Auctions Info Catalogue Knight's Sporting Auctions Auction of Cricket, Wisden Cricketers' Almanacks, Football and Sporting Memorabilia - 3 Day Auction (#14) 26/07/2024 10:30 AM BST Closed Starts Ending 26/07/2024 10:30 AM BST Auction Info Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBidsViewsDefaultDefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBidsViews Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the aboveANY of the aboveANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number View ▼ Results: Viewing items 901-1000 of 1471. Previous|1...89101112131415|Next Items per page 102550100 Lot 900 W.H. Mason. Publisher. Descriptive Key to W.H. Mason’s National Print of a Cricket Match (between the counties of Sussex and Kent, at Brighton) introducing characteristic portraits of the players engaged in the match as well as many Noblemen and Gentlemen...by W. Drummond and C.J. Basbe, engraved by G.H. Phillips. Brighton: W.H. Mason & London: Gambart, 1849. Printed by T. Brettell, Haymarket, London. Includes the key plate to front of the book. Lacking original printed yellow wrappers, text pri View details Estimates£500 - £800Winning Bid£300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 901 ‘Cricket’. W.G. Grace. J.W. Arrowsmith, Bristol and Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. London 1891. Original green cloth, with gilt titles to front board and spine. With inscription to front end paper ‘With the Publisher’s kind regards 11/6/91 (11th June 1891) and nicely signed in ink by W.G. Grace. The book was presented to Mr Ronald L. Elliott, a cricket writer for the Bristol Evening Post, in 1950 as a thank you from Edgar M. Grace, E.M. Grace’s son for writing a biography of W.G. Grace’ View details Estimates£400 - £600StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 902 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£1,500 - £2,500StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 903 William Gilbert Grace junior. ‘The Universe: or the Infinitely Great and the Infinitely Little’. F.A. Pouchet. Ninth edition, Blackie & Son, Glasgow & London 1888. Original blue cloth with ornate decorative boards and spine. Gilt to all page edges. Presentation copy with dedication in ink to front end paper to ‘Willliam Gilbert Grace, July 6 [18]88, with love from Uncle and Aunt Nicholls’. Appears to be signed in pencil by Grace junior to the inside front cover. Title page clipped to top edge, m View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£30StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 904 M.C.C. tour to Australia 1920/21. ‘A Voyage with the Mails Between Brisbane- London... A memento by an amateur photographer’. London Stereoscopic Company, London, third edition c.1920. A large format souvenir book with decorative blue cloth, comprising photographs and descriptions of ports of call on the journey on the Orient Line ‘S.S. Osterley’. Includes a collection of twenty one signatures in ink on two pages, the majority signed to the ‘Autographs’ page, including the signatures of the sixt View details Estimates£400 - £600StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 905 ‘The M.C.C. Tour in Argentina’ 1912. Compiled by James McGough. Printed and published by The British Printery, Buenos Aires. Bound in red cloth, lacking original wrappers. Post tour brochure with 24 pages. Previously sold by Christies 24th June 2003. Padwick 4933. Very good condition. Rare. View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 906 ‘A Memento of two great Notts. Cricketers, Arthur Shrewsbury and Alfred Shaw’. William F. Grundy. C.H. Richards, Nottingham 1907. Original green cloth with gilt title to front. Signed presentation copy with dedication to inside front cover to ‘Mr William Gunn from W.F. Grundy, 29th November 1907’. Some fading and wear to spine paper, titles on front board dulled, some breaking to front internal hinge otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£90StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 907 ‘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. Bound in green boards with original wrappers. Some foxing and minor wear to wrappers, internally in good condition View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£45StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 908 ‘Nottinghamshire Cricket Championship Souvenir 1929’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Nottingham 1929. Bound in green boards with original wrappers with titles in gilt to spine. Good/very good condition View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£75StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 909 ‘Nottinghamshire Cricket Records. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Nottingham 1928. Original wrappers. Minor age toning and wear to wrappers. Good condition View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£45StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 910 Early Cricket. A Description of the first known Match.....’ and ‘More Old Cricket. Treating of the Game in the Public Schools, on the Stage........’ by H.P.-T. Percy Francis Thomas. C.H. Richards, Nottingham 1923 and 1927. Original wrappers. Ex Brodribb Collection and signed to title page of each book by him. ‘Cahn Collection’ handwritten to top border of front wrapper. Some age toning to wrappers, good condition. Qty 2 View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£45StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 911 ‘Imperial Cricket’. P.F. Warner. London 1912. Original full red morocco, gilt titles to front cover and spine. All pages edges gilt. Limited subscribers edition of 900 copies, this being number 27. Padwick 83. Broken front and rear internal hinges, wear to boards and spine extremities otherwise in very good condition View details Estimates£20 - £30Winning Bid£50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 912 ‘British Sports and Sportsmen’. Compiled and edited by ‘The Sportsman’. London 1917. Volume 1. ‘Cricket and Football’. Leather bound limited edition 476/1000. Containing a series of large photogravure portraits of famous cricketers and footballers with biographical details including Grace, Hawke, Harris, Ranji etc. Marbled endpapers, gilt to page edges. Some general wear to boards, some wear to spine and board edges otherwise