Knight's Sporting Auctions Auction of Wisden Cricketers' Almanacks and Cricket Books - Live Two Day Auction (#15) 14/09/2024 11:00 AM BST Closed Starts Ending 14/09/2024 11:00 AM BST 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 501-600 of 621. Previous|1234567|Next Lot #500 ‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. Volume XVI nos. 440-469 (28th January to 30th December 1897). Bound in earlier green cloth, gilt title to spine, red speckled page edges. Illustrated. Complete with title and contents pages bound in to front. Slight breaking to internal hinges, minor age toning to pages, otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£25StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #501 ‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. Volumes XVII nos. 470-499 (27th January to 22nd December 1898) and XVIII nos. 500-529 (26th January to 21st December 1899). Illustrated. Vol. XVII bound in earlier dark blue cloth, gilt title to spine, red speckled page edges. Complete with title and contents pages bound in to front. Includes the two pictorial supplements issued of F.E. Lacey and G.G. Hearne/ W. Attewell. Lacking the poster supplement of 14th April. Front cover and first page detached with View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #502 ‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. Volumes XIX nos. 530-559 (25th January to 20th December 1900) and XX nos. 560-589 (31st January to 19th December 1901). Both volumes similarly bound in earlier dark green/ black cloth, titles and ownership initials ‘R.J.P.’ in gilt to spine, complete with title and contents pages bound in to fronts. Illustrated. Vol. XIX lacking poster supplement for 12th April. pp. 1/2 partially detached, pp. 15/16 cleanly detached, postcard of P.A. Perrin laid down to p. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£48StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #503 ‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. Volume XXI nos. 590-619 (30th January to 18th December 1902). Bound in original publisher’s cloth, gilt title to front and spine, red speckled page edges. Illustrated. Complete with title and contents page bound in to front. Lacking poster supplement for 10th April. Small handwritten date label applied to foot of spine. Front endpaper cleanly detached. Minor age toning to pages, otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£75StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #504 ‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. Volume XXII nos. 620-649 (29th January to 31st December 1903). Bound in original publisher’s cloth, gilt title to front and spine, red speckled page edges. Illustrated. Complete with title and contents page bound in to front. Lacking poster supplement for 9th April. Small handwritten date label applied to foot of spine. Small bump to top edge of front cover, minor age toning to pages, otherwise in good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£45StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #505 ‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. Volume XXIII nos. 650-679 (28th January to 22nd December 1904). Bound in later green cloth, gilt title to spine, some original wrappers retained. Illustrated. Complete with title and contents page bound in to front. Lacking poster supplement for 21st April. Some loss and expert repairs to early pages of first issue, minor age toning to pages, otherwise in good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£25StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #506 ‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. Volumes XXVI nos. 740-769 (31st January to 19th December 1907) and XXVII nos. 770-799 (30th January to 24th December 1908). Illustrated. Both volumes bound in later green cloth, gilt title to spines, complete with title and contents pages bound in to fronts. Vol. XXVI with some loss to corners of pages and wear to some page edges. Vol. XXVII lacking poster supplement of 9th April, tear to title page, light vertical crease throughout. Both with varying degr View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£55StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #507 ‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. Volume XXVIII nos. 800-829 (28th January to 21st December 1909). Bound in original publisher’s cloth, gilt title to front and spine. Illustrated. Complete with title and contents page bound in to front. Lacking poster supplement for 22nd April. Minor wear to board extremities, some age toning to pages, otherwise in good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #508 ‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. Volume XXIX. Numbers 830-859. 27th January to 22nd December 1910. Illustrated. Bound in later green cloth, gilt title to spine. Complete with title and contents pages bound in at front, lacking poster supplement for 21st April. Minor staining to the odd pages, slight age toning, otherwise in good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£60 - £80Winning Bid£40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #509 ‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. Volume XXX. Numbers 860-889. January 26th to December 1911. Illustrated. Bound in later green cloth, gilt title to spine. Complete with title and contents pages bound in at front, lacking poster supplement for 15th April. The title ‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’ at the top of each page of issues 887-889 was changed on the 7th October issue (number 887) to ‘Rugby, Football and Cricket’. This bound volume appears to comprise the cricket issues, plus View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #510 ‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. Volume II (New Series). Numbers 31-60 (18th January to 17th December 1913). Complete with title and contents pages bound in to front. Illustrated. Bound in later green cloth with gilt title to spine, red speckled page edges. Very good condition with pages nice and bright throughout. A rarer issue. View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£95StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #511 ‘The Cricket Quarterly. A