Knight's Sporting Auctions Auction of Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia - Live Three Day Auction (#23) 10/04/2026 10:30 AM BST Closed Starts Ending 10/04/2026 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 1401-1500 of 1648. Previous|1...1011121314151617|Next Lot #1393 ‘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. Padwick 6434. Slight breaking to page block, light wear to board extremities, otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£25StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1394 ‘Guide to the Cricket Ground’, George H. Selkirk, London 1867, original cloth, gilt title to front. Ownership signatures of A.J. Gaston to title page, A.D. Taylor to dedication page, and bookplates of Gaston and E.D.R. Eagar to inside front cover and endpaper. Wear to boards, internally good. ‘Crickety Cricket’, Douglas Moffatt, 2nd edition London 1898, presentation copy ‘To Lord Harris from the Author’. Soiling, wear and breaking to front internal hinge. Sold with a tatty copy of ‘The History a View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£35StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1395 ‘A.C. Maclaren (Captain, All England 1909) on Cricket’. A. Treherne & Co., London, first edition 1909. Original paper wrappers. Padwick 453. Small tape repair to front wrapper, small stain to lower corners and spine, otherwise overall in good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £50StatusUnsold Lot #1396 ‘Cricket Poems’. George Francis Wilson. London 1905. Original decorative cloth covers. Padwick 6544. Bookplate of Harry Alfred [Hal] Cohen to inside front cover. Some staining and rubbing to boards, slight age toning to page edges, otherwise in good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1397 ‘Of Period and Place’. John Arlott. First edition, London 1944. Good dustwrapper. Arlott’s collection of poetry and first published title. Sold with two further titles by Arlott, ‘Australian Test Journal’, London 1956, original red cloth, and ‘Hampshire County Cricket’, with H.S. Altham, E.D.R. Eagar and Roy Webber, original green cloth, both signed by Arlott. Good/ very good condition. Qty 3. View details Estimates£50 - £80StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1398 ‘Basingstoke Boy’. John Arlott. London 1990. Numbered limited ‘Collector’s Edition’ bound in full leather by Boundary Books with marbled endpapers, gilt title to spine, gilt to all page edges. Signed by John Arlott. Limited edition no. 166/200. Very good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£32StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1399 ‘Cricket and Cricketers’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. The Office of The American Cricketer, Philadelphia 1907. Rebound in early quarter green leather and cloth, marbled endpapers, raised bands and gilt title to spine. Lacking original wrappers. 102pp. Covers the history and development of cricket, written for American readers. Presentation copy with dedication in green ink to front endpaper, ‘To John Arlott with best wishes, L.E.S. Gutteridge’. Bookplate of A.E. Winder to inside front cover. Padwick 59. View details Estimates£150 - £250StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1400 ‘Alfred Lyttelton. His Home-Training and Earlier Life’. Edward Lyttelton. First edition 1916. 62pp. Original blue cloth with nice bright gilt title to front. Signed and inscribed presentation copy ‘To John Murray from E. Lyttelton’ dated ‘Jan. 1917’. The book was a tribute to his younger brother, Alfred, who died in 1913. Padwick 7828. Minor wear and slight splitting to spine, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Scarce. View details Estimates£200 - £300StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1401 ‘Foreword to “G.L. Jessop” by Commander C.B. Fry’. Original four page typescript of a foreword for a book, with annotations and corrections in Fry’s own hand. Annotation in ink to final page states ‘The pencil corrections throughout are by C.B. Fry himself. The original was completely written by himself...’. Previously sold in the Robin Marlar Auction held at Hove, 11th April 2015. Bound in modern maroon cloth, gilt title to spine. Bookplate of A.E. Winder to inside front cover. Some wear to boa View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1402 ‘The Complete Cricketer’. Albert E. Knight, London, first edition 1906. Original maroon cloth, gilt titles to front and spine. Presentation copy with handwritten dedication in ink to inside front cover to ‘Frank [?] with Albert Knight’s Compliments’. Padwick 446. Nicks to head of spine, wear and age toning to boards, otherwise in generally good condition. View details Estimates£60 - £90StatusUnsold Lot #1403 ‘Cricket Form at a Glance 1878-1902 and the Australians in England’ and ‘1901-1923’. Sir Home Gordon. London 1902 and 