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 PriceBidsViews Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 901-1000 of 1509. Previous|1...8910111213...16|Next Lot #899 George Boyd Franklin Rudd. Leicestershire 1913-1932. Phillips ‘Pinnace’ premium issue cabinet size mono real photograph trade card of Rudd, head and shoulders wearing Leicestershire cap and blazer. No.157.C. 4”x6”. Some age toning, otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £40StatusUnsold Lot #900 ‘Sydney Cricket Ground. Australia v England. A Record Crowd’ 1903/04. Early original mono postcard of a view of the packed stands for the first Test match played 11th- 17th December 1903. Graphic Series No. 2. Postmarked Sydney 1904. Nick to top edge, wear to corners and some soiling, otherwise in generally good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£30StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #901 West Indies tour to England 1963. A selection of nine mono real photograph postcards including seven of the West Indies tour match against Yorkshire at Sheffield and two from the Headingley Test in 1963. The images depict the West Indies players entering the field of play and feature Sobers, Murray, King, Kanhai, Hunte, Rodriguez, Griffith, White, Hall, Nurse, Gibbs etc. Each card with neatly handwritten titles to verso. Photographer/ publisher unknown. Nice images in very good condition. View details Estimates£100 - £150StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #902 Maurice Leyland. Yorkshire & England 1920-1946. Original sepia real photograph postcard of Leyland standing full length wearing cricket attire and Yorkshire blazer. Nicely signed in black ink to the photograph by Leyland. Photographer and location unknown. The postcard appears to have been trimmed to the lower edge, with light creasing, otherwise a nice image in good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot #903 Edward Henry ‘Ted’ Bowley. Sussex, Auckland & England 1912-1934. Original sepia real photograph postcard of Bowley standing full length wearing cricket attire, blazer and Sussex cap. Very nicely signed in black ink to the photograph. Blind embossed stamp for Nias of Brighton to lower right corner. Postally unused. Very good condition. A nice image. View details Estimates£70 - £100StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #904 Selfridge & Co. England v Australia 1938. ‘Souvenir of an Historic Occasion’. A rarely seen mono real photograph postcard showing the Selfridge Score Board at the close of the Oval Test match, 20th-24th August 1938, in which Hutton made the world record individual score of 364 in England’s record total of 903 for 7 declared. England won by an innings and 579 runs. The scoreboard shows the full match details. The scoreboard was sponsored by Selfridge & Co Ltd, and the card issued with the ‘Compli View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #905 Trevor Edward Bailey. Essex & England 1946-1967. Mono real photograph postcard of Bailey, head and shoulders, wearing M.C.C. sweater. Nicely signed in blue ink to the photograph by Bailey. Valentine & Sons ‘Real Photo Cricket Personalities Series’, no. R.P.50. Sold with Peter Barker Howard May, Surrey & England 1950-1963. Mono real photograph plainback postcard of May, head and shoulders, wearing blazer. Signed in black ink to lower white border by May. Publisher unknown. VG View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£20StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #906 Sussex C.C.C. 1970s-2010s. Red file comprising over thirty collectors’ cards, candid style photographs and official portrait photographs of Sussex players, of which twenty two are signed by the featured player. Signatures include Peter Graves, Arnold Long, Garth Le Roux, Colin Wells, David Smith, John Snow, Eddie Hemmings, Ted Dexter etc., T.C.C.B./ Classic Cricket Cards series cards including Roger Knight, Matt Prior, James Kirkley, Ian Ward, Murray Goodwin, Chris Adams, Mushtaq Ahmed, Bill Ath View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£20StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #907 Signed Cornhill and T.C.C.B. trade cards. Signatures include Atherton, Ealham, Fraser, Caddick, Gough, Hick, Fairbrother, Patel, MalcolmRaprakash, Knight, Mullally etc. Sold with nine Wisden Cricketers’ Almanacks, a 1963 hardback in fair condition, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, in softback and 1979, 1984 and 1985 in hardback. Plus a 1984 hardback ‘Index to Wisden’. Odd faults, good View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£20StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #908 Modern collectors’ cards and postcards. Two files comprising ‘Cricket Personalities 1940/50s’ 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th & 6th series, each of 24 cards, ‘Cricket Parade 1940/50s’ (24 cards), ‘Cricketers from Overseas’ (1st series, 36 cards) published by Sporting Collectibles, Leicester. Also seventy seven ‘Golden-Age Series’ postcards by County Print Services. VG. View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning Bid£15StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #909 Signed cigarette cards 1928-1930. Thirty original cigarette cards, of which twenty seven are signed in ink to the front by the featured player. Series are W.D. & H.O. Wills ‘Cricketers, 1928’ nos. 1 Astill, 6 Clark, 14 Geary, 20 Hearne, 21 Hendren, 23 Holmes, 30 MacDonald, 32 Mead, 43 Tate and 46 Tyldesley, plus unsigned cards of 29 Lilley, 35 Rhodes and 36 Root. W.D. & H.O. Wills ‘Cricketers. 