Knight's Sporting Auctions Auction of Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia - Live Three Day Auction (#17) 21/03/2025 10:30 AM GMT Closed Starts Ending 21/03/2025 10:30 AM GMT Auction Info View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBids (Low - High)Bids (High - Low)Views (Low - High)Views (High - Low)Relevance Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 1001-1010 of 1168. Previous|1...99100101102103104...117|Next Lot #999 ‘Cricket Bouquet. Comedy and Character in the Counties’. A.A. Thomson. London 1961. Original hardback with excellent dustwrapper, photoplate of Jack Hobbs. Presentation copy with signed dedication in ink to front endpaper, ‘To Sir Jack Hobbs with the author’s kindest wishes, A.A. Thomson March 1961. Includes a single page handwritten letter in ink from Thomson to Hobbs offering the title for his collection, nicely signed by Thomson. Padwick 1750. A good association copy in very good condition. View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£90StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1000 ‘Sport for All Ages and Limited Purses’. Sketches by W. Ralston. Published by David Bryce & Son., Glasgow c.1899. 32pp. Humorous sporting scenes illustrating the ‘probable cost’ of each sport, including cricket reference on p10 with likely cost to the wicket-keeper of two black eyes. Seven illustrations and front wrapper in colour. Tipped in to modern blue cloth, gilt title to spine, original wrappers retained. Padwick 7029-1. Very good condition. View details Estimates£80 - £120StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1001 ‘Gauntlet’s Cricketers Record, containing the full scores of all The Great Matches played during the Season 1860; the Averages of the Players together with a List of the Batsman who have obtained 100 runs or more and Rules of the Game of Cricket’. Published by Gauntlet, Sevenoaks, Kent, printed by Vardy Printer of Bishopgate, London 1860. 58pp, should be 60pp. Bound in half leather green boards, with original front wrapper laid down to end paper at the rear of the book, lacking rear wrapper. Som View details Estimates£4,000 - £6,000StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1002 ‘Eight Poems from Clifford Bax’. Privately printed for Bax as a 12pp Christmas card 1928. Comprises twelve poems, the final poem ‘A Dead Cricketer’ was republished the following year retitled ‘Corsham Cricket’ in Lakenham’s book commemorating Fred Hulbert, a Corsham cricket stalwart who died in 1928. This copy is addressed to the title page in ink by Bax to ‘Muriel and Maitland Radford’ and, at the foot of the page ‘And from Vera Bax too, with every good wish’. Tipped in to modern red cloth, ori View details Estimates£250 - £350Winning Bid£300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1003 ‘Cricket Rhymes by “Century”’. Published by the Cricket Press, London 1899. Comprises twenty four poems on cricket, including some dedicated to individual cricketers, namely W.G. Grace, MacLaren, Stoddart, Ranjitsinhji, and Wainwright, each with accompanying woodcut portrait of the player. Also to the Australians 1897-98 and the Professionals’ strike. Original stiffened grey cloth boards with later taped spine. Ownership signature in ink of C.I.S. Wallace to inside front cover. Padwick 6434. Bre View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£35StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1004 Gerald Brodribb. Two booklets by Brodribb. ‘The Bay and other new poems’, published by The Mountjoy Press 1953, limited edition no. 6 of thirty copies produced. Not listed in Padwick. ‘Some Memorable Bowling’, The Cricket Book Society, Hunstanton, No. 1 (Second Series), April 1947. Signed to the title page by Brodribb. Padwick 751. Both titles in original paper wrappers. Good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£25 - £35Winning Bid£18StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1005 ‘Songs of the Cricket Field and Other Verses’. Francis Colgate Benson. Published for the author by The James Clark Press, Philadelphia 1932. The book, with an interesting provenance, is inscribed in ink to the second front endpaper ‘To my good friend Fred Mallinson Christmas 1932 with all good wishes from Colgate Benson’ and, below, ‘Given to Jim Hole 1951 [by] Fanny Mallinson for Fred’. Opposite is the bookplate of W.J. Hole. Ink annotation to the reverse of the second front endpaper ‘To G. Nev View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1006 ‘Cricket. An Heroic Poem Illustrated with the Critical Observations of Scriblerus Maximus... by James Love, Comedian’. James Dance. Printed for the Author, London 1770. Fourth edition. iv, 30pp. Dedicated ‘To the Members of the Cricket Club, at Richmond, in Surrey’. The first separately published poem on cricket. James Dance (1722-1774) assumed the name of Love as a compliment to his wife. The mock heroic couplets describe the match between Kent and England played on the Artillery Ground on the View details Estimates£1,500 - £2,500StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1007 ‘Cricket, and How To Play It’. Robert Abel (Member of the Surrey Eleven). Dean & Son of Fleet Street. (Dean’s Champion Handbooks) 1895. 62pp. Original decorative maroon limp cloth wrappers. Ownership stamp of K.A. Auty Library of Ontario to verso of frontispiece. Padwick 482. Some mottling and light creasing to front wrapper. Frontispiece and title pages detached, otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £50StatusUnsold Lot #1008 Cricket instructional and historical books. Four hardback titles. ‘The Cricket-Field’, James Pycroft, Longman, 4th edition London 1862. Wear and loss to spine, front cover partially detached. ‘Cricketers in Council’ by Thomsonby [H.P. Thomas & J.H. Ponsonby], Bell & Daldy, 1st edition London 1871. ‘The Young Cricketer’s Tutor’, John Nyren, two later editions, one published by David Nutt, London 1893, the other by Gay and Bird (Sportsmans Classics), London 1902. General wear, overall in good cond View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Items per page 102550100 Previous|1...99100101102103104...117|Next123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117 Previous 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117 Next Previous 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117 Next
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