1924. The two volumes similarly bound in red cloth, titles in black to fronts and spines. Both volumes have been nicely signed in ink ‘Yours sincerely, Home Gordon’. The 1924 volume also has a typed letter on the publisher’s letterhead, nicely signed by Gordon, dated 10th June 1924. Padwick 110 & 111. Some wear and staining to boards, otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£50 - £80StatusUnsold Lot #1404 ‘Hambledon: The Men and the Myths’. John Goulstone. Roger Heavens Cambridge 2001. Special Edition in quarter blue calf and cloth, gilt title to spine, in slipcase. Only twenty five numbered copies produced, this being number six, signed by the author. Tipped in opposite the limitation page is a 16pp booklet titled ‘The Publisher Regrets’. Not authorised by Goulstone, this comprises a list of incorrect captions, errata, and an extended index, the original considered ‘unsatisfactory for a book of View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£85StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1405 ‘Our Walter’s Big ‘It [Against Tykes]’. C.S. Marriott 1956. Original typescript of a lengthy poem comprising c.120 lines of verse on two pages of foolscap paper. The poem describes a mythical match in which ‘Walter Seddon’ hit a ball out of the Old Trafford ground, ‘It come down welly ten minutes after/ On tramlines at Irlams ‘o th’ Height’ some five miles from the ground! Tipped in is a small hand drawn map showing the feat. At the top of the first page Marriott has written in ink, ‘Printed in View details Estimates£130 - £160Winning Bid£160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1406 ‘Some Cricket Principles’. H.S. Altham. Privately printed c.1920. 4pp bound in green cloth, gilt title to spine. Comprises notes and tips on batting, bowling and fielding. Signed in ink to the first page by Altham. This is thought to be the copy owned by John Arlott sold to A.E. Winder in 1979. Winder’s bookplate to inside front cover. A scarce title, only one other copy is recorded, held in the M.C.C. Library at Lord’s. Padwick 488. Minor fading to the cloth boards, otherwise in very good condi View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£130StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1407 ‘Odd Men In. A Gallery of Cricket Eccentrics’. A.A. Thomson. First edition, Museum Press, London 1958. Original green cloth boards with good pictorial dustwrapper. Presentation copy with handwritten dedication in ink to front endpaper, ‘To Colin Cowdrey with best wishes for Australia 1958-59’, signed by Thomson and dated 10th July 1958. Padwick 7254. Some age toning to pages, otherwise in good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£32StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1408 ‘Life, Scores and Mode of Dismissal of “W.G.” in first-class cricket, 1865 to 1896. With summary of results’. Compiled by Rev. H.A. Tate. Cricket Press, London, second edition 1896. 148pp. Bound in modern blue cloth, gilt title to spine, original pictorial paper wrappers retained. An errata slip is tipped in to the introductory page, to which the author has handwritten in ink a dedication to ‘A.J. Gaston Esq., from Rev. H.A. Tate, St. Bede’s, Jarrow-on-Tyne, with kind regards’. Padwick 7602. Odd View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1409 ‘Jerks in from Short Leg’. Quid (R.A. Fitzgerald). London 1866. Original blue boards with cricketer illustration in gilt to centre. Presentation copy from the author with dedication in ink to the inside of the front board to ‘Harry W. Peters, Riverside, from the author R.A. Fitzgerald’. Some wear to board, corner and spine extremities otherwise in good condition. Rarely seen in this signed form. Padwick 6855 View details Estimates£150 - £250StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1410 ‘The Crisis in Cricket and the “Leg Before Rule”’. Robert Henry Lyttelton. London 1928. Original card wrappers. Presentation copy with dedication in ink to the front endpaper ‘To ‘E.J. [‘Tiger’] Smith from the Author’, nicely signed by Lyttelton and dated 20th August 1929. Padwick 237. Some age toning to wrappers and wear to spine, otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£60 - £90StatusUnsold Lot #1411 ‘Parsi Cricket with hints on bowling, batting...’