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 701-800 of 1383. Previous|1...67891011...14|Next Image Lot # Item Title Time Left Your Bids 698 ‘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 Estimates£70 - £100StatusUnsold View details 699 ‘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 Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£30StatusSold View details 700 ‘The Australians In England. A complete record of the cricket tour of 1882, with the batting and bowling averages of the Australians and the Englishmen who played against them’. C.F. Pardon. Reprinted with additions from ‘Bell’s Life’, London 1882. Portrait frontispiece of W.R. Murdoch, captain of the Australians. Rebound in green cloth, gilt title to spine, speckled page edges. Original wrappers retained, front wrapper detached, trimmed, with wear and tape repair. Padwick 4974. Faults to wrappe Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£85StatusSold View details 701 ‘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. Some loss to spine and wrappers. Some soiling to wrappers, rusting to staples. Internally in good/ very good condition. Rare. Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£220StatusSold View details 702 ‘”Heck” & “Walnut” Cricket Comicalities. Souvenir of the English Cricketers Australian Tour 1928-1929’. Interesting and rare 30pp pre-tour souvenir booklet comprising fixtures, comical illustrations by ‘Heck’, limericks by ‘Walnut’, of the M.C.C. touring party and Australians, such as ‘Now, Freeman’s the lad who can turn ‘em/ His wrong ‘uns want care to discern them/ When they come with a spin/ Stay at home and keep in/ Where you’ll read ‘em, digest ‘em and learn’ em’. Blank scoresheet pages to Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£220StatusSold View details 703 Southern Tasmanian Cricket Association. Rare fifth Annual Circular for Season 1871-72’. 16pp. Hobart Town. Printed at the ‘Mercury’ Steam Press Office 1871. Rebound in grey cloth, title to spine, lacking original wrappers. Piece trimmed from top portion of the title page, otherwise in good condition. Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£50StatusSold View details 704 ‘Souvenir of Stoddart’s English Cricket Team 1894-5’. Original 14pp souvenir booklet plus two supplementary[?] loose pages of ‘Score Sheet’ and ‘ £10 Coupon’ competition entry form. Comprises biographies of the touring party members and advertising. Padwick 4414. Players’ county annotated in pencil beside each player. The rare booklet is in fragile condition with front wrapper cleanly detached, lacking staple, age toning to pages. The competition entry page with loss to edges and tear. Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£240StatusSold View details 705 ‘England versus Combined Australia. Illustrated official souvenir, Sydney, 1897. Landscape format booklet published immediately prior to the first Test in Sydney, containing biographies and pen pictures of the thirteen members of Stoddart’s touring party, nineteen Australian players, articles, advertising etc. Bound in blue cloth, lacking original wrappers. Padwick 4419. Some ageing and expert repairs to page spines, otherwise in good condition. Estimates£200 - £300StatusUnsold View details 706 ‘The Book of the Two Maurices’. M.C.C. Australasian Tour 1929-30’. Turnbull & Allom, London 1930, and ‘The Two Maurices Again. M.C.C. South African Tour 1930-31’, Turnbull & Allom, London 1931. Both titles with original dustwrappers. ‘Again’ is a presentation copy with handwritten dedications and signature in ink to front endpaper, ‘With the compliments of one of the conspirators, Maurice J. Turnbull’, and a further dedication and signature of what appears to be another Turnbull. Included is the Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£90StatusSold View details 707 ‘Cricket from the Grandstand’. Keith Miller. London 1959. Original hardback. Signed with dedication to the title page ‘From the Best-est Man to the Best-est Couple... Keith’. Good dustwrapper. Good condition. Sold with a small framed mono printed photograph of Miller walking out to bat with Arthur Morris, signed in ink to the image by both Miller and Morris. Overall 6.25”x8”. Good condition. Qty 2. Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£50StatusSold View details 708 Arthur Mailey. ‘Cricket Sketches for the 1928-1929 Tests’. W.C. Penfold & Co. Sydney 1928. Tipped in to modern blue cloth, original pictorial covers retained. 24pp comprising cartoons featuring players in the lead up to the 1928/29 Ashes tour. Padwick 4457. A rarer Mailey booklet in very good condition. Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£110StatusSold View details 709 ‘The Australian Cricket Guide. A Book of Records’. Two issues for 1926 and 1930. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Published by C.H. Richards, Nottingham 1926 & 1930 respectively. Both in original paper wrappers. Padwick 3328. Rusting to staples, otherwise in very good condition. Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£50StatusSold View details 710 Triangular Test Tournament 1912. ‘Triangular Cricket. Being a Record of the Greatest Contest in the History of the Game’, E.H.D. Sewell, London 1912. Original cloth covers with decorative front cover, gilt title to spine, gilt to top page edges. Padwick 5012. Very good condition. Sold with ‘Cricket Brawl. The 1912 Dispute’, Rick Smith, Tasmania 1995, original softback, limited edition no. 154/225 signed by Smith. Good condition. Qty 2. Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£90StatusSold View details 711 Triangular Test Tournament 1912. ‘Duke & Son’s Record of Test Match Cricket’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Penshurst 1912. 24pp booklet with original decorative paper wrappers, produced in the lead-up to the Triangular Test Tournament between England, Australia and South Africa, comprising statistics and portraits. Padwick 4333. Ownership name in ink to front wrapper. Minor foxing to wrappers, rusting to staples, otherwise in very good condition. Rare. One of the scarcest of Ashley-Cooper’s guides. Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£240StatusSold View details 712 ‘With Stoddart’s team in Australia. Being the Record of the 1897-8 Tour’. Prince K.S. Ranjitsinhji. London, third edition, 1898. Original green cloth with titles in gilt to front and spine and pictorial image of Ranji to front. Padwick 4423. Slight breaking to rear internal hinge, otherwise in very good condition. Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£20StatusSold View details 713 ‘England v. Australia. The Record of a Memorable Tour’. P.F. Warner. Mills & Boon, London, first edition 1912. Bound in original maroon cloth, gilt title to front and spine. Presentation copy ‘To J.W. Hearne with every good wish and in appreciation of his fine batting from The Author. June [1912]’. Hearne was a member of Warner’s 1911/12 tour to Australia. Some fading to spine, odd plate detached, otherwise in good condition. Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£55StatusSold View details 714 ‘England v. Australia 100th Test-Match Souvenir’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Published by C.H. Richards, Nottingham 1921. Tipped in to modern green cloth gilt title to spine, original brown paper wrappers retained. Presentation copy with a note tipped in on Ashley-Cooper’s letterhead, annotated in ink ‘Kindest regards’. Padwick 5021. Very good condition. Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£48StatusSold View details 715 Australian tours to England. Three hardback titles on early tours. ‘Cricket Walkabout. The Australian Aboriginal Cricketers on Tour 1867-8’, D.J. Mulvaney, Melbourne 1967. Good dustwrapper. ‘Horan’s Diary. The Australian Touring Team 1877-1879’, Frank Tyson, Nottingham 2001. Limited edition no. 31/330, signed by Tyson. Good dustwrapper. ‘A Cricketer on Cricket’, W.J. Ford, London 1900. Original cloth covers with some soiling. Fragment of a typed letter slipped in, signed ‘Desmond [Eagar]’. Sold Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£30StatusSold View details 716 ‘The Book of the Two Maurices’. M.C.C. team Australasia 1929/30’. Turnbull & Allom. London 1930 and ‘The Two Maurices Again. M.C.C. team South Africa 1930/31’. Turnbull & Allom. London 1931. Original blue cloth. Cricket Society label to inside front covers. Some splitting and wear to the spine of the 1930 edition, slight breaking to internal hinges of both, otherwise in overall good condition Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£40StatusSold View details 717 Australian cricket and cricketers. Five titles, each signed by the respective author(s), some with dedication. Includes one hardback, ‘Horan’s Diary. The Australian Touring Team 1877-1879’, Frank Tyson, Nottingham 2001, limited edition no. 52/330. Also four softbacks, ‘Vic’s Boys. Australia in South Africa 1935-36’, Brian Bassano & Rick Smith, Tasmania 1993. ‘The Day of “The Demon”. Maldon v. C.I. Thornton’s XI 19th June 1878’, Michael Dowsett, revised edition 2002. ‘North v South. Tasmanian Cri Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£35StatusSold View details 718 ‘The Tests of 1930. The 17th Australian Team in England’. P.G.H. Fender. First edition, London 1930. Original publisher’s red cloth, gilt title to spine, top page edges green. Signed with dedication in black ink to title page, ‘To “George” [Duckworth?] with every good wish from Percy G.H. Fender. Jan 12th 1932’. per D.R.J.’. Minor soiling to spine, slight breaking to front internal hinge, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£55StatusSold View details 719 Ranji. A Centenary Album’. Vasant Raiji, Bombay 1972. Original decorative gold boards. Some wear to boards otherwise in good condition Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£40StatusSold View details 720 ‘India vs M.C.C. Tests 1951-52’. N.S. Phadke. Bombay 1952. Original decorative card wrappers. Minor wear to spine, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Estimates£25 - £35Winning Bid£38StatusSold View details 721 ‘The Jubilee Book of Cricket’. K.S. Ranjitsinhji. Edinburgh 1897. Limited edition of 350 copies signed by Ranjitsinhji, this being number 47. Hand made paper, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Original vellum board covers. Padwick 467. Small stains to rear cover, otherwise in very good condition. Estimates£300 - £500Winning Bid£360StatusSold View details 722 ‘Feats, Facts, and Figures of 1901’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Published for private circulation by Merritt & Hatcher, London 1902. Second year of issue (there being none issued in 1900) of which only thirty copies were produced, this being copy number seventeen. 