2nd Series of 50’ 1928 nos. 7 Bowley, 10 Cornford, 14 Durston, 19 Haig, 21 Iddon, 22 Kennedy, 26 Leylan View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£280StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #910 ‘Australian and English Test Cricketers’, Major Drapkin, London 1928, full set of forty real photograph cigarette cards. W.D. & H.O. Wills, two complete series of fifty cards, ‘Wills’s Cigarettes Cricketers, 1928’ and ‘Cricketers 2nd Series’ 1929. Kane Products ‘1956 Cricketers’ complete set of fifty. Each set loose mounted to large white card. Odd minor faults to the two Wills sets, the others in very good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£32StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #911 Yorkshire C.C.C. annual 1893. 1st year of issue. 100pp. Edited by J.B. Wostinholm. J. Robertshaw, Sheffield, printer. Original maroon boards with tooled decoration, titles in gilt to front board with white rose emblem to centre, gilt to page edges. Ownership signature to front end paper of J.H. Stainton, Yorkshire cricket journalist, dated 27th May 1893. Padwick 3051. Very minor wear to head and base of spine, small stain to rear cover, otherwise in very good condition. The rare and elusive firs View details Estimates£700 - £1,000Winning Bid£1,900StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #912 Yorkshire C.C.C. annual 1894. 2nd year of issue. 136pp. Edited by J.B. Wostinholm. J. Robertshaw, Sheffield, printer. Original olive boards with titles in gilt to front board and white ‘Y.C.C.’ emblem to centre, gilt to page edges. Ownership signature to index page of J.H. Stainton, Yorkshire cricket journalist. Padwick 3051. Very minor wear to head and base of spine, otherwise in very good condition. Rare. View details Estimates£400 - £600Winning Bid£400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #913 Yorkshire C.C.C. Annual 1906. 14th annual issue. Original decorative boards with gilt title and emblem to front and spine, gilt to page edges. Staining to rear board, minor nicks to spine, slight bumping to corners, otherwise in good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£25 - £35Winning Bid£15StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #914 ‘Record of Yorkshire Cricket for the season of 1881’. Rare first year of issue. Printed and published by Fletcher & Speight, Bury 1882. Original green paper wrappers. Ownership signature to title page of J.H. Stainton, Yorkshire cricket journalist. Padwick 3038. Slight wear to wrappers with some loss to spine and slight breaking to page block, otherwise in very good condition for the age. View details Estimates£300 - £500Winning Bid£420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #915 ‘Yorkshire Cricket Record 1883’. Rare second year of issue. Printed and published by Fletcher & Speight, Bury 1883. Original green paper wrappers. Comprises ‘Full scores of Yorkshire County Matches and the Australians during last season [1882]’. Ownership signature to title page of J.H. Stainton, Yorkshire cricket journalist. Padwick 3038. Some loss and wear to wrappers with loss to spine, rusting to staples, otherwise in very good condition for the age. View details Estimates£300 - £500Winning Bid£360StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #916 ‘The History of Cricket in Sussex from the earliest records to the present time’. Alfred J. Gaston. London 1898. Original paper wrappers. Padwick 2704. Wrappers in poor condition with loss to rear, splitting to spine with old tape repairs and foxing. Internally in generally good condition. Rare. View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£42StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #917 ‘Sussex County Cricket Club. Its Diamond Jubilee. 1839-1899’. Alfred D. Taylor. Privately printed 1899. Original dark green cloth boards with gilt title to front cover. Padwick 2784 states this edition was limited to one hundred copies. Some mottling to boards, otherwise a nice copy in very good condition. View details Estimates£250 - £350StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #918 ‘Sussex C.C.C. Official Handbook & Guide’. A good run of the ‘Handbook & Guide’ for seasons 1927 and 1929, and ‘Annual’ for seasons 1930-1939. Original decorative card wrappers. Minor wear to the wrappers of the 1929, rusting to staples, otherwise in good condition. Qty 12. View details Estimates£300 - £400Winning Bid£320StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #919 Sussex C.C.C. handbooks, benefit brochures and magazines. Two boxes comprising the official Cricket Annual for 1949 and a near complete run of Club handbooks for seasons 1950, 1951, 1953-2012, 2014 and 2023. Also ‘My Sussex 1947’, Victor Champion, “Crusader” of the Brighton Evening Argus. Sold with fourteen Sussex benefit brochures including nine signed either to the front or inside for Chris Waller 1984, Paul Phillipson 1985, John Barclay 1986, Imran Khan 1987, Paul Parker 1988, Tony Pigott 199 View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£210StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #920 Sussex cricket. Three original exhibition catalogues relating to Sussex cricket including two held at Hove Museum of Art. ‘Sussex Cricket Past and Present’, original illustrated catalogue for the exhibition held ‘under the auspices of Sussex County Cricket Club’ in 1957, and ‘The Golden Ages of Sussex Cricket’ in 1978. Also ‘Sussex v Australia and the Australian Connection 1878-2001’, held at the County Ground, Hove 2001. Sold with an official souvenir programme for Lord Sheffield’s Australian X View details Estimates£30 - £40StatusUnsold Lot #921 Sussex books and booklets. Seven titles in original paper wrappers including one signed limited edition. ‘Sussex County Cricket 1728-1923’. Compiled by “Leather Hunter” A.J. Gaston. Brighton 1924. ‘Chichester County Cricket Week’ 1947, official souvenir programme. ‘My Sussex 1947’, Victor Champion “Crusader” of the Brighton Evening Argus. ‘Sussex Cricketers 1815-1990’, Philip Bailey & Philip Thorn, Nottingham 1990. ‘Various Editions of A.J. Gaston’s Sussex County Cricket 1728-1923’, Nicholas Sha View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£75StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #922 