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 601-621 of 621. Previous|1234567|Next Lot #600 New Zealand. ‘A Record of the Past Cricket Season 1889-90’. Compiled by F.E. Brittain. Bock and Co., Wellington 1890. Only year of issue. 54pp. Original paper wrappers. Contains frontispiece photograph of W.H. Levin, President of the Wellington Cricketers’ Association. Padwick 3752. Ownership name in ink of ‘Newton’ to front. Front wrapper partially detached, small losses to extremities with reinforcement/ repair to verso. Some internal foxing, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Rare. View details Estimates£250 - £350Winning Bid£180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #601 ‘History of Otago Representative Cricket 1863-1906 with a chapter on the “Pre-Rep” period, 1848-1863’. J.W.H. Bannerman. Dunedin, 1907. Original blue cloth with gilt title to front board, red speckled page edges. M.C.C. bookplate to inside front board. Padwick 3784. Minor fading to spine, slight bumping and wear to corners, otherwise in good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #602 New Zealand. ‘Early Cricket in Southland from 1860 and right up to 1908’. J.W.H. Bannerman. W. Smith, Invercargill 1908. Bound in red leather, gilt title to spine, original decorative paper wrappers retained. Bookplate of A.E. Winder to inside front board. Padwick 3791. Very good condition. View details Estimates£180 - £250Winning Bid£260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #603 Cricket Almanack of New Zealand 1948-2022. Complete run of the annual from 1948 (first issue) to 2022 with odd duplication. All issues in soft covers with the exception of the 1978 hardback with dustwrapper. Some wear and old tape repair to the spine of the 1950, minor wear to other earlier editions, overall in good/ very good condition. Qty 77. View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£55StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #604 ‘The Immortals’. The Book of New Zealand Test Players’. Paul Verdon. Auckland 2006. Limited edition number 334 of 665 copies, signed by the author and by ‘every living former and present Test player able to complete the exercise’. One hundred and seventy signatures to dedicated decade pages. View details Estimates£130 - £160Winning Bid£280StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #605 ‘New Zealand Cricket’. Two volumes by T.W. Reese, ‘1841-1914’ Christchurch 1927, and ‘1914-1933’ Auckland 1936. Both bound in original publisher’s cloth, titles to fronts and spines. Some wear and minor soiling to boards, otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£32StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #606 South African Cricket Association. Annual Reports for 1907, 1909, 1910, 1911 and 1914. The majority published by Charles Perrin, Johannesburg. The 1907 edition with some wear and age toning, the 1909 and 1910 editions with detached wrappers, the 1911 and 1914 edition in good order. Qty 5 View details Estimates£130 - £160Winning Bid£90StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #607 South African Cricket Annual 1951/52-2007. A complete run of the Annual for seasons 1951/52 (first issue), 1952/53, 1954-1957, 1959, 1960, 1961/62, and 1963-2019 in paper wrappers. There was no issue for 1958. Odd duplication. Odd minor faults to earlier issues, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Qty 56. View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£55StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #608 South Africa cricket histories. Four volumes including three hardback titles in original publisher’s cloth. ‘The History of South African Cricket [1876-1914]’, M.W. Luckin, Johannesburg 1915. ‘South African Cricket 1919-1927’, M.W. Luckin, Johannesburg 1928 with wear and staining to boards. ‘South African Cricket 1927-1947’, Louis Duffus, Johannesburg 1948. Odd minor faults, other faults as described, otherwise in good condition. Also ‘South African Cricket 1947-1960’, Brian Bassano, Turners Hil View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #609 ‘Cricket. An Heroic Poem Illustrated with the critical observations of Scriblerus Maximus’. James Love [Dance]. Published by W. Bickerton 1744. First edition. 25pp. Woodcut title vignette. Bound in blue morocco leather with beautifully gilt title lettering in the inner compartment of a double panel, gilt to all edges, front board very slightly bowed. The very rare first edition of the first separately published poem on cricket. View details Estimates£8,000 - £12,000Winning Bid£13,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #610 ‘An Adieu to the Turf: A Political Epistle from The E--l of A------n to His Grace The A--------p of Y--k’. Bertie Willoughby, Earl of Abingdon. Printed for M. Smith, London 1778. Twenty four page poem rebound in modern quarter leather and marbled boards, gilt title to spine. 