in generally good+ condition View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£30StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 913 No lot View details StatusUnsold Lot 914 ‘Arthur Haygarth’s [and M.C.C.] Cricket Scores And Biographies Of Celebrated Cricketers. Volumes I to XIV covering the seasons 1746-1878 published London 1876-1895, and Vol. XV ‘Biographies and Biographical Index’ published 1925. Vols. I-IV rebound in later pale green cloth with partial original spine paper and board cloths laid down, the remainder bound in original red cloth with gilt titles to front and spine. Wear and soiling to original boards. Spine to Vols. V & VI partially detached, break View details Estimates£200 - £300Winning Bid£320StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 915 ‘The Jubilee Book of Cricket’. K.S. Ranjitsinhji. Edinburgh 1897. Limited edition of 350 copies signed by Ranjitsinhji, this being number 77. Hand made paper, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Original board covers. Staining and some wear to boards, bumping to corners, otherwise internally in good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£200 - £300Winning Bid£750StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 916 ‘Cricket of To-day and Yesterday’, Volumes I & II, Percy Cross Standing, London 1902. Original decorative green cloth covers with gilt titles and batsman illustrations to covers and spines. Wonderful condition with nice bright gilts. Qty 2. View details Estimates£30 - £50StatusUnsold Lot 917 ‘Bibliography of Cricket’. J.W. Goldman. Privately printed by the author 1937. Original boards with gilts to front and spine. Limited edition of 125 numbered copies of which 100 were for sale, this being no. 72, signed in ink by the author to the limitation page. Minor staining to the spine, otherwise in very good condition. View details Estimates£180 - £250Winning Bid£190StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 918 ‘J.R. Gray. A Biographical Note’. John Arlott. Boscombe Printing Co. 1960. Privately printed. 12 pages. Limited edition of fifty copies produced for Gray’s Benefit Fund, of which this is no. 50, signed by the author Arlott. Very good condition. Rare. View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£70StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 919 ‘Roy Marshall. A Biographical Note’. John Arlott. Boscombe Printing Co. 1961. Privately printed. 16 pages. Limited edition of fifty copies produced for Roy Marshall’s Benefit Fund, of which this is no. 11, signed by the author, Arlott. Rare. Minor foxing and slight wear to boards, otherwise in good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£90StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 920 ‘Alletson’s Innings’. John Arlott. First edition London 1957. Original green cloth, limited edition number 165 of 200 produced, signed by Arlott. Minor light fading to boards, otherwise in good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£25StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 921 ‘The Cricket Field or The History and the Science of Cricket’. J. Pycroft. London 1851. 1st edition. 242pp plus adverts. Original decorative boards with replacement red leather spine. Good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£30StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 922 ‘I.T. Botham. A Few Highlights’. Irving Rosenwater. Privately printed for the author in London, September 1993. Limited edition number 5 of only twenty five numbered copies produced, signed by the author. None were available for sale. VG. Rare. View details Estimates£250 - £350StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 923 ‘The Celebrated Goldman Sale: being a facsimile of the original catalogue of the extensive collection of books on cricket formed by J.W. Goldman Esq 1966’. Irving Rosenwater. London 2002. Limited edition of 100 copies produced, of which nos. 16-100 were published in blue card covers, this being no. 57, signed by the author. Excellent condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£55StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 924 ‘When F.R. Woolley Scored a Century for Lancashire’. Irving Rosenwater. Printed for private circulation, London 2003. Limited edition number 45 of fifty numbered copies produced, signed by the author. Small split to base of spine, otherwise in very good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£55StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 925 ‘Herbert Sutcliffe and the Yorkshire Captaincy’. Irving Rosenwater. London 2003. Limited edition number 63 of seventy five numbered copies signed by the author. Excellent condition. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£25StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 926 ‘Herbert Sutcliffe and the Yorkshire Captaincy’. Irving Rosenwater. London 2003. Limited edition number 25 of seventy five numbered copies signed by the author. Excellent condition. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£35StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 927 ‘Some Recollections of the Chase’. Lord Charles J.F. Russell. Printed by J.R. Porter, Bedford 1879. 42pp in original red calf covers with title to front. Comprises a collections of articles by Russell on hunting in Bedfordshire and at Woburn Abbey, seat of the Russell family and the Dukes of Bedford. Includes a cricket reference and mention of W.G. Grace (himself a keen huntsman) on p.10. This was Grace’s personal copy, previously sold by Bearne’s of Exeter as lot 71 in the sale of ‘Important Cr View details Estimates£400 - £600Winning Bid£440StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 928 Cricket at Woburn 1833-1854. ‘Woburn Cricket [Club] Scores Commencing 1833’. Original exercise book with brown leather covers and ruled pages with handwritten titles in ink to front cover and second end paper, and handwritten index to rear pages. The book comprises neatly handwritten scores, possibly the original or a copy of the match scorebook, showing the runs scored by individual players, season averages etc. covering matches played from 1833 to 1854. Also laid down are early newspaper cutti View details Estimates£500 - £800StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 929 ‘Tit-Bits about Play and Players. Monster Cricket Book. Batting & Bowling Averages, Fixtures etc.’ Printed by George Newnes Limited of the Strand, London 1899. 80pp. Bound in green cloth for John Arlott, gilt title to spine, original wrappers retained. Contents include Hints and Laws, details of the 1898 season, averages, Hawke’s team in South Africa, Australians’ preparation for the 1899 tour etc. with frontispiece cameo illustrations of the Australian players. Bought by A.E. Winder from Arlott View details Estimates£70 - £100StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 930 Cricket art. Four titles relating to art in cricket. ‘Catalogue of the Pictures, Drawings, Sculpture Prints etc... belonging to the Marylebone Cricket Club’, official catalogue compiled by Sir Spencer Ponsonby-Fane and Sir Fred A. Eaton, London 1912. Original card wrappers. Signature in ink of Ponsonby-Fane on piece laid down to half title page, with pencil annotation by W. Findlay, Hon. Sec of M.C.C. in 1932. Wrappers becoming detached. Padwick 6991. ‘An Exhibition of Cricket Pictures from the View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£65StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 931 ‘The County Cricket Championship 1873 to 1896’. R.S. Holmes. Arrowsmith, Bristol 1897. Original brown cloth with title to front and gilt to spine. An early survey of the County Championship. This was the author’s personal copy with his rarely seen bookplate to inside front cover, and newspaper cutting laid down to front endpaper reporting on a meeting of the County Advisory Board chaired by Lord Harris. Annotations in ink and pencil throughout. The final section on County cricket literature incl View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£90StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 932 ‘The Game of Cricket Illustrated by a Series of Pictures in the Museum of The Marylebone Cricket Club principally from the Collection of the late Sir Jeremiah Coleman’. Introductory essay by Sir Norman Birkett, notes on illustrations by Diana Rait Kerr. London 1955. Dustwrapper with odd nicks. Padwick 61. Ex Jack Hobbs collection with a typed letter dated 27th November 1955 laid to front endpaper to ‘Dear Sir John [Hobbs]’ from Birkett, sending a copy of this book, and in which Birkett states he View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£30StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 933 ‘Bibliography of Cricket’. A.J. Gaston. 44pp. Comprises a series of four articles written by Gaston 1892-1923 extracted from original issues of the Wisden Almanack and bound in green cloth with gilt title to front and to spine label for George Neville Weston. Ink annotation to second endpaper in Weston’s own hand, ‘Extracts from “John Wisden’s Cricketers Almanack” for the years 1892, 1894, 1900, and 1923’. Fading to front cover gilts, breaking to page block, otherwise in good condition. A unique View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 934 ‘Lord’s and the M.C.C.’. Lord Harris & F.S. Ashley-Cooper. London 1914. Beautifully bound in full green leather by Bayntun-Riviere of Bath with decorative gilts and raised bands to spine, gilt to all page edges, marbled endpapers with gilt dentelle decoration, in green cloth box. Previously sold in the H.A. Cohen auction of January 1995, this was Cohen’s copy with his sale plate to inside front cover. Some foxing, otherwise in very good condition. A unique example of this title in a splendid bin View details Estimates£140 - £180Winning Bid£110StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 935 ‘Patents for Inventions. Abridgments [sic] of Specifications relating to Toys, Games and Exercises A.D. 1672-1866’. Bennet Woodcroft. Published at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents for Inventions, printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode, London 1871. Bound in green cloth, gilt title to spine, original blue paper wrappers retained. Includes twenty one patents for cricket equipment. Padwick 342-1. Small loss and tear to original front wrapper, otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot 936 ‘”Nyren”. A Short Bibliography’. G. Neville Weston. Printed for the author by W.H. Smith & Son Ltd, The Arden Press, London 1933. 28pp plus Appendix. Bound in green cloth with gilt title to front board. Limited edition of only 20 copies produced, this being no. 17 and signed by Weston in ink to the limitation page. Laid down to the inside rear cover is a folded typed page by Richard P. Nyren titled ‘The Nyrens were Scotch’ and refers to the broadcast of ‘The Hambledon Men’ with interesting refer View details Estimates£500 - £700Winning Bid£440StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 937 John Nyren. ‘The Young Cricketer’s Tutor’ (‘Nyren’s Cricketer’s Guide’) 1833-1846. Three editions, each collected and edited by Charles Cowden Clarke. First edition, titled ‘The Young Cricketer’s Tutor; comprising full directions for playing the elegant and manly game of Cricket; with a complete version of its laws and regulations’. John Nyren. Effingham Wilson, London 1833. 126pp plus 36pp of ‘New and Useful Books’. Bound in green calf, title label to front cover. Some foxing to title page and View details Estimates£350 - £450Winning Bid£600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 938 John Nyren. ‘Nyren’s Cricketer’s Guide; full directions for playing this elegant and manly game’ 1848-1857. Three editions, each collected and edited by Charles Cowden Clarke and published by Henry Washbourne, Blackfriars, London. Fifth edition ‘corrected and improved’ 1848. vi, 101pp. Bound in original green tooled leather wrappers with gilt motif of cricketers to front and title ‘Corrected to 1848’, gilt to spine and page edges. Bookplate for H.A. Cohen sale to inside front cover. Seventh edit View details Estimates£150 - £250StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 939 John Nyren. ‘The Young Cricketer’s Tutor’ 1893-1974. Five later editions/ reprints. ‘A New Edition with an introduction by Charles Whibley’, David Nutt, London 1893. 140pp. Bound in maroon cloth, gilt title to front and spine. Frontispiece. Bookplate of Harry Alfred Cohen to inside front cover. Also the ‘Large Paper’ edition, David Nutt, London, 1893, limited to one hundred copies. xxxiii, 140pp. Similarly bound in red cloth. Frontispiece. Untrimmed page edges. Bookplate for H.A. Cohen sale to i View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£85StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 940 ‘More Historical Gleanings’. Compiled by G.B. Buckley 1956. 