Journal devoted to the Noble Game of Cricket’ 1963-1970. Edited by Rowland Bowen. Complete run of the journal comprising thirty two issues. Padwick 1195. Minor faults to the odd issue, otherwise in very good condition. Sold with ‘The Cricketer Quarterly’, complete run of the magazine in official green binders, from Summer 1973 (first issue) to Spring 2004. G/VG. View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #512 ‘The All England Cricket & Football Journal and Athletic Review’ 1878. Volume One. Published by Martin Hurst of Sheffield. Bound volume of the Journal containing twelve editions from April 1877 to March 1878, all with original wrappers featuring a real photograph portrait of a player or team to the front wrapper. The book bound with title page, large full page frontispiece real photograph portrait of ‘The Yorkshire Cricketers’ of 1878 and index. This was a presentation edition given to F.S. Ashl View details Estimates£400 - £600Winning Bid£360StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #513 ‘The All England Cricket & Football Journal and Athletic Review’ 1879. Volume Two. Published by Martin Hurst of Sheffield. Bound volume of the Journal containing twelve editions from April 1878 to April 1879, all with original wrappers featuring a real photograph portrait of a player or team to the front wrapper. The book bound with title page, large full page frontispiece real photograph portrait of ‘The Derbyshire Cricketers’ of 1879 and index. Minor ageing to boards otherwise in very good co View details Estimates£400 - £600Winning Bid£400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #514 James Lillywhite’s Cricketers Annual 1872-1900. Complete full run of the ‘Red Lillywhite’ Annual edited by Charles W. Alcock. Each copy individually bound in modern red cloth, gilt titles to fronts and spines, with original red/orange boards retained. All photographic plates present from the 1876 edition as issued. The 1872 (1st) issue lacking section of front wrapper, soiling to first advertising page, pencil annotations to rear, the 1900 (29th and final) issue with some soiling and age toning. View details Estimates£500 - £700Winning Bid£550StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #515 John (+ James) Lillywhite’s Cricketers’ Companion 1865-1885. Complete run of the annual handsomely bound together in four volumes in full green leather with gilt titles to spines and raised bands. The first volume comprises the issues for 1865-1870, the 1865, 1866 and 1867 lacking original wrappers, the 1868 with front green wrapper, lacking rear, the 1869 with rear wrapper, lacking front, and the 1870 with full wrappers retained. The second volume contains the issues for 1871-1875, the 1871, 18 View details Estimates£400 - £600Winning Bid£1,100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #516 ‘Arthur Haygarth’s [and M.C.C.] Cricket Scores And Biographies Of Celebrated Cricketers. Volumes I to XIII covering the seasons 1746-1876, published London 1876-1880, and Vol. XV ‘Biographies and Biographical Index’ published 1925. Lacking Vol. XIV. Vols. I & II bound in quarter leather, marbled boards and endpapers, with gilt title label and raised bands to spines. Heavy wear to boards, both volumes with front cover and/or spine detached and splitting to spines. Vols. III & IV bound in blue clo View details Estimates£500 - £700StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #517 ‘The Cricket Handbook’ 1893-1895. Three original copies of the handbook issued in 1893 (first year of issue), 1894 and 1895 (final year), published by the Cricket Field Offices in the ‘Pastime Series’. Each issue with original paper wrappers (the 1895 appears to have a replacement rear wrapper and spine) and all contained together in modern clamshell box in leather and marbled boards. The 1893 and 1895 issues with the bookplate of A.E. Winder. The 1893 with additional bookplate of a bee and init View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning Bid£300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #518 ‘The Cricket Year Book’ 1886-1889. The four annuals, published in Manchester and London, bound together as one volume in blue cloth, gilt title to spine. View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #519 ‘The Oxford University Almanack and Register for the Year 1867’. Published by J. Vincent, Oxford, 1867. Comprises the laws of cricket and 55 pages of university and college match scores, Original limp blue wrappers with title label in green to front cover. Front wrapper detached some wear to spine otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£38StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #520 ‘History of the Test Matches 1877-1905’, ‘Cover-Point’ T. Broadbent Trowsdale, Routledge. London 1905. Image of Monty Noble to front wrapper. In very nice condition. Sold with ‘With Stoddart’s team in Australia’. K.S. Ranjitsinhji. London 1898 in original pictorial boards and ‘England v Australia. The Story of the Test Matches 1877-1904’. J.N. Pentelow. Bristol 1904, both in good condition. Qty 3 View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£45StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #521 ‘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£42StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #522 ‘’Feltham’s Cricketer for 1878’. Edited by George H. West. Virtue & Co., London 1878. Second year of issue. Original blue boards with titles in gilt to front board. Frontispiece engraving of Henry Jupp. Padwick 1073. Breaking to front and rear internal hinges, minor wear to boards otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£28StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #523 ‘Catalogue of a choice Collection of Books and Engravings on Cricket, including rare items from A.D. Taylor’s collection’. Alfred J. Gaston. Brighton 1927. 16pp bound in later green cloth, listing ‘probably the bulk’ of Taylor’s collection according to D.R. Allen. Bookplates of A.E. Winder to inside front of the original wrapper, and to the inside of the front board. Padwick 19-2. Odd pencil annotations to pages. Light horizontal and vertical folds, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Scarce View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£190StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #524 ‘The C. Christopher Morris Cricket Library and Collection’. Official brochure for the collection held at The Haverford College Library, Haverford, Philadelphia. 