Knight's Sporting Auctions 'Close of Play'. Items from the cricket collection of Chris Saunders (#20) 13/09/2025 10:30 AM BST Closed Starts Ending 13/09/2025 10:30 AM BST 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) Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 401-500 of 500. Previous|12345|Next Lot #401 Scottish cricket. ‘Brechin Cricket Club Bazaar Book’. Printed by W. & G. Alexander, Brechin 1927. 36pp souvenir booklet for the Club fundraising bazaar held 23rd & 24th September 1927. Original grey/ brown decorative paper wrappers. Illustrated with photographs of previous captains, teams etc., comprising a history of the Club, ‘Gleanings from the Annals’ with reference to ‘Annals of Brechin Cricket’ by Alfred O’Neil, lists of stalls and stallholders, advertising etc. Bookplate of Anthony Woodho View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #402 ‘The Catch. A Correspondence’. Harold Pinter and Alan Wilkinson. Charingworth, 2003. Comprising answers to questions posed by Wilkinson regarding a spectacular catch taken by Pinter at second slip whilst playing for Gaities C.C. Bound in card wrappers, limited edition no. 52/500, signed by Miriam Macgregor who provided a small boxwood engraving of the catch. Very good condition View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£45StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #403 ‘Thomas Verity, Eminent Victorian’. Irving Rosenwater 1999. Limited edition ‘No. 3 of 12 proof copies specially run off’ for private circulation and not for sale, signed by Rosenwater and dated 1999. Three page loosely bound article further annotated by Rosenwater to the final page, ‘Printed in July 1999 for forthcoming (Autumn) Cricket Society Journal’. Excellent condition. Rare View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£70StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #404 ‘The Story of a Cricket Playbill’. Irving Rosenwater 1968. Printed for private circulation in 1968. Limited edition number 20 of only twenty five numbered copies produced, signed by the author. This copy was given to Gordon Seyner and is accompanied by a short letter slipped in from the author, dated 18th June 1968, ‘To my very good friend- the only non-collector to have a copy’. Rosenwater was best man at Seyner’s wedding. Minor age toning to wrappers, rusting to staples, otherwise in good cond View details Estimates£120 - £160Winning Bid£95StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #405 ‘J.N. Pentelow. A biographical enquiry’. Irving Rosenwater. Privately printed for the author in London, 1969. Limited edition number 19 of only fifty numbered copies produced, signed by the author. None of the copies were for sale, all were given to friends of the author. Minor age toning to wrappers, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Rare. View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£75StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #406 ‘J.M. Kilburn. An Appreciation’. Irving Rosenwater. Privately printed for the author in London, November 1993. Limited edition number 8 of only twenty numbered copies produced, signed by the author. Non were available for sale. Excellent condition. Rare View details Estimates£140 - £180Winning Bid£240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #407 ‘I.T. Botham. A Few Highlights’. Irving Rosenwater. Privately printed for the author in London, September 1993. Limited edition number 9 of only twenty five numbered copies produced, signed by the author. None were available for sale. Very good condition. Rare. View details Estimates£180 - £250Winning Bid£150StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #408 ‘W.G. Grace: A Leviathan Was He’. Irving Rosenwater. Printed for private circulation, London, October 1997. Limited edition number 19 of only twenty copies produced, signed by the author. None were for sale. Very good condition. View details Estimates£180 - £250Winning Bid£180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #409 ‘Sir Donald Bradman- Ninety Not Out. A Brief Tribute in Words and Figures’. Irving Rosenwater. Newnham 1998. Limited edition number 89 of ninety numbered copies produced of which eighty copies, numbers 11-90, were for sale, signed by the author. Very good condition. View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #410 ‘Craig - on the Cricket Champions of 1897’. Albert Craig. Published by The All England Athletic Publishing Co. 1st Edition, London 1898. Original decorative paper wrappers. 44pp history of Lancashire cricket and statistics of their performances since 1864, illustrations of Briggs and Watson. Lancashire were County Champions in 1897. Padwick 2256. Some age toning to wrappers, slight splitting to spine, otherwise in good/ very good condition. A nice copy. Scarce. View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£130StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #411 ‘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. Good/very good condition. View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #412 ‘The Australian Cricket Annual’. 1896, 1897 and 1898. Edited by John C. Davis. George Robertson & Co., Sydney 1896. Printed by Edward Lee & Co., Sydney. All three editions bound in green boards, the 1896 and 1898 editions with original decorative paper wrappers, titles in gilt to spine. Padwick 3357. Minor soiling and wear to wrappers of the 1896 edition, the 1897 edition lacking front wrapper, poor rear wrapper, damaged first advertising page and lacking one photograph and two pages (pp239-242) View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning Bid£260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #413 Southern Tasmanian Cricket Association. Eighteenth Annual Circular for Season 1884-85’. 88pp. Hobart Town. Printed at the ‘Mercury’ Steam Press Office 1884. Original yellow pictorial wrappers. Minor loss to the wrapper edges otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£70 - £100StatusUnsold Lot #414 Southern Tasmanian Cricket Association. Nineteenth Annual Circular for Season 1884-85’. 