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 PriceBidsViews Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 601-700 of 1383. Previous|1...5678910...14|Next Lot #598 ‘Sussex Cricket Annual for 1908’. Eighth issue of the Annual in original boards, edited by A.D. Taylor, ‘Willow Wielder’. Printed by W.E. Nash of Brighton. Some professional restoration to boards and spine, age toning and wear to board extremities, browning and some restoration to internal pages otherwise in generally good condition. Rare View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£110StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #599 ‘Sussex Cricket Annual for 1909’. Ninth issue of the Annual in original light brown paper wrappers, edited by A.D. Taylor, ‘Willow Wielder’. Printed by W.E. Nash of Brighton. Crease to rear wrapper, some restoration to the spine area, browning to pages otherwise in good condition. Rare View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #600 George William King. Sussex & Cambridge University 1842-1864. ‘Lillywhite’s Illustrated Handbook of Cricket 1844 edited by ‘A Cantab’, London 1844. All 22pp of the handbook text are present, but lacking all of the portraits. Bound in original green cloth with gilt title to front. Signed and dated in ink to the front endpaper ‘G.W. King, Trinity, June 12, 1844’, with a listing in pencil below in King’s hand of the teams for ‘M.B.C. 1842’ (including King’s name) and ‘U.C.C. 1844’. Padwick 386. Fro View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£75StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #601 Sussex County Cricket Club Annuals for 1939 (thirteenth year of issue). Minor soiling to original decorative card wrappers, otherwise in good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£25 - £35Winning Bid£20StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #602 Glamorgan yearbooks 1933-2011, (not issued 1939-1945). Full set of Glamorgan yearbooks each with individual original wrappers and in good condition. The yearbooks are stored in ten modern blue presentation boxes, each box with gilt titles to spine and edging. Odd minor faults to individual yearbooks, otherwise in good/ very good condition View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning Bid£130StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #603 Matches of the Liverpool Cricket Club 1847-1864. Published by Webb and Hunt, printers, Liverpool 1865. Original green boards, with title in gilt to front board. Minor wear to boards, minor foxing to first two pages otherwise in good condition. Padwick 2210. A scarce book View details Estimates£180 - £250Winning Bid£150StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #604 ‘The Jubilee Book of Lancashire Cricket’. William Lang. Printed and published by The Manchester Weekly Times Ltd 1914. 22pp. Original pictorial wrappers. Some age toning and minor wear to wrappers, rusting to staples, centre two folding pages cleanly detached good condition. Rare View details Estimates£120 - £160Winning Bid£130StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #605 ‘The Cricketer’s Manual for the Border Counties containing a Review and Averages for the Season 1869’. Published by Askew Roberts, Woodall, & Venables, Bailey Head, Oswestry. Comprising match scores, match reports and club averages including those of the Shropshire county team. Bound in green cloth and marbled boards, original wrappers retained, complete. Bookplate of J.W. Goldman laid down to inside front cover. Padwick 1757. Owner’s name, ‘E. Minshall’ in ink to front end paper and dated 16th View details Estimates£800 - £1,200StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #606 ‘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£150 - £250StatusUnsold Lot #607 Yorkshire C.C.C. Annuals 1893 & 1894. Two limited edition facsimile reprints of the first two issues of the annual. Each bound in red cloth with gilt title and Yorkshire emblem to front cover. The 1893 published in 1990, limited edition no. 132/150. The 1894 published in 1992, limited edition no. 59/100. Very good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot #608 Yorkshire C.C.C. annual 1894. 2nd year of issue. 136pp. Edited by J.B. Wostinholm. J. Robertshaw, Sheffield, printer. Original olive boards with titles in gilt to front board and white ‘Y.C.C.’ emblem to centre, gilt to page edges. Ownership signature to index page of J.H. Stainton, Yorkshire cricket journalist. Padwick 3051. Very minor wear to head and base of spine, otherwise in very good condition. Rare. View details Estimates£200 - £300Winning Bid£220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #609 Yorkshire C.C.C. annual 1896. 4th annual issue. 136pp plus sixteen ‘notes’ pages as issued. Edited by J.B. Wolstinholm. J. Robertshaw, Sheffield, printer. Original maroon boards, gilt titles to front board and spine paper with Yorkshire emblem to centre, gilt to edges. Slight age toning to title page otherwise in good/very good condition. View details Estimates£180 - £250StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #610 Yorkshire C.C.C. annual 1898. 6th annual issue. 146pp plus fourteen ‘notes’ pages as issued. Edited by J.B. Wolstinholm. J. Robertshaw, Sheffield, printer. Original green/ grey boards, titles to front board and spine paper with Yorkshire emblem to centre, gilt to edges. Slight browning to title page otherwise in good/very good condition. View details Estimates£100 - £150StatusUnsold Lot #611 Yorkshire C.C.C. annual 1899. 7th year of issue. 165pp plus ‘Notes’ pages as issued. Edited by J.B. Wostinholm and H.H. Stones. J. Robertshaw, Sheffield, printer. Original brown boards with titles in gilt to front board and spine and gilt ‘Y.C.C.C.’ emblem to centre, gilt to page edges. Padwick 3051. Minor wear to boards otherwise in good/ very good condition. Rare. View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£45StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #612 Yorkshire C.C.C. annual 1899. 