14pp illustrated card brochure comprising details of the Committee and Advisory Group date stamped, ‘As at March 15, 1969’, and history of the library. Padwick 30. Attached is an initialled business card of Charles H. Winter Jr. with handwritten note to verso regarding the death of J.H. Lister, whose funeral Winter had attended. Sold wit View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£75StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #525 ‘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. Padwick 45-4. Some splitting to spine, minor soiling, otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£22StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #526 Felix on the Bat: Being a scientific inquiry into the use of the cricket bat: together with the history and use of the catapulta. Also, The Laws of Cricket as revised by the Marylebone Club’. Nicholas Wanostrocht. First edition. London 1845. Padwick 397. Forty pages plus addenda and advertising pages to rear, with ten lithograph plates (seven hand-coloured, three mono). Original decorative green cloth covers with gilt titles and cricket scene image to front, page edges gilt. Handwritten inscript View details Estimates£300 - £500Winning Bid£440StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #527 Felix on the Bat: Being a scientific inquiry into the use of the cricket bat: together with the history and use of the catapulta. Also, The Laws of Cricket as revised by the Marylebone Club’. Nicholas Wanostrocht. Third edition. London 1855. Padwick 397. Seventy four pages, with ten lithograph plates (seven hand-coloured, three mono). Original decorative green cloth covers with gilt titles and cricket scene image to front, page edges gilt. Some wear to original boards otherwise in good/very goo View details Estimates£250 - £350Winning Bid£230StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #528 ‘The Allahakbarrie Book of Broadway Cricket for 1899’. Sir James Matthew Barrie, privately printed, 1st edition 1899. Twelve photographic illustrations, original semi transparent wrappers with gilt titles to front. A fine copy of this higly coveted and most elusive title, copies only being circulated among team members and close friends. Previously sold as lot 189 in the B.J. Wakley auction held by Bonhams in April 2003 View details Estimates£1,200 - £1,800Winning Bid£2,300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #529 ‘Feats, Facts, and Figures of 1899’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Published for private circulation by Merritt & Hatcher, London 1899. First year of issue, of which only twenty copies were produced. 51pp. Original pale blue paper wrappers. Presentation copy with inscription in ink in Ashley-Cooper’s own hand to ‘C.W. Alcock Esq., 20 November. 1899. Copy no. 2’. Some age toning to wrappers, closed tear to front cover, neatly rebacked otherwise in good original condition. Presented in a blue board box with View details Estimates£500 - £800Winning Bid£850StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #530 ‘Feats, Facts, and Figures of 1904’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Published for private circulation by Merritt & Hatcher, London 1905. Fifth year of issue (there being none issued in 1900) of which only thirty copies were produced, this being copy number 27. 63pp plus iii. Original green front and rear paper wrappers. Presentation copy to ‘J.D. Betham Esq.’ signed by F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Preserved in a marbled board box with green calf and gilt titles to spine. Padwick 920. Very good/excellent condition. View details Estimates£500 - £700Winning Bid£480StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #531 Feats, Facts, and Figures of 1906’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Published for private circulation by Merritt & Hatcher, London 1907. Seventh year of issue (there being none issued in 1900) of which only thirty copies were produced, this being copy number 20. 63pp plus iv. Original pale blue paper wrappers bound in marbled half leather boards with gilt titles to spine. Padwick 920. Small loss to foot of spine paper. Light age toning to pale wrappers otherwise in very good/excellent condition. Rare View details Estimates£500 - £700Winning Bid£460StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #532 ‘Sketches of the Players’. William Denison. London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co., Rudolph Ackermann, R. Dark [and others], 1846. 76pp plus advertising pages. Padwick 876. Original printed buff front wrapper with printed title to front. Replacement rear wrapper and spine, some wear and creasing to original front wrapper, rounding to corners, ancient names written to front wrapper, ink inscription to inner wrapper which has stained onto the title page, minor soiling and foxing to inner pages otherwis View details Estimates£400 - £600Winning Bid£420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #533 ‘The Cricketer’s Companion; containing the scores of the principal matches of cricket, played at Lord’s and other grounds in the Season 1843’. William Denison. Published by W. Clement, Junior of the Strand 1844. 12mo. Original green cloth with gilt titles ‘Denison’s Cricketers’ Companion 1843’. 54pp. First edition. Presenation copy with various inscriptions to front end paper, the first reads ‘Mr J. Laws, with J.H.’s best wishes’ and the second reads ‘From E. St Homewood to A.J. Gaston, August 1 View details Estimates£500 - £800Winning Bid£1,600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #534 ‘The Cricketer’s Companion; containing the scores of the principal matches of cricket, played at Lord’s and other grounds in the Season 1844’. William Denison. Published by Sherwood and Co of London 1845 ‘and sold by W. Clement Jun., R. Dark, Eton: Mary Clapshaw, Canterbury: F. Pilch, Brighton: Box, Oxford: H. Slatter...'