Knight's Sporting Auctions Auction of Cricket, Wisden Cricketers' Almanacks, Football and Sporting Memorabilia including the David Frith Collection- 2 Day Auction (#8) 18/03/2023 10:30 AM GMT Closed Starts Ending 18/03/2023 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 1201-1300 of 1571. Previous|1...910111213141516|Next Lot #1199 ‘Victorian Cricket Association Annual Report’ 1909/10 and 1916/17. Two official annual reports, the 1909/10 issue bound in original red cloth, printed by Modern Printing Co., Melbourne. The 1916/17 in original green cloth, printed by W. & J. Barr, Fitzroy. Both with gilt titles to fronts. Padwick 3537. Very good condition. Qty 2 View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1200 ‘East Melbourne Cricket Club. Its History 1860 to 1910 Jubilee Year’. A.E. Clarke. George Robertson & Company, Melbourne 1910. Original blue cloth with decorative title in white to front cover. Original newspaper cuttings slipped in and laid down to inside cover and front endpaper, with ownership name in ink of ‘J.T. Gray, Adelaide, S. Australia’. Padwick 3562. Frontispiece of A.E. Clarke partially detached. Age toning to endpapers. Some wear and soiling to boards. Internally in good condition View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1201 ‘Bendigo United Cricket Club Jubilee Souvenir 1861-1911’. Compiled by Geo. Makay. Printed by Cambridge & Leaney, Bendigo 1911. 40pp plus team and player portraits. Bound in blue cloth, original grey wrappers retained, gilt title to spine. Signed inscription in ink to title page from the cricket writer, ‘With compliments, J.C. Davis’. Padwick 3548. Odd minor faults, otherwise in good/ very good condition View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1202 ‘International Cricket, England v Australia. Official Souvenir and Programme 1911-12’. Sydney 1911. Official booklet published for the first Test match at Sydney on 15-19 December 1911. 52pp including advertising. Appears complete. Original decorative paper wrappers. The booklet contains pen portraits of all the tourists with images of Warner, Douglas, Barnes, Rhodes, Iremonger, Strudwick and Gunn. Twelve leading Australians also featured. Scoresheet pages partly completed in pencil. Ownership n View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1203 ‘33 Years of Cricket’. Frank Iredale. Sydney 1920. Original pictorial covers. 168pp. Padwick 7753. ‘Iredale’ inscribed to spine. Minor creasing to wrappers otherwise in very good condition View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1204 ‘The Quest for Bowlers’. C.T.B. Turner (“The Terror”). Cornstalk Publishing Co., Sydney, Australia 1926. Decorative grey boards. Presentation copy with dedication in ink to the front endpaper, signed by the author and dated 29th November 1926. Padwick 745. Very rare in this signed form. Very good condition View details Estimates£400 - £600Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1205 ‘10 for 66 and all that’. Arthur Mailey. London 1958. A unique copy of Mailey’s autobiography. The book which is profusely illustrated with Mailey printed cartoons of players and situations as published has in addition thirty-one of Mailey’s original pen and ink drawings laid down to opposing or additional inserted pages in the book. View details Estimates£4,000 - £6,000Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1206 ‘The American Cricket Annual and Golf Guide for 1900. Eleventh Year’. Compiled and edited by Jerome Flannery, New York 1900. A rare volume in the original and scarce publisher’s blue cloth. Gilt title to front cover. Padwick 4045. Very good condition View details Estimates£200 - £300Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1207 ‘Welcome! Australia. Illinois Cricket Association July 23, 24, 25, 26, 1932. Grant Park, Chicago, U.S.A.’. Souvenir tour brochure featuring photographs of the Australian team, Alan Kippax in batting pose, Kippax batting with Bradman at Lord’s 1930, pen portraits, article on ‘Googly’ bowling by P.A. Vaile etc. Bound in blue cloth, original decorative wrappers retained with the front cover portraying a kangaroo adopting a boxing pose against a bald eagle. Bookplate of A.E. Winder to inside front w View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1208 ‘Illinois Cricket and Rugby Annual for 1938’. 4th year of publication. Published by K.A. Auty, Chicago. Original brown paper wrappers. Wear to wrapper edges otherwise in good/ very good condition View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1209 ‘Our Cricketers Past & Present‚‘. Published by A.D. Jones. 