60pp. Bound in green cloth, title to front, original pale blue front paper wrapper retained, lacking rear wrapper. Signed presentation copy with dedication in ink to limitation page in Ashley-Cooper’s own hand to ‘A.L. Ford, Esq.’. Rare bookp Estimates£400 - £600Winning Bid£360StatusSold View details 723 ‘Feats, Facts, and Figures of 1903’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Published for private circulation by Merritt & Hatcher, London 1904. Fourth year of issue (there being none issued in 1900) of which only thirty copies were produced, this being copy number sixteen. 51pp. Bound in blue cloth and marbled boards, gilt title to spine, original paper wrappers retained. Presentation copy signed in ink to limitation page by Ashley-Cooper and dated 1904. Padwick 920. Original front wrapper cleanly detached, other Estimates£350 - £450Winning Bid£300StatusSold View details 724 ‘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 1847. ‘Second edition [issue]’. 16mo. 62pp. Original green cloth with gilt titles ‘Denison’s Cricketers’ Companion 1843’ to front. Padwick 1068. Lacking original front endpaper. Light creasing and minor staining to original wrappers, some breaking to page block, pp 57-60 cleanly detached, oth Estimates£300 - £500Winning Bid£1,300StatusSold View details 725 ‘The Cricketer’s Companion; containing the scores of the principal matches of cricket, played at Lord’s and other grounds in the Season 1846’. William Denison. Published by Simpkin, Marshall & Co., London 1847. 16mo. 108pp plus advertising. Nicely bound in later full green leather, gilt title ‘Denison’s Cricketer’s Companion 1847’ to front, raised bands to spine, original paper wrappers retained. Padwick 1068. Minor wear and soiling to original wrappers, light foxing to page edges, otherwise a g Estimates£300 - £500Winning Bid£1,200StatusSold View details 726 ‘Lambert’s Cricketer’s Guide or Instructions and Rules, for playing the Noble Game of Cricket...’. William Lambert. Sussex Press, Lewes. First Edition second issue 1816. Printed and published by J. Baxter. ‘Illustrated by an Elegant Copper-Plate Engraving’. 55pp. Bound in later full maroon leather, gilt title to spine, 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 Cast Estimates£1,400 - £1,800Winning Bid£1,300StatusSold View details 727 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. Dedication in ink to Estimates£180 - £250Winning Bid£230StatusSold View details 728 ‘Great Batsmen. Their Methods at a Glance’ and ‘Great Bowlers and Fielders. Their Methods at a Glance’. G.W. Beldam and C.B. Fry. London 1905 & 1906. 1st editions. Both volumes handsomely rebound in black leather, raised bands and gilt titles to spines, gilt to top edges. Slight fading to spines, otherwise in very good condition. Qty 2. Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£170StatusSold View details 729 Instructional cricket books 1912-1951. Four original hardback first edition titles (one exception), each with good original dustwrapper. Titles are ‘Cricket (Batsmanship)’, C.B. Fry, London 1912. ‘Cricket Up-to-date’, E.H.D. Sewell, London 1931. ‘Cricket’, Andrew Ducat, London 1933. ‘How to Play Cricket’, Learie Constantine, reissued with new title London 1951. Minor foxing to page edges, some soiling to dustwrappers, otherwise in good condition. Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£15StatusSold View details 730 Cricket in Ireland. ‘Cricket in the Writings of James Joyce’, Geoffrey K. Whitelock 1975. Limited edition no. seven of only twenty copies produced. Presentation copy with dedication to inside front limitation page, to ‘Dear John [Arlott], Being a devotee alike of Cricket, Humour and Literature you are liable to find some amusement in this trifle, Geoffrey’. Bound in later blue cloth boards, original blue card wrappers retained, with bookplates of A.E. Winder who bought the book from Arlott in 19 Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£220StatusSold View details 731 ‘The South African Cricket Guide 1929. A Book of Records’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Published by C.H. Richards, Nottingham 1929. Original paper wrappers. Padwick 3593. Minor age toning to wrappers, otherwise in very good condition. Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£20StatusSold View details 732 ‘The West Indies Cricket Guide 1928. A Book of Records’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Published by C.H. Richards, Nottingham 1928. Original paper wrappers. Padwick 3669. Some creasing, otherwise in good condition. Sold with ‘The West Indies in Australia 1930-31’, Brian Bassano & Rick Smith, Apple Books, Tasmania 1990. Paperback, limited edition no. 56/300. Signed by the authors. Good/ very good condition. Qty 2. Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£25StatusSold View details 733 Dutch instructional booklets. Two first edition titles from the series ‘De Groene Krekelserie’, both in original green decorative paper wrappers, published by the ‘Propaganda-Commissie van den Nederlandschen Cricket Bond’. Titles are ‘Het Bowlen [Bowling]’, L.J. Sodderland, 1941. Number ‘II’ in the series. Padwick 744. ‘Wicktkeepen [Wicket-keeping]’, A.M.J. De Beus, 1937[?], Padwick 759, number ‘IV’ in the series (‘IV’ having been altered in pencil to ‘I’). Both in good/ very good condition. Sol Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£35StatusSold View details 734 ‘1851-1911. South Devon Cricket Club, Newton Abbott’. Illustrated by Charles Lane Vicary. Newton Abbott 1911. Diamond jubilee souvenir booklet. 36pp with original decorative paper wrappers. Padwick 1858. Cricket Society stamp to inside front cover. Rusting to staples, otherwise in good/ very good condition Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£55StatusSold View details 735 ‘Patents for Inventions. Abridgments [sic] of Specifications relating to Toys, Games and Exercises A.D. 1672-1866’. Bennet Woodcroft. Published at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents for Inventions, printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode, London 1871. Bound in green cloth, gilt title to spine, original blue paper wrappers retained. Includes twenty one patents for cricket equipment. Padwick 342-1. Small loss and tear to original front wrapper, otherwise in good condition. Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£8StatusSold View details 736 ‘Charterhouse Cricket June, 1942’. John Sammes. Published by the author , Reigate, Surrey 1952. Comprising a two page poem by Sammes who watched a Charterhouse School cricket match in 1942 at the height of the War. He returned in 1952 and wrote this poem after seeing in the Memorial Chapel the name of one of the players who appeared in the match of 1942. Tipped in is a long single page letter from Sammes to John Arlott, asking him to spread the word of the verses to a broader audience. The book Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£55StatusSold View details 737 Fifty Years of Sport at Oxford, Cambridge and the Great Public Schools. Eton, Harrow and Winchester’. Arranged by Lord Desborough. Edited by R.H. Lyttelton, Arthur Page and Evan B. Noel. London 1922. Original red cloth. Gilt title to spine. Padwick 1344. Wear and fading to spine and to a lesser extent the boards otherwise in good condition. Formerly in the M.C.C. Collection Estimates£25 - £35Winning Bid£10StatusSold View details 738 ‘Eton v Harrow at Lords’. Edited by Sir Home Gordon. London 1926. Harrow limited edition of 325 copies, this being number 310. Original blue cloth covers with gilt emblems and title to front and spine, gilt to top page edges. Staining to rear cover, some bumping to corners, otherwise in good/ very good condition Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsold View details 739 ‘An Account of all The Cricket Matches played between Eton and Westminster; Westminster and Charterhouse; Rugby and Marlborough; and Marlborough and Cheltenham. By the compiler of the Harrow, Eton, and Winchester School Matches from 1805 [Arthur Haygarth]’. Published by F. Lillywhite and Wisden, London 1857. Bound in modern blue cloth, gilt title to spine, original pink card wrappers retained. Comprises the first original 14pp followed by an additional 23pp with neatly handwritten and newspaper Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£70StatusSold View details 740 ‘Teams of the Universities & Public Schools 1882’. Frank & Fitz-gerald Falkner. J. Cornish & Sons, London 1882. Rebound in later beige cloth, gilt title to spine, lacking original wrappers. Sale plate of H.A. Cohen to inside front cover. Listed but not seen by Padwick no. 1361. Scare. Minor foxing to pages, otherwise in very good condition. Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£60StatusSold View details 741 ‘Bradfield v. Radley Cricket, 1853-1898’. Compiled by T. Steele. Printed by Edward J. Blackwell, Reading. First edition c.1899. Original paper wrappers. 46pp. Tipped in to modern maroon boards, gilt title to spine. Comprises numbered listing of thirty six matches, lacking three of the early games of which it is assumed records had not survived. Padwick 1375. Light vertical fold, otherwise in very good condition. Estimates£30 - £40Winning Bid£20StatusSold View details 741a ‘Nugae Scholasticae’. By ‘An Old Pupil’. Published by A. Hall, Virtue & Co., London 1858. Bound in later boards, leather spine with gilt title. Original pictorial card wrappers retained. Comprising three sections, the second, ‘A Bromsgrove Match’ describes a journey through Birmingham to a cricket match. Sale plate of H.A. Cohen to inside front original wrapper. Padwick 1380. Good/ very good condition. Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£90StatusSold View details 742 ‘A Complete Record of Scores With Bowling Analyses of all Cricket Matches and full particulars of all Football Matches and Rifle Contests between Charterhouse and other Public Schools from 1850 to 1890’. B. Ellis. Printed by Wright & Co., London 1891. Original decorative blue cloth covers. 103pp, comprising 54pp of cricket content. Ownership signature in ink to title page of Robert Stratton Holmes. Laid down to inside front cover is a single page handwritten letter from C.W. Alcock, dated 8th Ja Estimates£50 - £70StatusUnsold View details 743 ‘Players in Inter-University Cricket Matches from 1827 to 1877’. Published by Gazette Printing Works, Bampton Street, Tiverton 1877. 14pp. ‘A space is left, after each name, for address’. Original paper wrappers. Tipped in to modern cream cloth. Padwick 1619. Light vertical fold otherwise in good condition. Rare. Estimates£200 - £300StatusUnsold View details 744 ‘The Cambridge University Cricket Calendar’ 1890 and 1892. G.J. Gray. Cambridge 1891 and 1893 respectively. The 1890 issue in original card wrappers, the 1893 in original paper wrappers. Bound together in one volume in later green cloth, probably for John Arlott who has annotated in ink to the front endpaper, ‘These were the only two volumes of “The Cambridge University Cricket Calendar”. Note: the volume titled 1890 was published in 1891, but deals with season 1980. The second volume- “The seco Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£110StatusSold View details 745 ‘Oxford Memories. A Retrospect after Fifty Years’. Rev. James Pycroft. London 1886. In two volumes. Includes an early history of Oxford University cricket and the author’s recollections of cricket and cricketers, including Felix, Mynn, Cobbett and the Old Kent Eleven. Both volumes bound in original publisher’s navy cloth. Bookplate of J.W. Goldman to inside front cover of both volumes. Padwick 1640. Some pages uncut by the binder. Title page to Vol. II cleanly detached, otherwise in very good co Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£40StatusSold View details 746 ‘Inter-University Records. Full particulars of all competitions between Oxford and Cambridge 1827-1887’. Compiled by C.A. Mudge. Wright & Co. (Cricket Press), London 1887. With cricket section pp 32-80. Bound in blue cloth boards with title in gilt to spine, original paper wrappers retained. Padwick 1657. Expert repairs to original wrappers, otherwise in good condition. Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£35StatusSold View details 747 ‘The Blues and Their Battles with scores of all Cricket Matches played between the Universities’. Volume I 1829-1892 and Volume II 1829-1893. Edited by J.N. Pentelow. 98pp and 100pp respectively. Each volume rebound with original stiffened wrappers retained, titles neatly annotated to cloth spines. Padwick 1658. Arlott’s handwritten annotations in pencil to front endpaper of both volumes. Good/ very good condition. Qty 2. Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£40StatusSold View details 748 ‘Scores of the Oxford & Cambridge Cricket Matches 1827-1887’. Henry Perkins. J.S. Virtue & Co. Ltd of London. 1887. 1st edition. Original pictorial boards with tape repair to replacement spine. Also a sixth edition published by Hutchinson, London 1906, with scores included up to 1905, in original blue cloth. Padwick 1659. Sold with ‘Cricket. Oxford v. Cambridge. Full scores &c. of all matches played from 1827 to 1876’. Published by John Wisden & Co., London 1877. Presentation copy with dedicatio Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£42StatusSold View details 749 Schools cricket. ‘Scores of the Principal Cricket Matches played by Cheltenham Collage’. Edited by ‘An Old Collegian [Henry James, Baron James of Hereford]’. Cheltenham 1868. 95pp. Original green cloth, gilt title to front. Comprises scores, statistics etc. and a list of past professionals employed including three Lillywhites, Grundy and Caffyn. Bookplate of J.W. Goldman to inside front cover. Padwick 1388. Minor foxing to pages, otherwise in very good condition throughout. Estimates£100 - £150StatusUnsold View details 750 ‘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 Estimates£6,000 - £9,000StatusUnsold View details 751 ‘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 Estimates£350 - £450StatusUnsold View details 752 ‘Chronicles of a Country Cricket Club’. A. Eric Bayly and Walt Briscoe. First edition, London 1900. Original pictorial cloth covers, gilt title to spine. Comprises twelve humorous tales of an unnamed cricket club. One features the visit to the club of a well-known apparent Parsee, Banjherat. A Parsee team had last toured England in 1888 and a full-India team toured in 1911. Ranjitsinhji was entrancing Sussex and England at the time but Banjherat was not quite whom he was assumed to be. Padwick 6 Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£15StatusSold View details 753 ‘The Noble Game of Cricket. Illustrated & Described from the Collection of Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bt. at Gatton Park, Surrey’. London 1941. Original green boards, with