98pp. Hobart Town. Printed at the ‘Mercury’ Steam Press Office 1885. Original pink pictorial wrappers. Very minor loss to the wrapper top edge, discolouration to the wrapper edges otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£70 - £100StatusUnsold Lot #415 Southern Tasmanian Cricket Association. Twentieth Annual Circular for Season 1885-86’. 70pp. Hobart Town. Printed at the ‘Mercury’ Steam Press Office 1886. Original beige pictorial wrappers. Very minor wear to the head of the spine otherwise in good/very good condition View details Estimates£70 - £100StatusUnsold Lot #416 Southern Tasmanian Cricket Association. Twenty-first Annual Circular for Season 1886-87’. 56pp. Hobart Town. Printed at the ‘Mercury’ Steam Press Office 1887. Original peach pictorial wrappers. Very minor wear to the wrapper extremities otherwise in good/very good condition View details Estimates£70 - £100StatusUnsold Lot #417 Southern Tasmanian Cricket Association. Twenty-second Annual Circular for Season 1887-88’. 72pp. Hobart Town. Printed at the ‘Mercury’ Steam Press Office 1888. Original light green pictorial wrappers. Some discolouration to wrappers otherwise in good/very good condition View details Estimates£70 - £100StatusUnsold Lot #418 Southern Tasmanian Cricket Association. Twenty-third Annual Circular for Season 1888-89’. 72pp. Hobart Town. Printed at the ‘Mercury’ Steam Press Office 1889. Original light brown pictorial wrappers. Some wear and loss to the top edge of the front wrapper, minor staining to odd page otherwise in good/very good condition View details Estimates£70 - £100StatusUnsold Lot #419 Southern Tasmanian Cricket Association. Twenty-fourth Annual Circular for Season 1889-90’. 68pp. Hobart Town. Printed at the ‘Mercury’ Steam Press Office 1890. Original light brown pictorial wrappers. Some wear and loss to the wrapper extremities otherwise in good/very good condition View details Estimates£70 - £100StatusUnsold Lot #420 Southern Tasmanian Cricket Association. Twenty-fifth Annual Circular for Season 1890-91’. 54pp. Hobart Town. Printed at the ‘Mercury’ Steam Press Office 1891. Original light green pictorial wrappers. Tape to spine and tape repair across the back wrapper, minor loss to rear wrapper edge otherwise in good/very good condition View details Estimates£50 - £80StatusUnsold Lot #421 ‘The Australian Cricket Team of 1893’. Henry V.L. Stanton of ‘The Sportsman’. First edition, ‘Sport & Play’, Birmingham 1893. 18pp. Pre-tour booklet comprising biographies with portraits of Messrs. J.M. Blackham, H.C. Bannerman, G. Giffen and C.T.B. Turner. Original decorative paper wrappers. Padwick 4980. A little fragile, wear to spine, nicks and small loss to wrapper edges, browning to page edges otherwise in good condition. Rare. View details Estimates£180 - £250StatusUnsold Lot #422 ‘The Australian Team in England. Season 1899’. Compiled by Sidney Billingham. Toley Brothers Limited, London 1899. Small 8vo. 50pp plus adverts at rear. Excellent souvenir with text and statistics on previous Australian tours, illustrated with caricatures of the players. Bound in beige boards with good original pictorial paper wrappers. Padwick 4988. A scarce item in very good condition, one of few survivors View details Estimates£200 - £300Winning Bid£340StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #423 ‘Don Bradman and the Changing of the Guard A Pictorial Narrative’. Peter Lloyd and Peter Schofield, 2021. Limited edition no 79 of 117 produced, signed by Lloyd, Schofield, Mike Coward and Bernard Wimpress. In slip case. Very good condition View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£110StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #424 Don Bradman. ‘Pageant of Cricket’. D.Frith. London 1987. Foreword by Don Bradman. De-luxe leather bound limited edition of two hundred numbered copies, this being number 131, signed by Don Bradman and the author, Frith. Bound in full red leather, all edges gilt and preserved in slipcase. Very good condition View details Estimates£180 - £250Winning Bid£260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #425 ‘Victor Trumper’s Photograph Album of the 1909 Australian Tour of England’. Facsimile reproduction of the album, bound in black leather and accompanied by introductory booklet’s housed in a pocket at the front of the album giving details of the photographs. Published in 2005 in a limited edition of 200 copies, this being number 13. VG View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning Bid£140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #426 ‘The Quest for Bowlers’. C.T.B. Turner (‘The Terror’). Cornstalk Publishing Co., Sydney, Australia 1926. Grey boards in original dustwrapper. A fairly scarce book published following Australia’s defeat to England 1-0 in the 1926 Ashes series. Padwick 745. Some nicks, tears and soiling to the dustwrapper. Odd pencil annotations to pages, otherwise in good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #427 ‘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. Good/very good condition. View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£55StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #428 ‘New Zealand Cricketers’ Annual 1895’. Edited by ‘Trundler’ Thames (William Henry Newton). Abel, Dykes & Co. Auckland 1895. Original paper wrappers. Rare first edition of the publication which lasted until 1898 (four years). Contains an account of the tour by Fiji to New Zealand, Stoddart’s team in Australia etc. Frontispiece image of the Fiji team. Minor loss to spine, a little fragile otherwise a good copy in original wrappers View details Estimates£250 - £350StatusUnsold Lot #429 ‘New Zealand Cricketers’ Annual 1896’. Edited by ‘Trundler’ Thames (William Henry Newton). Abel, Dykes & Co. Auckland 1896. Bound in green boards, with original paper wrappers, gilt titles to front board. Second edition of the publication which lasted until 