1897. Collection of six scarce booklets parts I-VI and the ‘Special Australian Number’, part VII, featuring the Australians 1896. With twenty four black and white photographs of individual players and teams to each copy, 168 in total. Bound as one volume without original covers, in green cloth with title in gilt to front. Page numbers annotated in pencil to each page. Bookplate of J.W. Goldman to inside front cover. Ownership names to fr View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1210 ‘The American Cricketers in the West Indies 1887-88’. H.R. Holmes, 1975. Original paper wrappers. Limited edition of seventy five copies of which fifty were for sale, this being copy number 6, signed by the author. Padwick 5742-1. Slipped in is a nicely signed single page accompanying typed letter from the author to David Frith, Editor of The Cricketer International. VG View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1211 ‘English Cricketers at Barbados. January, February and March 1897. An Account of the Cricket Matches played by Mr. Arthur Priestley and Lord Hawke’s English Cricket Teams at Barbados, during the Winter of 1896/97’. A.B. Price. Printed at the West Indian Guardian, Barbados, 1897. Original decorative stiffened boards and cloth spine. [5], xvii, 86pp. Pages checked and complete with three original photographic plates of ‘Mr Priestley’s Team- 1897’, ‘Barbados Team- 1897’ and ‘Lord Hawke’s Team- 1897 View details Estimates£1,500 - £2,500Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1212 ‘A Philosophical Reading of Cricket’. Sreecandath R.K. Menon. Reprinted from The Hibbert Journal Vol. XXVII No. 1 October 1938, by Harrison & Crosfield Ltd., Colombo, Ceylon for private circulation, undated but assumed to have been printed in 1966. pp12. Original paper wrappers. Presentation copy with dedication and signature in ink to first page, ‘With compliments of the author. S.R.K. Menon. 1-4-66’. Author’s handwritten correction in ink to page 2. Padwick 6953. Rusting to staples, otherwise View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1213 ‘The Calcutta Cricket Club. Its Origins and Development’. Narendranath Ganguly. Published by the author, Calcutta 1936. Printed by P.C. Ray, Calcutta. 35pp plus illustrations, plans etc. Complete. Original buff wrappers, printed title to front. Padwick 3910. Minor wear to wrappers, slight splitting to spine, otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1214 ‘Spalding’s Athletic Library. Cricket Guide and How to Play Cricket’. Prince Ranjitsinhji. British Sports Publishing Company, London. Vol. 1 No. 12, 1906. Original decorative black paper wrappers. Padwick 468. Minor wear to wrapper extremities, rusting to staples, otherwise in very good condition. Also ‘Spalding’s Athletic Library. Cricket Annual’. Edited by ‘Mc.W Cricket Star’ (J.A. McWeeney). British Sport Publishing Company, London, Vol 2. No. 15, 1907. Original decorative navy blue paper wra View details Estimates£30 - £50StatusUnsold Lot #1215 ‘Spalding’s Official Cricket Guide for 1914’. Edited by Frederick F. Kelly, American Sports Publishing Co. New York, No. 5R, 1912. Original red decorative paper wrappers. Padwick 1102. Some wear to spine and wrappers, otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1216 ‘The Cricket Year Book 1888’. Published by Abel Heywood & Son, Oldham Street, Manchester. Original pictorial boards. Stamp for R.G. Parker, Cricket and Football Outfitter, Manchester to front cover. Padwick 1051. Some wear and nicks to spine, some soiling and age toning to boards otherwise in good/very good condition View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1217 ‘The Daily News and Leader Cricket Annual 1914’. Edited by ‘The Rover’ (Alfred Gibson). Original decorative green paper wrappers. Padwick 1065. Soiling to wrappers, some loss to spine, rusting to staples, otherwise in good condition. A rarer cricket annual from the period View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1218 ‘London Daily Chronicle Cricket Handbook 1905’. Compiled by ‘Linesman’. Only year of issue. Original decorative paper wrappers. Padwick 1059. Rusting to staples, otherwise in good/ very good condition. A rarer cricket annual from the period, not previously sold by the auctioneer View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1219 ‘Morning Leader. The Star & Leader Cricket Manual’ 1898. Fourth year of issue. Edited by Alfred Gibson. 64pp with fixture lists for season 1898, laws, averages for 1897, etc. Original decorative paper wrappers. Padwick 1114. Rusting to staple, very minor soiling to wrappers, otherwise in very good condition View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1220 ‘The Morning Leader Cricket Annual 1905’. Edited by ‘The Rover’ Alfred Gibson. 96pp. Original decorative green paper wrappers. Padwick 1114. Some age toning to wrappers with small nick to front wrapper, otherwise in good condition. A rarer cricket annual from the period View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1221 ‘The Morning Leader Cricket Annual 1912’. Edited by ‘The Rover’ Alfred Gibson. Published by The Daily News and The Morning Leader. 96pp. Original decorative green paper wrappers. Padwick 1114. Minor soiling to wrappers, rusting to staples, otherwise in good+ condition. A rarer cricket annual from the period View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1222 ‘Evening News Cricket Annual’ 1897. Compiled by ‘Umpire’. Sketches by ‘Rip!’. Association Newspapers. First year of issue. Original decorative paper wrappers. Titles ‘Cricket Annual’ to front cover, ‘Kricket Annual’ to title page. 64pp. Padwick 1070. Good/ very good condition View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1223 ‘Evening News Cricket Annual’ 1898. Compiled by ‘Umpire’. Sketches by ‘Rip!’. Association Newspapers. Second year of issue. Original decorative paper wrappers. 64pp. Padwick 1070. Slight age toning and wear to wrappers, otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1224 ‘Evening News Cricket Annual’ 1899. Compiled by ‘Umpire’. Sketches by ‘Rip!’. Association Newspapers. Third year of issue. Original decorative paper wrappers. 