gilt titles to front and spine, gilt to top edge. Contains 100 plates of cricketing scenes with accompanying descriptions from the Collection. Limited edition of 150. Minor faults to covers and spine, internally in very good condition. Rare. Estimates£180 - £250Winning Bid£280StatusSold View details 754 ‘Annals of Cricket’. W.W. Read. Sampson Low, London 1896. Original quarter vellum over dark green boards, gilt title to spine. Contents on handmade paper, untrimmed edges. Top edge gilt. Limited edition number 26 in the deluxe edition of 250 copies, nicely signed in ink to the limitation page by Read. Padwick 911. Sold with an original unused copy of the wrappers for the standard edition of the book. Good/very good condition. Rare Estimates£150 - £250Winning Bid£220StatusSold View details 755 ‘A Bibliography of Cricket’. E.W. Padwick. London 1977. First Edition, with dustwrapper. Only 750 copies were printed. Sold with ‘Padwick’s Bibliography of Cricket’ Volume II, compiled by Eley & Griffiths. London 1991. First edition dustwrapper with tears and some soiling, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Qty 2. Estimates£30 - £40Winning Bid£50StatusSold View details 756 ‘Fresh Light on Pre-Victorian Cricket. A Collection of New Cricket Notices from 1709 to 1837’. G.B. Buckley. Birmingham 1937. Original hardback with excellent original dustwrapper. Padwick 870. Very good condition. Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£55StatusSold View details 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 Estimates£200 - £300StatusUnsold View details 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 Estimates£100 - £150StatusUnsold View details 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. Estimates£25 - £35StatusUnsold View details 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 Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£50StatusSold View details 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 Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£48StatusSold View details 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. Estimates£30 - £40Winning Bid£75StatusSold View details 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. Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£90StatusSold View details 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. Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£20StatusSold View details 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 Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£32StatusSold View details 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 Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£25StatusSold View details 767 ‘P.G.H. Fender. A Biography’. Richard Streeton. London 1981. The book has an inscription to title page which appears to be in Fender’s aged hand ‘Lorna, with every good wish... Pop (PGH?). The book has ‘Given to L. Ruskin, Bridge Cottage, Sidestrand [Norfolk] in Jan 1981 by Bill Fowler[?}. An excellent ink signature of Fender on a card is laid down just below this inscription. A letter from the author Richard Streeton accompanies the book. The letter, dated February 1981, is sent to Mrs Rudkin Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£25StatusSold View details 768 Cricket Books. ‘Aussies and Ashes’. Bill Bowes 1961, signed to front end paper by Bowes, Keith Miller, Jack Fingleton and John Arlott, sole with ‘The Gloves are off’. Godfrey Evans 1960 signed to title page. Sold with three other books, ‘Peter Steele. The Cricketer’. Horace G. Hutchinson. Bristol 1895. First edition, ‘The Jubilee Book of Cricket’. K.S. Ranjitsinhji. London 1897 and ‘Cricket’. W.G. Grace 1891. Good condition Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsold View details 769 Cricket and Sporting Books. Good selection of books including histories, biographies, tours, annual etc with some signed copies included. ‘Cricket My Destiny’ Walter Hammond signed in pencil to front end paper by Jack Crapp, George Emmett and Jim Laker, ‘Les Jackson. A Derbyshire Legend’. M. Carey 1997, signed by Jackson and Carey, other signatures to books include Gooch, Fraser, Graveney etc, several books signed by their authors. Also includes menus signed by Warren Hegg, Pat Pocock, Tony Bor Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£45StatusSold View details 770 ‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. Volume III nos. 50-79 (31st January to 25th December 1884), and Volume IV nos. 80-109 (29th January to 24th December 1885. The two volumes bound together as one in later green cloth with gilt title to spine. Illustrated. Vol. III complete with title page to front, lacking contents pages, includes the five score sheet supplements issued, bound in to rear of volume. Vol. IV complete with title and contents pages and the one score sheet supplement as issued, Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£35StatusSold View details 771 ‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. Volume XIII nos. 350-379 (25th January to 28th December 1894). Bound in earlier green cloth, gilt title to spine, red speckled page