. M.E. Pavri. Bombay 1901. Original decorative pictorial boards. Presentation copy inscribed with dedication to front end paper ‘To E.W. Ballantine, with the best compliments of M.E. Pavri, 1917’. Padwick 462. Some wear to boards and spine paper otherwise in good condition. Rare to see a signed copy of this book View details Estimates£400 - £600Winning Bid£360StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1412 ‘East v West. Cricket and Cricketers in India’. W.D. Begg. Ajmer (India) 1929. [xiv], 312pp. Printed by K. Mittra at The Indian Press Ltd., Allahabad for the author. Large original attractive colour pictorial boards. Frontispiece dedication leaf and three other full-page photoplates. Illustrated throughout with images of players and teams. Contains a comprehensive history of cricket in India and a report on the M.C.C. team in India 1926/27, interspersed by many pages of advertising. Colourful fr View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning Bid£140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1413 Southern Tasmanian Cricket Association. Eighteenth Annual Circular for Season 1884-85 to twenty-fifth Annual Circular for Season 1890-91’ Hobart Town. Printed at the ‘Mercury’ Steam Press Office. Eight Annual Circulars for the period given. All with original various coloured pictorial wrappers. Some wear, slight loss, discolouration to wrappers, minor faults otherwise in good overall condition. Qty 8 View details Estimates£180 - £250Winning Bid£150StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1414 ‘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£130 - £160StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1415 ‘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£180 - £250Winning Bid£160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1416 ‘The Immortals’. The Book of New Zealand Test Players’. Paul Verdon. Auckland 2006. Limited edition number 397 of 665 copies, signed by the author and by ‘every living former and present Test player able to complete the exercise’. One hundred and seventy signatures to dedicated decade pages. Signatures include W. Hadlee, Kerr, Tindall, Rabone, Reid, Snedden, Alabaster, Blair, Dempster, MacGibbon, Meale, Cameron, Congdon, D. Hadlee, Howarth, Pollard, G. Turner, Vivian, L. Cairns, Chatfield, Edgar View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning Bid£300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1417 Cricket Almanack of New Zealand 1952-2022. A run of the annual for seasons 1952 (fifth year of issue), 1953, 1955, 1957-1963, 1969-1973, 1976-1979, 1988, 1990, 1993, 1994, 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2011. All issues in soft covers. Some wear and small old tape repair to the spine of the 1957, minor wear to other earlier editions, overall in good/ very good condition. Qty 27. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£25StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1418 ‘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£500 - £700Winning Bid£440StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1419 ‘Cricket’. W. Mulier. Haarlem 1897. ‘Geillustreed door den schrijver [Illustrated by the author]’. Original hardback in blue cloth with colour pictorial illustration of a player/ umpire in striped blazer giving the batsman his guard, title in gilt to spine. xii, 247pp. Illustrated. Written in Dutch, the title comprises a history of the game’s growth and development, and is the first known historical and instructional book in Dutch. Padwick 457. Minor wear to board extremities, otherwise a nice c View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1420 ‘The Cricketer’s Companion; containing the scores of all the grand and principal matches of cricket, played at Lord’s and other grounds in the Season 1843’. William Denison. Published by W. Clement Junior, The Strand 1844 ‘and sold by R. Dark, Eton, J.D. Mills, Surrey, H. Slatter, Oxford, W.H. Mason, Brighton.....’. 62pp. Second edition with the “Laws of Cricket as altered June 3rd, 1844”. Lower corner and some minor loss to the green front cloth wrapper extremities, some loss to the rear wrapp View details Estimates£500 - £800Winning Bid£800StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1421 ‘The Cricketer’s Companion; containing the scores of the principal matches of cricket, played at Lord’s and other grounds in the Season 1844’. William Denison. Published by Sherwood and Co of London 1845 ‘and sold by W. Clement Jun., R. Dark, Eton: Mary Clapshaw, Canterbury: F. Pilch, Brighton: Box, Oxford: H. Slatter.....’. 116pp. Bound in half leather with original paper wrappers to front and rear, gilt titles ‘Denison’s Cricketers’ Companion 1845’ to spine. Second edition, 2nd issue with the View details Estimates£200 - £300Winning Bid£190StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1422 ‘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. Original paper wrappers with title ‘Denison’s Cricketer’s Companion 1847’ to front, card tape reinforcement to spine Minor wear and age toning to original wrappers otherwise a good copy of a rare book. Housed in modern half leather book box with titles to spi View details Estimates£500 - £800Winning Bid£1,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1423 ‘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 Hoollingbury Park Avenue, Brighton. August 1926’. Minor light foxing, lacking advertising View details Estimates£300 - £500Winning Bid£260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1424 ‘Clark’s Cricketer’s Handbook’. Five bound volumes of photocopied pages from the original 1st, 2nd, 10th (two different) and 14th editions of this rare handbook originally first published c.1845 by W.M. Clark (Padwick 378). Each volume nicely and uniformly bound in brown cloth with leather title label to fronts and gilt to spines. Ideal for reference. Ex Roger Hancock collection. Very good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1425 ‘Lambert’s Cricketer’s Guide or Instructions and Rules, for playing the Noble Game of Cricket...’