7th year of issue. 165pp plus ‘Notes’ pages as issued. Edited by J.B. Wostinholm and H.H. Stones. J. Robertshaw, Sheffield, printer. Original brown boards with titles in gilt to front board and spine and gilt ‘Y.C.C.C.’ emblem to centre, gilt to page edges. Good/very good condition View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #613 [The] History of Yorkshire County Cricket’. Three volumes, ‘1833-1903’ by R.S. Holmes, London 1904, ‘1903-1923’ by A.W. Pullin (‘Old Ebor’), Leeds 1924, ‘1924-1949’ by J.M. Kilburn, Leeds 1950. All three bound in original blue cloth with Yorkshire club emblem and title in gilt to fronts and titles in gilt to spines. The first volume with heavy wear and staining to boards, breaking to front internal hinge, appears to be lacking the frontispiece. The others with small nicks to spines, otherwise in View details Estimates£20 - £30Winning Bid£8StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #614 ‘The Surrey Team in 1888. Complete scores of all matches played, with full page portraits and short biographical sketches’. Office of ‘Cricket’, London 1889. Original wrapper. Minor age toning to wrapper extremities and odd foxing spot to page block edge otherwise in surprisingly very good condition Padwick 2696. Rare View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #615 ‘The Surrey Eleven in 1895. A Descriptive Record of the Matches Played in that Season’. James L. McCance. Merritt & Hatcher, London 1896. 60pp Original pictorial paper wrappers. Minor wear to wrappers, pencil annotation to lower border of front wrapper, repaired tear to rear front end paper otherwise in surprisingly very good condition. Padwick 2687. Rare View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£65StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #616 ‘The Surrey Eleven in 1896. A Descriptive Record of the Matches Played in that Season’. James L. McCance. Merritt & Hatcher, London 1897. Bound in green cloth with title to front board, original decorative wrappers retained. Ex M.C.C. Collection, previously sold at Christies sale of November 2010. Padwick 2687. A nice copy in good/ very good condition View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£55StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #617 ‘Surry Triumphant: or The Kentish-Mens Defeat. A new ballad being a parody of Chevy-Chace’. John Duncombe. Printed J. Johnson, London 1773. First edition. 24pp. Bound in brown and marbled half leather with woodcut title vignette. The match took place at Bishopsbourne Paddock, the seat of Sir Horatio Mann, on 24 July, 1773, for £2000, and page A2 gives the scores of the two innings, showing Surrey triumphant by 153 runs. The Rev. John Duncombe was curate of Sundridge, near Sevenoaks. Allen desc View details Estimates£3,000 - £5,000Winning Bid£3,800StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #618 Surrey C.C.C. Handbook 1910 to 1914, 1915-1920 and 1921. Original brown boards with gilt titles to front board. Some wear to boards and spines, the 1912 edition with breaking to spine, boards becoming detached otherwise in good+ condition. Seven books in total including the rarer wartime edition which has a letter from the Secretary of Surrey C.C.C. to H.A. Wolfe, asst Sports Editor at the Liverpool Echo dated April 1964 View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£55StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #619 Surrey cricket. ‘The Scores of Matches played by the Wimbledon Cricket Club 1871-1889’. Compiled by E.W.J. Reeves. Printed by W.H.H. of Walsall 1890. Original blue cloth, gilt title to spine. Bookplate of Epworth Second Hand Books to inside front cover. Padwick 2671. Chipping and darkening to spine, otherwise in very good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£75StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #620 Surrey cricket. ‘John Wisden’s Cricket Match Histories’. Three booklets by F.S. Ashley-Cooper, published by John Wisden & Co., London 1922, bound together as one volume in green cloth, gilt title to front, all with original dark blue card wrappers preserved. The three volumes are ‘I. Kent v. Surrey 1731-1921’, ‘II. Surrey v. Notts 1851-1921’, and ‘III. Middlesex v. Surrey 1730-1921’. Padwick 2675. Very good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£25StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #621 Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1892. Hardback ‘blue book’. Original decorative boards. Gilt titles and to all page edges with silver gilt Kent emblem to centre. Printed by J. Burgiss-Brown, Maidstone 1892. Minor wear and slight darkening to board extremities, slight fading and wear to spine otherwise in good/very good condition. Rare View details Estimates£200 - £300Winning Bid£250StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #622 Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1893. Hardback ‘blue book’. Original decorative boards. Gilt titles and to all page edges with silver gilt Kent emblem to centre. Printed by J. Burgiss-Brown, Maidstone 1893. Minor age toning to boards and spine otherwise in very good condition. Blind embossed bookplate ‘Library of Michael Beer’ to title page. Rare View details Estimates£200 - £300StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #623 Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1895. Hardback ‘blue book’. Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1895. Hardback ‘blue book’. Original decorative boards. Gilt titles and to all page edges with gilt Kent emblem to centre. Printed by Cross & Jackman, ‘The Canterbury Press’ 1895. Very minor age toning to boards and spine otherwise in very good condition with bright gilt titles. Bookplate of J.W. Goldman to inside front board. Additional ink signature of ownership to title page dated 1895. Rare View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning Bid£180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #624 Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1900. Hardback ‘blue book’. Original decorative boards. Gilt titles and to all page edges with gilt Kent emblem to centre. Printed by Cross & Jackman, ‘The Canterbury Press’ 1900. Minor age toning to boards and spine otherwise in very good condition with bright gilt titles. Bookplate of J.W. Goldman to inside front board and additional ink signature of ownership to title page dated 1905. Rare View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£55StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #625 Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1904. Hardback ‘blue book’. Original decorative boards. Gilt titles and to all page edges with gilt Kent emblem to centre. Printed by the Kentish Express (Igglesdon & Co) of Ashford 1904. Some minor fading to spine paper otherwise in very good condition with bright gilt titles View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£25StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #626 Kent County Cricket Club 1865. ‘The Canterbury Cricket Week. An authentic narrative of the origin and career of the institution; including the programmes of The Old Stagers’ Performances... Volume First’. Printed and published by William Davey, Canterbury 1865. First (and only) edition. Original red cloth, with gilt titles, and coloured and gilt border bands, all edges gilt. Coloured decorative half-title page. Includes seventeen real photographs on five plates of players and officials. Photogra View details Estimates£200 - £300Winning Bid£280StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #627 ‘Kent Cricket: A Few Notes’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Privately printed 1929. 16pp Christmas card booklet privately printed in 1929 with printed Christmas greeting to first page, hand addressed to ‘J. Dover Betham’ in ink by Ashley-Cooper. Original pictorial card wrappers with cord tie. Comprises sections on ‘Kent Match Results 1719-1929’, ‘Woolley’s Hundreds’, ‘Ames’ Wicket-Keeping’ etc. Bookplate of A.E. Winder facing title page. Padwick 2132. Good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #628 Kent cricket. Two histories relating to Kent cricket by F.S. Ashley-Cooper, both in original decorative paper wrappers. Titles are the rarer ‘Kent Cricket Records 1719-1929’, Canterbury 1929, signature of Kent collector, H.W. Warner to title page. ‘Kent County Cricket’, George W. May, London 1924 with some soiling to wrappers, wear and small loss to first advertising page. Rusting to staples of both, otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£32StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #629 Kent cricket. Four histories relating to Kent cricket. Titles are ‘Surry [sic] Triumphant or the Kentish-Mens Defeat. A new ballad being a parody of Chevy-Chase’, John Duncombe, ‘Issued in 1937 by Bourne Paddock Cricket Club’. 16pp reprint of the 1773 original. ‘Canterbury Cricket Week. Its Origin, Career, and Jubilee 1842-1891’, F. Milton Small, first issue, Canterbury 1891, bound in modern blue cloth, original wrappers preserved, speckled page edges, ownership name of F.S. Ashley-Cooper to tit View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£95StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #630 Kent County Cricket Club. ‘The Canterbury Cricket Week 1842-1891. Its Origin, Career, and Jubilee’. E. Milton Small. Printed for the Author by J.A.Jennings, Canterbury, third issue 1892. viii, 154pp plus the additional page of 1892 scores. Padwick 2089. Original decorative paper wrappers. Small loss and wear to spine, internally in very good condition. View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£30StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #631 ‘Fifty Years of Nottinghamshire Cricket 1838-1887, being Volumes 1 and 2 of Notts Cricket Scores and Biographies’. Compiled by C.H. Richards. Printed by G. Richards of Nottingham 1890. Frontispiece carte de visite style original photograph of the ‘Nottinghamshire County Eleven 1866’. Name of ownership to front end paper and to title page, bookplate to inside front board. Good condition View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£65StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #632 Nottinghamshire cricket histories. Four titles including ‘A Short History of Nottinghamshire Cricket including the Season of 1887’. E. Browne. Nottingham 1887. Original decorative cloth boards with wear. ‘Nottinghamshire Cricket Scores and Biographies. From 1838 (Opening of the Trent Bridge Ground)’ Volumes 1 and 2, compiled by C.H. Richards. Printed & published by George Richards of Nottingham 1888 & 1890. The two volumes bound together as one in quarter leather, red speckled page edges, lackin View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£85StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #633 Hampshire C.C.C. County Cricket Guide 1938. Official County Guide edited and published by H. King, ‘Southern Newspapers Ltd.’