Sussex cricket. Three titles. ‘Sussex County Cricket 1728-1923[-5]’, Alfred J. Gaston, Brighton. Fourth edition comprising the third edition of 1924 with the insertion of additional pages to rear and alteration to title on original front wrapper. Dedication in ink to title page in Gaston’s hand ‘To Hunter Schieler Esq.’, dated 14th October 1934. Padwick 2769. Minor wear to original wrappers, rusting to staples, otherwise in good condition. ‘The Golden Ages of Sussex Cricket’, catalogue for the e View details Estimates£60 - £90StatusUnsold Lot #923 ‘Sussex- Seven times the Bridesmaid’. Nicholas Sharp. Privately published in Purley 2003. Limited edition no. 28 of fifty copies produced. Signed to the limiation page by the author. Good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning Bid£38StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #924 Sussex cricket and cricketers. Nine titles, the majority hardbacks, including one signed limited edition, ‘Contrasts’, poems by John Snow, London 1971, limited edition no. 37/100, signed by Snow, paper wrappers. ‘Sussex County Cricket’, “Leather Hunter” (A.J. Gaston), Brighton 1924, original decorative paper wrappers. ‘Henfield Cricket and its Sussex Cradle’, H.F. & A.P. Squire, Hove 1949, dustwrapper with minor faults. ‘Pre-Victorian Sussex Cricket’, H.F. & A.P. Squire, Henfield 1951. ‘Sussex’, View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£25StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #925 ‘Annual Record of Lancashire Cricket’ by ‘Lancastrian’ [Thomas Axon]. Published by Axon in Manchester 1887. Comprises ‘Full Score and Bowling Analysis of all the County Matches in 1886’. 48pp. Bound later in maroon cloth with gilt title to spine, original pink boards retained. Padwick 2255. Bookplate of J.W. Goldman to inside front cover, with handwritten ownership name of R.N. Jones who acquired the title from Goldman. Tape repairs to original boards and internal hinges, soiling and wear to boa View details Estimates£250 - £350Winning Bid£220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #926 ‘Record of Lancashire Cricket for the Season of 1881’. First year of issue. Published by Fletcher & Speight, Bury 1882. 70pp of scores and statistics. Bound in modern marbled boards with leather spine and corners, gilt title to spine, original green front paper wrapper retained, lacking original rear wrapper. Padwick 2172. Some loss and soiling to the original front wrapper, otherwise in good condition. Scarce. View details Estimates£250 - £350Winning Bid£240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #927 ‘Record of Lancashire Cricket during last season [1882] , also of The Australians, with batting averages &c.’. Second (and final) year of issue. Published by Fletcher & Speight, Bury 1883. 72pp of scores and statistics, advertising etc. Appears to be bound in original/ contemporary cloth with gilt title to front cover ‘Cricket Record 1882’. Unknown ownership signature to front endpaper dated 1873. Padwick 2172. Minor wear to the board and spine extremities, otherwise in good/ very good condition View details Estimates£250 - £350Winning Bid£240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #928 ‘County Cricket. Record of Lancashire County Matches, From 1865 to 1881’. Compiled by ‘W.G.T.’ First edition. Published by Capleton & Co., Manchester 1882. 46pp plus advertising comprising statistics, results including Australians etc. Original paper wrappers. Ownership name in ink to front wrapper of Edwin L. Fletcher, Lancashire collector and journalist. Padwick 2276. Some soiling and wear to wrappers, otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£300 - £400Winning Bid£280StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #929 ‘County Cricket. Record of Lancashire County Matches, From 1865 to 1881’. Compiled by ‘W.G.T.’ Second edition. Published by Capleton & Co., Manchester 1882. 52pp comprising statistics, results including Australians etc. Bound in later red cloth with gilt title to spine, original pink paper wrappers retained. Marylebone Cricket Club library stamp to inside of original front wrapper. Padwick 2276. Some fading to wrappers, otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£250 - £350Winning Bid£240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #930 ‘Forty Seasons of First-Class Cricket being the Autobiography and Reminiscences of Richard Gorton Barlow’. R.G. Barlow. First edition, Manchester 1908. Original green cloth with gilt title to front and spine and gilt illustration of Barlow to front cover. Signed in ink to the third end paper by A.N. Hornby, and handwritten dedication in ink in Barlow’s hand to the title page, ‘With the Author’s Compliments’, suggesting that Barlow presented this copy to his fellow Lancashire opening batsman, Hor View details Estimates£400 - £600StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #931 ‘A Bibliography of Sir Neville Cardus for the years 1913-2023’. Compiled by Prof J.H. St. J. Mcllwaine, edited by Ken Grime. Limited edition number 69/100 produced signed to limitation label by Mcllwaine and Grime. Sold with six further limited edition booklets produced by ‘The Neville Cardus Archive; at Lancashire C.C.C. ‘Cardus: A Reader’s Guide (Ltd edition of 300), ‘My Dear Michael... Cricketing & other extracts from Neville Cardus’s letters to Michael Kennedy, 1959-74’ (Ltd edition of 500), View details Estimates£50 - £80StatusUnsold Lot #932 ‘The Life & Times of a Great Victorian Sporting Hero. Albert Neilson Hornby’, compiled by Peter Wall & William Poole, Max Books, Nantwich 2022. Limited edition no. 14/50, signed by Malcolm Lorimer. Very good condition View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£20StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #933 Barbados Cricket. ‘A critical examination of factors affecting the formation of some major cricket clubs in Barbados’. Martin C. Ramsay. Appears to be a bound photocopy of an article written by Ramsey as a final year arts student for a Caribbean Studies Project 1978-79. Bookplate of Winder to inside front board. Bought from Phillips Auctioneers in 1985. Sold with ‘100 Years of organised cricket in Barbados 1892-1992’. Inscription to the vendor at the top of the title page. Both in very good cond View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£38StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #934 M.C.C. tour of the West Indies 1929/1930. ‘M.C.C. Cricket Tournament 1930. Played at Bourda, Georgetown. B.G. Fen 10th-26th’. Reprint from ‘The Daily Chronicle 1930. Post tournament brochure. 