. View details Estimates£400 - £600Winning Bid£1,700StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #535 ‘Lambert’s Cricketer’s Guide or Instructions and Rules, for playing the Noble Game of Cricket...’. William Lambert. Sussex Press, Lewes. First Edition 1816. Printed and published by J. Baxter. ‘Illustrated by an Elegant Copper-Plate Engraving’. 55pp. Bound in brown boards, original stiffened paper wrappers retained. Includes the folded frontispiece engraving of the ‘Cricketing’ scene, with a match in progress in the Paddock, a field below Lewes Castle, with a key to fielding positions. Ex Goldma View details Estimates£1,800 - £2,500Winning Bid£1,800StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #536 ‘Lambert’s Cricketer’s Guide or a concise treatise on the noble game of cricket...’. William Lambert. Sussex Press, Lewes. Third Edition 1817?. Printed and published by J. Baxter. ‘Illustrated by an Elegant Copper-Plate Engraving’. 62pp plus one advertising page. Bound in brown boards, with original stiffened paper front wrapper retained, lacking rear. Includes the folded frontispiece engraving of the ‘Cricketing’ scene, with a match in progress in the Paddock, a field below Lewes Castle, with a View details Estimates£1,000 - £1,500Winning Bid£1,600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #537 ‘Annals of Cricket’. W.W. Read. Sampson Low, London 1896. Original quarter vellum over dark green boards, gilt title to spine. Contents on hand-made paper, rough edges. Top edge gilt. Limited edition number 23 in the deluxe edition of 250 copies, nicely signed in ink to the limitation page by Read. Name of ownership and date handwritten to the top of the title page. Good/very good condition. Rare View details Estimates£120 - £180Winning Bid£320StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #538 ‘Curiosities of First-Class Cricket’. F.S. Ashley Cooper. Edmund Seale, London 1901. ‘Signed and interleaved’ limited edition of 100 copies, this being number 8, nicely signed in ink by Ashley-Cooper to the limitation label laid down to front endpaper. A presentation copy from Ashley-Cooper to R. Leigh Ibbs (a cricketer with Hampstead) with handwritten inscription by the author to front end paper dated 20th August 1901. Original green cloth with decorative gilts and title to front cover and spin View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning Bid£170StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #539 ‘Cricket’. W.G. Grace. Bristol 1891. ‘Crown Quarto Edition de Luxe’ edition magnificently bound in full black leather with titles in gilt to spine, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Limited de luxe edition of 652 numbered copies, signed by the author Grace, this being no. 301. Very good condition View details Estimates£250 - £350Winning Bid£550StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #540 ‘Bat v Ball. The Book of Individual Cricket Records, &c. 1864-1900’. Compiled by J.H. Lester. Boots Wholesale Printing and Stationery Department, Nottingham and London 1900. ‘Edition de luxe’. Four different editions of the title were published including the scarce ‘Edition de luxe’. Publisher’s note on page v indicates an ‘Edition de luxe... is being arranged for’. This scarce ‘Edition de luxe’ is handsomely bound in black calf with beautifully marbled endpapers, gilt to page edges, gilt title View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£85StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #541 The Cricket Bat and how to use it. A Treatise on the Game of Cricket. With Practical and Scientific Instructions on Batting, Bowling and Fielding...’. ‘An Old Cricketer’. Nicholas Wanostrocht. London 1863. 96pp plus four advertising pages. Good original decorative green boards with cricketers in gilt to cover, gilt title to spine. Lacking one advertising poage to rear otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£32StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #542 ‘Heir at Law’. George Coleman 1800. Bound in mauve boards, lacking original wrappers, with titles in gilt to spine. 68pp. Small damage to title page with small loss, signatures of ownership to title page, some minor tears, nicks and staining to odd pages, appears complete View details Estimates£60 - £90StatusUnsold Lot #543 ‘The English Cricketers’ Trip to Canada and the United States in 1859’. Frederick Lillywhite. First edition, London 1860. Original green boards with title in gilt to front. Illustrated, complete with fold out map. Padwick 4893. Ex M.C.C. collation, good/very good condition View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning Bid£330StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #544 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£350 - £450Winning Bid£460StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #545 ‘Gauntlet’s Cricketers Record, containing the full scores of all The Great Matches played during the Season 1860; the Averages of the Players together with a List of the Batsman who have obtained 100 runs or more and Rules of the Game of Cricket’. Published by Gauntlet, Sevenoaks, Kent, printed by Vardy Printer of Bishopgate, London 1860. 58pp, should be 60pp. Bound in half leather green boards, with original front wrapper laid down to end paper at the rear of the book, lacking rear wrapper. Som View details Estimates£8,000 - £12,000StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #546 ‘The Sportsman’s Magazine. Volume I’. Hodgson & Co., Newgate Street, London 1824. Bound in contemporary brown boards with later replacement spine. Includes three frontispiece engravings, one of ‘The Otter Hunt at Ewton, Devonshire’ facing another of a scene with general sporting activities surrounding a plinth bearing the title ‘The Sportsman’s Magazine Vol. 1’ and publication details and date of 1824 below. This is followed by a fold-out engraving of a rowing match on the Thames, ‘The Contest f View details Estimates£250 - £350Winning Bid£240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #547 ‘Great Batsmen Their Methods at a Glance’ and ‘Great Bowlers and Fielders Their Methods at a Glance’. George W. Beldam and Charles B. Fry. London, ‘Great Batsmen being a 1907 reissue, ‘Great Bowlers’ first edition 1906. The two volumes each in original green cloth with gilt illustrations to fronts and gilt titles to spines, gilt to top edges. ‘Great Bowlers’ inscribed and signed in ink to title page ‘A. Wallis Myers from George W. Beldam’, ownership signature to front endpaper of G. Whitehouse, View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning Bid£260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #548 ‘The Rise, Progress, & Vicissitudes of Cricket in Herefordshire since its introduction to the county’. Reprinted from the Hereford Times, Hereford 1874. 