. William Lambert. Fourteen bound volumes of photocopied pages from the original 1st, 2nd (two different), 3rd (two), 4th, 5th (two), 7th- 10th, 12th and 20th editions of this handbook originally first published 1816 (Padwick 383). Each volume nicely and uniformly bound in blue cloth with leather title label to fronts and gilt to spines. Ideal for reference. Ex Roger Hancock collection. Very good con View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1426 ‘Cricket and How to Play It with the Rules of the Marylebone Club’. John Wisden. Darton & Hodge, Holborn Hill, London. First edition 1866[?]. 62pp. Rebound in green half leather, gilt to spine, lacking original wrappers. Illustrated including frontispiece engraving of a cricket match. Padwick 482. Some foxing to page edges, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Sold with ‘Cricket’, W.L. Murdoch, 2nd edition London 1894. Cream cloth with colour image of W.G. Grace to front. Padwick 458. Soiling View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£45StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1427 Cricket miscellany 1871-2024. Eight titles, hardbacks unless stated. ‘Cricketers in Council’ by Thomsonby, London 1871, blue cloth with gilt emblem to front. ‘The History of Kennington... with chapters on Cricket Past and Present’, H.H. Montgomery, London 1889, original red cloth. ‘Canterbury Cricket Week 1842-1891’, F. Milton Small, Canterbury 1891, decorative paper wrappers. Two by A.W. Pullin (“Old Ebor”), ‘Talks With Old Yorkshire Cricketers’, Leeds 1898, pictorial stiffened boards, and ‘Tal View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£55StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1428 ‘The Champion Cricketers’ Guide and Companion containing a plan of the cricket field, showing where you are to stand &c’. Published by R. March, London c.1865. Padwick 414 refers to a 32pp booklet and ‘several issues’ of which this 19pp edition plus the plan illustration is one. Tipped in to green cloth with original paper wrappers retained. Bookplates to inside front cover including A.E. Winder. D.R. Allen’s publication ‘With the Bookplate of A.E. Winder’ records Winder having bought this bookl View details Estimates£300 - £500StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1429 ‘The Cricketer’s Hand-book containing The Origin of the Game, Remarks on Recent Alterations...’. New Edition. Robert Tyas, London 1841. Bound in later red cloth, gilt title to spine, original maroon cloth wrappers retained with gilt title and figure of a batsman to front, gilt to all edges. Frontispiece engraving of Lord’s Cricket Ground. Bookplate of J.W. Goldman to inside original front wrapper, and of E.D.R. Eagar to inside later cover. Padwick 377. A very good copy of an early manual on the View details Estimates£300 - £400Winning Bid£460StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1430 ‘Cricket’s Year Book’. Cricket Office, London. 1897-1911. Complete full run of the twelve issues for years 1897 to 1911 bound together as one volume in maroon cloth and marbled board, gilt title to spine, red speckled page edges. All original decorative paper wrappers preserved. Pages checked, complete. Padwick 1058. Bookplate of J.W. Goldman to inside front cover. Foxing to front wrapper of the 1901, old tape repair to torn rear wrapper of the 1904, breaking to page block, some age toning to pa View details Estimates£180 - £250Winning Bid£420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1431 ‘Old English Cricket. A collection of evidences concerning the game prior to the days of Hambledon’. H. P-T (Percy Francis Thomas). A complete set of six original booklets/ pamphlets issued between 1922 and 1929, published by C.H. Richards of Nottingham. The titles, which contain much original research into the origins and early days of cricket, are ‘Cricket’s Cradle’ (published 1923), ‘Early Cricket’ (1923), ‘Old-Time Cricket’ (1924), ‘Cricket’s Prime’ (1925), ‘More Old Cricket’ (1927), and ‘Cr View details Estimates£120 - £160Winning Bid£110StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1432 ‘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£70 - £100Winning Bid£60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1433 ‘The Catalogue of Cricket