. Original red decorative wrappers. Padwick 2029. Very good condition View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£28StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #634 ‘Hampshire & Isle of Wight Leaders. Social and Political’. Charles A. Manning. London 1903, gilt to all page edges.. The book includes several prominent sportsman including Hampshire cricketer Lt-Colonel Christopher Heseltine, original Hampshire C.C.C. Committee members, The Earl of Portsmouth, W.W.B. Beach. Very light foxing to odd page otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£10StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #635 ‘Middlesex County Cricket Club’. Three volumes, ‘1864-1899’ by W.J. Ford, London 1900, ‘1900-1920’ by F.S. Ashley-Cooper, London 1921, and ‘1921-1947’ by N. Haig, London 1949. All three uniformly bound in original red cloth with Middlesex club emblem of the three seaxes in gilt to fronts and titles in gilt to spines. Ownership signature of Sydney Santall (Warwickshire 1894-1914) to front endpaper of Volume I. Minor wear to spine papers of Vols. I & II, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Sol View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£25StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #636 ‘Derbyshire County Cricket’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. George W. May, London 1924. Original decorative cover. Padwick 1842. Minor wear and ageing to cover, rusting to staples otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£28StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #637 ‘A History of Derbyshire County Cricket Club 1870-1970’. John Shawcroft. Derby 1970. Original green morocco with gilt titles to front and spine. First limited edition of 250 copies, this being number 2. Foreword by the Duke of Devonshire, signed in ink by the Duke below his frontispiece photograph, who signed the first fifty copies. Formerly the property of Frank Peach, archivist and editor of the Club’s Annual. Padwick 1854. Minor wear to spine edges, otherwise in good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£70StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #638 ‘The Leicester Ivanhoe Cricket Club 1873-1923’. J.R. Gimson, B.W.N. Russell and R.G. Waddington. Leicester 1923. Original brown cloth boards, titles to front and spine. 230pp with additional 11pp ‘Index’ compiled by Henry Grierson tipped in to rear. Bookplate of W.F. Curtis to inside front cover, inscribed and signed in ink ‘To the Sussex County C.C. with many happy memories, W.F. Curtis’. Opposite on the front endpaper is the cancelled Sussex C.C.C. library plate bearing Curtis’ name. Padwick 2 View details Estimates£25 - £35Winning Bid£20StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #639 Northamptonshire cricket. ‘Northamptonshire Past & Present’, Journal of the Northamptonshire Record Society, Vol. V no. 4 1976, comprising a three page article by J.D. Coldham on ‘The Northamptonshire Cricket Song’ sung by Charles E. Thorpe at a meeting of the Club in 1885 to raise funds for a new ground. Padwick 2449. Very good condition. Sold with ‘Northamptonshire v. Yorkshire At the Wicket 1908-1960’ compiled by James D. Coldham 1961. Limited offprint of twenty five copies from the Journal o View details Estimates£60 - £90StatusUnsold Lot #640 ‘Somerset County Cricket’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. George W. May, London 1924. Original decorative paper wrappers. Padwick 2553. Minor wear and ageing to cover, rusting to staples otherwise in very good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£25StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #641 No lot £0/0 View details StatusUnsold Lot #642 ‘Cricket in Perth 1827-1921’. History of the Perthshire Cricket Club. James Barlas, Perth, 1921. Original souvenir brochure stamped ‘Prize draw No. 4172’ to front cover. Original decorative paper wrappers. Padwick no. 3285. Light vertical fold, minor ageing to wrappers otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£70 - £100StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #643 ‘Annals of Brechin Cricket’. Alfred O’Neil. Brechin 1927. Original decorative boards. Presentation copy from Alfred O’Neil with ink inscription to front end page ‘To Fred Hall esq with the compliments of the author. Alfred O’Neil 25th May 1928’. Wear to boards and extremities otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£20StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #644 ‘Reminiscences of the Grange Cricket Club, Edinburgh, with selected matches 1832-1862’. W. Moncrieff. David Douglas, Edinburgh 1891. Red brown cloth, gilt to top page edges. The frontispiece is a real photograph of the club ground with a posed match. Ownership signature of A.D. Taylor of Brighton to front end paper, also signed to inside from board by H.W. Warner. Some wear and discolouration to boards otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£20StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #645 ’The Midland Rangers’ Tour, August 1st to 12th 1882. By Senex’. An account of a tour of the West Country in doggerel verse. Matches played against Truro, Penzance, Plymouth Garrison and Cuckoo-Penners. Original decorative light blue wrappers bound in red boards with gilt title to spine. 18pp. Good condition. Ex Cohen Collection, sold as part of lot 543 in his sale of January 1995 by Phillips View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£25StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #646 ‘The Suffolk Cricket Annual 1903, 1904 and 1905’. Edited by Randolph L. Hodgson. Original card wrappers. The three editions bound as one. Padwick 2591. The wrapper for 1904 detached otherwise in good+ condition View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£170StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #647 ‘Norfolk County Cricket Club. Season 1905. Souvenir of a Record Season’. Published by Jarrold & Sons, Norwich. Original blue cloth with gilt title and County emblem to front cover. Comprises records of all matches played in the Minor Counties Championship for 1905, in which Norfolk were champions. Presentation copy ‘To the Reverend H.B.J. Armstrong from C.B. Leathes Prior June 1909’. Frontispiece photograph of Rev. G.B. Raikes, captain. Padwick 2445. Ex David Armstrong collection (former Secreta View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£30StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #648 ‘Cheltenham Cricket Week. A Review of the Games from 1878 to 1904. Together with a brief outline of other important matches played in the district’. Alfred D. Taylor. Cheltenham 1905. 