI numbers 140-169, 27th January- 29th December 1887. Bound in dark blue cloth, gilt title to spine, red speckled page edges. Title and contents pages to front. Lacking original wrappers. Complete with six statistical supplements as issued. Sussex C.C.C. bookplate to inside front cover. Previously sold by Knights as part of the Hastings C.C. collection sale of 2008. Some staining to boards, slight breaking to internal hinges, label to spine, o View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1433 ‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. 1888. Volume VII numbers 170-199, 26th January- 27th December 1888. Bound in dark blue cloth, gilt title to spine, red speckled page edges. Title and contents pages to front. Lacking original wrappers. Complete with six statistical supplements and one pictorial supplement for 1st November, ‘The Surrey Eleven of 1888’, as issued. Sussex C.C.C. bookplate to inside front cover. Previously sold by Knights as part of the Hastings C.C. collection sale of 2008. p View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1434 ‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. 1889. Volume VIII numbers 200-229, 24th January- 27th December 1889. Bound in dark blue cloth, gilt title to spine, red speckled page edges. Title and contents pages to front. Lacking original wrappers. Complete with the eight statistical supplements as issued. Sussex C.C.C. bookplate to inside front cover. Previously sold by Knights as part of the Hastings C.C. collection sale of 2008. Some staining to boards, slight wear to head and foot of spine, label View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1435 ‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. 1890. Volume IX numbers 230-259, 24th January- 27th December 1890. Nicely bound in quarter leather, gilt title and raised bands to spine. Title and contents pages to front. Lacking original wrappers. Complete with ten of the eleven statistical supplements as issued, lacking supplement for 3rd July, (21st August supplement slipped in). Conservation tape repairs to pp 129/30, 135-138 and 143/44. Minor wear to board extremities, splitting to front internal hi View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1436 ‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. 1891. Volume X numbers 260-289, 27th January- 31st December 1891. Bound in blue cloth, gilt title to spine. Title and contents pages to front. Complete with the five statistical supplements as issued. Lacking p.197/98. Lacking original wrappers. Issue nos. 263-271 were originally published with four pages of advertising which wrapped around the main content of each issue. These are not present in this binding. Bookplate of J.W. Goldman to inside front cove View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1437 ‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. 1892. Volume XI numbers 290-319, 27th January- 29th December 1892. Bound in blue cloth, gilt title to spine, marbled page edges. Lacking original wrappers. Title and contents pages to front. Lacking the statistical supplement for 21st July of the two originally issued, and three of the eight pictorial supplements issued of G.A. Lohmann (27th October), Somerset v Yorkshire (26th August) and Arthur Shrewsbury (29th December), otherwise complete with suppleme View details Estimates£50 - £70StatusUnsold Lot #1438 ‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. 1894. Volume XIII numbers 350-379, 25th January- 28th December 1894. Bound in brown cloth and marbled boards, gilt title to spine (faded), red speckled page edges. Lacking original wrappers and title and contents pages. Contents complete. Bookplate of Thomas Parkin to inside front cover. Previously sold by Knights as part of the Hastings C.C. collection sale of 2008. Some wear to boards and spine, breaking to internal hinges, internally in good condition View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1439 ‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. 1895. Volume XIV numbers 380-409, 31st January- 26th December 1895. Bound in brown cloth and marbled boards, gilt title to spine (faded), red speckled page edges. Lacking original wrappers. Title and contents pages to front. Lacking advertising supplements for ‘Famous Cricketers and Cricket Grounds’, otherwise complete. Includes the one statistical supplement for 13th June. Bookplate of Thomas Parkin to inside front cover. Previously sold by Knights in Apr View details Estimates£50 - £70StatusUnsold Lot #1440 ‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. 