64pp. Padwick 1070. Slight age toning to wrappers, rusting to staples, otherwise in good/ very good condition View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1225 ‘Evening News Cricket Annual’ 1900, 1901 & 1902. Sketches by ‘Rip!’. Association Newspapers. Fourth, fifth & sixth years of issue. Original decorative paper wrappers. Padwick 1070. 1900 issue wrappers detached and split with some loss, some age toning to all three, otherwise in good condition. Qty 3 View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1226 ‘From Commons to Lord’s. A Chronology of Cricket 1700-1799’. Volume One (1700-1750) and Volume Two (1751-1770). Compiled by Ian Maun. Published 2009 and 2011. Both limited edition, Volume One, limited edition 25/220 copies for sale, with accompanying reference compact disc, and Volume Two, 25/200 copies. Copies 1-20 were not available for sale. The first edition signed by Maun and President of M.C.C., Derek Underwood, the second volume signed by Maun. VG View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1227 ‘Famous Cricketers and Cricket Grounds 1895’. Edited by C.W. Alcock. Published by Hudson & Kearns of London 1895. Bound in mottled brown and blue boards with title page and index. The book has been greatly enhanced by the addition of ninety seven signatures of these famous cricketers, mainly on paper pieces/scraps, some pasted down and others loosely attached to the full page image of each player featured. Eight have been signed to duplicate images of the players and the image loosely laid down View details Estimates£5,000 - £8,000Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1228 ‘Harry’s Picture Book’. Harry’s Ladder to Learning Series with fifty illustrations. David Bogue, Fleet Street 1849. Various sports and pastimes illustrated including trap and ball, running with a hoop, kite flying, marbles, leap-frog, shuttlecock etc. Worn and age toned original wrappers with tape to spine, broken spine block, odd pages detached, odd faults to page edges, only in around fair/good condition View details Estimates£100 - £150StatusUnsold Lot #1229 ‘Ten Years of First Class Cricket In England 1894-1903’. Compiled by S. Santall, Warwickshire XI. Birmingham 1904. Original decorative red limp cloth wrappers. Padwick 930. Minor soiling to wrappers, otherwise a nice copy View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1230 ‘Scores Made In County Matches by The Gloucestershire County Cricket Club’. 1870-1903. Published by J.W. Arrowsmith, Bristol. A compilation of issues comprising a full run for the period, all bound in one volume in red cloth boards. Includes an original front wrapper of ‘Scores of the Gloucestershire County Cricket Club’ with single page of matches played in 1839 and 1868 bound in to the front. Gilt title to front cover. Water damage to boards, also affecting rear pages. Odd pencil annotations, View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1231 ‘Cricket’. W.G. Grace. Bristol 1891. Original green cloth, with gilt titles to front and spine. Inscribed in ink by Grace to ‘Sydney Washbrough with W.G. Grace and W. Methven Brownlee’s compliments’ to the acknowledgement page (Brownlee assisted Grace with the preparation of the book). Smudging to the inscription. Padwick 433. Breaking to internal hinges with tape reinforcement to the front hinge. Slight splitting to spine, otherwise a nice copy in good condition View details Estimates£120 - £160Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1232 ‘Jerks in from Short Leg’. Quid (R.A. Fitzgerald). London 1866. Original blue boards with cricketer illustration in gilt to centre. Presentation copy from the author with dedication in ink to front endpaper to ‘Gertrude from “Quid”, Charleywood, May 1 1871’. Padwick 6855. Some wear to board and spine extremities, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Rarely seen in this signed form View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1233 G.B. Buckley. ‘Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket. A Collection of 1000 New Cricket Notices from 1697 to 1800’, Birmingham 1935, and ‘Fresh Light on Pre-Victorian Cricket. A Collection of New Cricket Notices from 1709 to 1837’, Birmingham 1937. Both titles are bound in original matching green and cream cloth with gilt titles to spines, and were Buckley’s personal copies with his bookplate laid down to the inside cover of each volume, annotations in Buckley’s neat hand throughout, and typed addi View details Estimates£180 - £250Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1234 ‘Bowling. A Few Hints to assist Coaches in the work of instructing Schoolboys’. R.J.A. Massie. Issued by the authority of the New South Wales Cricket Association, Sydney 1926. Printed by Beatty, Richardson & Co., Sydney. 