1898 (four years). Contains an account of the tour by New South Wales to New Zealand etc. Frontispiece image of the New South Wales team. Good/very good condition View details Estimates£200 - £300Winning Bid£150StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #430 ‘Men in White. The History of New Zealand International Cricket 1894-1985’. Don Neely, Richard King and Francis Payne. Auckland 1986. Deluxe full leather bound limited collectors’ edition of 1200 copies, this copy being number 1101. The largest cricket book ever produced measuring 15.5”x22” and weighing 13.2kg! Gilt to all edges. In red cloth slip case. Includes the original four page colour broadsheet ‘invitation to subscribe’ slipped in. Some flaking to spine, otherwise in very good condition. View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #431 ‘The Jubilee Book of Cricket’. K.S. Ranjitsinhji. Edinburgh 1897. Limited edition of 350 copies signed by Ranjitsinhji, this being number 126. Hand made paper, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Original oatmeal cloth covers. Padwick 467. Good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£300 - £400Winning Bid£900StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #432 ‘Parsi Cricket with hints on bowling, batting...’. M.E. Pavri. Bombay 1901. Original decorative pictorial boards. Padwick 462. Good/very good condition. A rarely seen title View details Estimates£400 - £600Winning Bid£360StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #433 ‘The Crickinia Indian Cricketers’ Annual 1939-40. First issue. Edited by Muni Lal. Lahore. Bound in original boards with title printed to top border, original decorative paper wrappers. The book signed to the ‘Five Cricketers of the Year’ photographic plate on page 59 by Merchant and Amar Nath. A letter from the Editor, Muni Lal to D.G. Crampton, dated May 1945 accompanies the book. Lal gives a synopsis of the principal contents in the 1939/40 issue and comments ‘This is the most exhaustive vol View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£110StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #434 ‘The Crickinia Indian Cricketers’ Annual 1940-41. Second issue. Edited by Muni Lal. Lahore. Bound in turquoise blue board, lacking original paper wrappers. Minor wear to boards otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£35StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #435 ‘The Crickinia Indian Cricketers’ Annual 1943-44. Fifth issue. Edited by Muni Lal. Lahore. Original decorative paper wrappers. Some nicks to wrapper edges otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£190StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #436 ‘Indian Cricket Chronology and Memorabilia’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Merritt and Hatcher 1911. Original red decorative paper wrappers with red cord to spine. 16pp. Limited edition of only thirty copies produced, this being no. 29. Limitation statement to rear wrapper with handwritten dedication and signature in ink to ‘Cecil Speigalhalter Esq from F.S. Ashley-Cooper’. The chronology spans a period from 1743 up to the visit of the All Indian team in England in 1911. It is the first recorded history o View details Estimates£700 - £900Winning Bid£620StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #437 ‘The Indian Cricket-Field Annual 1957-58 to 1964-65. Edited by Dicky Rutnagur. Bombay. Complete run of the Annual from 1957-58 (first year of issue) to 1964-65 (eighth year), each copy has been signed by the Editor Dicky Rutnagur and the first three isues by Anandji Dossa, the statistician. Some wear to the covers and spines of odd books otherwise in good condition. Qty 8 View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£130StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #438 ‘A History of the Sind Cricket Tournament and Karachi Cricket in General’. C.B. Rubie and B.D. Shankar. Edwin Forster, Karachi 1928. Original red cloth with titles in gilt to cover and spine. Padwick 3896. Some wear to covers and spine otherwise in good+ condition. Presentation copy with handwritten dedication in ink to front cover, ‘With the author’s compliments and sincere thanks’, signed by Rubie. Rare View details Estimates£700 - £1,000Winning Bid£1,600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #439 ‘A Chronicle of Cricket amongst Parsees, and the struggle: Polo versus Cricket’. Shapoorjee Sorabjee. Privately printed. Bombay circa 1898. Original printed stiff wrappers in a lattice pattern, bound in green boards, with gilt titles to spine. Minor staining and age toning to wrappers otherwise in good/very good condition. A scarce Indian publication View details Estimates£500 - £800Winning Bid£460StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #440 ‘7th (Q.O.) Hussars Cricket Matches Played 1873-1888’. Secunderabad 1899. Bound in black cloth with gilt title to centre of the front board. Presentation copy inscribed in ink to front endpaper, ‘J.L. Nicholson from H.M. Ridley. January 1911’ with latin quote below ‘O Mihi Praeteritas referendat jupitor amor’ tgranslating to ‘Would that Jove would take me back to past years’. Nicholson was one of the players, Ridley wrote the preface. A rarer Indian edition. Good/very good condition View details Estimates£250 - £350Winning Bid£240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #441 ‘Sunny Days’. Sunil Gavaskar’s Own Story. 