Literature’. Alfred D. Taylor. Merritt & Hatcher, London, first edition 1906. [v], 115pp interleaved. Rebound in modern green half leather and marbled boards, raised bands and gilt title to spine, original paper wrappers retained. The first comprehensive bibliography of cricket to be published, comprising detailed notes and estimated values of many titles. First published in serial form in ‘Cricket, A Weekly Record of the Game’ in 1906 with supplements in 1907, 1908 and View details Estimates£400 - £600Winning Bid£340StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1434 ‘Ireland’s Gardens [Brighton] and its Cricket Associations’. Alfred D. Taylor. Privately printed 1899. Bound in blue cloth boards with original black limp cloth covers preserved. This was one of fifty uncorrected proof copies produced, ‘Not Printed’ to title page with handwritten annotation ‘Uncorrected Proof Copy No. 36’. Comprises a history of Ireland’s Gardens, being ‘the centre of attraction, the venue for recreation, and a fashionable resort in the early days of Brighton’s history’. Padwick View details Estimates£200 - £300Winning Bid£170StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1435 ‘Lillywhite’s Illustrated Hand-Book of Cricket’. Edited by ‘A Cantab [F. W. Lillywhite]’. Ackermann & Co., Strand, London, and W.H. Mason, Repository of Arts, Brighton 1844. Printed by Thomas Harrild (Late B. Clarke), Printer, Silver St., Falcon Sq. Bound in original green tooled cloth with nice bright gilt title to front. Includes single page engravings of Lillywhite, Fuller Pilch, Thomas Box, and James Cobbett, and fold-out engravings of Roger Kynaston, George Leopold Langdon, Charles George T View details Estimates£1,000 - £1,500Winning Bid£950StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1436 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. Bound in green half calf leather and cloth, raised bands, gilt title and decoration to spine, gilt to top page edges, marbled endpapers. Bookplates of J.W. Goldman to inside front cover and E.D.R. Eagar to front endpaper. The Goldman endplate annotated i View details Estimates£250 - £350Winning Bid£280StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1437 ‘Poems on Several Occasions’, James Love, Comedian (James Dance). Printed by R. Fleming. Third edition, Edinburgh 1754. xvi, 115pp. Pages 1-22 comprise a poem titled ‘Cricket, An Heroic Poem’, considered to be one of the earliest description of a cricket match. Rebound in half calf with marbled boards, raised bands and gilt title label to spine. Bookplate of A.E. Winder to inside front cover. Padwick 6445. Expert repair to title page. Light staining and wear to pages, otherwise in remarkably goo View details Estimates£600 - £900Winning Bid£500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1438 ‘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£1,200 - £1,600StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1439 Cricket poetry and prose. Four hardbacks including two Arrowsmith of Bristol titles in brown cloth, ‘At the Sign of The Wicket’, Edmund B.V. Christian, Bristol 1894, and ‘Cricket Stories: Wise and Otherwise’, C.W. Alcock, Bristol 1901. Sold with ‘The Cricket Match. A Poem in two cantos’, Copthall Chambers, London 1859, rebound in green quarter leather, and ‘Cricket Love & Humour. Tales Told of Balls Bowled’, Walter A. Briscoe, London 1921, ex libris Gerald Brodribb, pictorial stiffened boards. M View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£28StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1440 ‘The Rural Game of Cricket’. University of Reading Museum of English Rural Life 1957. Nine page typescript of the ‘Catalogue of the Temporary Exhibition, August to October 1957’ with introduction written by Diana Rait Kerr, curator of the M.C.C. Collection. The catalogue lists items loaned by the M.C.C., Hal Cohen, E.R. Wilson, Gunn & Moore etc. Rebound in green cloth, gilt title to spine, probably for John Arlott who sold it to A.E. Winder in 1979 with Winder’s bookplate laid down to inside fro View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£28StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1441 ‘The Adventures of a Cricket Ball with the Laws and Practice of Cricket’ by ‘An Old Boy’. London and Tunbridge Wells 1860. Original pictorial green stiffened board covers, later cloth spine with title annotated to spine. vi, 66pp plus advertisements. Illustrated. Comprises an account of ‘Harry’, his romance on the cricket field culminating in marriage, followed by the technique and rules of the game. Ownership signature of C.I.S. Wallace dated 1950 to inside front cover. Padwick 5947. Some wear View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£55StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1442 ‘The Cricket-Bat; and How to Use It: a treatise on the game of Cricket...’