34pp illustrated booklet with original paper wrappers. Padwick 667. Rusting to staples, other odd faults, otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1235 The Cricket Match. A Poem in Two Cantos. Copthall Chambers (Thomas Smith). London 1859. Original green decorative wrappers. Gilt to all page edges. Contains references to ‘Felix’ and his ‘Catapulta’. Padwick 6525. Soiling to wrappers, internally in good condition View details Estimates£80 - £120StatusUnsold Lot #1236 ‘Men I Have Met’. Jos Stoddart. Sports & Pastimes, Athletic Journal Office, Manchester, first edition 1889. Original decorative paper wrappers. Comprises articles on notable cricketers and other sportsmen of the day including W.G. Grace, W.W. Read, G. Ulyett, A.G. Steel, R. Pilling, J. Briggs etc. Padwick 7252. Wear and loss to wrappers and spine, rear wrapper cleanly detached. Internally in good condition View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1237 ‘The Cricket Bat and how to use it’. ‘An Old Cricketer’ (Nicholas Wanostrocht). Second edition, Handbooks of Field & River Sports, London 1865. Original stiffened boards with pictorial yellow cloth. Padwick 398. Bookplate of J.W. Goldman to inside front cover. Breaking to page block, otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot #1238 ‘The Cricket Field or The History and the Science of Cricket’. J. Pycroft. London 1851. 1st edition. 242pp. Original decorative boards. Lacking title page and large portion of the front endpaper. Breaking to internal hinges, wear to boards and age toning to some pages, only fair condition. Sold with ‘Cricketana’. Rev James Pycroft. London 1865. Bound in green boards for Lancing College Boys’ Library. Odd minor faults, otherwise in good condition. Qty 2 View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1239 H.H. Montgomery. Two titles by Montgomery. ‘The History of Kennington by the Bishop of Tasmania, late vicar of Kennington [Montgomery]’, London 1889. ‘Cheap edition’ in original decorative boards. Ex libris J.W. Goldman. Padwick 2642. Appears to have replacement endpapers, otherwise in good condition. ‘Old Cricket and Cricketers’ with a preface by C.W. Alcock, London 1890. Original decorative paper wrappers. Ownership name in ink of Mr R Phillips to front wrapper and title page. Padwick 2599. We View details Estimates£30 - £50StatusUnsold Lot #1240 ‘Surrey Cricket and Cricketers 1773 to 1895. A Complete Summary of every match played with various interesting tables’. Rev. R.S. Holmes. Offices of “Cricket”, London 1896. 80pp plus advertising pages. Original decorative paper wrappers. Padwick 2682. Splitting and small loss to spine, otherwise in good condition. Sold with ‘Annals of Cricket’, W.W. Read, London 1896. Original decorative stiffened boards. Red cloth spine with gilt title. Padwick 911. Wear to board extremities, otherwise in gener View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1241 ‘Talks With Old Yorkshire Cricketers’ by ‘Old Ebor’ (A.W. Pullin). Second edition, Leeds 1898. Original pictorial boards. Dedication in ink to inside front cover, ‘from Dad- the Author’, dated 1899. Bookplate of David Frith to front endpaper. Padwick 3036. Slight breaking to internal hinges, minor wear to boards and staining to spine, internally in very good condition View details Estimates£60 - £90StatusUnsold Lot #1242 ‘The Story of a Cricket Picture (Sussex and Kent)’. Told by The late Alfred D. Taylor (Willow Wielder). Hove 1923. Original cream paper wrappers with printed title to front, and title inscribed in ink to spine. Padwick 2151. Exceptionally good condition throughout View details Estimates£100 - £150StatusUnsold Lot #1243 Frederick Gale and Norman Gale. Three original hardback titles by Frederick Gale (‘The Old Buffer’). ‘Modern English Sports: their use and their abuse’, London 1885. Original decorative red cloth. Presentation copy signed by the author to the frontispiece, with dedication dated 1894 to title page. Breaking to front internal hinge, fading to spine. ‘The Game of Cricket’, London 1888. Nicely and boldly signed in black ink to verso of the frontispiece image by the cricket writer, J.N. Pentelow, and View details Estimates£120 - £160Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1244 Public schools, cricket histories and anthologies. Seven hardback titles. ‘Memories of Eton and Etonians’, Alfred Lubbock, London 1899. ‘Sixty Years of Uppingham Cricket’, William Seeds Patterson, London 1909. ‘Chronicles of Cricket. Facsimile reprints of Nyren’s “Cricketer’s Guide”, Lillywhite’s “Handbook of Cricket”, Denison’s “Sketches of the Players”’, London 1888. ‘Cricket in North Hants. Record and Reminiscences’, John May, Basingstoke 1906. ‘The Sporting Mirror’, Volume VII, January- June View details Estimates£180 - £250StatusUnsold Lot #1245 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. Printed by T. Traveller, London 1823. Bound in original quarter leather and marbled boards. Leather label with title, ‘Cricket’ to spine. Padwick 1221. Annotations in pencil to the odd page. Profusely annotated to endpapers with owners’ names, including the London cricket bat maker, Aquila Clapshaw. Some wear to boar View details Estimates£250 - £350Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1246 Francis Thompson. Two hardback titles. ‘The Life of Francis Thompson’, Everard Meynell, London, revised fifth edition 1926. pp 31-35 comprise a section on Thompson’s love of cricket. Padwick 8133. Sold with ‘Essays of To-day and Yesterday’, a collection of Francis Thompson’s writings, published London 1927. Odd minor faults, otherwise in good condition. Qty 2 View details Estimates£30 - £50StatusUnsold Lot #1247 ‘The Diary of Henry Teonge, Chaplain on board his Majesty’s Ships Assistance, Bristol, and Royal Oak: Anno 1675-1679’. Henry T. Teonge. Printed for Charles Knight, London 1825. Handsomely bound in modern brown quarter leather, raised bands and title label to spine. Includes an original fold-out of a sample page from the manuscript to front of book. This was the first publication of a manuscript kept by a member of a Warwickshire family, and preserved in their archives. The entry for May 6th 1676 View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1248 ‘Death’s Doings; Consisting of numerous original compositions in prose and verse...’