62pp. Bound in original brown cloth, gilt title to front cover. Ownership name and inscription in black ink to front endpaper of R.[?].H. Rhodes, dated 1878, and further inscription in pencil to inside front cover, ‘Given by Heaton Rhodes to F. Wilding, June 1939’. Padwick 2035. Breaking to front internal hinge, minor wear to board extremities, View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£75StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #549 ‘Death’s Doings; consisting of numerous original compositions, in prose and verse, the friendly contributions of various writers; principally intended as illustrations of thirty plates, designed and etched by R. Dagley, author of “Select Gems from the Antique” &c.’. Second London edition ‘with considerable additions’. London 1827. Published in two volumes, this is Volume I comprising 224 pages, with a cricket section, ‘The Game of Life; or Death Among the Cricketers’, a poem by S. Maunder, verse View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£35StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #550 ‘The Cricketers’ Register for 1833’. 32pp booklet originally issued in three parts by ‘The New Sporting Magazine’ in the magazine’s issues of August (no. 28), September (no. 29) and October (no. 30) of 1833, paginated so they could be extracted from the magazine and compiled into one volume, as here. Bound in green cloth. Rare to see the cricket content in this format. Good condition View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£110StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #551 ‘The Australian Cricket Annual’. First Year 1896. A complete Record of Australian Cricket in 1895-6’. Edited by John C. Davis. George Robertson & Co., Sydney 1896. Printed by Edward Lee & Co., Sydney. 192pp, xii. Complete. Original decorative paper wrappers. Padwick 3357. Front wrapper almost detached, some loss to the front wrapper, very small loss to the foot of the spine paper, some age toning and spotting to wrappers otherwise in good/ very good condition. Rare. View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£110StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #552 ‘The Australian Cricket Annual’. Second Year 1897. A complete Record of Australian Cricket in 1896-7’. Edited by John C. Davis. George Robertson & Co., Sydney 1897. 250pp plus advertising pages. Complete. Original decorative paper wrappers. Padwick 3357. Some wear and age toning to wrappers with loss to the wrapper extremities at front and rear, some loss and age toning/fading to the spine paper otherwise in good/ very good condition internally. Rare. View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #553 The Australian Cricketers’ Tour through Australia, New Zealand, and Great Britain’ containing a full racy account of the matches, dinners, excursions &c in which they have been engaged. by Argus (P.E. Reynolds) 1878. 8vo. Original front printed purple wrapper featuring Spofforth to centre, lacking end advertisement page (p93/94) and rear purple wrapper. View details Estimates£700 - £1,000Winning Bid£1,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #554 ‘The Tour of the Australian Eleven through England, America and the Colonies with Conway’s Australian Cricketers’ Annual for 1877-78’. Melbourne. Fergusson & Moore 1879. Bound without original wrappers in half calf and marbled boards with raised bands and gilt titles to spine. 400pp. Small hole to the title page, minor foxing and odd stain otherwise in good/very good condition. Small library stamp for ‘A.C.S. Dean Chamberlin Libary’ to two internal pages. A scarce cricket tour book View details Estimates£400 - £600Winning Bid£480StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #555 ‘Boyle & Scott’s Australian Cricketers’ Guide for 1881-82’. Henry F. Boyle and David Scott. Printed by Kemp Bros of Melbourne 1882. 3rd issue. 8vo. 202pp including advertisements. Complete. Original decorative paper wrappers, both wrapper trimmed at the corners. Comprises chapters on Cricket in Victoria, intercolonial matches, Shaw’s England team etc. Pages 112-116 with diagrams of field-placings. Ownership name of Harry Septimus Freeman, Carlton 1882’ in ink to the top of the title page. Padwic View details Estimates£500 - £800Winning Bid£360StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #556 ‘The Australians In England. A complete record of the cricket tour of 1882 and 1884, with the batting and bowling averages of the Australians and the Englishmen who played against them’. C.F. Pardon. London 1882 and 1884. The two editions bound in marble half leather with raised band and titles to spine. Portrait frontispiece of W.R. Murdoch, captain of the Australians to each edition. Both editions with original pictorial board wrappers, the 1884 edition with corner loss to the first advertisin View details Estimates£120 - £160Winning Bid£160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #557 ‘World of Cricket. Fifty Years of Cricket. England v Australia, Colony v Colony 1856-1895, Records etc of the Cricket Field’. F.J. Ironside. 