edges. Illustrated. Lacking title and contents pages. Issues complete. Minor wear to board extremities, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£25StatusSold View details 772 ‘Cricket of To-day and Yesterday’, Volumes I & II, Percy Cross Standing, London 1902. Original decorative green cloth covers with gilt titles and batsman illustrations to covers and spines. Wonderful condition with nice bright gilts. Qty 2. Estimates£30 - £40Winning Bid£30StatusSold View details 773 Douglas John Insole. Essex, Cambridge University & England 1947-1949. Four hardback titles from Insole’s personal collection. ‘Hit Hard and Enjoy It’, T.C. ‘Dickie’ Dodds 1976 with dedication to ‘D.J.’, signed ‘Dickie’. ‘Follow On’, E.W. Swanton 1977, dedicated to ‘D.J.I.’, signed ‘Jim Swanton’. ‘Cricket’s Bounty’, Hubert Doggart 2014, with dedication to ‘Doug’, signed ‘Hubert’. Also ‘Denis Compton. Cricketing Genius’. Peter West. The Denis Compton Trust 1989. Limited edition no. 201/500 signed Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£25StatusSold View details 774 Signed cricket biographies. Three hardback titles. ‘With Bat & Ball’, George Giffen, London 1898. Very nicely signed in black ink to the half title page by R.M. Bell (Richard Moore Bell, London County, M.C.C. etc. 1902-1908), dated ‘March 1899, and also to the front endpaper by Bell. Original green cloth and bright gilt titles to front and spine. A nice copy. ‘Jerks in from Short-Leg’ by ‘Quid’ (R.A. Fitzgerald), London 1866. Original blue cloth with gilt caricature to front cover, title to spin Estimates£25 - £35Winning Bid£10StatusSold View details 775 P.F. Warner. Two first edition titles by Warner. ‘Imperial Cricket’, London 1912. Unnumbered subscriber’s edition beautifully bound full calf leather, raised bands and gilt title to spine, gilt to top page edges. Very good condition. ‘Cricket in Many Climes’, London 1900, bound in green quarter leather and green cloth, raised bands with gilt titles and emblems to spine, marbled endpapers, gilt to top page edges. Ex J.W. Goldman collection. Minor wear and staining to boards, light foxing to page Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£150StatusSold View details 776 Signed cricket biographies and histories. Fourteen first edition titles, of which thirteen are hardbacks. Includes five signed by the respective author(s). Titles are ‘Sussex Cricket’, A.E.R. Gilligan, London 1933. ‘Happy Go Johnny’, Johnny Wardle, London 1957. ‘Chappelli’, Ian Chappell, Richmond, Victoria 1976. ‘Cricket and All That’, Denis Compton & Bill Edrich, London 1978. ‘Of Didcot and the Demon’, Anthony Gibson, Bath 2009. The remainder of the biographies with signatures laid down of Don Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£35StatusSold View details 777 Large format books. ‘Cricket of To-day and Yesterday’, Volume I, Percy Cross Standing, London 1902. Nicely bound in quarter leather, the spine with raised bands and ornate gilt decoration and gilt title label, red speckled page edges. Minor wear to board extremities, otherwise in very good condition. ‘Famous Cricketers & Cricket Grounds’. C.W. Alcock. London 1895. Rebound in full black leather, gilt to spine, red speckled page edges, original front wrappers for each issue retained, the wrapper f Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£42StatusSold View details 778 Pre-war cricket histories. Seven hardback titles in original cloth covers unless stated. Titles are ‘The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes. Cricket’, Duke of Beaufort, London 1888. ‘Annals of the Free Foresters 1856-1894’. W.K.R. Bedford and W.E.W. Collins. Edinburgh 1895. ‘Annals of Cricket’, W.W. Read, London 1897, original stiffened pictorial boards with heavy wear and tape repair to spine. ‘With Bat and Ball’, George Giffen, London 1898, ex Sussex C.C.C. library. ‘My Book of Cricket a Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£30StatusSold View details 779 Pre-war cricket memoires. Seven hardback titles in original cloth covers, all first editions with one exception. Titles are ‘The Jubilee Book of Cricket’, K.S. Ranjitsinhji, sixth edition London 1898. ‘Seventy-One Not Out. The Reminiscences of William Caffyn’, edited by ‘Mid-On’ (Richard Daft), Edinburgh 1899. ‘Cricket in Many Climes’, P.F. Warner, London 1900. ‘My Cricketing Life’, P.F. Warner, London 1921. ‘Recollections and Reminiscences’, Lord Hawke, London 1924. ‘Sporting Memories’, Major W Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£30StatusSold View details 780 Cricket histories. ‘Wickets in the West; or, The Twelve in America’. R.A. Fitzgerald. London 1873. The account of the M.C.C. tour to North America in 1872 led by Fitzgerald’. Publisher’s original maroon cloth with gilt illustration of W.G. Grace and signature in gilt to front, gilt title to spine. Ex libris. Padwick 4895. Wear and bumping to corners. ‘Lord’s and the M.C.C.’, Lord Harris and F.S. Ashley-Cooper, London 1914, original blue cloth and leather spine, some wear to spine. ‘Leaves from a Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£55StatusSold View details 781 Cricket tour books. Five titles. ‘How