1984. Signed to title page ‘Best Wishes’. soft wrappered edition. Good condition View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£38StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #442 ‘40 Years of Active Cricket’. Bodhaji Devli Shanker. Lucknow 1955. Rebound in green boards preserving the original green paper wrappers. Signed to the small pen picture on the first introduction page by the author. Cricketing reminiscences of a regular cricket who also wrote ‘The History of Sind Cricket’. A rarely seen book View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #443 ‘Pakistan vs. England. Tour of 1954’. M.H. Maqsood and M.I. Merchant. Karachi 1954. Rebound in red boards with titles in gilt to spine, good condition View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£38StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #444 ‘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. Sold with ‘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. Both good/very good condition View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£55StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #445 ‘Three Early Philadelphian Cricket Publications’. English Eleven tour to Philadelphia 1872. ‘International Cricket Fete. Official Hand-Book for the International Cricket Fete, at Philadelphia 1872’. Published by J.B. Lippincott & Co. of Philadelphia September 1872. Woodcut on title page. 66pp. Sold with the companion volume of ‘A Sequel to the Official handbook, Official Report on the International Cricket Fetes at Philadelphia in 1868 and 1872... a Full account of the Visit of the English Gentl View details Estimates£500 - £700Winning Bid£660StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #446 ‘The English Cricketers’ Trip to Canada and the United States in 1859’. Frederick Lillywhite. First edition, London 1860. 79pp. Original green cloth boards with title in gilt to front. Illustrated, complete with fold out map. Padwick 4893. Appears to have replacement endpapers. Ink staining to bottom edge affecting the covers, some pages and plates to varying degrees. Adhesive mark to front cover, otherwise in good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning Bid£140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #447 ‘Cricket and Cricketers’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. The Offices of The American Cricketer, Philadelphia 1907. Original red cloth with pictorial front cover, titles to front cover and spine. 102pp. Covers the history and development of cricket, written for American readers. Signed bookplate of B.J. Wakley to inside front cover. Padwick 59. Minor fading to spine, otherwise a nice copy in very good condition. Scarce. View details Estimates£140 - £180Winning Bid£210StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #448 ‘How to Play Cricket. A Manual for American Cricketers’. Published by T.S. Dando, Philadelphia 1881. Original grey wrappers with title to front ‘The American Cricketers’ Manual’. 74pp. Illustrated. Padwick 459 records the editor as George M. Newall, but the preface states ‘The chapters on “The Average System” and that on “The Umpire” were written at the earnest request of the editor by two representative American cricketers, to whom his thanks are especially due’. Newall wrote the chapter on ‘A View details Estimates£600 - £800StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #449 ‘Ten Thousand Miles Through India & Burma. An Account of the Oxford University Authentics’ Cricket Tour With Mr K.J. Key...’. Cecil Headlam. London 1903. Green cloth boards, gilt to top page edges. Padwick 1642. Light internal foxing throughout otherwise in good/ very good condition View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #450 ‘Scores of the Apsley Park Cricket Club’ 1886-1893. Eight volumes of match scores, averages and rules for each of the eight seasons bound together in one volume in contemporary blue calf and marbled boards, marbled page edges. Padwick 1937. Stamp of ‘Arthur F. Tooke’ to inside front board. Some rubbing to spine and cover extremities, otherwise in good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning Bid£140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #451 ‘South African Cricketers’ Annual. Season 1905-06. Edited by J.T. Henderson. Time Printing Co, Pietermaritzburg 1906. Original red limp cloth covers with titles printed in black which state incorrectly ‘Season 1906-07’. Padwick 3615. Covers worn and soiled with creasing, spine faded, broken front and rear internal hinges with old tape repairs otherwise in good condition. A rarely seen annual View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning Bid£120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #452 The Tournament Chronicle’ 1884-1885 [South Africa]. Printed and published by Charles Cox of the Port Elizabeth Advertiser Office. Individual issues one to nine, all published, covering the period Monday 23rd December 1884 to Friday 2nd January 1885 with full description and scores of all the matches in the Christmas Tournament held in Port Elizabeth. Excellent vignette of a cricket scene to each title page of the Chronicle. Bound together in red boards, spine worn with old tape marks, minor brea View details Estimates£1,200 - £1,600StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #453 ‘England v. Australia. The Record of a Memorable Tour’. P.F. Warner. Mills & Boon 1912. This is the large paper limited edition of only 50 copies produced, this being no. 28, nicely signed by the author to limited page and to title page. View details Estimates£250 - £350Winning Bid£420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #454 ‘The M.C.C. in Northern India’. C.E. Newham. Lahore 1926. Published on behalf of the Committee. Original colour card wrappers. 48pp plus adverts. Wrappers a little soiled, breaking to the rear hinge otherwise in good condition. Scarce View details Estimates£140 - £180Winning Bid£220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #455 ‘The M.C.C. Tour in Argentina’ 1912. Compiled by James McGough. Printed and published by The British Printery, Buenos Aires. Bound in green cloth, with original pink wrappers. Post tour brochure with 24 pages. Padwick 4933. Very good condition. Ex-Winder collection, sold as part of lot 688 in his sale. Rare. View details Estimates£200 - £300Winning Bid£170StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #456 ‘The Cricketing Record of Major Warton’s Tour. 1888-1889’. Published by Charles Cox, Port Elizabeth 1889. Original publisher’s red stiff cloth boards. 