120pp with scores and statistics. Padwick 4692. Report with images of the two matches played between British Guinna and M.C.C. and the third Test, West Indies v England, also played at Georgetown held between the 10th and 26th February 1930, records and averages of the 1930 tour to the rear of the brochure. View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£340StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #935 ‘History of West Indies Cricket’. M. Manley 1988. Signed to the front end paper by sixteen members of the West Indies Cricket Board of Control who met in Jamaica in May 1988. Signatures include Allan Rae, Clyde Walcott, Peter Short, Steve Camacho, Leslie Amsterdam, Lennox John, Lance H. Murray etc. Very good condition View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£35StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #936 West Indies. Collection of sixteen books on West Indies cricket including histories, autobiographies, tours etc. Signed autobiographies include Vivian Richards, Garry Sobers, Desmond Haynes and Michael Holding. Other biographies include Garner, Worrell, Gilchrist etc. Other books include ‘The C.L.R. James Archive: A Reader’s Guide. Anna Grimshaw 1991, ‘Cricket’ C.L.R. James 1986 (2 copies, one signed by Garry Sobers), ‘Sir Frank Worrell’. Undine Giuseppi 1969, ‘Gone with the Indians Again!’. Br View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£130StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #937 ‘Cricket’. C.L.R. James, edited by Anna Grimshaw. London 1986. Original hardback with very good dustwrapper. Inscribed and signed by James in later years, ‘Cricket; to greet a fellow disciple. C.L.R. James’. Padwick II 3273. Slipped in is a newspaper cutting of an article by James’ wife, Selma, on her husband and his writings. Very good condition. View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£85StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #938 Signed cricket books. Five modern cricket books all signed by their authors. Signatures are Michael Vaughan, Richie Benaud (2), Peter May and Ian Botham. All with dustwrapper. VG View details Estimates£20 - £30Winning Bid£20StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #939 Cricket books. Good selection of thirty mainly biographies and autobiographies of cricketers and authors, all signed by the player featured. Mainly modern. Signatures include Botham, Trueman (2), Lamb (2), Sobers, Ingleby-Mackenzie, Lillee (2), May, Laker, Bailey, Frith, Atherton (2), Gower, Brearley etc. Sold with a box of mainly modern, cricket histories and other, four books on ladies cricket. Good condition View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #940 The Fight for the Ashes 1926’. P.F. Warner. London 1926. Excellent presentation copy to Herbert Sutcliffe from author Pelham Warner with handwritten inscription to front end paper ‘To H. Sutcliffe as a token of appreciation of his skill as a cricketer. and with all good wishes from P.F. Warner. Oct 8th 1926. Some wear and staining to to front board, some light foxing to some of the first and last pages in the book otherwise in good condition. A rare presentation copy from one great cricketer to View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£85StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #941 ‘Jack Hobbs. A Portrait of an Artist as a Great Batsman’. Ronald Mason. London, first edition 1960. Signed to the front endpaper by Hobbs and the author Mason. Original dustwrapper with some wear and loss. Good condition View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning Bid£70StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #942 Signed cricket books. Four titles, each signed by the author. Includes two hardbacks with dustwrappers, ‘The Ins and Outs of Cricket’, R.E.S. Wyatt, London 1936. ‘Express Deliveries’, Bill Bowes, London 1950, signed to the title page by Bowes with dedication ‘To Kenneth. With news of the “White Rose” and all best wishes’, with handwritten annotation ‘Autographed at the Lancashire v Yorkshire match at Old Trafford. August 8th 1950 after having a chat with the Author’. Some faults to dustwrappers. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£25StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #943 ‘Echoes from Old Cricket Fields’. Frederick Gale. Simpkin Marshall, London first edition 1871. Bound in quarter leather and marbled boards, lacking original pictorial boards. Gilt title to spine. Handwritten dedication in ink to title page, ‘Dr. H. Fowler Smith[?] with the author’s very kind regards, Fred’k Gale. Jan 19 1872’. Padwick 809. Some wear to boards, otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£150StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #944 ‘The Hambledon Men being a new edition of John Nyren’s “Young Cricketer’s Tutor”...’, E.V. Lucas, London 1907. Original dustwrapper with some loss. Owner’s signature in ink of John Arlott to front endpaper, handwritten dedication in ink to second front endpaper ‘To J.H. Curle in memory of the Villa D’Este, EVL [Lucas]’, and the bookplate from the sale of H.A. Cohen to inside front cover. Slipped in is a single page typed letter dated 24th March 1952 from Diana Rait-Kerr (M.C.C. Curator) to Cohen View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #945 ‘Cricket in North Hants. Records and Reminiscences’. Lieut.