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 1301-1400 of 1571. Previous|1...910111213141516|Next Lot #1298 South African Cricket Association Annual Report, Revenue and Expenditure Account and Balance Sheet’ 1924-1978. Official reports bound in paper wrappers for years ending 1924, 1931, 1974 (2 copies), 1975, 1976, 1977 and 1978. Some creasing to the wrappers of the 1924 issue, otherwise in good condition. Qty 8 View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1299 Australian State Cricket. Nine ‘Statistical Surveys’ by John King, published 1982-1989, each survey providing a summary of matches played between the five States. Each signed by the author. Subjects covered are Queensland v Western Australia, Victoria v Western Australia, New South Wales v Western Australia, South Australia v Western Australia, Queensland v Victoria (2 copies), New South Wales v Queensland, Queensland v South Australia, and New South Wales v Victoria. Sold with ‘16 Unpublished A View details Estimates£30 - £50StatusUnsold Lot #1300 Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1938. Hardback ‘blue book’. Original decorative boards. Gilt titles with gilt Kent emblem to centre. Printed by the Gibbs & Sons of Canterbury 1983. Loss and splitting to spine. Sold with a’ Canterbury Cricket Week Centenary’ official scorecard for Les Ames’ benefit match, Kent v Hampshire, 31st July- 3rd August 1948, very good condition. Also a ‘Kent County Cricket Annual’ 1969, original paper wrappers partially detached. Qty 3 View details Estimates£25 - £35Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1301 ‘Scarborough Cricket Club Annual Report’. Official four page printed reports for 1903, 1905, 1909, 1913, 1915 and 1918. Sold with official souvenir programmes No. 4 and No. 6 for the Scarborough Festival of 1954 and 1956 (6 copies) and more modern Annual Reports for 1982, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 and 1996. Plus a large quantity of Scarborough Cricket Club Centenary First day covers. Heavy duplication of the modern Annual Reports. Odd faults, folds, good condition View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1302 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£25 - £35Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1303 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£50 - £70StatusUnsold Lot #1304 ‘Lancashire Cricket Souvenir for 1881’. Compiled by George Newnes. Printed by Samuel Blomeley, Manchester 1881. 26pp. Extended title to rear wrapper, ‘Lancashire Cricket. A record of the triumphant season of 1881. Containing the full scores of every county match, the batting and bowling analysis of the season, the batting averages of the principal players for the last six years, and a short account of each member of the team with other interesting matter’. 26pp in original paper wrappers with il View details Estimates£250 - £350StatusUnsold Lot #1305 ‘Lancashire County Cricket. Full Scores and Bowling Analyses of all matches played by the county from the commencement in 1864.....’. Frederick Reynolds. John Heywood, Manchester. 1881. First edition, 160p. Bound in modern maroon cloth with original marbled page edges and marbled wrappers retained. Title page expertly restored with lamination film applied. The original front wrapper with printed image laid down of ‘Mr. F.R. Reynolds, Old Trafford, photo by E. Hulton & Co. Ltd. Manchester’. Dedic View details Estimates£100 - £150StatusUnsold Lot #1306 ‘The History of Cricket in Sussex from the Earliest Records to the Present Time’. Alfred J. Gaston. London 1898. Bound in modern brown cloth, gilt title to front cover. Original decorative paper wrappers retained. Handwritten dedication in ink to title page to ‘The Rev R.S. Holmes with the author’s kind regards’. Padwick 2704. Very good condition View details Estimates£800 - £120Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1307 Sussex cricket. ‘Sussex Cricket Past and Present’, original illustrated catalogue for the exhibition held at Hove Museum of Art ‘under the auspices of Sussex County Cricket Club’, 1957. Padwick 2705. Also ‘Cricket at Hastings. The Story of a Ground’, Gerald Brodribb, Tunbridge Wells 1989. Limited edition no. 42/100, signed by Brodribb and Jim Parks. ‘Sussex Cricket in the Eighteenth Century’, Timothy J. McCann, Sussex Record Society 2004. Both hardbacks with good dustwrappers. Qty 3. VG View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1308 ‘South African Cricket 1927-1947’. Volume III. Compiled by Louis Duffus for the South African Cricket Association. Johannesburg 1948. Original green cloth with protective film applied. Gilt titles to front and spine. Also Volume IV covering 1947-1960, softback compiled by Brian Bassano, Turners Hill 1996. Qty 2. VG View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1309 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£30 - £50StatusUnsold Lot #1310 India. Box comprising seventeen books and brochures on Indian cricket, tours, histories, annuals, statistics etc. Includes ‘Portrait of Indian Sport’ A. de Mello 1959, Indian Cricket Annual 1977 & 1983, All India 1936 tour guide (Simpson), ‘History of Indian Cricket’ Docker 1976, ‘Cricket Club of India. Celebrating 75 Years’ 2009 etc. The majority Ex Libris Roger Heavens. Sold with a selection of general interest mainly hardback cricket books. Titles include ‘Cricket’ W.M. Woodfull 1936, ‘Cricke View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1311 Lancashire. ‘The Professional Amateur. The Cricketing Life of Bob Barber’. Colin Schindler. Nantwich 2015. Limited edition no. 