219 pages with fourteen full page lithographic engraved portraits of the players including Warton, the Manager and Charles Aubrey Smith, the Captain. Boards worn, faded and soiled, binding a little shaken, breaking to internal hinges with some page section becoming slightly loose. Padwick 4619. A scarce book from this early first tour of South Afr View details Estimates£2,000 - £3,000StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #457 ‘A Concise Hint and Guide to Cricket’. Isaiah Thomas. Privately printed. Belize, British Honduras 1908. 4pp treatise focusing on the characteristics required of Umpires, heading: ‘With due, just and proper references to Umpires’, Captains, heading: ‘With strict attention and precise direction to Captains’ and more generally to Cricketers, heading: A thorough insight and full precaution to cricketers’. The year ‘1908’ handwritten to front wrapper below the title. Light folds otherwise in good con View details Estimates£200 - £300StatusUnsold Lot #458 ‘Elphinstone College Tours’. Jamshed Dinshaw Antia. Bombay 1913. Original pictorial green boards. 219pp plus adverts. Some staining and discolouration to boards otherwise in good condition. A rare Indian volume View details Estimates£300 - £500Winning Bid£260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #459 ‘Den Kjobenhavn Boldspilklub. Haandbog i Cricket og Langbold’. Copenhagen C.C. Lose’s Forlag. 1866. 50pp. Small Danish cricket handbook with wood-engraved illustrations, original pictorial wrapper boards. First edition. Very rare View details Estimates£800 - £1,200StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #460 ‘A Chapter of History’. ‘Buenos Aires Cricket Club: Club Dinner to celebrate the Winning of the First Division Championship’, held at the Strangers’ Club, Buenos Aires on the April 7th 1925. The booklet, with original wrappers, contains the menu for the dinner, a photograph of the club team and an article on ‘The First Decade of the Buenos Ayres (sic) Cricket Club 1861-1871’ by ‘J. McG’ (James McGough, who wrote extensively on Argentinian cricket). Rebound in blue boards with the bookplate of A View details Estimates£140 - £180Winning Bid£160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #461 ‘With the M.C.C. to New Zealand’. P.R. May. London 1907. Original green cloth boards with title to front. Padwick 3746. Wear and staining to boards and spine, some minor foxing page edges and endpapers, internally in good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£48StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #462 Lord Sheffield’s tour to Australia 1891/92. ‘Comical Cricket in Rhyme & Picture’. By ‘Catch-a-Catch’. William Marshall & Co., Melbourne 1891. 42pp. Original pre-tour booklet in original decorative paper wrappers comprising limericks and caricatures of members of the England touring party including Grace, Abel, Lohmann, Briggs, Bean, Attewell, Read, Stoddart, and Australians Lyons, Giffen, Horan, Bruce, Blackham, Trott, Trumble etc. Padwick 4410. Wrappers split and detached with some loss. First View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #463 ‘The English Game of Cricket: Comprising a Digest of its Origin, Character, History and Progress...’. Charles Box. London 1877. Original decorative brown cloth with titles in gilt to front board and spine, with gilt illustration to front, all edges gilt. Pencil signature and date ‘James Law, February 1893’ to both the front and the rear end paper. Minor wear to boards and spine, otherwise in good/very good condition. A nice copy. Padwick 799 View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£85StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #464 ‘The Cricket-Field’. James Pycroft. Edited by F.S. Ashley-Cooper. London 1922. Original leather covers. Limited Subscribers’ edition no. 7/100, nicely signed in ink to the limited page by Ashley-Cooper. Spine strengthened at top and bottom, boards a little soiled otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£95StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #465 Curiosities of First-Class Cricket’. F.S. Ashley Cooper. Edmund Seale, London 1901. ‘Interleaved and signed’ limited edition of 100 copies, this being number 4, nicely signed in ink by Ashley-Cooper to the limitation label laid down to front endpaper with inscription to Stanley Colman by Cooper ‘Stanley Colman Esq with the author’s compliments 31st July 1901. Original green cloth with decorative gilts and title to front cover and spine. Padwick 99. Minor wear to spine, odd pencil notes, some bre View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning Bid£140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #466 ‘Scores and Analyses 1864-1881. A Collection’. Compiled by J.B. Payne Published in 1904 by the author. Printed by John Hodgson, Harrogate. Contains the full scores of 60 matches not found in Wisden. Limited to only 100 copies. Green cloth boards with gilt titles to front and spine. Presentation copy inscribed in ink to front end paper ‘Presented by the compiler to A.J. Gaston esq. 9th June 1904’. A.J. Gaston business card laid down to front board below the title. This copy has the first four pag View details Estimates£100 - £150StatusUnsold Lot #467 ‘The Memorial Biography of Dr W. G. Grace’. Lord Hawke, Lord Harris and Sir Home Gordon. London 1919. Original decorative boards. Top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Limited edition of 150 copies. Inscription to front ‘E.P. Warner from P.F.W., August 1919’. Pelham Warner presentation copy to his son, Esmond Pelham Warner. Some light fading to spine otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #468 ‘Cricket’. W.G. Grace. Bristol 1891. ‘Crown Quarto Edition de Luxe’ edition bound in black half leather, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Original black boards with gilt lettering. Replacement spine. Limited de luxe edition of 652 numbered copies, signed by the author, Grace, this being no. 64. Bookplate of