. R. Dagley. London 1826, First edition. Bound in later full leather with with gilt title and decoration to spine. Cricket content includes an engraving of ‘The Cricketer’ facing page 53, a poem ‘The Game of Life: or Death among the Cricketers’ on pp53-56, an essay, ‘Death and the Cricketer’ on pp57-62, and a poem in the Epilogue, pp358-9, ‘The Cricketer’. Bookplate of A.E. Winder to inside front cover. Padwick 6 View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1249 ‘The Cricketer’s Manual: containing a brief review of the Character, History and Elements of Cricket.... by ‘Bat’. Charles Box. London 1851. 5th edition. Inscribed to front end paper ‘Charles Manley with the authors regards, January 1875’. Original decorative cloth. Gilt edge. Breaking to spine block, some wear to original wrappers otherwise in good condition. Sold with ‘The Theory and Practice of Cricket, from its origin to the present time’. Charles Box. London 1868. Tape to spine, broken spin View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1250 ‘Sketches at Lord’s’. Michael Down and Derek West. London 1990. Numbered ‘Collector’s’ limited edition of 150 copies bound in full leather by Boundary Books, in slipcase, gilt to page edges. Signed by both Down and West. Limited edition no. 112/150. Slipped in is a handwritten letter to David Frith from Michael Down, dated 27th October 1990, with accompanying press release relating to the launch of the publishing company, Boundary Books. Very good condition View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1251 ‘Basingstoke Boy’. John Arlott. 1990. Numbered limited ‘Collector’s Edition’ bound in full leather by Boundary Books with marbled endpapers, gilt to all page edges. Signed by John Arlott. Limited edition no. 41/200. Lacking slip case. Slipped in is an original full page advertisement from the Daily Telegraph, 16th May 1975, announcing a share issue for the Winchester and Alton Railway Ltd., of which Arlott was a director. Very good condition View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1252 ‘Arlott. The Authorised Biography’. David Rayvern Allen. London 1994. Rare limited edition of only twelve copies specially bound by Boundary Books in red quarter leather and green cloth, with gilt illustration of Arlott to front, and gilt title to spine with raised bands. This is copy number 3, signed by the author to the limitation page, with additional dedication in ink to front endpaper, ‘To David [Frith] who gave so much along the way. Ever grateful, David [Rayvern Allen]’. Not previously so View details Estimates£300 - £500Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1253 J.W. McKenzie facsimile reprints. Two titles, ‘Lillywhite’s Illustrated Hand-Book of Cricket’. Edited by A Cantab.. Facsimile reprint published by J.W. McKenzie 1988. ‘The Log of the “Old Un” from Liverpool to San Francisco 1886’ 1994. Both titles with signed letters slipped in from John McKenzie. Sold with ‘Sussex Cricket in the Eighteenth Century’, Timothy J. McCann, Lewis 2004. Signed by the author, with signed accompanying letter slipped in. Good dustwrapper. Qty 3. G/VG View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot #1254 ‘The World of Cricket’. Edited by E.W. Swanton, Michael Melford, Irving Rosenwater and A.S.R. Winlaw. London 1966. Original hardback in green cloth with gilt title to spine. The book has been profusely signed throughout by approx. 1230 international cricketers, cricket writers, scorers etc. The vast majority are signed to the pages with only one or two signatures on a piece laid down. To the inside front cover is the bookplate and signature in ink of David Frith, and two of Frith’s business card View details Estimates£700 - £1,000Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1255 ‘Cricket Humour. Stories & Sketches by Arthur Mailey’. The Market Printery, Sydney 1956. Colourful pictorial wrappers. Signed to the front cover in red ink by Mailey. Very minor marks to wrappers otherwise in good/very good condition View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1256 ‘10 for 66 and all that’. Arthur Mailey. London 1958. Original dustwrapper. The book with an excellent hand drawn self portrait of Arthur Mailey, full length, wearing suit and dickie-bow and looking a little grumpy, to blank page 14 of the book, the page before the opening chapter of the book, The self portrait drawn in blue ink and signed by Mailey and dated 1959. Minor spotting to page block edge otherwise in very good condition View details Estimates£250 - £350StatusUnsold Lot #1257 William Cafffyn. Surrey County Cricket Club & M.C.C. 1849-1873. ‘Seventy-One Not Out. The Reminiscences of William Caffyn’. Edited by ‘Mid-On’. Richard Daft. Edinburgh 1899. Signed and inscribed in ink to front end paper by the subject to his daughter ‘To G.A. Caffyn, from her father, W. Caffyn 1899’. Blind embossed bookplate ‘Library of Michael Beer’ to half title page. Minor fading to spine, a little foxing, page edges browning, front internal hinge slightly breaking otherwise in good conditio View