14/75, signed to the limitation label by the author and Bob Barber, and to label laid to inside front cover by M.J.K. Smith, Jack Bond, David Green, Jim Parks and John Murray. Sold with four cricket books, ‘On Fire’ Ben Stokes 2019, ‘Bowl. Sleep. Repeat’ Jimmy Anderson 2019, ‘Bob Willis. A Cricketer and a Gentleman’, David Willis 2020, ‘Paddington Boy’ David Frith 2021 ( View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot #1312 Kent C.C.C. Annual 1947-2008. Box comprising a large selection of over one hundred official annuals for the period, of which over forty are signed or multi-signed by players to pages. Seasons covered are 1947-1949, 1957-1997, 2001-2004 and 2006-2008. Includes red cloth covered ‘Members editions’ for seasons 1961-1975. Signatures include P. Hearn, A. Pawson, F. Ridgway, P. Jones, A. Catt, D. Nicholls, A. Brown, B. Luckhurst, J. Prodger, D. Ufton, D. Underwood, A. Knott, A. Dixon, R. Wilson, R. El View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1313 ‘Test Match Special’. Peter Baxter. First edition, London 1981. Original hardback with very good dustwrapper. Signed in ink to the front endpaper by eight members of the commentary team. Signatures are Fred Trueman, Don Mosey, Tony Lewis, Christopher Martin-Jenkins, Bill Frindall, Trevor Bailey, Peter Baxter and Brian Johnston. Sold with ‘The “Cumulative” Cricket Scoring Book’. Unused scorebook signed in blue ink to the front endpaper by Donald Carr, Tom Graveney, Martin Horton, Geoff Arnold and View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1314 Cricket histories. Thirteen original hardback titles. ‘The County Cricket Championship 1873-1896’, R.S. Holmes, Bristol 1897. Original brown cloth. ‘Chronicles of a Country Cricket Club’, A. Eric Bayly & Walt Briscoe, London 1908. Wear to boards and loss to spine. ‘The Cricket Field’, James Pycroft, London 1851. Replacement red leather spine. Other subjects include histories of Scottish Cricket, Selkirk C.C., Hambledon C.C., Alahakbarries C.C., early England v Australia Test matches, Australian View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1315 County cricket histories. Fifteen mainly hardback County histories. Kent titles include ‘Canterbury Cricket Week 1842-1891’, H. Milton Small, Canterbury 1891. Paper wrappers in poor condition with heavy wear, loss to spine and old tape repairs. ‘66 Memories of Kent Cricket’, C. Igglesden, Ashford 1947. ‘A Kentish Garner’, C. Clair, Watford 1962. Dustwrapper with some tears. Two Sussex titles, ‘Pre-Victorian Sussex Cricket’, H.F. & A.P. Squire, Henfield 1951. Paper wrappers in good condition. ‘A View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1316 W.G. Grace. Four hardback titles by or about Grace, including one limited edition. Titles are ‘The Graces (E.M., W.G. & G.F.)’, A.G. Powell & S. Canynge Caple, London 1948. Limited edition no. 693/1000. Original blue cloth. ‘Cricket’, W.G. Grace, Bristol 1891. ‘”W.G.” Cricketing Reminiscences & Personal Recollections’, W.G. Grace, London 1899. Slight breaking to internal hinges. ‘The Memorial Biography of Dr. W.G. Grace’, Lord Harris & Sir Home Gordon’, London 1919. Odd faults, overall in good c View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1317 Pre-war general interest cricket. Nine first edition hardback titles in original cloth covers. ‘A Cricketer on Cricket’, W.J. Ford, London 1900. ‘Talks With Old English Cricketers’, A.W. Pullin (‘Old Ebor’), Edinburgh 1900. ‘The Lighter Side of Cricket’, Philip Trevor (‘Dux’), London 1901. Press cutting laid down to inside front cover and endpaper. ‘Crotchets and Foibles’, Arthur Bligh, Bristol 1903. ‘Leaves from an Old Country Cricketer’s Diary’, W.E.W. Collins, Edinburgh 1908. ‘Chats on the Cr View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1318 Pre-war biographies and general cricket interest. Seven hardback titles, the majority first editions. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1319 Earlier cricket histories and biographies. Six hardback first edition titles. ‘The Autocrat of the Cricket Field and The Old Crocks’, A.S. Gardiner, London 1917. Frontispiece bookplate detached, foxing to pages. ‘Cricket’, Horace G. Hutchinson, London 1903. Breaking to front internal hinge. ‘The Log of a Sportsman’, E.H.D. Sewell, London 1923. ‘Sporting Days and Sporting Ways’, N. Lane (‘Pa’) Jackson, London 1932. ‘Background of Cricket’, Sir Home Gordon, London 1939. ‘The History of Cricket’, E View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1320 England v Australia. The Ashes and Bodyline. Six original hardback titles on the 1932/33 ‘Bodyline’ Ashes series. ‘Body-line?’, Harold Larwood, London 1933. ‘In Quest of the Ashes’, D.R. Jardine, London 1933. ‘Jardine Justified’, Bruce Harris, London 1933. ‘And Then Came Larwood’, Arthur Mailey, London 1933. ‘Defending the Ashes’, R.W.E. Wilmot, Melbourne 1933 (frontispiece detached). ‘The Fight for the Ashes 1932-33’, Jack Hobbs, London 1933. Sold with a further selection of Test series histor View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1321 Yorkshire cricket histories and biographies. Six titles including one signed and one limited edition. ‘Hedley Verity. Prince with a Piece of Leather’, Sam Davis, London 1952. Signed with dedication by the author to the front endpaper. Good dustwrapper. ‘Reminiscences of David Hunter. The Genial Stumper’, facsimile reprint with introduction by Gerry Wolstenholme, 2001. Signed limited edition no. 88/200. ‘The History of Yorkshire County Cricket 1833-1903’, R.S. Holmes, London 1904. Staining and we View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1322 