1st Edition, 60pp. Bound in green half leather with original decorative paper wrappers bound to the rear. Padwick 1943. Light vertical fold otherwise in good/ very good condition. Rare View details Estimates£140 - £180Winning Bid£160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #649 ‘Records of Cheltenham College Matches against Public Schools 1856-1900’. Edited by A.A. Hunter. Cheltenham 1901. 227pp. Original red boards with titles to front board and spine paper. Some fading to the titles, breaking to the front internal hinge otherwise in good+ condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£42StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #650 ‘The History of a Hundred Centuries’. W.G. Grace. Edited by W. Yardley. London 1895. Original pictorial paper wrappers. Some rusting to staples, some splitting and small loss to spine and soiling to wrappers, otherwise in good condition. Sold with two mono postcards of Grace in batting poses, one by Wrench Series no. 2931, the other Star Series. Good condition. Qty 3. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£95StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #651 ‘Cricket’. W.G. Grace. Bristol 1891. Original green cloth, with gilt titles to front and spine. Nicely signed in ink by Grace to the reverse of the frontispiece. Replacement spine and endpapers, with original spine paper laid down. Some staining and wear to board extremities, otherwise a nice copy in good condition. View details Estimates£120 - £160Winning Bid£170StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #652 William Gilbert Grace. Two volumes of ‘Men and Women of the Day’, each containing a set of impressive large ‘Woodburytype’ mono photographs of actors, authors and other celebrities of the day with accompanying biographies by Barraud of London, 1888. Includes a photograph of Grace, three quarter length, wearing cricket whites and holding a cricket bat under his arm. Each photograph is laid down to official photographer’s mount with printer’s name to lower border. The photographs measure 9.5”x7”. View details Estimates£100 - £150StatusUnsold Lot #653 ‘Clifton College 1862-1912’. A portfolio of thirty one pages comprising forty three original sepia photographic plates of events and personalities in the history of the College with scenes of the college buildings, masters and sports including cricket and athletics. The plates are laid to pages loosely contained within grey boards with green cloth spine, printed title and College emblem to front and cord tie. Includes four page index printed by The Vandyke Printers, Bristol. Cricket related imag View details Estimates£120 - £160Winning Bid£90StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #654 ‘The Chronicle of W.G.’, J.R. Webber, Nottingham 1998. Limited subscriber’s edition softback number 20/440. Signed to the limitation page by the author, also Marianne Day, Granddaughter of W.G., and G.F. Grace, Great Nephew of W.G. Sold with two further limited edition softbacks, both signed by the respective author(s). ‘A Springbok Down Under. South Africa on Tour 1931/1932’, Brian Bassano & Rick Smith, Tasmania 1991, limited edition no. 8/400. ‘A Century of Surrey Stumpers’, David Sawyer 2001, View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£25StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #655 W.G. Grace biographies. Six original titles, all hardbacks with one softback, each signed by the author with inscribed dedications and/ or letters to the collector, Roger Mann, who assisted with the research for each. Titles include two by G. Derek West, ‘Twelve Days of Grace’ hardback 1989, and ‘Six More Days of Grace’ softback 1992. Others are ‘W.G.’, Robert Low 1997. ‘W.G. Grace. A Life’, Simon Rae 1998. ‘Cricket With Grace’, David Rayvern Allen 1990. ‘Cricket at the Crystal Palace. W.G. Grac View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£25StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #656 ‘Haygarth at Harrow (1839-1842)’. Compiled by Roger Heavens. Louth 2018. Limited edition no. 86/100. Signed by Heavens. Dustwrapper. Very good condition View details Estimates£20 - £30Winning Bid£15StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #657 ‘Felix and the Eleven of England’, Gerald Brodribb. Boundary Books, Manchester 2002. Full leather with gilt title to spine and gilts to page edges, in slipcase. Limited Edition of 250 copies, this being hand marked ‘M.C.C. Copy’, each signed by a descendent of Felix, J.E. Wanostrocht, by Ted Dexter, President of M.C.C., and by Hubert Doggart, Chairman of the M.C.C. publishing committee and contributor of a charming foreword. Very good condition. Formerly in the M.C.C. Collection View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£85StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #658 ‘An Unjust Slur on Bobby Peel’. Irving Rosenwater. London 1997. Printed for private circulation in London, February 1997. Limited edition number 20 of only twenty numbered copies produced, signed by Rosenwater. Good condition. Rare View details Estimates£130 - £160Winning Bid£160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #659 ‘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£180 - £250Winning Bid£300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #660 ‘Cricket. A Set of Etchings’. Corridan Graddon. St Albans 1983. Original green boards with gilt titles and decoration. Limited edition number 93/100. Signed by the artist. VG View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£30StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #661 ‘The Noblest Game’. John Arlott and Neville Cardus. First edition, London 1969. Signed ‘Special Edition’ limited to one hundred copies, this being no. 75, signed by Cardus and Arlott to limitation page. Original green cloth and leather spine with raised bands and gilt title, gilt to top page edge. Very good condition. View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£280StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #662 Australian limited edition histories and biographies. Three softback titles, each limited edition and/ or signed. ‘The M.C.C. Tour to Australia 1903-1904’, Ronald Cardwell 1988, limited edition no. 106/287, signed by the author and Bill O’Reilly. ‘Making the Grade. 