1896, 1897 and 1898. Volumes XV, XVI and XVII. Vol. XV numbers 410-439, 31st January- 26th December 1896. Bound in green cloth, gilt title to spine. Lacking original wrappers. Title and contents pages to front. Two of the three statistical supplements bound in to rear, otherwise complete. Breaking to internal hinges with front endpaper and first page detached. Age toning to pages. Vol. XVI numbers 440-469, 28th January- 30th December 1897. Bound in cream a View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1441 ‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. 1899. Volume XVIII numbers 500-529, 26th January- 21st December 1899. Bound in dark blue cloth, gilt title to spine, marbled page edges. Title and contents pages to front. Lacking original wrappers. Lacking fixtures supplement of 13th April, otherwise complete. Sussex C.C.C. bookplate to inside front cover. Previously sold by Knights as part of the Hastings C.C. collection sale of 2008. Splitting to spine, breaking to front internal hinge, some age toning View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1442 ‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. 1900. Volume XIX numbers 530-559, 25th January- 20th December 1900. Nicely bound in modern quarter leather, gilt title and raised bands to spine, with original wrappers retained for all issues. Title and contents pages to front. Lacking fixtures supplement of 12th April, otherwise complete. Small scuff to spine, otherwise in good/ very good condition View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1443 ‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. 1901. Volume XX numbers 560-589, 31st January- 19th December 1901. Nicely bound in modern quarter leather, gilt title and raised bands to spine, with original wrappers retained for all issues. Title and contents pages to front. Lacking fixtures supplement of 11th April, otherwise complete. Small scuff to spine, otherwise in good/ very good condition View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1444 ‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. Volume VI. Numbers 140-169 (27th January to 29th December 1887). Bound in modern green cloth, gilt to spine incorrectly titled ‘Volume III’. Title page and contents page to front, lacking original wrappers. Illustrated. Staining and tears to edge of the odd page, otherwise in very good condition View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1445 ‘First Class Cricket Matches’. Compiled by the Association of Cricket Statisticians. Full run of titles, ‘Important Cricket Matches’ 1801-1849 (5 volumes), ‘Cricket Matches’ 1950-1863 (3 vols), and ‘First Class Cricket Matches’ 1864-1925 and 1939/40-1952 (56 vols). All in original wrappers. Also ‘First-Class Cricket, A Complete Record’ compiled by Jim Ledbetter (and Peter Wynne-Thomas), 1926-1939 (14 Vols, 1938 and 1939 hardbacks with good dustwrappers). Qty 78 in two boxes. Fading to some spine View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1446 Signed biographies, tours, histories etc. 1956 onwards. Two boxes, one comprising twenty one mainly modern hardbacks with good dustwrappers, the majority biographies, each signed by the subject/ author. Signatures include Peter May, Tom Graveney, Phil Tufnell, Graham Gooch, David Smith, Darren Gough, Matthew Hoggard, Michael Atherton, Les Jackson, Mike Brearley, Dickie Bird, Brian Johnston (2), Henry Blofeld (2), Christopher Martin-Jenkins etc., also ‘Cricket Exiles’, Brian Cowley, London 1984, View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1447 Signed cricket biographies. Box comprising twenty modern signed hardback biographies. Subjects/ signatures are Trevor Bailey, Fred Trueman, Ray Illingworth, Mike Procter, Tony Lewis, Clive Lloyd, Bob Willis, Mike Atherton, Monty Panesar, Dominic Cork, Dickie Bird, Graham Gooch, Derek Randall, Allan Lamb, Darren Lehmann, Graeme Swann, Steve James, Simon Hughes and Henry Blofeld (2). Sold with a further nine unsigned hardbacks. G/VG View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1448 ‘Cricket of To-day and Yesterday’, Volumes I & II, Percy Cross Standing, London 1902. Original decorative green cloth covers with gilt titles and batsman illustrations to covers and spines. Splitting to spine of Vol. I, some breaking to internal hinges and wear to board extremities, otherwise in good condition. ‘Famous Cricketers & Cricket Grounds’. C.W. Alcock. London 1895. Bound in maroon quarter leather, gilt to page edges. Loss to spine, wear to board extremities, internally in good conditio View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1449 A Bibliography of Cricket’. E.W. Padwick. London 1977. First Edition, with dustwrapper. Only 750 copies were printed. Sold with ‘Padwick’s Bibliography of Cricket’ Volume II. Compiled by Eley & Griffiths. London 1991. Signed by comiler Griffiths. Qty 2. Very good condition View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1450 Cricket histories and anthologies. Six titles including ‘Scores of the