details Estimates£200 - £300StatusUnsold Lot #1258 ‘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£15 - £25Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1259 Arthur Mailey. ‘Mailey’s Googlies. County and Test Cricket Sketches by the Great Australian Bowler’. Graphic Publications. London 1921. Original pictorial covers, tipped in to modern blue cloth. To the title page is a hand drawn self portrait of Mailey in ink, signed by Mailey and dated 1950. Padwick 5027. Some ageing and wear to covers, otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£150 - £250StatusUnsold Lot #1260 ‘On The Level. Cricket and Society in 18th Century Brighton’. John Goulstone 2019. Hardback with dustwrapper. Limited edition number 24 of fifty hardback copies produced, signed by Goulstone. Very good condition View details Estimates£50 - £80StatusUnsold Lot #1261 ‘Field of Dreams. 150 Years at The County Ground, Hove’. Patrick Ferriday & James Mettyear 2022. Limited edition number 139 of 150 copies produced signed by Claire Connor, President of M.C.C., John Barclay, President of Sussex C.C.C., Chris Adams, Three time Championship winning Captain and Rob Andrew, Chief Executive, Sussex C.C.C. Very good condition View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1262 ‘The Summer Game. A Cricketer’s Journal’. Neville Cardus. London 1929. Limited edition large paper edition of 120 numbered copies, signed by the author, this being no. 110. Printed on handmade paper, edges untrimmed. Lacking dustwrapper. Padwick 6664. Minor soiling and spotting to boards, otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£200 - £300StatusUnsold Lot #1263 New Zealand. Two limited edition titles published by Nag’s Head Press, Christchurch, New Zealand. Titles are ‘Demon Bowler. Australian XI v. Canterbury XV played at Hagley Park, Christchurch 19, 23, 24 January 1878’, 1980. Limited edition no. 57/225. ‘Tenth Wicket. Otago v Canterbury played at Lancaster Park, Christchurch Friday 25 to Tuesday 29 December 1931’, 1994. Limited edition no. 140/225. ‘England Skittled. Match Report & Full Scores of a Notable Test Victory NZ v England’, R.T. Brittende View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1264 ‘500 Notable Cricket Quotations’. Compiled by Irving Rosenwater. London 1995. Special limited edition of ninety five copies, of which the first twenty, numbered I-XX were reserved for the publisher and author, this copy being number XVIII, and signed by Rosenwater with handwritten quotation by W.L. Murdoch on F.R. Spofforth to limitation page. Bound in green cloth and marbled boards, gilt title to spine and top page edges, in slipcase. VG View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1265 ‘Sussex Cricket Cameos’. Nicholas Sharp. Privately printed, Purley 2006. Limited edition no. 14 of 50 copies produced, signed by the author. Sold with a run of Sussex Cricket Board/ Sussex Cricket Association official handbooks for seasons 1982, 1984-2001 and 2003 (odd duplication), and a Playfair Cricket Annual for 1957 edited by Gordon Ross. Qty 24. G/VG View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1266 Wisden Anthology 1978-2006. Leather bound limited edition no. 38/300, gilt to all page edges in slipcase. Signed to title page by the editor, Stephen Moss, and former editors of Wisden, Matthew Engel, Tim De Lisle and Graeme Wright. Excellent condition View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1267 ‘The Graces. E.M., W.G. & G.F.’. A.G. Powell and S. Canynge Caple. London 1948. D/W. Limited edition of 1000 numbered copies of which this is number 361. Dustwrapper. Odd nick and stain to dustwrapper, good. Sold with ‘W.G. Grace 1848-1915’. A.N.B. Sugden. Booklet published in 1965 to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Grace’s death. Qty 2 View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1268 ‘Arlott & Ackroyd: A celebration of cricket, wine, poetry and place’. With a commentary by David Rayvern Allen. Published in 2002 by Christopher Saunders, Newnham on Severn. Leather bound limited edition number 9 of 295 books produced, signed by Norman Ackroyd and David Rayvern Allen to limitation label to inside front board. In the pocket at the front of the book is an accompanying signed and numbered etching of a portrait of Arlott by Ackroyd, together with an unsigned reproduction of the same View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1269 ‘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£120 - £160Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1270 ‘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£60 - £90StatusUnsold Lot #1271 ‘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£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1272 ‘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£130 - £160Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1273 ‘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£25 - £35Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1274 Limited editions and facsimile reprints. Six titles including two signed by the author. ‘Memorable Cricket Matches’, Sir Geoffrey Tomkinson, Kidderminster 1958, limited edition no. 145/500, signed by the author. ‘George Lohmann. The beau ideal’, Ric Sissons, New South Wales 1991, limited edition no. 426/500 signed by Sissons (paperback). Facsimile reprints are ‘Old English Cricket’, H. P.