105pp. Photocopy from the original in the M.C.C. Library, in red card wraps, bound in red cloth with gilt title to spine. Bookplate of A.E. Winder to inside front cover with pencil annotation in Winder’s hand, ‘Original MS typescript in MCC Library at Lord’s. This is one of apparently only 4 photostated [sic] copies. AEW 1/10/83’. Purchased by Winder from E.K. Brown in 1983. Padwick 803. Good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£200 - £300Winning Bid£180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 941 ‘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£250 - £350StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 942 ‘Cricket Notes’. William Bolland. Trelawney Saunders, London 1851. ‘With a letter containing Practical Hints by William Clark’. Bound in publisher’s red cloth with gilt emblem to front for ‘All The Men and Women Players’. Replacement spine. To inside front endpaper is the ownership name in ink of Robert Stratton Holmes, dated ‘Liverpool 30.6.[18]86’, with a cutting of a newspaper review laid down below. Scarce signature to title page of Charles Box, Grosvenor Park, Camberwell, dated 1853. Severa View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£85StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 943 ‘The Field is Full of Shades. Historical portraits of the men who helped to make the national game’. G.D. Martineau. Sporting Handbooks, London 1946. Bound in original yellow cloth with dustwrapper. Presentation copy to Edmund Blunden signed to the front endpaper by Martineau. Laid down and slipped in are copies of the prospectus and order form for the book and a printed slip from The Times’ to John Arlott requesting a review of 300 words. Bookplate of A.E. Winder to inside front cover who bough View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£75StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 944 ‘Heath Hill: A Descriptive Poem, In Four Cantos’. W. Hurn. ‘Printed for the Author, and Sold by W. Keymer, Colchester, and G. Robinson, London’ 1777. Rebound in marbled boards with tan calf spine, gilt title to spine, possibly lacking original wrappers. 48pp. Padwick 879. Canto IV has a section with good sporting references, pp30-31 include lines relating to cricket, ‘How spreading far, and rear succeeding rear, A brilliant throng, the cricketers appear: Quick from the smacking bat rebounds the View details Estimates£400 - £600StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 945 ‘Indian Cricket Chronology and Memorabilia’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Merritt and Hatcher 1911. Original red decorative paper wrappers with red cord to spine. 16pp. Limited edition of only thirty copies produced, this being no. 6. Limitation statement to rear wrapper with handwritten dedication and signature in ink to ‘W.A. Bettesworth Esq. with the best wishes of F.S. Ashley-Cooper’. The chronology spans a period from 1743 up to the visit of the All Indian team in England in 1911. It is the first re View details Estimates£500 - £800Winning Bid£850StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 946 ‘Cricket’. Frederic Wood. Warne’s Bijou Books series, London 1866. Original very small format book in original blue decorative cloth with tooled gilt illustration of a batsman and title to front cover. Gilt to page edges. Colour frontispiece illustration of a cricket match. Bookplate to inside front cover for A.E. Winder. Contained in modern blue box. Padwick 485. Breaking to page block with title page partially detached, otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£55StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 947 ‘The Public School Matches... of Eton, Harrow and Winchester’. A collection of eight varying editions compiled by Arthur Haygarth. ‘From 1805 to 1852 Inclusive’, published by F. Lillywhite, London 1853. Original green card wrappers, later bound in green cloth with gilt title to spine. iv, 76pp. Another copy with an additional four pages of scores of matches played in 1853. Original green card wrappers. Bookplate of the H.A. Cohen sale to inside front cover. Another with a further seven additiona View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£320StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 948 ‘Charterhouse Cricket June, 1942’. John Sammes. Published by the author , Reigate, Surrey 1952. Comprising a two page poem by Sammes who watched a Charterhouse School cricket match in 1942 at the height of the War. He returned in 1952 and wrote this poem after seeing in the Memorial Chapel the name of one of the players who appeared in the match of 1942. Tipped in is a long single page letter from Sammes to John Arlott, asking him to spread the word of the verses to a broader audience. The book View details Estimates£100 - £150StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 949 ‘Sussex Archaeological Collections relating to the History and Antiquities of the County’. Published by The Sussex Archaeological Society. George P. Bacon, Lewes, Volume XXVIII, 1878. pp. 59-82 comprise ‘On the Archaeology of Sussex Cricket’ by the editor, C.F. Trower, with an engraving of the ‘Cottage at Westhampnett where Lillywhite was born’. Fading, damage and loss to spine, otherwise in good condition. Sold with ‘Sussex Archaeological Collections’, a six page reprint produced in 1976 from View details Estimates£25 - £35Winning Bid£5StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 950 ‘Horan’s Diary. The Australian Touring Team 1877-1879’. Edited by Frank Tyson. Nottingham 2001. Limited edition no. 284 of 330 copies produced, signed by Tyson. Good dustwrapper. VG View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning Bid£10StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 951 ‘The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England... Rural and Domestic Recreations.... from the earliest period to the present time’. Joseph Strutt. New edition by William Hone. London 1833. Nicely bound in mottled boards, uncut pages. Good condition View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£25StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 952 ‘The Cricketer’s Hand-book containing The Origin of the Game, Remarks on Recent Alterations...’