We Recovered the Ashes’, P.F. Warner, London 1905. Rebound in early full leather, original decorative paper wrappers retained. Wear to covers. Two hardback titles by Percy Fender in original cloth covers, ‘The Turn of the Wheel. M.C.C. Team Australia, 1928-1929’, London 1929, and ‘The Tests of 1930. The 17th Australian Team in England’, London 1930. ‘With Stoddart’s Team in Australia’, K.S. Ranjitsinhji, third edition London 1898. Original decorative front p Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£90StatusSold View details 782 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1864-1878. Fifteen facsimile editions published by John Wisden & Co Ltd, London 1991. Limited edition 995/1000. Brown hard board covers with gilt lettering to covers and spine. In original yellow presentation box. Some wear and soiling to the box otherwise in good/very good condition Estimates£220 - £280Winning Bid£260StatusSold View details 783 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1879. Willows softback reprint (1991) in light brown hardback covers with gilt lettering. Limited edition 919/1000. Good/very good condition Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£30StatusSold View details 784 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1880. Willows ‘second’ softback reprint (2004) in light brown hardback covers with gilt lettering. Un-numbered limited edition. Good/very good condition Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£40StatusSold View details 785 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1881. Willows softback reprint (1985) in light brown hardback covers with gilt lettering. Limited edition 426/500. Good/very good condition Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£35StatusSold View details 786 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1882. Willows softback reprint (1988) in light brown hardback covers with gilt lettering. Limited edition 396/500. Good/very good condition Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£35StatusSold View details 787 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1883. Willows ‘second’ softback reprint (2004) in light brown hardback covers with gilt lettering. Limited edition 206/250. Good/very good condition Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£32StatusSold View details 788 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1884. Willows ‘second’ softback reprint (2004) in light brown hardback covers with gilt lettering. Limited edition 205/250. Good/very good condition Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£35StatusSold View details 789 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1885. Willows softback reprint (1983) in light brown hardback covers with gilt lettering. Un-numbered limited edition. Good/very good condition Estimates£20 - £30Winning Bid£18StatusSold View details 790 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1886. Willows ‘second’ softback reprint (2005) in light brown hardback covers with gilt lettering. Limited edition 230/250. Good/very good condition Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£35StatusSold View details 791 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1887. Willows ‘second’ softback reprint (2004) in light brown hardback covers with gilt lettering. Limited edition 166/250. Good/very good condition Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£48StatusSold View details 792 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1888. Willows ‘second’ softback reprint (2005) in light brown hardback covers with gilt lettering. Limited edition 109/250. Good/very good condition Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£30StatusSold View details 793 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1889. Willows ‘second’ softback reprint (2005) in light brown hardback covers with gilt lettering. Limited edition 165/250. Good/very good condition Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£55StatusSold View details 794 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1890. Willows ‘second’ softback reprint (2007) in light brown hardback covers with gilt lettering. Limited edition 223/250. Good/very good condition Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£30StatusSold View details 795 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1891. Willows ‘second’ softback reprint (2007) in light brown hardback covers with gilt lettering. Limited edition 149/250. Good/very good condition Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£35StatusSold View details 796 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1892. 29th edition. Bound in dark brown boards, lacking original paper wrappers, gilt titles to spine. Lacking two rear advertising pages, corner piece missing to first advertising page at the rear, nick to one page edge of one advertising page otherwise in good condition Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£30StatusSold View details Items per page 102550100 Previous|1...67891011...14|Next1234567891011121314 Previous 1234567891011121314 Next
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