-T., Willows facsimile reprint 1995. ‘Cricket Across The Seas’, P.F. Warner. Reprinted by Red Rose Books, Bol View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1274a ‘Felix and the Eleven of England’, Gerald Brodribb. Boundary Books 2002. Full leather with gilt title to spine and gilts to page edges, in slipcase. Limited Edition of 250 copies each signed by a descendent of Felix, by Ted Dexter, President of M.C.C., and by Hubert Doggart, Chairman of the M.C.C. publishing committee and contributor of a charming foreword. This copy numbered 184. VG View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1275 J.W. McKenzie publications. Eleven titles published by John McKenzie, including some facsimile reprints and one limited edition, all with dustwrappers. ‘Shaw and Shrewsbury’s Team in Australia 1884-5’, 1985, tape repair to dustwrapper. Limited edition no. 199/200. ‘Lillywhite’s Illustrated Hand-book of Cricket 1884’, 1988. ‘The Grand Matches of Cricket Played in England from 1771 to 1791’, E. Epps, 1989. ‘Curiosities of Cricket’ by An Old Cricketer, 1989. ‘Recollections of Lord’s’, William H. Sl View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1276 ‘Cricketers Of My Time’. E.W. Swanton. 1999. Limited edition quarter leather bound copy with gilt to top edge. Limited edition no. 51 of 100 copies produced, signed by Swanton. VG View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1277 ‘Last Over’. E.W. Swanton and David Rayvern Allen. Richard Cohen Books, London, 1996. Limited edition quarter leather bound copy with gilt to all edges by Boundary Books. Limited edition of 90 copies, this being a review copy. Signed to the limitation page by Swanton and Rayvern Allen, and additionally by Tim Rice who wrote the foreword. VG View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1278 ‘Annals of Cricket. A Record of the game compiled from authentic scores, and my own experiences during the last twenty-three years’. W.W. Read. London 1896. Original green cloth boards with vellum spine, gilt to top edges. This is an unsigned copy of the limited de luxe edition, limited to 250 copies, this being number 170. Wear to covers and soiling to spine with gilt faded, internally in good condition View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot #1279 ‘Eton v Harrow at Lords’. Sir Home Gordon. London 1926. Harrow limited edition of 325 copies, this being number 314. Original blue cloth boards. Gilt to top edges. Nice bright gilt titles to front and spine. Good/ very good condition View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1280 K. Martin Tebay. Eleven limited edition titles published by Red Rose Books, each signed by the author. ‘Four in Four and Plenty More’ 2008, no. 18/137. ‘Boy Briggs and his Lordship’ 2010, no. 24/125. ‘Bravo, Johnny!’ 2011, no. 51/55. ‘Victorian Vagaries Number 1. It were Nobbut his Yead!’ 2012, unnumbered edition of ten copies, and ‘Number 2 Mr. Matthew fletcher’s Pets’ 2012, unnumbered edition of 33. ‘The Return of “Mac”...’ 2013, unnumbered edition of 25. Also five ‘Monographs on Lancashire Cr View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1281 ‘Cricket. C.V. Grimmett Flicker Book. No. 4, ‘Leg Break Delivery and Leg Break Finger Spin’. Published by Flicker Productions Ltd, London in 1930. Very minor wear and slight staple rusting to covers otherwise in very good condition View details Estimates£70 - £100StatusUnsold Lot #1282 ‘Cricket. C.V. Grimmett Flicker Book. No. 5, ‘Googley Delivery and Off Break Finger Spin’. Published by Flicker Productions Ltd, London in 1930. Very minor wear and slight staple rusting to covers otherwise in very good condition View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1283 ‘Cricket. C.V. Grimmett Flicker Book. No. 6, ‘Over Spin Delivery and Finger Spin’. Published by Flicker Productions Ltd, London in 1930. Very minor wear and slight staple rusting to covers otherwise in very good condition View details Estimates£70 - £100StatusUnsold Lot #1284 ‘The Lancashire Cricketers‚‘ Handbook [1887] containing the match fixtures for the Principal Clubs of Lancashire, the Counties, Synopsis of Lancashire Cricket, County Players’ averages, Laws of the Game, Memoranda etc’.... ‘A Guide for the Season of 1887’. 160pp plus adverts. Printed and published by Fletcher & Speight, Silver Street, Bury. Original paper wrappers. Some minor wear to spine paper, fading to wrappers and some wear to wrapper edges with small loss to corners of the front wrapper ot View details Estimates£200 - £300Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1285 ‘The Lancashire Cricketers’ Handbook [1888] containing the match fixtures for the Principal Clubs of Lancashire, the Counties, The Australians, The Parsees, Synopsis of Lancashire Cricket, County Players’ averages, Laws of the Game etc’.... ‘A Guide for the Season of 1888’. 147pp plus adverts. Printed and published by Fletcher & Speight, Silver Street, Bury. Original paper wrappers. Some minor wear to spine paper, some age toning to wrappers and some wear and slight loss to wrapper edges otherwi View details Estimates£200 - £300Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1286 ‘The Lancashire Cricketers’ Handbook [1889] containing the match fixtures for the Principal Clubs of Lancashire, the Counties, Synopsis of Lancashire Cricket, County Players’ averages, Laws of the Game, Memoranda etc’.... ‘A Guide for the Season of 1889’. 