. New Edition. Robert Tyas, London 1841. 48pp plus adverts. Bound in original green cloth with gilt title and figure of a batsman to front, gilt to all edges. Lacking the frontispiece engraving of Lord’s Cricket Ground. Padwick 377. Some wear to corners, some breaking to front internal hinges otherwise in good condition. An early manual on the game View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£130StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 953 ‘A Correct Account of all the Cricket Matches which have been played by the Marylebone Club, and all other Principal Matches, from the year 1786 to 1822 inclusive...’. Henry Bentley. Printed by T. Traveller, London 1823. Handwritten to the title page is the signature and address of John Bayley (Middlesex, Surrey, Hampshire & M.C.C. 1830-1847). The address reads ‘Updown House, Sandwich 1824’. Bound in maroon and brown half leather. Raised bands, title and emblems in gilt to spine, marbled page bl View details Estimates£300 - £400Winning Bid£600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 954 ‘The Cricketers’ Guide, or A Concise Treatise on the Noble Game of Cricket, as practised by the most eminent players...’. William Lambert. Fifth edition ‘with considerable additions and corrections’. Sussex Press, Lewes: printed and sold by J. Baxter; by Mozley, Derby; and in London, by Langley and Co. c.1819[?]. 62pp booklet lacking the important folding copperplate engraved frontispiece plate. The book appears to have been bound in early card wrappers to which is laid a title label to the fron View details Estimates£300 - £500StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 955 ‘The Story of a Cricket Picture (Sussex and Kent)’. Told by The late Alfred D. Taylor (“Willow Wielder”). Hove 1923. Original cream paper wrappers with printed title to front. Padwick 2151. Small nick to foot of spine, otherwise in very good condition. View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 956 Don Bradman Flicker Book. No.1 ‘On Drive and Off Drive’. Flicker Productions Ltd, London, 1930. Some wear and soiling to covers, some rusting to staple otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£38StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 957 Frank Woolley. Flicker book. ‘Pull to Leg and Forcing Shot, off the Back Foot, to the Off’. Published by Flicker Productions of London circa 1936. Wear to covers, small corner piece missing to front cover, crease to rear cover otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£35StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 958 ‘Annals of the Free Foresters 1856-1894’. W.K.R. Bedford and W.E.W. Collins. Edinburgh and London 1895 and ‘History of Cambridge University Cricket Club 1820-1901’. W.J. Ford. London 1902. Original decorative boards. Qty 2. Good+ condition View details Estimates£20 - £30Winning Bid£10StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 959 ‘The Cricketers’ Who’s Who’. S. Canynge Caple 1934. Signed in ink to bookplate photographs in later years by F.W. Clark (Northamptonshire), Harold Larwood (Nottinghamshire), Bill Voce (Nottinghamshire), Bill Ponsford (Australia), Herbert Sutcliffe (Yorkshire) and Bob Wyatt (Warwickshire). Good original dustwrapper View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£55StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 960 ‘The King of Games’. Frank Woolley. London 1936. Nicely signed in ink by Woolley to half title page. Sold with ‘My Cricket Reminiscences’. Maurice Tate. London 1934 and A Cricket Pro’s Lot’. Fred Root. London 1937. All three with reasonable dustwrappers. Good View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 961 ‘The Story of Warwickshire Cricket. A History of the Warwickshire County Cricket Club and Ground 1882-1972’. L. Duckworth. London 1974. Dustwrapper. The book nicely signed in ink to the front end paper by fourteen members of the Warwickshire team. Signatures include David Brown (Captain), Kanhai, Kallicharran, Jameson, Willis, Murray, M. Smith, Amiss, Hemmings, Whitehouse etc. The book contains a letter of provenance for the signatures from the club Secretary dated 7th June 1975. Odd minor fault View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£28StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 962 ‘My Life Story’. Jack Hobbs. London 1935 with original dustwrapper. Signed by Hobbs in ink to front end paper and to photo plate. Nicks to dustwrapper, otherwise in good/very good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£90StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 963 ‘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. Lacking the rear advertising page. One plate signed in ink by George Hirst (Yorkshire & England). Original hardback pictorial boards. Some wear and soiling to boards, internally in good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£170StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 964 ‘Feltham’s Cricketer for 1877’. Edited by George H. West. Virtue & Co., London 1877. First year of issue. Original green boards with titles in gilt to front board. Frontispiece engraving of Richard Daft. Green oval label for ‘T.Kidd, Hosier, Glover, Shirt & Collar Maker’ of Hull laid to front cover. Padwick 1073. Breaking to front internal hinge, some splitting to foot of spine, minor wear to boards otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£22StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 965 ‘The Rev. John Mitford on Cricket’. With a biographical note by F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Printed by C.H. Richards of Nottingham 1921. 