Lancashire signed biographies. ‘Fifty Years’ Cricket Reminiscences of a Non-Player’, W.E. Howard, Old Trafford 1928. Original plain buff wrappers with printed title. Signed to the half-title page by Howard. Foxing to pages edges. ‘Cricket All The Way’, Eddie Paynter, Leeds 1962, signed by Paynter. Original decorative wrappers with some wear to extremities. ‘The Life of John Briggs’, facsimile reprint with introduction by Gerry Wolstenholme, 2000. Signed limited edition no. 16/200. Original decor View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1323 Signed biographies and histories. Eleven signed titles including five with dustwrappers. Eight titles are signed by the author(s). ‘My Book of Cricket and Cricketers’, Patsy Hendren, London 1927, signed to the dedication page by Hendren. ‘Lord’s 1787-1945’, P.F. Warner, London 1946. ‘Cricket Through The Covers’, Tom Graveney, London 1958. ‘Way of Cricket’, Richie Benaud, London 1961. ‘The World Goes By’, Frederick Grisewood, London 1952. ‘Indelible Memories. Playingfields & Battlefields’, Tony P View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1324 Pre-war cricket biographies and autobiographies. Five hardback titles and one softback. ‘Cricket and How To Play It’, Robert Abel, London 1895, limp cloth covers, breaking to page block, soiling to wrappers. ‘Seventy-One Not Out’, William Caffyn, Edinburgh 1899, ‘Alfred Shaw Cricketer’, A.W. Pullin (‘Old Ebor’), London 1902, rebound with original cloth covers and spine laid down. ‘The Cricket of Abel, Hirst and Shrewsbury’, E.F. Benson & E.H. Miles, London 1903, staining to boards. ‘25 Years Beh View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1325 Early cricket biographies. Six hardback titles. ‘Kings of Cricket’, Richard Daft, Bristol 1893. ‘With Bat and Ball’, George Giffen, London 1898, frontispiece becoming detached. ‘Alfred Shaw Cricketer’, A.W. Pullin (‘Old Ebor’), London 1902. ‘The Hon. F.S. Jackson’, Percy Cross Standing, London 1906, lacking front endpaper, breaking to rear internal hinge. ‘Forty Seasons of First-Class Cricket’, Richard Gorton Barlow, Manchester 1908, breaking to internal hinges. ‘Twenty-Four Years of Cricket’, A View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1326 Cricket histories and anthologies. Sixteen titles, the majority hardbacks. ‘The Cricket-Field’, James Pycroft, London 1873, breaking to front internal hinge. ‘Cricket’, E. Lyttelton, London 1894. ‘Bat v. Ball’, J.H. Lester, London 1900. ‘The Cricket Field of the Christian Life’, Thomas Waugh, Stockport c.1900. ‘Sixty Years of Uppingham Cricket’, William Seeds Patterson, London 1909, slight breaking to page block. ‘Records of the Harlequin Cricket Club 1852-1926’, Alfred Cochrane, London 1930. ‘G View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1327 Cricket prose and verse. Nine titles, the majority hardbacks. ‘The Summer Playground’, C.S. Hayward, London 1920, wear to boards. ‘How McDougall Topped the Score’, Thos. E. Spencer, Sydney, ‘6th edition’ 1912, paper wrappers with loss and splitting. ‘For the Luncheon Interval’, A.A. Milne, London 1925, stiffened paper wrappers. ‘The Greenwood Hat’, J.M. Barrie, London 1937, dustwrapper with tape repairs. ‘Silly Point’, Arthur Clitheroe, London 1939, tape repairs to spine. ‘The Flower Show Match View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1328 Cricket instructional. Eleven titles, the majority hardbacks, some with dustwrappers. ‘The Jubilee Book of Cricket’, K.S. Ranjitsinhji, London 1897, soiling to boards. ‘Cricket’, R.H. Lyttelton, London 1898, spotting to boards. ‘Cricket’, Gilbert L. Jessop, London 1903. ‘First Steps to Batting’, Donald J. Knight, London 1922. ‘The More Compleat Cricketer’, D.J. Knight, London 1925. ‘The Game of Cricket as it should be played’, Hobbs, Tate & Strudwick, London 1927, two copies in differing paper w View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1329 Cricket miscellaneous. Eight hardback titles including three on ‘Bodyline’. ‘Jardine Justified’, Bruce Harris, London 1933. ‘Defending the Ashes 1932-1933’, R.W.E. Wilmot, Melbourne 1933. ‘And Then Came Larwood’, Arthur Mailey, London 1934. Also ‘Ranjitsinhji. Prince of Cricket’, Percy Cross Standing, London 1903, staining to boards. ‘Leaves from... An Old Country’, W.E.W. Collines, Edinburgh 1908. ‘A Cricketer’s Log’, G.L. Jessop, London 1922. ‘Cricket Memories’, Edward Rutter, London 1925. ‘Ba View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1330 Cricket and sporting titles. Box comprising thirty one titles, the majority first edition hardbacks, a good number early. Sports featured include cricket, bowls, hockey, golf, rowing, rugby etc. covering biographies, sporting anthologies, and general sporting interest. Titles include ‘The Life of the Hon. Robert Grimston’, Frederick Gale, London 1885. ‘A Sporting Pilgrimage’, Caspar W. Whitney, London 1895, staining to boards. ‘Reminiscences of an Old Sportsman’, Walter B. Woodgate, London 1909, View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1331 Cricket Books. Small box comprising a selection of approx. fifty cricket books, booklets brochures etc. Jack Davey and David Shepherd (Gloucestershire) Testimonial brochure 1978, signed to the front by both players. ‘International Cricket Centenary Occasion’, official booklet/ programme for the match played to celebrate the centenary of international cricket at Melbourne, 1962/63. ‘Sussex County Cricket Club, Hove 1872-1972’, official centenary booklet. An original copy ‘Baily’s Magazine of Spor View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1332 Cricket