Cricket Matches between Oxford & Cambridge’, Henry Perkins, London 1898. Blue cloth. ‘Cricket Scores, Notes &c., From 1730-1773’, H.T. Waghorn, Edinburgh 1899. Red cloth with gilt title to spine. ‘Giants of the Game’, R.H. Lyttelton, London 1899. Pictorial green cloth. ‘Cricket Form at a Glance 1878-1902’, Home Gordon, London 1902. Soiling to original red cloth. ‘A History of Leicestershire Cricket’, E.E. Snow, Leicester 1949 View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot #1451 Don Bradman and Australian cricket. Three titles by or about Bradman including ‘The Art of Cricket’, Don Bradman, London 1958. ‘The Bradman Albums’. Queen Anne Press, London 1987. First edition, Volumes I & II. Cloth covers, gilt titles to fronts and spines in slip case. ‘The Art of Bradman’. Bradman Museum, reprinted 2004, leatherbound. Also ‘The First Test Match. England v Australia 1877’, Stanley Brogden & John Arlott, London 1950. Good dustwrapper. ‘Australia v The Counties 1878-1938’. Reg P View details Estimates£20 - £30Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1452 ‘Pigskin and Willow with other Sporting Stories’. Byron Webber. London. Single volume edition of 1883. Original decorative red cloth with gilt titles and emblems to front and spine. Bookplate of Hampshire C.C.C. to inside front cover. Padwick 6131. Minor ageing and wear to covers and spine, otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£25 - £35StatusUnsold Lot #1453 ‘The Cabinet. A Repository of Facts, Figures and Fancies relating to the Voyage of the S.S. Great Britain from Liverpool to Melbourne with The Eleven of All England and other distinguished passengers’. Published by J. Reid of Melbourne 1862. Reproduction copy circa 1971 from the rare original consisting of four issues of The Cabinet, November to December 1861, ‘An exact photographic reproduction of the original, published by S.S. Great Britain Project’ to the bottom border of the front cover. VG View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1454 ‘Great Batsmen Their Methods at a Glance’ and ‘Great Bowlers and Fielders Their Methods at a Glance’. George W. Beldam and Charles B. Fry. London 1905 and 1906. The two volumes in original green cloth with gilt illustrations to fronts and gilt titles to spines, gilt to top edges. ‘Great Batsman’ with breaking to internal hinges and some wear to spine paper. ‘Great Bowlers’ with breaking to page block, other odd faults, otherwise in generally good condition. Qty 2 View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1455 Cricket in England. Three hardback titles. ‘The English at Home’, Alphonse Esquiros, translated by Sir Lascelles Wraxall, London 1863. Cricket content in Chapter IV, subjects including Lord’s, The Oval Lillywhite, George Parr’s XI in Australia 1861/62 etc. Padwick 5892. ‘Fragments of Two Centuries’, Alfred Kingston, Royston 1893. Original red cloth with wear and staining. Not listed in Padwick. Both with bookplate of J.W. Goldman. ‘Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery’, Mary Russ View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1456 Gentlemen v Players. Two titles. ‘Gentlemen v Players’, Percy Cross Standing, Wright & Co, London 1892. Original decorative card wrappers. Breaking to page block, wear and loss to spine, front wrapper partially detached. Internally good. Padwick 3063. ‘Gentlemen v Players’, F.S. Ashley-Cooper, Bristol 1900. Original blue cloth with gilt titles to front and spine. Presentation copy with dedication in ink to ‘H.V.L. Stanton Esq., with the best wishes & kindest regards of F.S. Ashley-Cooper, 5 Sept View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1457 ‘Horae Sarisburienses’ Second edition, Salisbury 1829. A collection of articles arranged into six numbered sections, by the pupils of a college at Salisbury. Pages 17-19 comprise a poem, ‘A Scene in the Cricket Field’, and pages 279-282 a letter by ‘Cornubranus’ on cricket. Rebound in red leather, gilt title to spine. Padwick 5848-3. G View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1458 ‘How’s That? Including “A Century of Grace” by Harry Furniss, ‘Verses’ by E.J. Millkien and ‘Cricket Sketches’ by E.B.V. Christian’. Bristol 1896. Original brown cloth hardback edition with title to front and gilt to spine. Ownership name in ink of G.R. Burge to inside front cover and title page. Sale plate of H.A. Cohen to inside front cover. Padwick 5849. VG View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot #1459 ‘A List of Matches to be Published in F. Lillywhite’s Large Book of Cricket Scores from 1746 to 1856 Inclusive’. Printed by W.H. Crockford, Blackheath Road, Greenwich 1857. Bound in red cloth, gilt title to spine, with original blue paper wrappers retained. 