Eagar to inside front board. Some rubbing to board extremities, otherwise a nice copy, internally in good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£250 - £350Winning Bid£230StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #469 ‘W.G. Grace The Great Cricketer. A Statistical Record of His Performances in Minor Cricket’. G. Neville Weston. Privately printed 1973. Original stiffened white card wrappers with title printed to front. Limited edition of 50 copies printed, this being no. 3, signed by the author with handwritten dedication, ‘I present this book to my good friend Irving [Rosenwater], in keen appreciation of our long standing friendship and his great encouragement in the preparation of this book’, signed ‘Neville View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning Bid£200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #470 ‘Eton v Harrow at the Wicket’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. London 1922. Limited Subscriber’s Edition no. 67 of only 100 copies printed, nicely signed in ink by Ashley-Cooper to the limitation page. Full leather with gilt titles to front cover and spine, gilt to page edges. Padwick 1437. Minor wear to boards otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£90StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #471 ‘A Brush with Cricket’. Richie Ryall 1991. Limited edition of 850 copies signed by the author, this being number 713. This book was produced for Richie Ryalls Benefit Year 1991/92. Blue cloth boards with dustwrapper. This edition has been signed by the artist to the limitation page, by six Western Province players to the opposite page including Mike Voss, Meyrick Pringle, Faiek Davids, Ken Jackson etc. The foreword is signed by Ali Bacher and all thirty full page portrait illustrations have been View details Estimates£200 - £300StatusUnsold Lot #472 ‘Bibliography of the Cricket Works of the late F.S. Ashley-Cooper’. George Neville Weston. Privately printed. Kidderminster 1933. 19pp interleaved with blanks. Original pale blue cloth wrappers with glassine dustwrapper (with tears). Limited edition no. 48 of 100 copies produced, signed by the author. Annotation in ink to limitation page, ‘Mr. H.C. Roe from A.W. Shelton with kindest regards, Nottingham 16th Oct. 1933’. Padwick 42. Very good condition. Rare. View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£75StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #473 M.C.C. 1787-1937’ reprinted from ‘The Times’ M.C.C. Number May 25th 1937. The Times Publishing Company. London 1937. Original decorative boards. The facsimile autograph sheets of the England and Australian team who played at Lord’s in 1938 are laid down to the inside front board and the first end paper, the next two pages have the actual ink signatures of cricketers, officials of the M.C.C., writers etc and it is tempting to assume that the signatures were obtained during the Lord’s Test match. View details Estimates£140 - £180StatusUnsold Lot #474 ‘Index to Scores & Biographies. Volumes I to XIII’. A.L. Ford. 1885. Published at the Office of Cricket, Doctor’s Common, EC. Unbound with black endpapers, pages loose. Preserved in an envelope with notes by Irving Rosenwater. Ownership name of R.J. Parker who was one of the original members of the Cricketana Society. Some wear to end papers and page edges, some rounding to corners otherwise in good condition. Two related news cuttings are laid down to the last two pages View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£110StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #475 ‘Songs of the Bat’. E.V. Lucas. Privately published by the author, 1892. Printed by W.P. Griffith & Sons, London. 8pp. Signed by Lucas to the title page with dedication ‘To Joseph W. Goldman forty four years late’ and dated 22nd July 1936. A signed handwritten annotation to the front endpaper by Goldman states, ‘44 years after the publication E.V. Lucas added verses never published after dinner at my home in Finchley Road in the presence of Sir Pelham Warner’, and on the last page is an eight li View details Estimates£200 - £300Winning Bid£280StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #476 Sketches of the Players’. William Denison. London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co., Rudolph Ackermann, R. Dark [and others], 1846. 76pp. Padwick 876. Bound in green boards with gilt titles to front board. There is an inscription to the title page from Alfred Gaston to E. Holmes ‘To my Esteemed friend E. Holmes Esq in deep appreciation of many years of kindness and courtesy the past 2 years. Alfred G. Gaston, 10a Hollingbury Park Avenue, Brighton. August 1926’. Minor light foxing, lacking advertising p View details Estimates£400 - £600StatusUnsold Lot #477 ‘Cricket- the Silver Lining’. Cyril Washbrook. Sportsguide Publications, London 1950. Original dustwrapper with some wear. Signature in ink of Washbrook on piece laid down to title page. The facing page has been signed in ink by three officers of the Lancashire County and Manchester C.C. Signatures are Leonard Green (President, captain of Lancashire C.C.C. 1926-1928), J. Bowling Holmes (Chairman, Lancashire 2nd XI 1922-1928), and Geoffrey Howard (Secretary, Middlesex 1930, three matches). The in View details Estimates£70 - £100StatusUnsold Lot #478 ‘Cricket’. Fred C. Holland ‘Surrey County Eleven’. All-England Series, George Bell, London 1904. Original decorative red cloth. Nicely signed ‘Fred Holland’ in black ink below the frontispiece image of Holland in batting pose. Tipped in to the front endpaper is a folded sheet containing a two page handwritten letter from Holland on his business letterhead in Oundle where he was ‘Coach to Oundle School’, dated 16th August 1912, to a Mr. Hopkinson. Holland states, ‘I am more than pleased that your View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #479 ‘The Cricketer’s Autograph Book’. T. Broadbent Trowsdale (‘Cover Point’). Walter Scott Publishing, London 1906. Original