100 Years of Grade Cricket in Sydney 1893/4- 1993/4’, Max Bonnell et al. 1994. ‘Billy Murdoch. Cricketing Colossus’, Richard Cashman & Ric Sissons, Sydney 2019, paperback edition signed by the authors. Also one hardback, ‘Googlyman. T View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£55StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #663 ‘James Lillywhite’s XI in Goulburn 1876’. Ronald Cardwell. Cherrybrook, N.S.W. 2007. Limited edition no. 63/111 copies produced. Signed by Rob Jeffrey, Trevor Bayliss and the author. Very good condition. View details Estimates£20 - £30Winning Bid£20StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #664 ‘Stoddy’s Mission. The First Great Test Series 1894-1895’. David Frith. New South Wales 1994. Limited edition of 100 copies produced, this being number 13, signed by Frith to the title page. Very good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£42StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #665 ‘The Lost Art. A History of Under-Arm Bowling’. Gerald Brodribb. Boundary Books, Goostrey 1997. Limited edition of fifty copies produced, this being number 5, signed by the author. Quarter leather with gilt to spine, gilt to top edge, marbled endpapers. Very good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #666 ‘Allan Border. Beyond Ten Thousand. My Life Story’. Allan Border. Nedlands W.A., 1993. Special edition bound in full green leather with decorative gilt title to front and spine, gilt to all page edges. ‘Limited to 10,123 copies... equal to the number of Test runs Allan scored’, this being copy number 51. Signed in ink with dedication to the front endpaper limitation page, ‘To Frank. Many thanks for all your assistance, particularly the early years. Best wishes, Allan Border’. Very good conditio View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£32StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #667 ‘Calling the Shots. Correspondence over fifty years between Don Bradman and Jim Swanton’. Michael Down. Boundary Books, Childrey 2017. Original pictorial hard covers. Limited edition of 100 copies, this being an unnumbered gift copy to ‘Roger’, signed by the author. Very good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£55StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #668 ‘Captain of the Crowd’. Albert Craig, Cricket and Football Rhymester 1849-1909’. Tony Laughton. Boundary Books, Childrey 2008. Limited edition number 16 of fifty copies produced, signed by the author. Specially bound and boxed with twelve facsimiles of the rarest Craig compositions reproduced on art paper. Very good condition. View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #669 ‘Felix and the Eleven of England’, Gerald Brodribb. Boundary Books, Manchester 2002. Full leather with gilt title to spine and gilts to page edges, in slipcase. Limited Edition of 250 copies, this being copy number 116, each signed by a descendent of Felix, J.E. Wanostrocht, by Ted Dexter, President of M.C.C., and by Hubert Doggart, Chairman of the M.C.C. publishing committee and contributor of a charming foreword. Very good condition. View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£65StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #670 Playfair Cricket Annuals 1951-2019. A good run of the Annual 1951 to 1965, 1967 to 1974, 1976 to 1998, 2004, 2005 and 2019. The annuals from 1951 to 1962 in larger format and from 1963 to 2019 in smaller format. Duplicate issues of the 1951, 1954, 1955, 1956 and 1958 editions. Odd minor faults, otherwise in good condition. Qty 54. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£20StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #671 Marylebone Cricket Club. Matches for the Season with full scores and batting averages’. Editions for 1893, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911 (2), 1913, 1944-45 (3 copies) and 1948-49. Sold with ‘Marylebone Cricket Club. Pavilion and Ground Regulations, list of members’. Editions for 1953-54 (3), 1955-56 (2) and 1957-48 (4) and Wisden Cricketers’ Almanacks for 2004, 2007 and 2019 (2), the first two editions lacking dustwrappers. Plus a few individual books ‘Pageantry of Sport’ John A View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #672 ‘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 - £700Winning Bid£440StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #673 County and Club handbooks/ yearbooks 1950s-1990s. Box comprising a large selection of over one hundred and fifty annuals, Club histories, A.C.S. publications etc. Contents include ‘Cricketing References in Norwich Newspapers, 1701 to 1800’, J.S. Perry 1979. A run of Club Cricket Conference Handbooks for seasons 1952, 1953, 1955-1976, 1978, 1981 and 1989-1991. County Cricket Association handbooks for Nottinghamshire 1963, 1972, 1978-1980, 1984, 1989-1993, 1997, Surrey 1985-1993 also, Middlesex an View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£10StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #674 Cricket histories, biographies and annuals. Four first edition hardback titles by P.F. Warner in original cloth covers, two signed. Titles are ‘Cricket in Many Climes’, London 1900, signed in ink to front endpaper by Sydney Santall (Warwickshire 1894-1914). ‘The Book of Cricket’, P.F. Warner, London 1911. ‘My Cricketing Life’, P.F. Warner, London 1921, ownership name to front endpaper of R.L. Arrowsmith. Tear to fold out frontispiece photo. ‘The Fight for the Ashes in 1926’, London 1926. Sold wi View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning Bid£40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #675 ‘[John &] James Lillywhite’s Cricketers’ Annual 1881-1897. Seven editions