-Colonel John May. Published by Warren & Son at the Office of ‘The Basingstoke News’, 1906. Original green cloth and calf spine with gilt titles. Nicely illustrated throughout, comprising photo plates of grounds, teams and players. An interesting copy, having been signed in ink to the front endpaper ‘L.T.J. Arlott’ and again to the reverse of the frontispiece photograph ‘L. Arlott’, being the rarely seen early signature of Lesley Thomas View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£90StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #946 ‘Hampstead Cricket Club. A Record of the Year 1901’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Privately printed for the members of the Hampstead Cricket Club 1901. Bound in modern green cloth with gilt title to front, original card wrappers retained. Comprises 71pp of match scores, statistics etc. with references to F.R. Spofforth and A.E. Stoddart etc. Annotation in pencil to title page ‘Presentation copy to “Country Vicar”, and dedication in ink, ‘R.H. Hodgson, Esq., With the best wishes of F.S. Ashley-Cooper’. Pa View details Estimates£400 - £600StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #947 ‘Surrey v. Notts at the Wicket’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Published at the ‘Cricket’ Office, London, 1899. 16pp booklet with portraits and statistics, with original paper wrappers featuring a portrait of ‘Mr. W. Burrup, Hon. Sec. Surrey County C.C. 1855 to 1872’. Tipped in to modern green cloth with gilt title to spine. Bookplate of J.W. Goldman to inside front cover. Padwick 2496. The booklet has been expertly restored with some pages reinstated out of sequence, but all pages complete. Otherwise a n View details Estimates£200 - £300StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #948 Warwickshire cricket. Two titles. ‘History of Warwickshire Cricket’, Sydney Santall, published by Warwickshire C.C.C. 1911. Original pictorial paper wrappers. Inserted between pp136/7 is a colour leaflet advertising Mitchell & Butlers Ales, and loosely inserted between pp196/7 a fold out tabular chart of Warwickshire matches and results from 1883 to 1910. Bookplate of J.W. Goldman to inside front cover. Signed in ink to the dedication page by Santall and dated 24th September 1934. Replacement sp View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£45StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history 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. Volum View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£75StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #959 Signed cricket books. Thirteen mainly modern titles, the majority hardbacks with dustwrapper, each signed by the author or others where described. Hardback titles include ‘The Fight for the Ashes 1956’, Peter West 1956. ‘Treasures of Lord’s’, Tim Rice 1989. ‘Clean Sweep’, Peter West 1987, signed by James Whitaker, Neil Foster, David Gower and Phil DeFreitas. ‘Runs in the Memory. County Cricket in the 1950s’, Stephen Chalke, Fairfield Books 1997, signed by the illustrator, Ken Taylor, and a six f View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #960 John William ‘Jack’ Hearne. Middlesex & England 1909-1936. Box comprising a collection of books originally from the family collection of J.W. Hearne, each title with the initials ‘J.W.H.’ annotated inside. Titles include ‘The Encyclopaedia of Sport & Games’. London 1911. Volumes 1-4. ‘The Sportsman Edition’, gilt to all edges. The first volume inscribed to front end paper in ink ‘To J.W. Hearne, Middlesex XI. With congratulations and best wishes from Sydney S. Pawling, Treasurer, Middlesex C.C.C View details Estimates£25 - £35Winning Bid£20StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #961 ‘Vejledning i Cricket’. R.E. Brincker. Vejle (Denmark) Eget Forlag 1921. 80pp. Danish cricket instructional booklet with diagrams and illustrations. Original wrappers. Presentation copy with dedication and signed by the author. Padwick 493. Odd nicks to wrappers which are becoming detached, otherwise internally in very good condition View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£35StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #962 F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Three titles by Ashley-Cooper. ‘Nottinghamshire Cricket and Cricketers’, Nottinghamshire 1923. Original green cloth. Slipped in is an original printed four page report of the Annual General Meeting of Nottinghamshire C.C.C. held 13th February 1924, which reports on the publication of the book. ‘Cricket Highways and Byways’, London 1927. Original green cloth. Both titles in good condition. ‘The Cricket-Field’, James Pycroft, edited by F.S. Ashley-Cooper, London 1922. Original View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot #963 ‘Cricket’. W.G. Grace. Bristol 1891. ‘Crown Quarto Edition de Luxe’ edition bound in black half leather, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Original black boards with gilt lettering. Limited de luxe edition of 652 numbered copies, signed by the author Grace, this being no. 391. Spine appears to have had some form of restoration possibly, albeit many years ago otherwise a nice copy in good/ very good condition. This copy was formally the property of Bob Appleyard, the former Yorkshire and Engl View details Estimates£250 - £350Winning Bid£240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #964 ‘The History of a Hundred Centuries’. W.G. Grace. Edited by W. Yardley. London 1895. Wear and soiling to wrappers, loss to spine paper, front wrapper partially detached, chipping and some small loss to wrapper extremities. Overall in fair condition. View details Estimates£18 - £25Winning Bid£35StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #965 ‘W.G. Grace- A Footnote