biographies and autobiographies. Thirty one titles, the majority hardbacks. A number of titles with original dustwrappers including ‘Cricket Heritage’, W.J. Edrich, London 1948. ‘Close of Play’, Leslie Ames, London 1953. ‘I’ll Spin You a Tale’, Eric Hollies, London 1955. ‘Flannelled Foolishness’, E.R.T. Holmes, London 1957. ‘Hirst & Rhodes’, A.A. Thomson, London 1959. ‘84 Not Out’. The Story of Sir Arthur Sims’, Alan Mitchell, London 1962. ‘Walter Hammond’, Ronald Mason, London 1962, bou View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1333 Cricket biographies and autobiographies 1910s-1960s. Two boxes comprising sixty four titles, the majority hardbacks and first editions. A good number with generally good dustwrappers, one signed, including ‘My Cricketing Days’, C.G. Macartney 1930. ‘A Cricket Pro’s Lot’, Fred Root 1937. ‘An Outdoor Wallah’, E.H.D. Sewell 1945. ‘Cricket My World’, Walter Hammond 1948. ‘Cricket Campaigns’, Norman Yardley 1950, signed by Yardley. ‘Sticky Wickets’, Lionel Tennyson 1950. ‘In Sun and Shadow’, Denis Co View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1334 ‘The Book of Cricket. A Gallery of Famous Players’. C.B. Fry. London 1899. Bound in black boards, complete with index. Minor foxing to outer pages otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£25 - £35Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1335 ‘Cricket. Shaw and Shrewsbury’s Team in Australia 1884-1885. The Voyage out. Description of Matches, Description of the Players, The Voyage Home, Batting and bowling averages’. Alfred Shaw and Arthur Shrewsbury. Nottingham 1885. 181pp plus adverts. Original decorative wrappers. Some wear with loss to spine paper, some soiling and wear to wrappers, minor foxing to page block otherwise in good condition. Rare View details Estimates£300 - £400Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1336 ‘A Biographical Sketch of Arthur Shrewsbury, the Famous Notts Cricketer. With full details of his chief performance in England & Australia’. Compiled and published by S.W. Hitchin, Nottingham 1890. 42pp. Original printed wrappers. This was Shrewsbury’s copy. Padwick 8046. Slight wear and nicks to lower portion of spine, otherwise in good/ very good condition View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1337 ‘Laws of Cricket’ Charles E. Crombie. London 1907. Large, complete first edition folio book containing twelve colour humorous illustrations with captions of the laws of the game, produced for Perrier Limited of London, with Perrier advertisements throughout and to rear page. Original hardback pictorial boards. Previously sold by Knights as part of the E.M. Grace sale of July 2015 as lot 125. Odd minor faults otherwise in good/very good condition View details Estimates£140 - £180Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1338 ‘The English Cricketers’ Trip to Canada and the United States in 1859’. Frederick Lillywhite. First edition, London 1860. Original green boards with title in gilt to front. Illustrated, complete with fold out map. Padwick 4893. Slight breaking to internal hinges and page block, some internal foxing, otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£200 - £300Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1339 ‘Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket. A Collection of 1000 New Cricket Notices from 1697 to 1800’. G.B. Buckley. Birmingham 1935. Original green and cream cloth. Slight staining and soiling to boards, bumping to corners, otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1340 ‘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 Bowlers’ with staining to boards, breaking to page block and tear to p.547. Both volumes with breaking to internal hinges, odd nicks to spines. Other odd minor faults, otherwise in good condition. Qty 2 View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1341 ‘Tours and Tests’. Kenneth Farnes. London first edition 1940. Original blue cloth with title in red to spine. One photographic plate becoming detached. Foxing to pages, otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£25 - £35StatusUnsold Lot #1342 ‘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 cloth-backed pictorial boards. Wear to spine. One folding plate and other illustrations. Padwick 5030. Minor wear to boards, otherwise in good/ very good original condition. A nice copy View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1343 ‘The History of Derbyshire County Cricket Club’. John Shawcroft. Bromley 1989. Hardback with dustwrapper. Twenty eight signatures to the front endpaper and half title page, plus a further five to pages. Signatures include Jim Brailsford, Mike Hendrick, Brian Bolus, Michael Bentley, Peter Gibbs, Derek Morgan, Bob Taylor, Eric Marsh, Bill Oates, Laurie Johnson, Harold Rhodes etc. G/VG View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1344 Gloucestershire and Lancashire signed histories. Two hardback titles with dustwrappers. ‘Gloucestershire Cricketing Greats’, Dean Hayes, Tunbridge Wells 1990. Signed in ink to the title page by eleven Gloucestershire players, Zaheer Abbas, Mike Procter, Arthur Milton, Bomber Wells, David Shepherd, David Graveney, Tom Graveney, John Mortimer, Jack Russell, Tony Brown and David Allen. Players’ names neatly annotated in pencil below each signature. ‘Champions... about bloomin’ time!’, Graham Hardca View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1345 ‘The History of Northamptonshire County Cricket Club’. Matthew Engel & Andrew Radd. Christopher Helm 1993. Twenty five signatures to the front end paper, title and contents pages