Knight's Sporting Auctions Auction of Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia - Live Three Day Auction (#16) 29/11/2024 10:30 AM GMT Closed Starts Ending 29/11/2024 10:30 AM GMT Auction Info View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBids (Low - High)Bids (High - Low)Views (Low - High)Views (High - Low)Relevance Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 761-770 of 1383. Previous|1...757677787980...139|Next Lot #757 ‘The Heir at Law; A Comedy in Five Acts’. George Colman the younger. Longman, London 1808. 88pp rebound in modern cream cloth, lacking original wrappers. Padwick 874 lists two earlier editions of 1797 and 1800, but not this edition. The ‘Catalogue of an Exhibition on Cricket’ curated by Diana Rait Kerr in 1950 describes the play as ‘an example of the penetration of the game into the lives of every class of society’, with references to cricket including on p.15 ‘I used to notch for you’ and p.30 View details Estimates£200 - £300StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #758 ‘The Invalids. A Chronicle’. J.C. Squire. Privately printed 1923. Original blue boards with gilt title to front. 35pp followed by 8pp of photographic illustrations of teams and players. Limited to 125 copies, this is a presentation copy with dedication in ink to front endpaper to ‘R Strauss from JCS’, and a single page handwritten letter laid down to inside front cover inviting Strauss to make his maiden appearance(s) for the Invalids. The letter is undated but relates to season 1922 and referre View details Estimates£100 - £150StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #759 Village and League cricket. Three first edition hardback titles, all with good dustwrappers. ‘Village Cricket’, A.J. Forrest, London 1957. ‘Cricket in the Leagues’, John Kay, London 1970, foreword by Learie Constantine. ‘Village Cricket’, Gerald Howat, Newton Abbot 1980, signed to the front endpaper by Howat. Good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£25 - £35StatusUnsold Lot #760 Northern counties cricket histories. Three first edition hardback titles. ‘A Fifty Years’ Record of the Bowdon Cricket Club [Cheshire]’, F.M. Jackson & E.H. Longson, Altrincham 1906. Ownership signature to front endpaper. ‘Century of Penrith Cricket [Cumberland] 1866-1966’, J.L. Hirst 1967. ‘History of Cricket in Kendal [Westmorland] from 1836 to 1905’, James Clarke, Kendal 1906. Also ‘Wallasey Cricket Club [Cheshire] 1864-1964’, H.A. Wolfe 1964, Centenary souvenir brochure in original paper wra View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #761 Cricket Societies’ publications. Seven titles. ‘Cricket on Boxing Day’, Northern Cricket Society 1964, limited edition no. 25/100. Original red cloth. ‘The Cricket Book Society Secretary’s Report’, Roy Webber, Hunstanston 1947, sold with original membership card issued to J.D. Coldham, and printed ‘Newsheet’ no. 1, April 1948. ‘The Field of Cricket. Official Journal of the Society of Cricket Statisticians’, quarterly issue No. 1, July 1947, bound in modern blue cloth, gilt title to spine, origin View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£48StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #762 ‘Cricket In Many Climes’. P.F. Warner. First edition, London 1900. Original decorative green cloth boards, gilt titles to front and spine. Comprises accounts of five overseas tours. Ownership name of ‘C.B. Fry’ annotated in pencil to front endpaper. Padwick 4354. Some wear and soiling to covers with odd wormholes, very slight breaking to internal hinges, foxing to pages, otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning Bid£75StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #763 ‘Abel & Briggs. An Amusing Adventure in South Africa 1898’. W.R. Wright. All England Athletic Publishing Co., London 1898. Four page folded penny card with portraits of Abel and Briggs to front with reference to ‘[Albert] Craig on the Cricket Champions 1898’. To the inside a story of the two characters amusing themselves with catapult shooting in the bush while on the 1898/99 tour to South Africa, and their encounter with a local bushman. Padwick 4621. Good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£90StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #764 ‘More Than a Game. The Story of Cricket’s Early Years’. John Major. London 2007. Signed and inscribed to bookplate label to inside front cover, ‘To Roger, whose help was invaluable & much appreciated, John Major’, and a second inscribed label to the front endpaper from the publisher, Richard Johnson. Good dustwrapper. Very good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£20StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #765 Signed cricket histories and biographies. A good selection of titles, each signed by the author, the majority with additional annotated dedication and/ or letters to the collector, Roger Mann, who assisted with research. Includes three hardback, ‘100 Great West Indian Test Cricketers’, Bridgette Lawrence 1988. ‘Cricket Cartoons and Caricatures’, George Plumptree 1989. ‘Sixty Summers’, Peter Cox 2006. Also softbacks, ‘Sporting Relations’, Roger McGough 1974. ‘The Datasport Book of Wartime Cricket View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£32StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #766 Cricket biographies and histories. Box comprising a selection of biographies and histories, the majority hardbacks with dustwrappers. Includes two signed titles, ‘Peter May’, Alan Hill 1996, signed by Hill. ‘How to Become a First-Class Batsman’, Herbert Sutcliffe 1949, signature in pencil of Sutcliffe on piece laid down to frontispiece. Also three facsimile editions of ‘Frederick Lillywhite’s Scores and Biographies’ Vols. I-III published by Roger Heavens, Cambridge 1996-1998, each limited to 500 View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£25StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Items per page 102550100 Previous|1...757677787980...139|Next123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130131132133134135136137138139 Previous 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130131132133134135136137138139 Next Previous 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130131132133134135136137138139 Next
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