to History’. Irving Rosenwater. Printed for private circulation, London, October 1994. Limited edition number 32 of fifty copies produced, signed by the author. None were for sale. Very good condition. Sold with two hardback first edition titles, ‘Edward Mills Grace, Cricketer’, F.S. Ashley-Cooper, London 1916. Slight staining to original cloth boards. ‘The Memorial Biography of Dr. W.G. Grace’, Lord Hawke, Lord Harris & Sir Home Gordon, London 1919. Good condition. Qty 3 View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£95StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #966 W.G. & E.M. Grace. Eight titles relating to the Graces. Two titles in original paper wrappers, ‘The History of a Hundred Centuries’, Edited by W. Yardley, London 1895, and ‘”How’s That?” including a Century of Grace...’, H. Furniss etc. Bristol 1896. Some faults to wrappers. One modern signed limited edition, ‘W.G. Down Under. Grace in Australia 1873-74 and 1891-92’, Rick Smith and Ron Williams, Tasmania 1994, limited edition no. 105/300, signed by the authors. Five first edition hardback titles View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£75StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #967 William Gilbert Grace. Gloucestershire & England. 1865-1908. West Gloucestershire Club v All England XI 1855. A copy of ‘Cricket Notes, with a letter containing Practical Hints, by William Clarke...’. William Bolland. London 1851 presented to Mrs Martha Grace by William Clarke renowned bowler and player for Nottinghamshire and player and secretary of the All England Eleven. The book was presented to Mrs Grace after the All England match against West Gloucestershire Club on the 8th August 1855. I View details Estimates£3,000 - £5,000StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #968 ‘Frederick Lillywhite’s [and M.C.C.] Cricket Scores And Biographies Of Celebrated Cricketers. Volumes I, II (both published 1862), III, and IV (both 1863), also Vol. XV, ‘Biographies and Biographical Index’ (1925). All in original bindings. Vols. I-III bound in original quarter leather and marbled boards, raised bands and gilt titles to spines, marbled endpapers and page edges. Vols. I and II with wear to boards and splitting to spines and boards becoming detached. Vol. III with some wear to boa View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£110StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #969 W.G. Grace. ‘Arthur Haygarth’s [and M.C.C.] Cricket Scores And Biographies Of Celebrated Cricketers. Volumes V to XIV covering the seasons 1855-1878. Published London 1876-1895. All bound in original red cloth with gilt titles to front and spine. Vol. VIII signed to title page by W.G. Grace. Previously sold by Bearne’s of Exeter as lot 35 of the ‘Important Cricketing Books from the Collection of Dr. W.G. Grace’, 11th July 1996. Some wear and soiling to boards. Vols. VI & X with slight splitting View details Estimates£300 - £500Winning Bid£240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #970 ‘Index to Scores & Biographies. Volumes I-XIII’. A.L. Ford. 1885. Published at the Office of Cricket, Doctor’s Common, EC. Original publisher’s red cloth. Titles in gilt to front board. Ownership name in ink of ‘S. Ponsonby Fane’ to inside front end paper. Ex M.C.C. library. Some soiling to boards which have become detached. Front end paper and title page detached from page block. Odd handwritten annotations in ink to pages otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #971 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 Bid£30StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #972 ‘History of the Test Matches 1877-1905’, ‘Cover-Point’ T. Broadbent Trowsdale, Routledge. London 1905. Image of Monty Noble to front wrapper. Some minor wear to wrappers and spine paper, minor repairs to wrappers near to spine edge otherwise in good condition. Ex Eagar collection View details Estimates£18 - £25Winning Bid£50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #973 ‘Hampshire County Cricket Club 1863-1963’. Limited edition booklet produced for the The Centenary Match, Hampshire v M.C.C., Southampton, 11th-13th September 1963. The booklet includes articles by H.S. Altham, ‘The Centenary Match’, signed by Altham, and ‘Such men as we are...’ by John Arlott. The publication was limited to 1550 copies, of which the first fifty copies included the four aquatints by Kenneth New. This copy contains the printed aquatints. The cover signed by Tony Lock. The subjects View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #974 ‘The Centenary of Lord’s Cricket Ground 1814-1914’. Red cloth boards with titles in gilt to cover. Gilt to edges. Breaking to front internal hinge, otherwise in good condition. Sold with five further similarly bound M.C.C. titles, ‘Scores of Matches etc.’ 1917, 1920 and 1943. ‘M.C.C. Match List’ compiled by F.S. Ashley-Cooper 1930, and ‘Members 1899’. Some fading and staining to the boards of the 1917 ‘Scores’, others in good/ very good condition. Qty 6. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£45StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #975 ‘RIP’s Cricket Caricatures 1907! Souvenir of the Season’. Roland P. Hill. The Weekly [Sunday] Dispatch, London 1907. Original stiff decorative boards with cloth tape reinforcement to spine. Contents comprise pages devoted to ‘The Lord of the Weather’, ‘His Lordship [Harris]’, Stanley Jackson, Tom Hayward, C.B. Fry, George Hirst, Archie Maclaren, ‘Plummy’ Warner etc. Ownership signature of the collector, C.I.S. Wallace, dated 1907, to inside front cover. Preserved in modern green cloth slipcase w View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£70StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #976 ‘The S.C. Packer Collection. “Cricketana”’. A Catalogue of Cricketana instructed by the Executors of S.C. Packer, deceased. To be sold by Messrs Warner, Sheppard & Wade