including author, Alan Radd, and to pages by a further seventeen players. Players’ signatures include Frank Tyson, Dennis Brookes, Des Barrick, Raman Subba Row, Brian Reynolds, Bob Cottam, David Steele, Mushtaq Mohammad, Roy Virgin, Wayne Larkins, Nick Cook, David Capel, Rob Bailey, Allan Lamb, Peter Willey etc. Over fo View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1346 Christopher Helm county histories. Two multi-signed county histories. ‘The History of Leicestershire County Cricket Club’, Dennis Lambert 1992. Eighteen signatures to the title page including M.J.K. Smith, George Dawkes, Phil DeFreitas, Charles Palmer, Javagal Srinath, Devon Malcolm, Nick Cook, Trevor Ward, Anil Kumble etc. ‘The History of Derbyshire County Cricket Club’, John Shawcroft 1989. Ten signatures to the title page including John Hampshire, Harold Rhodes, Mike Hendrick, Tim Munton, Joh View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1347 Signed biographies and autobiographies. Box comprising eighteen signed titles, the majority hardbacks with dustwrappers. Includes two multi-signed titles, ‘Kent Cricketing Greats’, Dean Hayes 1990, 14 signatures including Benson, Luckhurst, Underwood, Ealham, Knott, Shepherd, Wilson, Woolmer etc. and a softback, ‘100 Greats Glamorgan County Cricket Club’, Andrew Hignell 2000, sixteen signatures including Cottey, Croft, Hemp, A. Jones, Maynard, Morris, Nash, Shepherd, Walker etc., both with some View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1348 ‘From The Sea End’. Christopher Lee. London 1989. Dustwrapper with protective cellophane applied. Profusely signed to the front end paper, half title page by over forty Sussex players. Signatures include Speight, Rao, M. Newell, Oakman, Bates, Pigott, A. Wells, Athey, Kirtley, Waller, Lenham, Arnold, Salisbury, Gould, Peirce, Ameer Khan, David M. Smith etc. some smudging to the odd signature, otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£30 - £50StatusUnsold Lot #1349 ‘A Portfolio of Cricket Prints. A Nineteenth Century Miscellany’. Introduction and Notes by Irving Rosenwater. London 1962. Original pictorial wrappers. Some staining and wear to wrappers. Internally in very good condition View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1350 Don Bradman. Two hardback titles by Bradman. ‘Don Bradman’s Book’, ‘Deluxe Edition’, London 1938, lacking dustwrapper, and ‘Farewell To Cricket’, London 1950, dustwrapper with odd faults. Also ‘Bradman The Great’, B.J. Wakley, London 1959, good dustwrapper, ex Edmonton Public Library. Sold with ‘Wild Men of Sydney’, Cyril Pearl, London 1958, good dustwrapper. Odd minor faults, otherwise in good condition. Qty 4 View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1351 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, with original compliment slip card, is contained in the envelope it was posted in by The Manchester Guardian to a Mr Fletcher in Halifax on the 5th June 1934. The booklet appears to have hardly ever been taken out of the envelope and is in remarkably good, almost pristine condition View details Estimates£50 - £70StatusUnsold Lot #1352 Australia tour 1938. ‘The Australians in England 1938’. Small 32pp souvenir brochure for the Australian tour of England. Published by the Manchester Guardian. Pictorial covers. From the collection of the original recipient, Mr Fletcher of Halifax. Rusting to the staples, otherwise in very good condition View details Estimates£50 - £70StatusUnsold Lot #1353 ‘The Cricketers Manual by “BAT”’. Charles Box. London 1851. Fifth edition. Original decorative cloth, gilt to page edge. Loss to head and base of spine paper, some splitting to boards at spine, soiling and some wear to boards otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1354 ‘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£500 - £800Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1355 ‘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 Mayo View details Estimates£140 - £180Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1356 Albert Neilson Hornby. Lancashire & England 1867-1899. ‘Tales About Animals’ by Landseer, Le Keux and others. London 1858. Illustrated ‘with upwards of one hundred steel engravings’. Original tooled blue cloth with gilt title and illustration to front and spine, gilt to page edges. To the inside front cover is a label laid down, ‘Presented by the Misses Tait & Townsend to Albert Hornby of the Secondary Class for his improved application during the past half-year. Seafield House, Christmas 1858’, View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1357 ‘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 preceding the title page, of ‘George W. King. Dec. 11. 1863’, followed in pencil in another View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1358 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£30 - £50StatusUnsold Lot #1359 ‘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£1,000 - £1,500Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1360 ‘Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific’. Sir William Edward Parry. John Murray, London 1824. Appears to be rebound in brown cloth with gilt title to spine. Lacking some plates, also lacking rear charts, but includes the frontispiece engraving by Edward Finden after a drawing by Captain Lyon, R.N., titled ‘Situation of H M Ships Fury & Hecla, at Igloolik 1822-23’ depicting cricket being played by the crews on ice and snow. Ex libris View details Estimates£120 - £160Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1361 ‘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£70 - £100StatusUnsold Lot #1362 ‘With Stoddart’s team in Australia. Being the Record of the 1897-8 Tour’. Prince K.S. Ranjitsinhji. London, fourth edition, 1898. Original green cloth with titles in gilt to front and spine and pictorial image of Ranji to front. Padwick 4423. Small tear to first advertising page, light foxing, otherwise in very good condition View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1363 Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji. Two titles. ‘The Jubilee Book of Cricket’, Prince K.S. Ranjitsinhji, London, first edition 1897. Original blue cloth. ‘Ranjitsinhji. Prince of Cricket’, Percy Cross Standing, Arrowsmith, Bristol, first edition 1903. Also ‘Annals of Lord’s and History of the M.C.C.’, Alfred D. Taylor, Arrowsmith, Bristol, first edition 1903. Both in original maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine and decorative titles to front covers. The latter with bookplate of B.J. Wakley to inside fro View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1364 Hon. R.H. Lyttelton. Three titles, including two first edition hardbacks in original cloth covers. ‘Giants of the Game’, London 1899. ‘Out-door Games. Cricket & Golf’, London 1901. Ex libris B.J. Wakley. Also ‘The Crisis in Cricket and the “Leg Before Rule”’, London 1928 in original paper wrappers. Odd minor faults, otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£30 - £50StatusUnsold Lot #1365 ‘Life, Scores and Mode of Dismissal of ‘W.G.’ in first-class cricket, 1865 to 1896. With summary of results’. Compiled by Rev H.A. Tate. London second edition 1896. Bound in contemporary maroon cloth, lacking original paper wrappers, with portion of original front wrapper laid to front board. Padwick 7602. Breaking to internal hinges and page block, wear to title label, otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1366 ‘W.G. Grace. A Biography’. W. Methven Brownlee. London first edition 1887. iv, 166pp, xviii. Original blue cloth covers with nice bright gilt titles to front and spine. Frontispiece illustration of W.G.Grace and facsimile letter from Grace which precedes the half title. Padwick 7575. A very nice copy, rarely seen in original hard cover. Very good condition View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1367 ‘W.G. Grace. Cricketer. A record of his performances in first-class matches’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. London 1916. Rebound in modern brown leather, with original wrappers preserved and laid to stiffened boards. Ownership name of C.I.S. Wallace and bookplate of A.E. Winder to inside front original wrapper. Previously sold by Christie’s as lot 82 in May 2006, the Christie’s sale label states, ‘N.B. Ashley-Cooper’s copy. Then Wallace- then Winder’. Some age toning to original covers. Tape repair to ori View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1368 ‘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£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1369 ‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. Volume III. Numbers 50-79 (31st January to 25th December 1884). Bound in black cloth, title label to spine, red speckled page edges. Title page and contents page to front, lacking original wrappers. Illustrated. Complete with five supplement score sheets. Good/ very good condition View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1370 ‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. Volume VII. Numbers 170-199 (26th January to 27th December 1888). Bound in mauve cloth, title in gilt to spine, red speckled page edges. Title page and contents page to front, lacking original wrappers. Illustrated. Complete with six supplement score sheets bound in to rear, lacking the pictorial supplement of 1st November. Small tear and loss to final supplement page. Fading to spine, otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£50 - £80StatusUnsold Lot #1371 ‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. Volume VIII. Numbers 200-229 (24th January to 27th December 1889). Bound in maroon cloth, title in gilt to spine, red speckled page edges. Title page and contents page to front, lacking original wrappers. Illustrated. Complete with eight supplement score sheets bound in to rear. Ex Wiltshire County Libraries. Breaking to internal hinges, fading and splitting to partially detached spine. Small loss to front board. Internally in good condition View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1372 ‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. Volume VIII. Numbers 200-229 (24th January to 27th December 1889). Bound in original publisher’s green cloth, title in gilt to front and spine. Title page and contents page to front, lacking original wrappers. Illustrated. Pages complete, but lacking two of the eight supplement score sheets, for 27th June and 8th August. Lacking front endpaper, breaking to internal hinges, some wear and staining to boards and spine, otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1373 ‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. Volume XXVI. Numbers 740-229 (31st January to 19th December 1907). Bound in dark blue cloth, title in gilt to front cover and spine, red speckled page edges. Title page and contents page to front, lacking original wrappers. Illustrated. Complete. Slight breaking to internal hinges, minor wear and fading to boards and spine, some age toning to pages, otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1374 ‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. Volume XXVII. Numbers 740-229 (30th January to 24th December 1908). Rebound in green cloth