. By ‘An Old Cricketer’. Baily Brothers, London 1861. iv, 96pp plus advertisements. Original green morocco covers with gilt illustration to front and tooled decoration, gilt title to spine. Padwick 398. Slight breaking to internal hinges and page block. Fading to spine gilts, some wear to board extremities, internally in good condition. View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£55StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1443 ‘The Cricket-Bat; and How to Use It’. By ‘An Old Cricketer’. Houlston and Wright, second edition, London 1865 ‘Hand Books of Field and River Sports’. viii, 96pp. Original decorative cloth covers with printed title to spine. Sale plate of H.A.L. Cohen to inside front cover. Padwick 398. Breaking to front internal hinges, crease to one internal page. Minor soiling to boards, otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£60 - £90StatusUnsold Lot #1444 ‘Kricket Karicatures from the Evening News by Rip. Season 1896’. Roland Pretty Hill. Published by The Evening News Ltd. 1896. W.G. Grace image to front wrapper. 16pp of caricatures with subjects including ‘”W.G.” Batting’, ‘”W.G.” Fielding’, ‘Johnny on the Job’, ‘Australians at Play’, ‘Ten Little Trotts’, ‘Ranji’ etc. The centre pages depict the England and Australian teams in silhouette, with a later similar page of ‘The Surrey Eleven’. Tipped in to modern green cloth boards, gilt title to spin View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£65StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1445 ‘Percy Cruikshank’s Comic Almanack 1869’. Percy Cruikshank. Read, Brooks & Co., London 1868. 61pp. Bound in modern cloth boards, gilt title to spine, original colour pictorial wrappers retained. p30 features a 20 line poem ‘The Cricket Club. Black-Balling a Member’ with facing full page colour illustration. Illustrated in colour and mono throughout. Padwick 6848-1. Some wear to original wrappers, some age toning, otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£25StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1446 ‘Bona-venture and the Flashing Blade’. Gary [sic] Sobers. London 1967. Original hardback with good dustwrapper. Signed to the title page by Sobers in March 1998. Padwick 6345. Good/ very good condition. Slipped in is an original mono press photograph of Sobers in bowling action for the World XI against Australia, dated 31st December 1971. Signed in black ink to the photograph by Sobers. Central Press Photos, London, 6.5”x4.75”. Very good condition. Qty 2. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£32StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1447 ‘Baxter’s Second Innings. Specially Reported for the- School Eleven’. Henry Drummond. Hodder and Stoughton, London 1892. 58pp. Bound in distinctive and unusual original crushed velour covers in the form of cricket pads. Minor wear and soiling to covers, otherwise in very good condition. Padwick 6942. Sold with one of numerous later editions of the same title in conventional original decorative paper wrappers, issued as ‘The Christmas Gift-Book of The Boys’ Brigade. Christmas, 1899’. Some soiling View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£70StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1448 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. 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. Presentation copy with handwritte View details Estimates£200 - £300StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1449 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. Second edition. London 1850. viii, 58pp plus advertising page to rear, with ten lithograph plates (seven hand-coloured, three mono). Pages checked and complete. Original decorative green cloth covers with gilt titles and cricket scene image to front, page edges gilt. Ownership name in View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£110StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1450 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. Third edition. London 1855. x, 74pp, with seven colour lithograph plates. Original decorative green cloth covers with gilt titles and cricket scene image to front, page edges gilt. Bookplate of J.W. Goldman to inside front cover. Padwick 397. Some wear, staining and soiling to original View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning Bid£120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1451 ‘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£140 - £180StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1452 Cricket biographies. Three hardback titles. ‘The Graces (E.M., W.G. & G.F.)’, A.G. Powell and S. Canynge Caple, London 1948, limited edition no. 905/1000. ‘Well, Well, Wells!’