at 16-18 Halford Street, Leicester on 12th September 1961. Original catalogue for the sale. Prices realised annotated in ink to pages. Vertical fold, rusting to staples, minor soiling, otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot #977 ‘The Cricket Quarterly. A Journal devoted to the Noble Game of Cricket’ 1963-1969. Volumes I-V & VII. Edited by Rowland Bowen. Eastbourne, Sussex. Volumes I (two copies), IV, V and VII appear to be in publisher’s original blue cloth binding and blue top page edges, Vol. II in pale blue cloth with gilt to spine. All with printed preface and index. Vol. III unbound loose copies with original wrappers plus a further loose copy of Vol. II No. 1. Qty 11. G/VG View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning Bid£80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #978 John and James Lillywhite’s Cricketers’ Companion/ Annual 1871-1899. A selection of twelve volumes comprising ‘John Lillywhite’s Cricketers’ Companion’ 1871 bound in quarter leather, lacking original wrappers. Wear to boards. ‘James Lillywhite’s Cricketers’ Annual’ 1876 and 1877 editions bound together as one volume in green cloth, lacking original wrappers. 1881, 1882 in original red cloth. 1884 bound in plum cloth, original wrappers retained, page block almost detached. 1887 bound in modern re View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #979 Kent and Lancashire pre-war annuals. Kent C.C.C. ‘Blue book’ annual 1932. Original pictorial board covers. Minor wear to boards, fading and slight splitting to spine, internally in very good condition. Lancashire County and Manchester Cricket Club Annual 1938. Compiled by J.A. Brierley. Original decorative green cloth boards. Very good condition. Qty 2. View details Estimates£25 - £35Winning Bid£20StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #980 Cricket at the Castle. One Hundred years of cricket at Arundel 1895-1995’. Sir Michael Marshall. Boundary Books 1995. Deluxe Limited Edition of only 100 copies, this being number 24, bound in quarter bonded-leather and all gilt edges. Signed by Sir Colin Cowdrey, Hubert Doggart and an impressive array of former captains of the Duke and Duchess’ teams - Mike Denness, Ted Dexter, Paul Parker, Rev. David Sheppard, Tony Lewis, Roger Knight, Mike Griffiths, Mike Brearley and John Barclay. With handw View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£85StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #981 J.W. Mckenzie. Cricketana Catalogue 134. With an introduction ‘J.W. Goldman. Life with one of the great collectors’. By his son Alfred Goldman. Ewell 2005. Original pictorial cloth-backed boards. Limited edition of 25 numbered copies, signed by Alfred Goldman. A catalogue of cricket memorabilia with an introduction by Alfred Goldman, recalling life with his father J.W. Goldman, the well-known cricket book and cricket memorabilia collector. Presentation copy inscribed by McKenzie, no 6 of only 25 View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #982 ‘Green Hills to the Gabba. The Story of Queensland Cricket’. Ian Diehm 2000. Limited edition number 113 of 200 books produced signed by eight former Queensland players, Bill Brown, Jeff Thomson, Peter Burge, Carl Rackemann, Sam Trimble, Allan Border, Greg Chappell and Ian Healy to limitation page. Handwritten dedication to the late former owner, dated 2008, from and signed by the author to front end paper. In slip case. VG View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #983 ‘Shane Warne. My Illustrated Career’. Shane Warne. London 2006. Leather hand bound limited edition number 109 of 1000 copies produced, signed by Warne to the limitation page. In green slipcase, including the six limited edition photographs of Warne reproduced from the book. Excellent condition View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£95StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #984 ‘The Archie Jackson Story. A Biography’. David Frith. Ashurst 1974. Blue leather with gilt titles to front and spine. Limited edition of 1000 copies, this being number 151, signed by the author. VG. View details Estimates£20 - £30Winning Bid£22StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #985 ‘Gloucestershire Wicket-keepers’. Andy Wilson. Richard Walsh Books, Somerset 1996. Limited edition no. 14/50. Signed to title page by Wilson. Very good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£38StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #986 ‘Nottinghamshire Cricket and Cricketers’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Henry B. Saxton, Nottingham 1923. Deluxe Edition bound in original green leather with hand cut pages, nice bright gilt titles to front, also gilt title to spine and to top page edges, marbled end papers. Slipped in is a copy of a typed list of the first twenty copies known to have been produced in this format, the first four bound in scarlet for The King (George V), the Prince of Wales, Duke of York and Prince Henry. Copy numbers 5-20 View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£130StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #987 F.S. Ashley-Cooper, Nottinghamshire cricket. Three titles by Ashley-Cooper bound together in one volume in black cloth with gilt title to spine, original wrappers of all three retained. Bookplate of J.W. Goldman to inside front cover. Titles are ‘Nottinghamshire Cricket in 1923 being a continuation of Notts. Scores and Biographies’ edited by F.S. Ashley-Cooper, Nottingham 1923. Goldman bookplate to inside front wrapper. ‘Nottinghamshire Cricket Championship Souvenir 1929’ (first edition) and ‘No View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£70StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #988 ‘British Sports and Sportsmen’. Compiled and edited by ‚ÄòThe Sportsman’. London 1917. Volume 1. ‘Cricket and Football’. Leather bound limited edition 578/1000. Containing