3rd Edition 1895. Published by W. Dymock, Sydney 1895. Printed by McCarron, Stewart & Co., Sydney. Original decorative wrappers. Some wear to wrappers with minor loss to wrapper extremities at front and rear, ink signature of ownership to top border of the front wrapper, dated 1896, internally in good/very good condition View details Estimates£100 - £150StatusUnsold Lot #558 ‘The Australian Cricket Guide 1926’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. C.H. Richards, Nottingham. Original cover bound into brown boards. Very good condition View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£32StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #559 Southern Tasmanian Cricket Association. Rare Third Annual Circular for Season 1869-70’. Double sided single page large format circular. Presumably printed at the ‘Mercury’ Steam Press Office, Hobart. Tears to top and bottom repaired with tape to second back side, nicks to edges and folds otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning Bid£160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #560 Southern Tasmanian Cricket Association. Rare fourth Annual Circular for Season 1870-71’. 16pp. Hobart Town. Printed at the ‘Mercury’ Steam Press Office. Review of the season, lacking original wrappers otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning Bid£140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #561 Southern Tasmanian Cricket Association. Rare fifth Annual Circular for Season 1871-72’. 16pp. Hobart Town. Printed at the ‘Mercury’ Steam Press Office 1871. Lacking original wrappers, some splitting to page spine, minor annotation to first page otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£130 - £160Winning Bid£150StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #562 Southern Tasmanian Cricket Association. Rare sixth Annual Review for Season 1872-73’. 16pp. Hobart Town. Printed at the ‘Mercury’ Steam Press Office 1873. Lacking original wrappers, some splitting to page spine, minor annotation to first page otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£110StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #563 Southern Tasmanian Cricket Association. Seventh Annual Circular for Season 1873-74’. 20pp. Hobart Town. Printed at the ‘Mercury’ Steam Press Office 1873. It is not known if this edition was printed with wrappers. Good condition View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #564 Southern Tasmanian Cricket Association. Eighth Annual Circular for Season 1874-75’. 32pp. Hobart Town. Printed at the ‘Mercury’ Steam Press Office 1874. It is not known if this edition was printed with wrappers. Good condition View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£95StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #565 Southern Tasmanian Cricket Association. Fourteenth Annual Circular for Season 1880-81’. 70pp. Hobart Town. Printed at the ‘Mercury’ Steam Press Office 1880. It is not known if this edition was printed with wrappers. Good condition View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #566 Southern Tasmanian Cricket Association. Thirty Eighth Annual Circular for Season 1903-04’. 72pp. Hobart. Printed at the ‘Mercury’ Office 1904. Original wrappers. Some slight loss to wrapper edges otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£60 - £90StatusUnsold Lot #567 South Australian Cricket Association Report and statement of Accounts for the year ended August 31st 1921. Original wrappers, some loss to corners of front wrapper, some soiling and minor annotation to top border of front wrapper and title page, wear to spine and staple areas with small loss otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£20 - £30Winning Bid£15StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #568 Rules and By-Laws of the New South Wales Cricket Association 1895-96. Small bound booklet with rules and by-laws. 8pp. Good condition View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£85StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #569 Melbourne Cricket Club. Annual Report for the Season 1888-1889. Mason, Firth & McCutchen, Melbourne 1889. 92pp. Bookplate of Thomas Parkin to inside front board, his name and address in Melbourne handwritten to front end paper and dated 1891. Bound in red boards Good condition. Scarce View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #570 South Melbourne Cricket Club. Jubilee Report 1912. Original wrappers. 72pp, Illustrations. Bound in gold and red boards. Some rusting to staples, good condition View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£42StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #571 ‘Cricket Humour. Stories & Sketches by Arthur Mailey’. The Market Printery, Sydney 1956. Colourful pictorial wrappers. Tipped in to modern navy cloth with gilt title to spine, incorrectly dated ‘1936’. The frontispiece features a printed sketch by Mailey of Ian Johnson, with the signature of Mailey in ink on piece laid down above. Padwick 6882. Light foxing and age toning, otherwise in good/very good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning Bid£45StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #572 Australian tour to England 1882. ‘”The Sporting Mirror”. A Scarce Cricket Booklet’. Twenty leaves of pages extracted from the Sporting Mirror comprising articles including a preview of the second Australian tour in England, reports on some matches including the only Test (Australia won by seven runs), biographies of Blackham, Bannerman, Boyle, McDonnell, Massie, Palmer, and the Australian tour averages. Pages loose in later grey paper wrappers with typed title to front wrapper. Good condition. View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£42StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #573 ‘Images of Bradman. Rare and famous photographs of a cricket legend...’. Peter Allen & James Kemsley. Bradman Museum, Bowral, 1994. Deluxe limited edition number 854/974, signed by Bradman, bound in full green leather in presentation box. Very good condition View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning Bid£320StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #574 ‘The Jubilee Book of Cricket’. K.S. Ranjitsinhji. Edinburgh 1897. Limited edition of 350 copies signed by Ranjitsinhji, this being number 334. Magnificently bound in full black leather with titles in silver and gilt to spine. Name of ownership and date handwritten to the front end paper with detail ‘Bought from the library of Brigadier R.C. Chichester-Constable DSO, Yorkshire, following his death. Very good condition. View details Estimates£300 - £500Winning Bid£850StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #575 Indian Cricket Almanack. 