with original cloth covers and spine cloth laid down, replacement endpapers. Title in gilt to front cover and spine. Title page and contents page to front, lacking original wrappers. Illustrated. Complete. Wear to edges of title and contents pages, small loss to pp. 81/82, scorching to page edges of issue 791 (pp. 337-352). Minor wear to boards, otherwise in good con View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1375 ‘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£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1376 Phillips auction catalogue 1978. Original catalogue for the sale of ‘Oil Paintings and Cricketana’ held on 18th September 1978, with printed sheet of prices realised slipped in. This was the auction where the Anthony Baer and H.M. Cohen collections were sold. Odd annotations, age toning to pages, otherwise in good/ very good condition View details Estimates£25 - £35Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1377 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. Very good condition. Sold with two hardback titles by Judge B.J. Wakley, both published by The Sportsmans Book Club, London. Titles are ‘Bradman the Great’ 1960, and ‘Classic Centuries in the Test Matches between Englan View details Estimates£25 - £35StatusUnsold Lot #1378 ‘An Australian Cricketer on Tour’. Frank Laver. London 1905. Original publishers green cloth with bright gilts to front cover and spine. Stamps for ‘East Devon Club Teignmouth’ and ownership inscriptions to front endpaper and title page. Padwick 4990. Light foxing to pages, slight breaking to internal hinges, otherwise in good/ very good condition View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1379 ‘Ashes- and Dust’. Douglas Jardine. London, first edition 1934, with decent dustwrapper. G View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1380 Bodyline. Two first edition hardback titles, both in original dustwrappers with protective cellophane covers. ‘In Quest of the Ashes’, London 1933. ‘Jardine Justified. The Truth About The Ashes’, Bruce Harris, London 1933. G View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1381 ‘Apollo. A Journal of the Arts for Connoisseurs and Collectors’. Vol. XXIII No. 137. London, May 1936. Large format deluxe publication tipped in to modern cloth with gilt title to spine, original stiff paper wrappers retained with a reproduction on the front wrapper of Robert James’s ‘Tossing for Innings’. Pages 246-252 contain an illustrated article by Robin Baily on ‘The Collection of Cricket Pictures of Sir Jeremiah Colman Bart., at Gatton Park’. The article commences with a quotation from Fr View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1382 ‘The Sportsmen of Dickens’. Walter Crotch. Original illustrated magazine extract of pp. 549-560 from the ‘Windsor Magazine’, ‘Copyright, 1913, by W. Walter Crotch, in the United States of America’. Illustrations include ‘The Cricket Match at Muggleton. From the rare plate by R.W. Buss, done to illustrate the scene in “The Pickwick Papers”, but subsequently suppressed’. Bound in green cloth with bookplate of E.D.R. [Desmond] Eagar to inside front cover. Slipped in is a single page handwritten let View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1383 ‘An Angler’s Rambles’. Edward Jesse. John Van Hoorst, London 1836. Printed by W. Nicol, Pall Mall. vi, 318pp. Rebound in early brown cloth with original tooled cloth wrappers and spine laid down. Pages 292-311 comprise a section on the village cricket club at Eye in Suffolk, describing the origins of the game, and the lack of success of the club until the arrival of William Fennex (Kent, Middlesex & Surrey 1787-1816) who was persuaded to help coach the village team, so transforming the Club. Pad View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1384 ‘The Universal Spelling Book’. Daniel Fenning. ‘ A new edition, corrected’. Printed by H.D. Steel, Lothbury, London 1788. Original brown calf with matching replacement spine, gilt title to spine. 152pp plus four page postcript. Woodcut illustrations including the frontispiece featuring cricket. Bookplate of G.B. Buckley to inside front cover with two page undated handwritten letter to Buckley slipped in from a correspondent regarding a cricket painting. The book is in its original brown calf wit View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1385 ‘The A.B.C. of Cricket. A Black View of the Game’. Hugh Fielding. Chatto & Windus, London 1903. Bound in green cloth with gilt title to front, original paper wrappers retained. Red speckled page edges. Comprises an alphabetical sequence of twenty six illustrations by Fielding of cricketers in silhouette. Padwick 6979. Very good condition View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1386 ‘The Ups and Downs of a Public School by A Wkyehamist’. Frederick Gale. W. & F.G. Cash, Bishopsgate, London 1856. Tipped in to modern beige cloth, original decorative wrappers retained. Front wrapper illustrated with sporting scenes including cricket. Padwick 6216, an earlier, shorter, edition of 1853 is also recorded in Padwick 1345. Soiling and some wear to original wrappers, otherwise in good condition. Scarce in this longer edition View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1387 ‘Mr. Punch’s County Songs’. E.V. Lucas and Ernest H. Shepherd. London 1928. Comprising a poem on each odd-numbered page by Lucas on forty three counties, each poem surrounded by illustrations by Shepherd. The pages for the counties of Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Lancashire, Warwickshire, ‘The Two Roses’ and Yorkshire