Knight's Sporting Auctions Auction of Cricket, Wisden Cricketers' Almanacks, Football and Sporting Memorabilia (#11) 25/11/2023 10:30 AM GMT Closed Starts Ending 25/11/2023 10:30 AM GMT Auction Info View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBids (Low - High)Bids (High - Low)Views (Low - High)Views (High - Low)Relevance Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 951-960 of 1509. Previous|1...949596979899...151|Next Lot #949 ‘Cricket Personalities’. H.D.G. Leveson Gower. Williams and Norgate, London 1925. Original blue cloth with nice bright gilts to front cover and spine. Comprises profiles of fifteen cricketers and sections on Umpires and Spectators. One of the featured cricketers is Jack Hobbs to whom this copy was presented by the author. Inscription to front end paper, ‘J.B. Hobbs. With best wishes from the author. H.D.G. Leveson Gower. Nov. 11th 1925’. Minor bumping to corners, slight foxing to page block, oth View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£130StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #950 ‘A Score, A Score and Ten. Poems’. G.D. Martineau. London 1927. Original hardback with very good dustwrapper. A collection of poetry including a section on ‘Songs of the Crease’ with nine poems on cricket. To the front end paper is an eight line handwritten poem titled ‘Cricket and Politics’, signed by Martineau. Padwick 6494. Very good condition. View details Estimates£70 - £100StatusUnsold Lot #951 Neville Cardus. Six hardback titles by Cardus, the majority first editions. Titles are ‘A Cricketer’s Book’, London 1922, with dedication in ink to front end paper from ‘Neville, July 1922’. ‘The Summer Game’, London 1930. ‘Good Days’ London 1934. ‘Australian Summer’, London 1937, two copies, one with fair dustwrapper. ‘English Cricket’, London 1945, with dustwrapper. Some fading to spines, overall in good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£20StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #952 ‘The Book of the Two Maurices’. M.C.C. team Australasia 1929/30’. Turnbull & Allom. London 1930. Original blue cloth with gilt title to spine. Handwritten dedication in ink to front end paper, ‘from one of the Maurices October 18, 1930’. Partly laid down to the inside front cover is a two page handwritten letter in ink, nicely signed by Maurice Turnbull, and dated 16th October 1930, the eve of the M.C.C. touring party sailing to South Africa. Also, slipped in, is a nice ink signature of Maurice View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£38StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #953 ‘The Two Maurices Again’. M.C.C. team to South Africa 1930/31’. Turnbull & Allom. London 1931. Original blue cloth with gilt title to spine. Very nice signature in black ink of Maurice Turnbull on piece laid down to front end paper. Some fading and soiling to the spine, otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£32StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #954 ‘Theory and Practice of Cricket’. Charles Box, first edition, London 1868. Bound in red boards with leather spine. Presentation copy signed and dated 9th April 1869 in red ink to the front end paper by ‘Robert Dark’ (possibly a brother of James Dark, a previous owner of Lord’s) who sold cricket equipment. Wear to boards, otherwise in good condition. Sold with three other early hardback titles, ‘The Cricket Field or The History and the Science of Cricket’. J. Pycroft. London 1851. 1st edition. ‘C View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£130StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #955 Kent cricket histories and biographies. Seven original hardback titles. ‘A Few Short Runs’, Lord Harris, London 1921. ‘Early Memories of Frank Woolley’, Martha Wilson Woolley, Ashurst 1976, limited edition no. 389/1000. Signed by Woolley. ‘Kent Cricket Matches 1719-1880’, Lord Harris & F.S. Ashley-Cooper, Canterbury 1929. Fading to boards and spine. ‘66 Years’ Memories of Kent Cricket’, Sir Charles Igglesden, third edition, Ashford 1947. ‘Great Men of Kent’, A.A. Thomson, London 1955, good dustw View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£20StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #956 John Arlott. Four first edition hardback titles with good original dustwrappers. ‘Cricket’, Pleasures of Life Series, London 1953, signed by Arlott. ‘Vintage Summer: 1947’, London 1967, Arlott’s first book to be published on cricket. ‘Test Match Diary 1953’, London 1953. ‘Indian Summer’, London 1947. Some loss to the dustwrapper of ‘Indian Summer’. All titles in very good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning Bid£48StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #957 Don Bradman. Eight hardback titles including ‘Brightly Fades the Don’, Jack Fingleton, London 1949, nicely signed in ink with dedication to the front end paper by Fingleton, dated 16th June 1953. Sold with four autobiographies, ‘Don Bradman’s Book’ ‘Deluxe edition’ 1938, ‘My Cricketing Life’ 1938, ‘Farewell to Cricket’ 1950 with dustwrapper, ‘The Art of Cricket’ 1958, and three biographies, ‘Bradman The Great’, B.J. Wakley, London 1959, with dustwrapper, bookplate image of Bradman in batting act View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£70StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #958 ‘Test Match Special’. Edited by Peter Baxter. Three volumes, entitled ‘Test Match Special’ 1981, ‘Test Match Special 2’ 1983 and ‘Test Match Special 3’ 1985. The first volume signed to front end paper by ten of the Test Match Special team. Signatures are Christopher Martin-Jenkins, Brian Johnston, Fred Trueman, Henry Blofeld, Don Mosey, Peter Baxter, Trevor Bailey, Bill Frindall, Alan McGilvray and Tony Lewis. Also signed and dedicated to the rear end papers ‘To the Champ!, Brian Johnston. 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