1946/47-2004. Edited by Gurunathan/ Sundaresan/ Thygarajan etc. Madras. Complete run of the Annual for the period. Original soft covers, boards and dustwrappers where applicable. Issues for 1982-1991 with year of issue annotated by hand to cloth spines. Odd minor faults to earlier issues, otherwise in good condition. Qty 57. View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning Bid£380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #576 West Indies. ‘The Barbados Cricketers’ Annual for 1895-96. Second year of publication’. Edited and compiled by J. Wynfred Gibbons. Printed at the West Indian Guardian, Barbados 1896. Original paper wrappers. Annotation in ink to front wrapper, ‘With the Compiler’s Complts’. Ownership stamp to inside front cover. Padwick 3677. Some age toning to wrappers with some wear to extremities and small loss to rear wrapper. Internally in very good condition. A rare Annual. View details Estimates£200 - £300Winning Bid£160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #577 West Indies. ‘The Barbados Cricketers’ Annual for 1896-97. Third year of publication’. Edited and compiled by J. Wynfred Gibbons. Printed at the Globe Office, Barbados 1897. Bound in modern brown cloth, gilt title to spine, original front wrapper retained, lacking rear wrapper. Padwick 3677. Loss and damage to fragile front wrapper and first few pages, with expert repair to wrapper and tape repairs to gutter. Heavy age toning throughout and wear to page corners and edges, tear to preface page, o View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #578 West Indies. ‘The Barbados Cricketers’ Annual for 1897-98. Fourth year of publication’. Edited and compiled by J. Wynfred Gibbons. Printed at the Globe Office, Barbados 1898. Original paper wrappers. Padwick 3677. Wrappers faded, replacement spine. Odd nicks and wear to edges of wrappers, some staining to page block edges, otherwise in good condition. A rare Annual. View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning Bid£120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #579 West Indies. ‘The Barbados Cricketers’ Annual for 1899-00. Sixth year of publication’. Edited and compiled by J. Wynfred Gibbons. Printed at the Globe Office, Barbados 1900. Original paper wrappers. Padwick 3677. Small loss and wear to front wrapper, replacement spine. Odd nicks and wear to edges of wrappers, otherwise in good/ very good condition. A rare Annual. View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning Bid£130StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #580 West Indies. ‘The Barbados Cricketers’ Annual for 1900-01. Seventh year of publication’. Edited and compiled by J. Wynfred Gibbons. Printed at the Globe Office, Barbados 1901. Original paper wrappers. Padwick 3677. Small loss and wear to front wrapper, replacement spine. Odd nicks and soiling to edges of wrappers and page edges, otherwise in good condition. A rare Annual. View details Estimates£130 - £160Winning Bid£130StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #581 West Indies. ‘The Barbados Cricketers’ Annual for 1901-02. Eighth year of publication’ and ‘1903-04 Tenth year of publication’. Edited and compiled by J. Wynfred Gibbons. Printed at the Globe Office, Barbados 1902 and 1904 respectively. Both issues each bound in modern brown cloth, original paper wrappers retained. Padwick 3677. Heavy loss and expert repairs to the front wrappers of both issues with significant age toning throughout. The 1903/04 issue with worm damage to page edges. Overall in f View details Estimates£120 - £160Winning Bid£70StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #582 West Indies. ‘The Barbados Cricketers’ Annual for 1905-06. Twelfth year of publication’. Edited and compiled by J. Wynfred Gibbons. Printed at the Globe Office, Barbados 1906. Original paper wrappers. Padwick 3677. Odd nicks and minor wear to wrappers, replacement spine, otherwise in good condition. A rare Annual. View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£90StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #583 West Indies. ‘The Barbados Cricketers’ Annual for 1906-07. Thirteenth year of publication’. Edited and compiled by J. Wynfred Gibbons. Printed at the Globe Office, Barbados 1907. Original paper wrappers. Padwick 3677. Some loss and soiling to front wrapper and first eight pages. Rear wrapper restored. Replacement spine. Some age toning to pages, otherwise in good condition. A rare Annual. View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #584 West Indies. ‘The Barbados Cricketers’ Annual for 1907-08. Fourteenth year of publication’. Edited and compiled by J. Wynfred Gibbons. Printed at the Globe Office, Barbados 1908. Original paper wrappers. Padwick 3677. Some water damage to wrappers with staining to front and rear endpapers and page edges. Odd nicks to wrapper edges, replacement spine, otherwise in good condition. A rare Annual. View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #585 West Indies. ‘The Barbados Cricketers’ Annual for 1908-09. Fifteenth year of publication’. Edited and compiled by J. Wynfred Gibbons. Printed at the Globe Office, Barbados 1909. Original paper wrappers. Padwick 3677. Minor wear and soiling to wrappers and page edges, replacement spine, otherwise in good/ very good condition. A rare Annual. View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£70StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #586 West Indies. ‘The Barbados Cricketers’ Annual for 1909-10. Sixteenth year of publication’. Edited and compiled by J. Wynfred Gibbons. Printed at the Globe Office, Barbados 1910. Original paper wrappers. Padwick 3677. Some wear and soiling to wrappers and page edges, replacement spine. Worm hole running through all pages, otherwise in good condition. A rare Annual. View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£75StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #587 West Indies. ‘The Barbados Cricketers’ Annual for 1910-11. Seventeenth year of publication’. Edited and compiled by J. Wynfred Gibbons. Printed at the Globe Office, Barbados 1911. Original paper wrappers. Padwick 3677. Some wear to wrappers and page edges, replacement spine. Worm hole running through all