of the annual. ‘John & James Lillywhite’s Cricketers’ Companion’ for 1881 bound in modern green cloth, gilt title to spine, original green paper wrappers preserved. Foxing to page edges, otherwise in good condition. ‘James Lillywhite’s Cricketers’ Annual’ in original red cloth, issues for 1883, 1887, 1888, 1889, 1891, and 1897. The 1883 with soiling and staining to covers becoming detached. The 1897 covers becoming detache View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #676 Biographies, histories and annuals. A selection of nine titles including two limited edition and/ or signed. ‘George Lohmann. The beau ideal’, Ric Sissons, Leichhardt 1991, limited edition no. 266/500, signed by Sissons. ‘Tragic White Roses’, Mick Pope, Swinton 1995, no. 228/450. Facsimile reprints of ‘James Lillywhite’s Cricketers’ Annual’ 1883 (spotting to wrappers) and 1894 published by ‘Cricket Lore’ 1990s. ‘Annals of Cricket’, W.W. Read, London 1896, original pictorial stiffened boards. ‘Th View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£35StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #677 James Lillywhite’s Cricketers’ Annual 1878-1900. Complete full run of the ‘Red Lillywhite’ Annual for the period, edited by Charles W. Alcock, comprising eight individual issues in original red cloth, and seven bound volumes of multiple issues in quarter leather and marbled or cloth boards. Includes the odd duplication. Issues bound together are 1878-1880, 1881-1883, 1884-1886, 1886 & 1887, 1889-1892, 1893-1896, and 1897-1899. Individual issues are for years 1887, 1888, 1892, 1893 (2 copies), 1 View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning Bid£120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #678 ‘The Guide to Cricketers containing full directions for playing the noble and manly game of Cricket...’ 1864. Compiled and Edited by Frederick Lillywhite. Published by Fred. Lillywhite, Kennington Oval, London 1864. 19th Edition. 8vo. Original rear paper wrapper, lacking front wrapper, also first two advertising pages and title page. Padwick 1086. First three pages becoming detached, otherwise complete. Staining and age toning to rear wrapper, light foxing to pages, otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£70StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #679 ‘The Guide to Cricketers containing full directions for playing the noble and manly game of Cricket...’ 1865. Compiled and Edited by Frederick Lillywhite. Published by Fred. Lillywhite, Kennington Oval, London 1865. 20th Edition. 8vo. Rebound in green cloth, gilt title to spine, lacking original wrappers otherwise complete. Neat annotations in coloured inks to pages, loss and age toning to first few pages, otherwise in good condition. Rare. View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£78StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #680 ‘Feltham’s Cricketer for 1877’ and ‘... for 1878’. First and second (only) years of issue. Edited by George H. West. London 1877 & 1878. The two issues bound together as one volume in green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Original red stiffened card wrappers to both issues retained. The 1877 with frontispiece engraving of Richard Daft, bookplate and stamp of M.C.C. library to original inside front cover. The 1878 with frontispiece engraving of Henry Jupp. Bookplate of A.E. Winder to inside fr View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£170StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #681 Catalogues and guides. Five titles including one signed. ‘Sussex Cricket Postcards (1901 to 1947)’, Bob Jones and Nicholas Sharp, Hainault 1994, hardback with good dustwrapper, signed ‘Bob’ and ‘Nicholas’ to page facing title page. Also ‘Catalogue of the Collection of “The Yorker” for the exhibition held at Piccadilly, published by Whitbread & Co., London 1954. ‘Cricket On Old Picture Postcards’, Grenville Jennings, Nottingham 1985. ‘The Catalogue of British & Foreign Cigarette Cards 1888-1987’, View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£20StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #682 ‘On the Tented Fields of the South 1882’. By The Childe (W.F. Buckland) Printed at the ‘Free Lance’ Office, Vulcan Lane, Auckland (New Zealand) 1883. 32pp, Report of a southern tour of the Auckland Representative Eleven with ‘pomes’ in prose and verse, descriptions and scores of the tour. Original light blue paper wrappers with titles in black to front cover, minor age toning otherwise in very good condition. A very rare and early New Zealand cricket publication View details Estimates£3,000 - £5,000Winning Bid£5,500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #683 ‘Pavilion Echoes from the South 1884-85’. By The Twelve. Printed by Cecil Gardner & Co, High Street, Auckland (New Zealand) 1885. 36pp plus advertising to rear. This is the third account of an Auckland tour to the south, following those of 1874 and 1882. They played the major teams on the island plus Wellington. Original blue paper wrappers, only fair condition with repairs to wrappers, foxing throughout, worm holes to front wrapper. Signature of ownership of W.H. Newton and date October 23rd 18 View details Estimates£2,500 - £3,500Winning Bid£2,200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #684 ‘Cricket in Hawke’s Bay’ Containing a complete History of the game’s progress in this District...’ F.F. Cane 1921. Printed by G.W. Venables of Napier. Original brown patterned wrappers with gilt title. Ex M.C.C. Library with label. This was originally F.S. Ashley-Cooper’s copy and has occasional notes to margin and a page of manuscript notes in pencil in Ashley-Cooper’s hand, the book was then sold by Diana Rait Kerr to Leslie Gutteridge, a book dealer and Irving Rosenwater bought it from him, n View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£190StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #685 ‘Plunket Shield and Canterbury Cricket Souvenir’. Published by H.E. Lawrence and printed by Theo Cox 1913. Light blue wrappers with titles in silver to front wrapper. Staples have been removed, minor rusting to the staple holes otherwise in good condition. Canterbury team records, illustrations, player profiles and advertisements. A rare item View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£85StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #686 New Zealand cricket histories and biographies. First edition hardbacks and one softback. Hardback titles are ‘The New Zealanders in England 1931’, O.S. Hintz, London 1931. ‘New Zealand Cricketers’, R.T. Brittenden, Wellington 1961. Dustwrapper. Includes a selection of twenty one white cards slipped in, individually signed by New Zealand players, including Sutcliffe, Tindill, Wallace, Weir, Blair, Cowie, Donnelly, Kerr, Moir, Rabone etc. ‘Sword of Willow’, John Reid, first edition Wellington 1962 View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #687 ‘The New Zealand Cricket Guide. [A Book of Records]’. Two issues for 1927 and 1931. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Published by C.H. Richards, Nottingham 1927 & 1931 respectively. Both in original paper wrappers. Padwick 3740. The 1927 issue with Ashley-Cooper’s address card slipped in, annotated in ink in his hand, ‘With kindest regards’. Small crease to the front wrapper of the 1927, rusting to staples, otherwise in very good condition. View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #688 ‘Centuries scored in the United States and Canada, 1844 to June 14th 1902’. F.F. Kelly. Jersey City 1902. Original black cloth boards, front cover gilt lettered, red page edges. Broken front and rear internal hinges, number ‘124’ written to top corner of front board otherwise in good condition. Ex Auty collection. Rare View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£85StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #689 ‘Chadwick’s American Cricket Manual. Also the Game of Lacrosse’. Henry Chadwick. New York. Robert. M de Witt, 1873. First edition. 128pp[4]. Original pictorial boards, some wear to board edges and extremities otherwise in good condition. A scarce item on early American cricket. Padwick 411 & 4037 View details Estimates£300 - £500Winning Bid£260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #690 ‘The American Cricket Annual for 1890. First year of publication. Compiled and edited by Jerome Flannery, New York 1890. Original pictorial wrappers. Padwick 4045. Some wear and staining to wrappers and spine, some loss to wrapper edges, internally good/very good condition View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£110StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #691 ‘The American Cricket Annual for 1891. Second year of publication. Compiled and edited by Jerome Flannery, New York 1891. Original publisher’s blue cloth with gilt title to front cover. Padwick 4045. Minor wear to boards, tear to front end paper otherwise in good/very good condition View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£110StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #692 ‘The American Cricket Annual for 1892. Third year of publication. Compiled and edited by Jerome Flannery, New York 1892. Original publisher’s blue cloth with gilt title to front cover. Padwick 4045. Very good condition View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£110StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #693 ‘The American Cricket Annual for 1893. Fourth year of publication. Compiled and edited by Jerome Flannery, New York 1893. Original publisher’s blue cloth with gilt title to front cover. Padwick 4045. Minor wear to boards otherwise in very good condition View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£105StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #694 ‘The American Cricket Annual for 1894. Fifth year of publication. Compiled and edited by Jerome Flannery, New York 1894. Original pictorial wrappers. Padwick 4045. Wear and loss to wrappers and spine paper, loss to edges of title page also, internally good condition View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #695 ‘Spalding’s Official Cricket Guide for 1909. Fourth year of publication. Compiled and edited by Jerome Flannery, New York 1909. Original publisher’s blue cloth with gilt title to front cover. Very good condition View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£110StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #696 North American and European cricket. Two softback titles on cricket in North America. ‘The Champion Band. The First English Cricket Tour [Parr in Canada & U.S.A. 1859]’, Scott Reeves, Sheffield 2014. Signed by Reeves. ‘A History of Canadian Cricket: An immigrant’s game?’, Patrick Adams 2010. Sold with ‘The Story of Continental Cricket’, P.C.G. Labouchere, T.A.J. Provis & Peter S. Hargreaves, first edition, London 1969. Original hardback with very good dustwrapper. Very good condition. Qty 3. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£10StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #697 ‘Interport Cricket. 1866-1908. A Record of matches between Hong Kong, Singapore and Shanghai’. Compiled by J.W. Bains. Printed by the Shanghai Times. 1908. 132pp. Bound in original boards, with small original ‘Errata’ page inserted, with titles to front board (now faded). The book contains various correspondence from the original owners relation offering the book first to the China Society and then on to the Lord’s library, all dated 1988. The rear board is detached and the front internal hinges View details Estimates£140 - £180Winning Bid£700StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Items per page 102550100 Previous|1...5678910...14|Next1234567891011121314 Previous 1234567891011121314 Next Previous 1234567891011121314 Next
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