24pp. Reprints of four articles by Mitford reviewing Nyren’s ‘Young Cricketer’s Tutor’ originally published in ‘Gentleman’s Magazine’ 1833. Padwick 389. Bound in modern green cloth, gilt title to spine, original green paper wrappers retained. Very good condition. Rare. View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£55StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 966 ‘Cricket Songs’. Norman Gale. Methuen & Co., London 1894. Original green cloth boards with gilt decoration and titles to front and spine. Limited edition no. 94 of 125 copies produced on handmade paper, this being a signed presentation copy to John Lane from Gale dated June 1894 with handwritten dedication and signature in ink to second endpaper. Padwick 6568. Wear and fading to covers and spine, otherwise in good condition. Sold with ‘More Cricket Songs’, Norman Gale, Alson Rivers, London 1905. View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 967 ‘Peter Eckersley. The Flying Cricketer’. Rev. Malcolm G. Lorimer. Max Books, Nantwich 2023. Pictorial hard covers. Limited edition no. 35/50 signed to limitation label by the author, William Eckersley (Grandson), and Stephen Chalke who wrote the foreword. VG. View details Estimates£20 - £30Winning Bid£10StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 968 ‘A Handful of Confetti’. David Green. Quorn 2013. Limited edition number 52 of seventy five books produced, signed by the author and David Lloyd. VG. View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning Bid£25StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 969 ‘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 no. 25/100, signed to limitation label by Mcllwaine and Grime. Sold with four further limited edition titles produced by The Neville Cardus Archive at Lancashire C.C.C., edited by Bob Hilton. ‘Cardus: A Reader’s Guide’ 2012, no. 241/300, ‘Neville Cardus Reflects’ 2014, no. 18/300, ‘Cardus Undimmed: The Last Decade’ 2017, no. 76/250, and ‘Cardus in an Austra View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£45StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 970 ‘The Jubilee Book of Cricket’. K.S. Ranjitsinhji, fourth edition, Edinburgh 1897. Original blue cloth covers, gilt title to spine. Presentation copy with dedication to the front endpaper to ‘R. Poore from H.M.R.[?] January 19th’. Contains numerous page book marks annotated in ink apparently in Poore’s hand. Breaking to front internal hinge with front endpaper becoming detached, otherwise in good condition. Sold with an unsigned copy of the third edition in original green cloth. Good/ very good View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£42StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 971 Cricket biographies and club histories. Five first edition (unless stated) hardback titles. ‘Cricket’, W.G. Grace, Bristol 1891, breaking to internal hinges. ‘The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes. Cricket’, Duke of Beaufort, second edition, London 1888, some foxing. ‘Annals of the Free Foresters’, W.K.R. Bedford & W.E.R. Collins, Edinburgh 1895. ‘Middlesex County Cricket Club Vol II. 1900-1920’, F.S. Ashley-Cooper, London 1921. ‘The Eton Ramblers’ Cricket Club’, Philip Norman, London 192 View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning Bid£20StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 972 Cricket guides, theory and statistics. Seven early titles, all original hardbacks (unless stated). ‘The Cricket Field or The History and the Science of Cricket’, J. Pycroft, first edition London 1851, repaired spine. ‘The Cricket-bat and how to use it’ by ‘An Old Cricketer’ (Nicholas ‘Felix’ Wanostrocht), London 1860, ex libris, and another copy with publication date of 1861, breaking to hinges. ‘Theory and Practice of Cricket’, Charles Box, first edition, London 1868, red boards with leather sp View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£30StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 973 Large format books. ‘Famous Cricketers & Cricket Grounds’. C.W. Alcock. London 1895. Early rebind in black quarter leather, gilt to spine, red speckled page edges, replacement endpapers. ‘The Book of Cricket. A Gallery of Famous Players’. C.B. Fry, London 1895. Bound in maroon leather, gilt decoration and title to front and spine. Heavy wear and staining to boards and spine, otherwise in good condition. Qty 2. View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning Bid£15StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 974 ‘The History of Derbyshire County Cricket Club’. John Shawcroft. Christopher Helm, Bromley 1989. Hardback with dustwrapper. Profusely signed with over two hundred and eighty signatures to the pages, inside covers, endpapers, title pages and throughout by Derbyshire players, some signatures signed to piece/ label laid down. Signatures include Bob Taylor, Donald Carr, Harold Rhodes, Brian Jackson, Phil Russell, Colin Tunnicliffe, Paul Newman, Bob Stephens, Eddie Barlow, Wasim Khan, Les Bradbury, J View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£75StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 975 ‘Durham. Birth of a First-Class County’. Ralph Dellor. London 1992. Hardback lacking dustwrapper and title page(s). Profusely signed with over one hundred signatures to the pages, inside covers, endpapers and throughout by Durham players, some signed to piece/ label laid down. Signatures include Mike Roseberry, Dean Jones, John Morris, Michael Gough, Andrew Pratt, John Wood, Simon Katich, Graeme Fowler, Geoff Cook, David Graveney, Ian Botham, Wayne Larkins, Steve McEwan, Phil Bainbridge, Paul Pa View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£22StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 976 ‘The History of Glamorgan County Cricket Club’. Andrew Hignell. Christopher Helm, Bromley 1988. Hardback with dustwrapper. Profusely signed with over two hundred and twenty signatures to the pages, inside covers, endpapers, title pages and throughout by Glamorgan players, a number of signatures signed to piece/ label laid down. Includes two album pages laid down, one signed by thirteen members of the 1954 team, another by twelve members of the team c.1934. Earlier signatures include Maurice Turn View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£95StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 977 ‘The History of Gloucestershire County Cricket Club’. David Green. Christopher Helm, Bromley 1990. Hardback with dustwrapper. Profusely signed with over two hundred signatures to the pages, inside covers, endpapers, title pages and throughout by Gloucestershire players, a number of signatures signed to piece/ label laid down. Includes album pages laid down, one signed in pencil by eleven members of the 1937 side, another in ink by twelve of the 1951 team. Earlier signatures, mainly on pieces, in View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 