pages, otherwise in good condition. A rare Annual. View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£75StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #588 West Indies. ‘The Barbados Cricketers’ Annual for 1911-12. Eighteenth year of publication’. Edited and compiled by J. Wynfred Gibbons. Printed at the Globe Office, Barbados 1912. Original paper wrappers. Padwick 3677. Some fading and minor wear to wrappers, small loss to spine. Worm hole running through the majority of pages, otherwise in good condition. A rare Annual. View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£85StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #589 West Indies. ‘The Barbados Cricketers’ Annual for 1912-13. Nineteenth year of publication’. Edited and compiled by J. Wynfred Gibbons. Printed at the Globe Office, Barbados 1913. Original paper wrappers. Padwick 3677. Minor creasing to wrappers, replacement spine, otherwise in good/ very good condition. A rare Annual. View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£70StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #590 West Indies. ‘The Barbados Cricketers’ Annual for 1913-14. Twentieth [final] year of publication’. Edited and compiled by J. Wynfred Gibbons. Printed at the Globe Office, Barbados 1914. Original paper wrappers. Padwick 3677. Ownsership names in ink to front wrapper and Preface page. Fading, loss and wear to wrappers, front wrapper and first two pages detached. Rusting to staples, some worm damage to page edges, otherwise in generally fair condition. A rare Annual. View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£70StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #591 West Indies. ‘Intercolonial Cricket Tournament 1907. Trinidad v. British Guiana and Trinidad v. Barbados’. Published and printed by ‘The Argosy’ Company, Georgetown, Demerara 1907. Rebound in red quarter leather with marbled boards, gilt title to spine. Original paper wrappers retained. 108pp. Post-tournament booklet comprising scores and match reports. Padwick 3686. Ex libris Haverford College. Loss and expert repairs to original front wrapper, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Not previo View details Estimates£120 - £160Winning Bid£110StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #592 ‘Intercolonial Cricket after the War’. Edited by H.R. Harewood. British Guiana 1937. Original wrappers, 104pp plys adverts. Bound in black boards with gilt title to front board. Some browning to pages otherwise in good+ condition. Scarce View details Estimates£250 - £350Winning Bid£600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #593 ‘The Revival of Sport in the West Indies: A Complete Chronicle of the Intercolonial Cricket Tournament, 1920, Barbados vs. Trinidad and Barbados Turf Club Races 16th-17th February 1920’ View details Estimates£300 - £500Winning Bid£240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #594 ‘Jamaica Cricket 1863-1926, being a sixty-three year record of the game’. Compiled and published by J. Coleman-Beecher, Lingston. Printed by The Gleaner Co Ltd 1926. 97pp plus advertising pages, illustrated. Original pictorial front wrapper, lacking rear, bound in brown and marbled half leather boards with gilt title to spine. Original pull-out folding illustration of the 1925/26 M.C.C. team inserted just before the title page as published. Loosely inserted into the book is a letter from the Wes View details Estimates£300 - £500Winning Bid£550StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #595 ‘Maco. The Malcolm Marshall Story’. Pat Symes 2000. Limited edition number 81 of 100 copies published. Signed by Symes. Various press cuttings laid down to the inside of boards and end papers. Name of ownership and date handwritten to the inside of the front board. VG View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£65StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #596 ‘Wellington Cricketers Association Cricket Annual. Season 1890-91’. Edited by F.E. Brittain. Bock & Co., Wellington 1891. 106pp. Includes mounted photographs of the ‘Wellington Representatives 1890-91’ and of the ‘Canterbury Representatives 1890-91’. Original paper wrappers. Padwick 3758. Annotations in red ink to team photographs and facing pages. Small loss to edges of front and rear wrappers with some soiling, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Rare first year of issue of the Annual in t View details Estimates£250 - £350Winning Bid£200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #597 ‘Wellington Cricketers Association Cricket Annual. Seasons 1891-92 & 1892-93’. Edited by F.E. Brittain. Bock & Co., Wellington 1893. 110pp. Original paper wrappers. Padwick 3758. Minor wear and splitting to spine, otherwise in very good condition. Rare. View details Estimates£200 - £300Winning Bid£220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #598 New Zealand Cricketers’ Annual 1895 and 1896. Edited by ‘”Trundler” of Thames’ (William Henry Newton). Abel, Dykes & Co., Auckland 1895 (first year of issue) & 1896 (second year). Two issues bound as one volume in maroon leather, gilt title to spine, red speckled page edges. Original wrappers for both issues retained. Originally from the collection of A.D. Taylor with signed annotation in pencil to front endpaper, ‘Only existed four years, A.D. Taylor’, with ‘Alfred D. Taylor. Collector of Crick View details Estimates£300 - £400Winning Bid£420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #599 New Zealand Cricketers’ Annual 1897 and 1898. Edited by ‘”Trundler” of Thames’ (William Henry Newton). Abel, Dykes & Co., Auckland 1897 (third year of issue) & 1898 (fourth and final year). Two issues bound as one volume in maroon leather, gilt title to spine, red speckled page edges. Original wrappers for both issues retained. Originally from the collection of A.D. Taylor with ‘A.D. Taylor’s copy’ annotated to front endpaper, and ‘Alfred D. Taylor. Collector of Cricketana’ bookplate labels and View details Estimates£300 - £400StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Items per page 102550100 Previous|1234567|Next Previous 1234567 Next Previous 1234567 Next
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