a series of large photogravure portraits of famous cricketers and footballers with biographical details including Grace, Hawke, Harris, Ranji etc. Marbled endpapers, gilts to page edges. Some bowing to front board, otherwise in good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #989 ‚ÄòFifty Years of Sport- At Oxford, Cambridge and the Great Public Schools’. Volumes I & II. London 1913. Edited by A.C.M. Croome. Plus ‘Fifty Years of Sport at Oxford, Cambridge and the Great Public Schools. Eton, Harrow and Winchester’. Arranged by Lord Desborough. Edited by R.H. Lyttelton, Arthur Page and Evan B. Noel. London 1922. Decorative leather bindings, gilt to top edge, gilt titles to spine. General wear to boards and spines, some white marks (tippex?) to odd pages otherwise in good View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #990 ‘E.W.S. [Jim Swanton]. The Last Interview’. David Rayvern Allen. Limited edition no. 84/93. Signed to the title page and limitation page by the author. Sold with a selection of ephemera originally from the estate of Swanton, including a typed airmail letter to Swanton dated 28th June 1973 from Robert Menzies, former Prime Minister of Australia, who is unable to travel to England for health reasons, signed ‘Bob’, with typed reply from Swanton, signed ‘Jim’. Also a selection of items relating to S View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£48StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #991 ‘The Lord’s Taverners Fifty Greatest’. The fifty greatest post war cricketers. Selected by Trevor Bailey, Richie Benaud, Colin Cowdrey and Jim Laker. London 1983. Leather bound de luxe limited edition with gilt lettering. Page edges gilt. In slipcase. Limited edition no. 229 of 500 copies. Signed by the four Selectors, Bailey, Benaud, Cowdrey and Laker, the four artists, Mike Francis, Ivan Rose, Rodger Towers and Ron Wootton, and to four of the player pages by Fred Trueman, Ian Botham, Imran Kha View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£90StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #992 ‘500 Notable Cricket Quotations’. Compiled by Irving Rosenwater 1995. Limited deluxe edition signed by the author who has added in his own hand one of the quotations from the book. Limited edition no. 40 of ninety five books produced of which seventy five were for sale. Slip case. VG. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£110StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #993 Fairfield Books. Nine titles published by Fairfield Books, Bath. Includes six hardback titles by Stephen Chalke. Two books signed by Chalke and one with signed letter from Chalke included. Titles include ‘Runs in the Memory’ 1997, signed, ‘No Coward Soul’ 2003, signed, ‘Summer’s Crown’ 2015, ‘More than a Gentlemen’, Douglas Miller, ‘It’s Not Just Cricket’, Peter Walker 2006, with letter, ‘The Way it Was’ 2011, ‘At The Heart of English Cricket’ 2001, ‘One More Run’ 2000 etc. G/VG View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£25StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #994 ‘Cricket books. Good selection of cricket books and booklets including Fenners (Cambridge) interest, ‘Green and White, Fenners Observed’ Cambridge School of Art 1962 and ‘On Fenner’s Sward’ History of C.U.C.C., Giles Phillips, both signed by former cricketing graduates Mike Brearley, Athieron and Derek Pringle and ‘Fenner’s’ Reminiscences of Cambridge University Cricket’. Piggott 1948, ‘George Lohmann. The Beau Ideal’, Ric Sissons, 1991. Limited edition no. 189/500. Signed by the author, ‘80 Not View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£70StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #995 Cornwall C.C.C. Gillette Cup 1970 & 1977. Two souvenir booklets on Cornwall in the Gillette Cup. The first for the match v. Glamorgan in the first round of the competition played at Truro, 25th April 1970. Comprises team photographs and a history of the Club by S. Canynge Capel in original card wraps. Handwritten dedication in ink to the front cover to John Arlott who wrote the foreword, signed by Canynge Caple and dated 20th April 1970. Padwick 1817. The other for the first round match v. Lanca View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£15StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #996 ‘Pierce Egan’s Book of Sports, and Mirror of Life’. London first edition 1832. Dedicated to George Osbaldestone, Esq. Original green calf binding with gilt title to spine. Good cricket content, pages 337-352. Padwick 1992. Staining to title page and to boards, otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #997 ‘Sports and Pastimes. Men I Have Met’. Jos. Stoddart, editor of the ‘Athletic Journal’. Manchester 1889 and 1890. Vols. I and II bound in together as one volume into later green quarter leather gilt title and raised bands to spine, gilt to top page edges, with the original decorative colour card front covers bound in at the rear. 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. View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£90StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #998 Nineteenth century cricket and sports. Four titles. ‘Ball-Games’ George Routledge & Sons. 1867. Original pictorial covers. Ownership name in ink of ‘Robert Stratton Holmes, L’pool 13.2.[18]90’ to title page, with bookplate of A.E. Winder to page following. Some wear to spine otherwise in good condition. ‘Many Happy Returns of the Day’, Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke, London 1860. Original blue cloth with ornate gilt titles to front and spine. Wear to boards. ‘Cassell’s Book of Sports and Pastime View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Items per page 102550100 Previous|1...8910111213...16|Next12345678910111213141516 Previous 12345678910111213141516 Next Previous 12345678910111213141516 Next
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