24pp plus seven pages of ‘Dedication to Mr. Tattersall’. Cricket interest on page three of the poem, “Scarce fourteen years had pass’d away/ When first I thought of am’rous play/ Of Women not afraid:/ For them I left more ch View details Estimates£250 - £350Winning Bid£260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #611 ‘The Rural Life of England’ Volume II. William Howitt. London 1838. Original green cloth with tooled floral design to front and ornate gilt title to spine. pp 273-276 comprise an account of a match played in September 1835 between the Sussex and Nottingham Clubs, the first match played at Brighton and a return played in Nottingham 7th- 9th September watched by a crowd of 20,000, with a carrier pigeon relaying the result of the match to Brighton!Padwick 2472-1. Some fading and soiling to spine, b View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£20StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #612 ‘Angliae Notitia or the Present State of England’. Edward Chamberlayne. ‘The Nineteenth edition, with great Additions and Improvements’. Printed by T. Hodgkin for R. Chiswell etc., London 1700. Rebound in black calf with raised bands and gilt title to spine, red page edges. A very early mention of cricket on p.48, ‘The Natives will endure long and hard labour in so much, that after 12 hours hard Work, they will go in the evening to Foot-ball, Stool-ball, Cricket...’. Padwick 856 refers to the ed View details Estimates£400 - £600StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #613 ‘An Essay of Health and Long Life’. George Cheyne. ‘Printed for George Strahan, at the Golden Ball over-against the Royal Exhange in Cornhill; and J. Leake, Bookseller at Bath’, London 1724. Bound in early full calf with tooled design to covers, raised bands to spine. Health advice with cricket reference on pp. 97-98, ‘To those that have Rheumatic Pains, to play at Billiards, Tennis or Cricket, till they sweat plentifully...’. Acquisition date in ink to title page, ‘10 July 1727’. Padwick 863-2. View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£340StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #614 ‘Some Statistics or the Influences of the Weather on the Wicket, with a method for its elimination in the comparison of averages’. Bernard Dale. London 1891. 31pp. Bound in original red cloth with gilt title to front. Comprises comparisons of performances of Lohmann, Briggs, Attwell, Spofforth, Turner etc. with the fluctuations of the weather eliminated. Slipped in is a neatly handwritten page by F.S. Ashley-Cooper comparing statistics of runs scored at Lord’s, the Oval and ‘All Games’ from 1901 View details Estimates£80 - £100Winning Bid£85StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #615 ‘Cricket. Its Theory and Practice by Captain Crawley’. G.F. Pardon. Chambers’s Useful Hand-Books, London, first edition 1865. Original red decorative wrappers with engraving of a cricket scene to front. Tipped in to modern green cloth. Ownership name in ink to page facing title page of ‘Charles C. Coles 1865’, and in pencil of A.D. Taylor to reverse of title page. Padwick 461. Fading and wear to original wrappers, some staining to pages, otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£22StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #616 ‘A Handbook of Cricket’. Edmund Routledge 1862-1889. Two limited edition studies of the Handbook, of which numerous editions were published. ‘A Guide to Edmund Routledge’s Handbook of Cricket’, Roger Hancock 2007, no. 5/50, and ‘Edmund Routledge;s Handbook of Cricket. An Additional Guide’, Nicholas Sharp 2015, no. 25/50. Both titles signed by the respective author. Good/ very good condition. Sold with five different original editions of the Handbook, each comprising 64pp. First edition 1862, ori View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£360StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #617 ‘Cricket Records with a Commentary’. A.C. Coxhead. London 1899. 91pp. Bound in original pictorial cloth with illustration of W.G. Grace to front. This was F.S. Ashley-Cooper’s personal copy with his signature in ink to front endpaper, dated 3rd July 1899, and odd handwritten notes and annotations in his hand to pages. Padwick 106. Slight breaking to internal hinges, minor soiling to boards, otherwise in good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning Bid£85StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #618 ‘Cricket Books. The 100 Best (Old and New) with notes, values, etc’. Charles J. Britton. Birmingham 1929. Original stiffened boards with printed title to front cover. Ownership signature in ink of J.D. Coldham to front endpaper. Padwick 5. Good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£25 - £35Winning Bid£140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #619 ‘Bat, Ball, Wicket and All. An account of the origin and development of the implements, dress and appurtenances of the National game’. G.D. Martineau. Sporting Handbooks, London 1950. 128pp. Original yellow cloth with dustwrapper. Slipped in is a single page typed letter from Martineau to John Arlott, dated 19th August 1950, thanking him for his kind words. Nicely signed in ink by Martineau. Padwick 333. Minor scuffing to rear of dustwrapper, otherwise in very good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£110StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #620 ‘Cricket. A New Edition’. P.F. Warner, Badminton Library, London 1920. Original decorative cloth boards. Signed in ink to the title page by Warner and E.R. Wilson who was one of the contributors. Padwick 81. Some foxing to page edges, otherwise in good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£28StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Items per page 102550100 Previous|1234567|Next Previous 1234567 Next Previous 1234567 Next
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