feature verses and/ or pictures on cricket. Large format bound in original boards with title label to front, replacement blue cloth spine. Bookplate of A.E. Winder to inside front c View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1388 ‘The Way of the South Wind’. Gerald D. Martineau. The Vine Press, Steyning 1925. Original pictorial stiffened boards with red cloth spine, gilt title to spine. Limited ‘ordinary’ issue of 300 copies, this being number 230. The collection of poems includes one on cricket, ‘The Village Pitch’. To the front endpaper is a six line poem handwritten in ink and signed by Martineau. Bookplate of A.E. Winder to inside front cover who purchased the copy from John Arlott in 1979. Padwick 6491. Minor soilin View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1389 Surrey cricket. Three first edition titles. ‘Surrey Cricket, Its History and Associations’, Lord Alverstone & C.W. Alcock, London 1902. Bound in green cloth and quarter calf with gilt title and stumps emblems to spine with raised bands. H.A. Cohen sale plate to inside front end paper. Padwick 2595. Some wear to boards, otherwise a nice copy in good condition. ‘The History of Kennington and its Neighbourhood with Chapters on Cricket Past and Present’, H.H. Montgomery, Bishop of Tasmania (formerly View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1390 ‘Catalogue of Cricket Literature’. A.D. Taylor. A selection of pages taken from the serialisation in ‘Cricket a Weekly Record’ of 1906 comprising Taylor’s ‘Bibliography of Cricket’, accompanied by the annual updates of the Bibliography by Taylor in the issues of the journal of 1907, 1908 and 1911, typed by John Arlott who had assembled this information. Bound for Arlott, with instructions to the binder on the front end paper, in green cloth, gilt title to spine. Bookplate of A.E. Winder to insi View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1391 Albert Neilson ‘Monkey’ Hornby. Lancashire & England 1867-1899. Two limited edition modern softback titles on Hornby. ‘The Cricketing Squire. A Sketch of the Life and Times of A.N. Hornby and a little beyond’, William Henry Hoole. Published and signed by the author, Bedford 1991. Believed to be a limited edition of 100 copies. Original decorative paper wrappers with some wear and light creasing, breaking to rear internal hinge, otherwise in good condition. Not previously sold by Knights. ‘The Li View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1392 Billiards and snooker signatures, early 1900s onwards. Ruled page nicely signed in black and blue ink by twelve billiards and snooker players. Signatures include Joe Davis, World Snooker Champion fifteen times 1927-1948, and World Billiards Champion four times 1928-1932. Fred Davis (brother of Joe), World Snooker Champion eight times 1948 to 1956, Tom Newman, winner of the World Professional Billiards Championship six times between 1921 and 1930, Melbourne Inman, World Billiards Champion in 1908 View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1393 Billiards/Snooker. H.W. Stevenson. Vanity Fair Supplement colour chromolithograph of Stevenson at the table. ‘He might be Champion if there were a Championship‚‘. May 25th 1905 by SPY. Sold with John Roberts Jnr. Vanity Fair colour chromolithograph of Cannon. ‘The Champion Roberts‚‘. July 4th 1885 by SPY. Both mounted, framed and glazed, the Roberts frame lacking glass. Both overall 16.6”x22”. G/VG View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1394 Gymnastics. Nadia Comaneci. Original mono photograph of Comaneci in action in the floor exercise at the World Gymnastics Championships, Strasbourg, 24th October 1978. The photograph measures approx. 6”x9.5”, mounted with signature of Comaneci window mounted below. Framed and glazed, overall 13”x17”. VG View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1395 Athletics. ‘Sprinters’ 1913-1924. Ruled page comprising eight signatures in black ink of notable athletes of the period, each signature dated. Signatures include Harold Abrahams, gold medal champion in the 100m, 1924 Olympics (as depicted in the film, Chariots of Fire). Arthur Porritt, bronze medallist, 100m 1924 Olympics. Willie Applegarth, gold medal winner in the 4 x 100m relay in the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. Harry Edward, bronze medallist in the 100m and 200m 1920 Olympics. Also Vic D’Arcy, View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1396 Athletics. ‘Half-milers & Quarter-milers’ and ‘Milers’. 1913-1940. Ruled page signed in black ink by nineteen athletes of the period, the majority dated. Notable signatures include Sydney Wooderson, ‘The Mighty Atom’, world mile record holder. Douglas Lowe, gold medallist in the 800m in both 1924 and 1928 Olympics, breaking the Olympic record on both occasions. Guy Butler, gold medallist, 4 x 400m, 1920 Olympics. Henry Stallard, contemporary of Harold Abrahams, 1500m bronze medallist in the 192 View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #1397 Athletics 1912-1920. Three ruled pages, one titled ‘Cross Country & Distance Runners’, nicely signed in black ink by twenty four athletes. Notable names include Percy Hodge, gold medal at 3000m steeplechase in the 1920 Olympics. George Hutson, bronze medals in the 5000m and 3000m team race at the 1912 Olympics. Alfred Nichols, silver in the cross country team event at the 1920 Olympics. John Daly, silver in the 2590m steeplechase in the 1904 Olympics. Joe Blewett, silver in the 3000m team race, 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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