38pp listing some 2,500 matches and two advertising pages. Text to the front wrapper and title page requests contributions of details of other matches not already listed to be forwarded to Frederick Lillywhite, who was compiling the first fou View details Estimates£2,000 - £3,000StatusUnsold Lot #1460 ‘West Indian Cricket Tour 1905’. C.P. Foley. Very rare large format title comprising 88 unnumbered pages bound in original dark green cloth with possibly a replacement spine. Gilt title to spine and top page edges. Probably printed privately in 1905. Padwick 4678-1 lists this as ‘Lord Brackley’s XI to the West Indies [1906?]’. To the front endpaper are fourteen lines handwritten in ink by tour member, E.G. ‘Teddy’ Wynyard, ‘[This record was] Compiled by “C.P. Foley”. A copy was given by the team View details Estimates£10,000 - £15,000Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1461 ‘Cricket. A Little Book for Lovers of the Game’, Samuel J. Looker, London 1925. Original red cloth covers. Comprising an anthology of the game with articles by Hobbs, Fuller Pilch, Tom Taylor, Charles Dickens etc. Tipped in is a colour frontispiece of what appears to be an illustrated cover of a book entitled ‘Cricket. An Anthology of the Game’. Handwritten presentation note in ink to dedication page to ‘Sir James Barrie with the author’s compliments, Samuel J. Looker, April 1926’. Padwick 5851. View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1462 Scottish cricket. ‘Crustaceans’ Cricket Club First Annual Report’ 1933. Small 8pp booklet with report and averages. Contained in modern blue cloth slipcase. Bookplates of A.E. Winder to inside front covers of both the booklet and slipcase. Padwick 3275. Scare. Very good condition. ‘Historical Sketch of the Perth Cricket Club... from its origin in 1926-27 till 1879’, William Sievwright, Perth 1880. Original olive cloth, gilt title to spine. Signed to the front endpaper by the author. Newspaper re View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1463 ‘Fifty Years Reminiscences of Scottish Cricket’, D.D. Bone, Glasgow 1898. Red cloth with decorative front cover, gilt titles to front and spine and top page edges. Ownership name of A.D. Taylor, and his bookplate ‘Alfred D. Taylor. Collector of Cricketana’ to inside front cover. Some fading to spine with gilts dulled, otherwise in good/ very good condition. ‘The Book of Greenock Cricket Scores from 1862 to 1874’, John Steven, Greenock 1875. Original green cloth with gilt to front cover and spine View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1464 Scottish cricket. ‘Rowans Cricket Guide’. Glasgow. 1922, 1923, 1925, 1930, 1932 and 1935. Original limp pictorial cloth covers. Wear and fading to the 1922 and 1923 issues, corner clipped from the front cover of the 1925, otherwise in good condition. Also ‘Scottish Cricket Record’ 1914, lacking front wrapper with old tape repairs, only fair condition. Qty 7 View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1465 ‘Bussey Cricket Diary & Companion 1923 to 1931’. Run of small cricket diaries produced by George G. Bussey. Includes two issues in leather covers for 1924 and 1925. Others in paper wrappers for 1923 (front wrapper detached, with wear), 1925, and 1927-1931. Wear to the 1929 issue, otherwise in good condition. Qty 9 View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1466 Cricket histories and other cricket titles. Box comprising a large selection of cricket histories and brochures, annuals, fixture cards, magazines etc. Titles include ‘Talks With Old Yorkshire Cricketers’ by ‘Old Ebor’ (A.W. Pullin). First edition, Leeds 1898. Original pictorial covers, replacement spine. Presentation copy ‘With the author’s compliments’. ‘Black Hats v. White Hats’, Fred Cobley, Otley 1895. ‘Lords and Commons Cricket 1850- 1988’, Ian Orr-Ewing’, London 1989, signed by the author View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1467 Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1901. Hardback ‘blue book’. Original decorative boards. Gilt titles and to all page edges with gilt Kent emblem to centre. Printed by Cross & Jackman, ‘The Canterbury Press’ 1895. Slight age toning/darkening to spine, very minor staining to front board, otherwise in very good condition with titles bright View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1468 Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1902. Hardback ‘blue book’. Original decorative boards. Gilt titles and to all page edges with gilt Kent emblem to centre. Printed by the Kentish Express (Igglesdon & Co) of Ashford 1902. Minor age toning/darkening to board edges and spine, minor wear to board edges, minor annotation to odd page otherwise in good/very good condition with titles bright View details Estimates£50 - £80StatusUnsold Lot #1469 Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1903. Hardback ‘blue book’. Original decorative boards. Gilt titles and to all page edges with gilt Kent emblem to centre. Printed by the Kentish Express (Igglesdon & Co) of Ashford 1903. Some age toning/darkening and wear to spine and boards, otherwise in good/ very good condition with titles bright View details Estimates£60 - £90StatusUnsold Lot #1470 Kent C.C.C. yearbooks and annuals 1947-2002. A good run of annuals for seasons 1947-1952 in decorative paper wrappers, 1953-1975 in red cloth, 1976-1998, 2000 & 2002 in paper wrappers. Sold with four official benefit brochures for Derek Underwood 1986, Chris Cowdrey 1989, Steve Marsh 1995 (signed), and Graham Cowdrey 1997 (signed). Also a complete run of the Playfair Cricket Annual 1970-2006. Odd faults to earlier annuals, otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1471 Somerset County Cricket Club Year Book 1929 and 1930. Wessex Press. Taunton 1929 and 1931. Original decorative boards. Some wear with small loss to the spine of the 1929 edition, some wear and soiling to boards, some breaking to spine block, some wear and small loss to the bottom edge of odd pages in the book, the 1930 edition generally very good condition View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1472 Somerset County Cricket Club. Six yearbooks for seasons 1931-1933, 1935, 1938 and 1939 with original board wrappers. Some wear and staining to boards, internally in good condition View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1473 Glamorgan yearbooks 1933-2011, not issued 1939-1945. Full set of Glamorgan yearbooks each with individual original wrappers and in good condition. The yearbooks are stored in ten modern blue presentation boxes, each box with gilt titles to spine and edging. Odd minor faults to individual yearbooks, otherwise in good/ very good condition View details Estimates£180 - £250StatusUnsold Lot #1474 Hampshire C.C.C. County Cricket Guide 1938. Official County Guide edited and published by H. King. Original red decorative wrappers. Odd minor faults otherwise in very good condition View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1475 Yorkshire C.C.C. annuals 1925 to 1928, 1934, 1937 and 1938. Original decorative boards, gilt to page block edges of the 1926 edition. Dulling to the gilt titles of the spines of the 1925, 1927 and 1928 editions. The 1925, 1927 and 1928 editions with discolouration to the board edges to a greater or lesser degree, the 1926 edition has detached boards and is lacking the majority of its spine paper, the 1928 edition has some child like crayon marks to inside front board and to two internal pages, t View details Estimates£30 - £40StatusUnsold Lot #1476 Essex C.C.C. handbooks/ annuals 1962-2013. A good run of fifty six official handbooks for seasons 1962-1966, 1968-1976, 1980-2011 and 2013. Some duplication. G/VG View details Estimates£20 - £30Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1477 New South Wales Cricket Association Year Book. Good pre-war run of the Year Book for seasons 1927/28, 1929/30, 1930/31, 1931/32, 1932/33, 1933/34 (Bodyline), 1934/35, 1935/36, 1936/37, 1937/38 and 1938/39. Some wear and soiling to the spines of the 1927/28, 1929/30 and 1933/34, 1935/36 and 1938/39 editions, some age toning, odd nicks to spine otherwise in good/ very good condition View details Estimates£70 - £100StatusUnsold Lot #1478 New South Wales Cricket Association Year Book 1949/50 to 1984/85. A near complete run of the year book from Issues no. 15 to 40, lacking issue no. 24, also yearbooks for seasons 1984/85 and 1990/91. Sold with N.S.W.C.A. ‘Rules and Programmes’ booklets for seasons 1977/78-1983/83. Duplication for most issues. Odd faults to earlier issues, otherwise in good condition. Qty 58 View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1479 Australia State Cricket Association Yearbooks 1927 onwards. New South Wales Cricket Association 1927/28, 1929/30-1931/32, 1938/39. South Australia C.A. 1970/71, 1975/76-1982/83. Western Australian C.A. 1957/58, 1964/65-1969/70, 1971/72-1982/83. Also Western Australian C.A. fixtures, rules etc. 1984/85. Some duplication. Qty 48. Odd faults to earlier issues, overall in good condition View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1480 ‘Lost world of a camera-artist: Third Man In. G.W. Beldam & the art of Edwardian cricket’. Compiled by George A. Beldam, foreword by Charles A. Fry. George Beldam Collection, London, 1991. Original printed dustwrapper, framed and glazed, overall 34”x15”. VG View details Estimates£20 - £30Winning BidN/AStatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1...89101112131415|Next123456789101112131415 Previous 123456789101112131415 Next Previous 123456789101112131415 Next
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