green pictorial cloth with mono image of W.G. Grace inlaid to front, gilt titles to front and spine, gilt to all page edges. ‘Illustrated with numerous Full-page Half-tone Gravures, after Action- photographs, by George Beldam’ and One Hundred and Thirty Autographs of Celebrated Cricketers in facsimile’. Profusely and very nicely signed throughout in ink (the odd signature in b View details Estimates£6,000 - £9,000StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #480 John Berry ‘Jack’ Hobbs. Surrey & England 1905-1934. ‘Playing for England! My Test-Cricket Story’, London, 1931. A good copy in decent dustwrapper. This copy is accompanied by the original contract for the book, signed by Hobbs and witnessed by Thomas Moult. Moult was a prolific journalist, author and poet who seems to have been acting as Hobbs agent, as the contract is made between Victor Gollancz and Jack Hobbs, c/o Thomas Moult. The contract gives Hobbs an advance of £125 and promises to pay View details Estimates£120 - £160Winning Bid£130StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #481 ‘The Laws of Cricket as revised by the Marylebone Cricket Club, London [In Gujarati]. Printed by Surat Airish Mission Printing Press 1903, price 6 pais. 16pp booklet with original pink card wrappers. Comprises a translation of the Laws, printed in Gujarati with title and some footnotes in English, diagram of field placings. Preserved in a grey paper envelope with typed titles from the collection of Leslie Gutteridge who bought the item from the M.C.C. in 1954 having been previously in the Cahn o View details Estimates£1,000 - £1,500StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #482 ‘The Woe of Lough Derg’. Heber Coghlan. Purcell and Company, Cork 1898. 52pp. Original black cloth covers with gilt title to front. Inscribed in ink to the front endpaper, ‘To Fanny Swanton from the Author, July 1898’. An account in verse celebrating the lives of two brothers, Charles Henry and Augustus Irwin, sons of the Reverend Augustus Coghlan, Rector of the parish of Mountshannon on the shores of Lough Derg in Ireland. The brothers, who drowned when their yacht foundered in a squall on the View details Estimates£400 - £600StatusUnsold Lot #483 ‘Some Recollections of Cricket’. Lord Charles J.F. Russell. H.G. Fisher, Woburn 1879. Small 8vo, 39pp, original red cloth with title in black to front cover. Presentation inscription in black ink to half-title page to ‘Arthur Watson[Wilson?]’ signed with indecipherable initials, probably not Russell. The book is dedicated to Hon. Frederick Ponsonby and Hon. Robert Grimston with contents including ‘A Dream of the Past’ and ‘Round-Arm Recollections’, both reprinted from Bailey’s magazine, ‘Lord’s View details Estimates£1,200 - £1,600StatusUnsold Lot #484 ‘Woburn Echoes’. Lord Charles J.F. Russell. H.G. Fisher, Woburn 1881. 262pp. Original green cloth with title in gilt to front cover, gilt to all page edges. Comprises a collection of essays by Russell covering subjects titled Political, Social, Cricket and Hunting, most reprinted from magazines or from speeches given by Russell. The cricket section includes four of the five pieces from ‘Some Recollections’ (published in 1879) with some changes to the text from the originals, ‘Round-Arm Recollect View details Estimates£350 - £450StatusUnsold Lot #485 ‘The Fixed Period’. Anthony Trollope. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London 1882 ‘In two volumes’. A nice set of the two volume first edition of Trollope’s novel, originally published in Blackwood’s magazine 1881-1882, handsomely rebound in modern quarter leather and brown cloth, gilt titles, decorations and raised bands to spines, marbled endpapers. Set in the future (1980) it concerns the island nation of Britannula somewhere in the Pacific, populated by ‘The elite of New Zealand’. View details Estimates£600 - £800StatusUnsold Lot #486 ‘The Life of the late Earl of Barrymore. Including a History of the Wargrave Theatricals, and Original Anecdotes of Eminent Persons’. Anthony Pasquin. H.D. Symonds, London 1793. Third edition, ‘Corrected and much enlarged’. Rebound in modern marbled boards with leather spine, gilt title to spine. Barrymore’s interest in cricket is referred to in passing on page 8, with more on his passion for the game on page 85, ‘during the last three years of his life, he became an indefatigable cricketer... h View details Estimates£150 - £250StatusUnsold Lot #487 ‘Surry [sic] Triumphant: or The Kentish-Mens Defeat. A new ballad being a parody on Chevy-Chace’. John Duncombe. Printed for J. Johnson, London 1773. First edition. 24pp. Rebound in half green leather and marbled boards and endpapers, gilt title to spine. Woodcut vignette to title page. The match, instigated by the Earl of Tankerville, took place at Bishopsbourne Paddock, the seat of Sir Horatio Mann, on 24 July 1773, for £2000. Page A2 gives the scores of the two innings, showing Surrey triumph View details Estimates£4,000 - £6,000Winning Bid£2,600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #488 ‘The Abbey of Kilhampton; or Monumental Records for the year 1980. Faithfully transcribed from the Original Inscriptions, which are still perfect, and appear to be drawn up in a stile [sic] devoid of fulsome panegyric, or unmerited detraction’. Sir Herbert Croft. Printed for G. Kearsly at No. 46 in Fleet-Street, London 1780. A collection of satirical epitaphs of notable people in three sections, the first part being ‘The Eighth Edition, with considerable Additions’ comprising pp (iv),1-82, the s View details Estimates£150 - £250StatusUnsold Lot #489 ‘The Wreck of Westminster Abbey alias The Year Two Thousand, alias The Ordeal of Sepulchral Candour... being a selection from the Monumental Records of the most Conspicuous Personages’ by the Author of Kilhampton Abbey (Sir Herbert Croft). Eighth edition 1788 ‘with considerable Additions, ornamented with a Characteristic Frontispiece [dated 21st May 1788], and a Description thereof’. The title page dated ‘MMI [2001]’. 