978 ‘A Who’s Who of Lancashire County Cricket Club 1865-1990’. Robert Brooke & David Goodyear. Breedon Books, Derby 1991. Hardback with dustwrapper. Profusely signed with over two hundred and twenty signatures to the pages, inside covers, endpapers, title pages and throughout by Lancashire players, a number of signatures signed to piece/ label laid down. Includes album pages laid down, one signed in pencil by twelve members of the 1932 side, another in pencil by twelve of the 1939 team, and an offic View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£90StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 979 ‘The History of Leicestershire County Cricket Club’. Dennis Lambert. Christopher Helm, London 1992. Hardback with dustwrapper. Profusely signed with over two hundred signatures to the pages, inside covers, endpapers, title pages and throughout by Leicestershire players, a number of signatures signed to piece/ label and the odd card laid down. Includes an album page laid down, nicely signed in ink by thirteen members of the 1936 side. Earlier signatures, mainly on pieces, include Stewie Dempster, View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£35StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 980 ‘The History of Northamptonshire County Cricket Club’. Matthew Engel & Andrew Radd. Christopher Helm, London 1993. Hardback with dustwrapper. Profusely signed with approx. two hundred signatures to the pages, inside covers, endpapers, title pages and throughout by Northamptonshire players, a number of signatures signed to piece/ label laid down. Includes an album page laid down, nicely signed in ink (one in pencil) by twelve members of the 1948 side. Earlier signatures, mainly on pieces, include View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£42StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 981 ‘From the Sea End. The Official History of Sussex County Cricket Club’. Christopher Lee. Partridge Press, London 1989. Hardback lacking dustwrapper. Profusely signed with over two hundred and forty signatures to the pages, inside covers, endpapers, title pages and throughout by Sussex players, a number of signatures signed to piece/ label and the odd card and cutting laid down and an autograph sheet. Includes two album pages laid down, one nicely signed in ink by twelve members of the 1947 side, View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£90StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 982 ‘A Who’s Who of Worcestershire County Cricket Club’. Robert Brooke & David Goodyear. Robert Hale, London 1990. Hardback with dustwrapper. Profusely signed with over two hundred and seventy signatures to the pages, inside covers, endpapers, title pages and throughout by Worcestershire players, a number of signatures signed to piece/ label laid down and an autograph sheet. Includes album pages laid down, one signed in pencil by twelve members of the 1922 side, another by eleven of the 1929 side, a View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£170StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 983 ‘The Cricketers’ Who’s Who 2002’. Chris Marshall. London 2002. Original softback comprising over 460 signatures of contemporary cricketers, umpires and broadcasters. The majority signed to pages, some on labels/ pieces laid down. Signatures include Kabir Ali, Alleyne, Anderson, Atherton, Barnett, Bell, Bevan, Bichel, Blewett, Bopara, Bresnan, Caddick, Cairns, Carberry, Collingwood, Cork, Crawley, Croft, DeFreitas, Drakes, Ealham, Fairbrother, Fraser, Giles, Habib, Harmison, Hick, Hoggard, Hussai View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning Bid£42StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 984 W.G. Cricketing Reminiscences & Personal Recollections’. W.G. Grace. London 1899. Nicely signed in black ink by Lionel Charles Hamilton Palairet. Somerset & England. 1891-1909 to front end paper and dated August 1899, his copy. General wear to covers, slight breaking to front internal hinge otherwise in good condition. Ex Woodhouse collection. Sold with five other books on Grace including ‘The Graces. E.M., W.G. & G.F.’. A.G. Powell and S. Canynge Caple. London 1948. D/W. Limited edition of 10 View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 985 Cricket books. Selection of seven Denis Compton Annuals from the 1950s, six with original dustwrappers, signed autobiographies and books by Bailey, Brearley, Pieterson, Graveney, Close, Vaughan, Viv Richards, Flintoff, Botham, Gower, Miandad etc. Other books with signatures on pieces laid down. Good selection. Qty 35 View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£42StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 986 Cricket books and autographs. Box containing a varied selection of fifteen books including ‘Butterflies Cricket Club 1862-1962’. Arrowsmith, Dunbar and Armitage- Smith. 1962. Original quarter calf. Limited edition 28 of 250 numbered copies, Daily New Cricket and Tennis Annual 1921 and 1926, ‘Devon Dumplings Cricket Club Jubilee Book 1902-1952’ etc. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 987 Signed cricket books. Good selection, some signed and inscribed by the authors to Frank Twiselton, former Chairman of Gloucestershire C.C.C. and CEO of Whitfield Breweries and some inscribed to the late owner of the books. Authors include Richie Benaud (four different books), Colin Cowdrey, Fred Trueman, David Rayvern-Allen etc. Other books include ‘Sir Julian Cahn’s XI’, E.E. Snow, Leicester 1964, signed by Snow and with letter laid down to inside rear board from Snow to Neville Weston regardin View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£30StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 988 Oxford & Cambridge University cricket etc. Selection of books, mainly University cricket including ‘Fifty Years of Sport- At Oxford, Cambridge and the Great Public Schools’ Eton, Harrow and Winchester. Volume I. Edited by A.C.M. Croome. London 1913, gilt to top edge, ‘History of Cambridge University Cricket Club 1820-1901’. W.J. Ford. London 1902, ‘A Century of Roundels’ T.E. Casson 1927 (for the Centenary of the Oxford and Cambridge cricket match 1927), Oxford v Cambridge at the Wicket’, P.F. W View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£20StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 