147pp plus adverts. Printed and published by Fletcher & Speight, Silver Street, Bury. Original paper wrappers. Loss of spine paper, some age toning and soiling to wrappers otherwise in good+ condition for their age and fragility. Small ink sign View details Estimates£200 - £300Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1287 ‘The Lancashire Cricketers’ Handbook [1890] containing the match fixtures for the Principal Clubs of Lancashire, the Counties, Australians, Synopsis of Lancashire Cricket, County Players’ averages, Laws of the Game, Memoranda etc’.... ‘A Guide for the Season of 1890’. 147pp plus adverts. Printed and published by Fletcher & Speight, Silver Street, Bury. Original paper wrappers. Some rusting to staple, loss of spine paper, some minor wear and soiling to wrappers, very slight loss to top right hand View details Estimates£200 - £300Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1288 ‘The Lancashire Cricketers’ Handbook [1898] containing the match fixtures of the Principal Clubs of Lancashire, the Counties etc with portraits of G.R. Baker and the Champion County Team [Lancashire] for 1897’.... ‘A Guide for the Season of 1898’. 139pp plus adverts. Printed and published by Fletcher & Speight, Silver Street, Bury. Original paper wrappers. Rusting to staple, some minor wear and soiling to wrappers otherwise in good+ condition for their age and fragility. Each Handbook measures 2 View details Estimates£200 - £300Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1289 ‘The Lancashire Cricketers’ Handbook [1899] containing the match fixtures of the Principal Clubs of Lancashire, the Counties etc with portraits of Lord Hawke and the Champion County Team [Yorkshire] for 1898’.... ‘A Guide for the Season of 1899’. 149pp plus adverts and Index. Printed and published by Fletcher & Speight, Silver Street, Bury. Bound in red leather wrappers with titles in gilt to front wrapper, lacking original paper wrappers. Good/very good condition for their age and fragility. Ea View details Estimates£200 - £300Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1290 South African Cricket Annual 1951-2016. A near complete run of the Annual for seasons 1951/52, 1952/53, 1954-1957, 1959, 1960, 1961/62, and 1963-2011 and 2016. Qty 65 in two boxes. G/VG View details Estimates£70 - £100StatusUnsold Lot #1291 County Cricket Club Annuals/Year Books. Somerset County Cricket Club Year Book 1930. Wessex Press. Taunton 1931. Original decorative boards. Initials handwritten to top border of front cover, slight soiling to boards otherwise in good condition. Sold with Leicestershire County Cricket Club Annual 1953. Sparkhill Printing Co, Birmingham. Good condition. Qty 2 View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1292 ‘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 annotation in ink to front wrapper in Gaston’s hand, ‘Alfred J. Gaston, File copy View details Estimates£700 - £1,000StatusUnsold Lot #1293 Surrey County Cricket Club Handbook 1898 & 1900. Two original handbooks in original dark brown boards printed with titles to fronts. The 1898 with wear and loss to spine, front cover detached. The 1900 with some wear to spine and boards, and age toning to pages, otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1294 Surrey C.C.C. Handbook 1915-1920. Original brown printed boards. All six years bound as one volume, as published. Odd minor wear to board extremities, otherwise in good/very good condition. A rare wartime edition View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1295 Nottinghamshire cricket. Three early titles. ‘Nottingham Cricket Matches from 1771 to 1853 with an introductory chapter, descriptive of the local history of the game, and brief sketches of the principal players’, printed by J.F. Sutton, Nottingham, first edition 1853. Original pictorial stiffened boards. Some soiling to boards, otherwise in good condition. Sold with a later, third edition, printed by A.K. Sutton, Nottingham 1865. Rebound in blue cloth, original front wrapper retained, lacking re View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1296 ‘Nottinghamshire Cricket and Cricketers’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. ‘Nottinghamshire Journal Edition’, Henry B. Saxton, Nottingham 1923. Original green cloth with nice bright gilt titles to front and spine. Original dustwrapper with some fading, otherwise good and preserved in protective removable sleeve. Presentation plate to front end paper of Sir Julian Cahn, President, Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club’ to ‘Casuals C.C.’ handwritten in ink, presumably by Cahn. The label dated 1931. Padwick 2498 View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1297 New Zealand Cricket Council Annual Report and Balance Sheet 1937/38-1961/62. Five original booklets issued for seasons 1938/39, 1939/40, 1940/41, 1945/46 and 1946/47. Wear and soiling to some wrappers, rusting to staples, otherwise in good condition. Sold with five facsimile copies bound in buff card wrappers for seasons 1937/38, 1938/39 & 1939/40, 1943/44 & 1944/45, 1945/46 & 1946/47, and 1961/62. Good condition. Qty 10 View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1...910111213141516|Next12345678910111213141516 Previous 12345678910111213141516 Next Previous 12345678910111213141516 Next
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