60pp. Rebound in modern quarter green morocco with marbled boards, gilt title View details Estimates£400 - £600StatusUnsold Lot #490 ‘The Noble Cricketers: A poetical and familiar epistle, address’d to Two of the Idlest Lords in His Majesty’s Three Kingdoms’. Published by J. Bew, No. 28 Paternoster Row, London 1778. First and only edition. pp (iv),22. Rebound in blue buckram for the M.C.C. with M.C.C. colours to covers, gilt title to spine. M.C.C. bookplates to inside front cover and front endpaper. Original errata slip pasted to rear of the Dedication page. The lengthy poem is written anonymously and satirises two cricketing View details Estimates£6,000 - £9,000StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #491 ‘Education, In Four Books’. James Elphinston. Sold by P. Vaillant in the Strand; W. Owen, in Fleet Street; and J. Richardson, in Paternoster Row 1763. pp (ii),136. Old leather on boards with later leather spine, raised bands and gilt title label to spine. Comprises a lengthy poem written by the author to publicise his school, originally founded in Brompton in 1753, and moved ‘to a site recently occupied by Baron Grant’s Mansion’ in Kensington in 1763. It contains a section on sport, which Elphin View details Estimates£800 - £1,200StatusUnsold Lot #492 A Correct Account of all the Cricket Matches which have been played by the Marylebone Club, and all other Principal Matches, from the year 1786 to 1822 inclusive...’. Henry Bentley. Printed by T. Traveller, 43 Park Street, New Road, London 1823. Handsomely rebound in full calf leather, raised bands, gilt title and decoration to spine, top page edges gilt. The half-title page bound in after the title page. Two plates bound in, one opposite the title page titled ‘Lord’s Cricket Ground’ by Stalker View details Estimates£300 - £500Winning Bid£260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #493 ‘An Account of the Principal Cricket Matches played in the year 1823 with the Particulars of Each Innings’. Henry Bentley. Printed by T. Traveller, London 1823. The rare first supplement, bound in modern paper covers with facsimile title page, some light foxing and age toning to original pages. This first supplement is considered scarcer than the original book, it covers matches in 1823. Rare View details Estimates£250 - £350StatusUnsold Lot #494 ‘The Dawn of Cricket’. Compiled by H.T. Waghorn. Published by the Marylebone Cricket Club. London 1906. Original red boards. Good condition View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£110StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #495 ‘Evening News Cricket Annual’ 1899. Compiled by ‘Umpire’. Sketches by ‘Rip!’. Association Newspapers. Third year of issue. Original decorative paper wrappers, bound in blue board, with gilt titles to front board. 64pp. Padwick 1070. Slight age toning to wrappers otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£20StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #496 ‘Cricket Pamphlets. Four pamphlets bound together being, Cricket: an heroic Poem, James Love (Dance). Edited by Ashley-Cooper 1922, ‘The Rev John Mitford on Cricket with a biographical note by Ashley-Cooper’ 1921, ‘How to Play Clarke’, N. Felix. Nicholas Wanostrocht. Edited by Ashley-Cooper 1922 and ‘A Cricket Son’. N. Felix. Nicholas Wanostrocht. 1923. All published by C.H. Richards of Nottingham. Bound in purple cloth preserving original wrappers for all four pamphlets. Very good condition View details Estimates£120 - £160StatusUnsold Lot #497 ‘Since Eighteen Hundred and Seventy Seven. Anglo-Australian Test Cricket 1877-1934. A Morris Compilation. Part One. The Scoring Board’. E.H.M Baillie. Published by H.A. Morris, Adelaide 1934. Original decorative paper wrappers. Comprises a history of the Test matches between England and Australia and full scores of the 134 matches played to date. Padwick 4358. Foxing to wrappers, otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£20StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #498 ‘Hambledon v. England played on Broadhalfpenny Down’ 1908. Illustrated souvenir booklet in original brown card wrappers with printed title to front. 12pp. Comprises lists of the players taking part in the first match to be played on Broadhalfpenny Down in over 130 years, 10th- 12th September 1908, followed by a history of Hambledon, ‘The Cradle of Cricket’. Author unknown. Padwick II 0967. Some age toning and foxing to pages, otherwise in good condition. Slipped in is an original mono postcard View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£170StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #499 ‘The Sportfolio. Portraits and biographies of heroes and heroines of sport and pastime’. George Newnes, London 1896. Originally published in parts. Many illustrations. Bound in publisher’s decorative cloth with colour illustrations and gilt, with a title-page and index at the front. Comprises full-page pictures of sportsmen of the day with short pen pictures. The cricketers are W.G. Grace, F.S. Jackson, Richardson, A.E. Stoddart, G. Macgregor, Ward, Abel, Gunn, C.B. Fry, A.C. Maclaren, J.T. Brow View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£110StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #500 ‘Catalogue of a choice Collection of Books and Engravings on Cricket, including rare items from A.D. Taylor’s collection on sale at very moderate prices by Alfred J. Gaston’. Alfred J. Gaston. Brighton 1927. 16pp, including printed wrappers, catalogue listing ‘probably the bulk’ of Taylor’s collection according to D.R. Allen. Small 8vo. Creased and worn, covers detached, torn at left where it has been hole punched and then ripped from file otherwise in good condition. Scarce. View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£75StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Items per page 102550100 Previous|12345|Next Previous 12345 Next Previous 12345 Next
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