989 Cricket Books. Selection including ‘Captain of the Crowd. Albert Craig, Cricket and Football Rhymester 1849-1909’, ‘A Guide to Cricket, A Weekly Record of the Game. A Historical and Biographical Analysis’, both by Tony Laughton, ‘Bradman the Great’ 1960 and ‘Classic Centuries in the Test Matches between England and Australia’ 1965 both by Judge B.J. Wakley, ‘Tours and Tests’. Kenneth Farnes. London first edition 1940, two books with written inscriptions and given to Fred Trueman by Trevor Bailey View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 990 Sussex cricket. Five biographies, histories etc published by the Sussex Cricket Museum & Educational Trust, Hove. ‘A Failed Experiment?’, David Jeater, no. 78/100, signed by the author and Jim Parks, ‘Murray Goodwin. A modern-day Sussex Great’. Bruce Talbot’. Limited edition 138/150, signed by Goodwin, ‘Mark Robinson. An Appreciation’. Jon Filby & Nicholas Sharp 2016, limited edition no. 124/150. Signed by Robinson and two contributors, ‘A Celebration lunch for Robin Marlar and Jim Parks 80th Bi View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 991 Cricket biographies, histories and magazines. Five hardback titles. ‘Chats on the Cricket Field’, W.A. Bettesworth, London 1910. Original green cloth, gilt titles to front and spine. Good/ very good condition. Sold with ‘S. Saviours (Ardingly) Annals. Midsummer 1873’ booklet for the school that Bettesworth attended and for whom is recorded playing in cricket matches for Ardingly College. Wear and loss to booklet wrappers. ‘Memorable Cricket Matches’, Sir Geoffrey Tomkinson, Kidderminster 1958. L View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning Bid£65StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 992 Nico Craven. A good selection of titles by Craven, including eight hardbacks with dustwrappers, each signed unless stated, ‘Best Out Of Five’ 1975, ‘Best of Both Worlds’ 1976, ‘Suddenly it was Summer’ 1977, ‘A Sign of the Times’ 1978, ‘August Occasions’ 1980, ‘A Friend of the Family’ 1980, ‘Playing a Supporting Role’ 1981 (unsigned), ‘Tea for Twenty Two’ 1983. Also ten signed softbacks, ‘To Gloucester With Thanks’ 1970, ‘Summer and Sunshine’ 1985, ‘Dumbleton Day’ 1987, ‘A Summer Ball of a Game’ View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£55StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 993 Worcestershire C.C.C. histories and biographies. A selection of fourteen mainly modern hardback and softback titles with the odd signed or limited edition including ‘Hick ‘n’ Dilley Circus’, Graeme Hick & Graham Dilley 1990, signed by Hick. ‘The Story of Three Black Pears’, Bernard Bridgewater 1998, limited edition no. 123/500. ‘Don Kenyon. His Own Man’, Tim Jones 2015, signed ‘Tim’. ‘A Celebration of New Road, Worcester- ‘”A Special Place”’, Richard Bentley 2014, signed by Bentley. Other histor View details Estimates£50 - £80StatusUnsold Lot 994 ‘The Complete History of Australian Cricket 1803-1989. Jack Pollard 1987-1990. ‘The Formative Years...’, ‘The Turbulent Years...’, The Bradman Years...’, From Bradman to Border...’ and ‘Highest, Most and Best...’ (with Ross Dundas). Five hardback volumes, each with good dustwrapper. One volume, ‘From Bradman to Border’, signed to pages by Dennis Lillee and Jeff Thomson. Sold with ‘Australian Cricket, the Game and the Players’, Jack Pollard 1982, hardback with good dustwrapper. Qty 6. VG. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£22StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 995 David Frith. Eleven hardback titles by Frith, all with excellent dustwrappers. Nine are signed by Frith, ‘The Ashes ‘77’ (with Greg Chappell) 1977, ‘My Dear Victorious Stod’ 1977, ‘The Ashes ‘79’ 1979, ‘Thommo’ 1978 (also signed by Jeff Thomson), ‘The Fast Men’ 1982 reprint, ‘The Slow Men’ 1984, ‘Pageant of Cricket’ 1987, and ‘By His Own Hand’ 1990/1991 (two copies). Two unsigned titles are ‘The Golden Age of Cricket 1890-1914’ 1978, and ‘Bodyline Autopsy’ 2002. Very good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£25StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 996 Neville Cardus. Six hardback titles, five of which with good dustwrappers. Titles by Cardus are ‘Cricket All The Year’ London 1952, two copies, one very nicely signed to the title page by Cardus. ‘Second Innings’ London 1950, ‘Close of Play’ London 1956, and ‘Full Score’ London 1970, lacking dustwrapper. Also ‘His Own Man. The Life of Neville Cardus’, Christopher Brookes, London 1985. G/VG. View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning Bid£60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 997 Cricket prose and verse 1890s onwards. Three boxes comprising a large selection of titles relating to cricket prose and verse, anthologies, also covering cartoons, caricatures, humour, and other general cricket interest. The majority are hardbacks with some softbacks. Earlier titles include ‘Baxter’s Second Innings’, H. Drummond 1892. ‘That Test Match’, Sir Home Gordon 1921. ‘Mr. Evans. A Cricketo-Detective Story’, Cyril Alington 1922. ‘Sports and Pastimes in English Literature’, L.S. Wood & H.L View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 998 Cricket annuals and histories. Box comprising a good selection of annuals, books and ephemera. Includes seventeen annuals, ‘The Athletic News Cricket Annual’ 1925, 1927 (lacking wrappers), 1928-1930, 1935-1937, ‘Daily News Cricket Annual’ 1927, ‘Daily Express Cricket Annual’ 1929, and ‘News Chronicle Cricket Annual’ 1933, 1935, 1939, 1951, 1953, 1955 (2 copies) & 1958. Mixed condition. Three autobiographies, each signed by the author, ‘Lasting the Pace’, Bob Willis 1985, ‘Opening Up’, Mike Ather View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£48StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 999 Douglas John Insole. Essex, Cambridge University & England 1947-1949. Four hardback titles from Insole’s personal collection. ‘Hit Hard and Enjoy It’, T.C. ‘Dickie’ Dodds 1976 with dedication to ‘D.J.’, signed ‘Dickie’. ‘Follow On’, E.W. Swanton 1977, dedicated to ‘D.J.I.’, signed ‘Jim Swanton’. ‘Cricket’s Bounty’, Hubert Doggart 2014, with dedication to ‘Doug’, signed ‘Hubert’. Also ‘Denis Compton. Cricketing Genius’. Peter West. The Denis Compton Trust 1989. 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