. B.D. ‘Bomber’ Wells. Nottingham 1981. Limited edition 113/500 signed by Wells. Good dust wrapper. ‘Cricket’s Great Characters’, Gordon Ross 1977, limited edition of 300, this copy unnumbered. Good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£25StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1453 J.W. McKenzie facsimile reprints. Three limited edition hardback titles with good dustwrappers. ‘Shaw and Shrewsbury’s Team in Australia 1884-5’ 1885, reprinted 1985, no. 160/200. ‘The Cricketing Record. Major Wharton’s Tour 1888-9’, Charles Cox 1889, reprinted 1987, no. 112/200. ‘With the M.C.C. in Australia 1907-1908’, Major Philip Trevor 1908, reprinted 1999. Very good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£32StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1454 J.W. McKenzie facsimile reprints. Two hardback titles with good dustwrappers. ‘Some Recollections of Cricket’, Lord Charles J.F. Russell 1879, reprinted 1979, limited edition no. 61/100. ‘Curiosities of Cricket... by An Old Cricketer’ 1897, reprinted 1978, limited to 150 copies. Sold with ‘The Art of Nicholas Felix’, Gerald Brodribb 1985, limited edition no. 31/220 signed by the author. Very good condition. Qty 3. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£25StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1455 J.W. McKenzie facsimile reprints. Three hardback titles with good dustwrappers. ‘The Grand Matches of Cricket Played in England from 1771 to 1791’, W. Epps 1799, reprinted 1989. ‘Recollections of Lord’s and the Marylebone Cricket Club’, William H. Slatter 1914, reprinted 1989. ‘The Dawn of Cricket’, H.T. Waghorn 1906, reprinted 2005. Sold with ‘The Rise and Fall of Percy Perrin. Derbyshire v Essex 1904’, John Shawcroft 2000. Very good condition. Qty 4. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£30StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1456 Cricket various. A selection of books and other ephemera. Includes two signed limited edition titles published by Red Rose Books, Lancashire, ‘Johnny Briggs. Ashes century, Ashes hat-trick’, K. Martin Tebay 2006, no. 180/200, and ‘Mine Host at The Mitre. ‘Bobbie Peel at Blackpool, 1905’, Gerry Wolstenholme 2009, no. 81/120, both signed by the author. Other titles include ‘Famous Cricket Clubs’, H.E. Powell-Jones, London 1929. ‘Facts & Figures of Somerset County Cricket Club from 1891-1946’ bookl View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1457 ‘The Edward Mills Grace Collection 2015’. Leather bound limited edition catalogue for the E.M. Grace sale held by Knights on the 4th July 2015. The catalogue is bound in green leather with Grace’s signature in gilt to lower front board, similar to his specially bound Wisdens, and are signed to limitation page by Edward Michael Grace, his great grandson, Edward Matthew Grace, his great, great grandson and auctioneer Tim Knight. They were sold as a limited edition of only twenty five numbered copi View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1458 Gooch’s Golden Summer’. Bill Frindall. Boundary Books, Holmes Chapel 1991. Quarter leather. Limited edition no. 277 of 333 copies published. Signed by Gooch, Frindall and Trevor Bailey who wrote the appreciation. Very good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£95StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1459 ‘A Tale of Two Captains’. Bill Frindall. Boundary Books, Cheshire, 1992. Green quarter leather, marbled endpapers, gilt title to spine, gilt to top page edges, green cloth slip case. Limited edition of 350 copies of which this is number 5. Signed to limitation page by Frindall, Graham Gooch, Ted Dexter and Viv Richards. Very good condition. View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1460 ‘Wisden Cricketers of the Year’. Simon Wilde. London 2013. Green leatherbound limited edition in slipcase, this being number 15 of 150 copies produced. Gilt titles to front cover and spine, gilt to page edges. Signed in ink by the ten listed players of the year, David Gower, Mike Brearley, Brian Close, Derek Underwood, Bob Willis, Ted Dexter, Dennis Amiss, Graham Gooch, Claire Taylor and Andrew Strauss. Very good condition. View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1461 ‘Double Century. The Story of M.C.C. and Cricket’. A.R. Lewis. London, 1987. Bound in red leather, gilt to all page edges, in red cloth slipcase. Limited edition no. 85/100. Signed by Tony Lewis and Colin Cowdrey to limitation label laid down to inside front cover. Gilts to front and spine faded otherwise in very good condition. View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£70StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1462 ‘A Sporting History. The Priory Collection’. David Norrie in Association with the Priory Collection. Privately published 2012. Large format highly illustrated book detailing the comprehensive sporting collection compiled by Nigel Wray. Signed by Wray to the title page. Dustwrapper. Very good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning Bid£45StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1463 ‘The Wisden Book of Test Captains. A Complete Record’. Ted Corbett & Joanne King. London 1991. Hardback with good dustwrapper. Signed in ink throughout to pages by over one hundred Test captains. Signatures include Carr, Dexter, M.J.K. Smith, Close, Graveney, Illingworth, Lewis, Denness, Edrich, Greig, Brearley, Boycott, Botham, Fletcher, Willis, Gower, Gatting (England), Harvey, Ian and Greg Chappell, Hughes, Border, Taylor, Waugh (Australia), Bacher, Kirsten, Pollock, Smith (South Africa), Nun View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£110StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1464 ‘The Commonwealth Book of Cricket No. 3’. Edited by Jim Parks. London 1965. Hardback with dustwrapper. Twenty eight signatures to front endpaper and to pages of England, West Indies and New Zealand Test and County players. Signatures include Gifford, Parks, Graveney, Dexter, Close, M.J.K. Smith, Snow, Arnold, Harman, Pocock, Fletcher, M. Griffith, Thomson, Lenham (England), C. Griffith, Hall, Sobers, Ramadhin (West Indies), Reid (New Zealand) etc. Some duplication of signatures. Odd faults to du View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£55StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1465 ‘The Fight for the Ashes 2001’. Jonathan Rice. London 2001. Hardback with good dustwrapper. Over forty signatures to endpapers and to pages of members of the England and Australia teams. Signatures include Hussain, Afzaal, Stewart, White, Tudor, Trescothick, Butcher, Ramprakash, Atherton, Thorpe, Caddick, Gough (England), S. Waugh, Gilchrist, Gillespie, Ponting, Martyn, Lee, Langer, McGrath, Hayden, Slater, Warne, Katich (Australia) etc. Odd duplication of signatures. Very good condition. View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1466 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£100 - £150StatusUnsold Lot #1467 ‘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£50 - £80Winning Bid£30StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1468 ‘Cricket Grounds then and now’. William A. Powell 1994. The book has been signed in black pen, mainly to the applicable county ground pages by over 200 players, the odd signature on paper piece and laid down. Signatures include Cork, Malcolm, Willey, Hendrick, Bolus, Barnett, H. Gibbs, S. Campbell, Harmison, D. Jones, Maynard, Croft, Jones, Nash, Such, Gooch, M. Waugh, Hussain, J. Rhodes, C. Broad, Russell, Thorpe, Ramprakash, Butcher, Clarke, S. Katich, Crawley, G. Jones, Muralitharan, A. Symon View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£90StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1469 ‘Ashes to Ashes’. Andrew Flintoff. London 2009. Original hardback with very good dustwrapper. Nicely signed in black pen to the front endpaper by fourteen members of the England team who won the 2009 Ashes series. Signatures are Strauss (Captain), Flower (Coach), Cook, Bopara, Pietersen, Prior, Collingwood, Broad, Swann, Anderson, Onions, Bell, Trott and Panesar. Lacking two listed signatures of Flintoff and Harmison. Very good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1470 Signed cricket biographies and histories. Forty nine titles in two boxes, the majority hardbacks with the odd softback. Sixteen titles are signed by the author/ subject. Titles and signatures include ‘Cricket in the Blood’, Dudley Nourse, London 1949. ‘On Tour with Bradman’, Andy Flanagan, Sydney 1950, signed by Flanagan and Len Hutton to whom the copy was presented. ‘Parson’s Pitch’, David Sheppard, London 1964 (signature on label laid down). ‘The Trevor Goddard Story’, Trevor Goddard, Durban 1 View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£55StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1471 ‘Barclays World of Cricket. The Game from A to Z’. E.W. ‘Jim’ Swanton. New edition, London 1980. Handsomely bound in full green leather, raised bands and gilts to spine. Presentation copy with handwritten dedication to ‘Hugh M-M. Whose idea and subsequent dedication made such an invaluable contribution to our book’. Signed by Swanton and dated June 1981. Minor rubbing to spine and slight splitting to front hinge, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Sold with ‘Pageant of Cricket’, David Frith View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£20StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1472 Cricket books. Large box of cricket books including biographies, histories, annuals etc. Good selection including ‘A Cricketer’s Yarns’ R. Daft 1926, ‘The Game of Cricket’ Lonsdale Library (1930) with tatty dustwrapper, ‘History of Cricket’. Eric Parker with good dustwrapper, Play fair Cricket Annual 1948 (1st) to 1952, 1954, 1955 and 1957, biographies include Hammond, Lindwall, Hutton, Illingworth, Bradman etc. Qty 55. Good condition View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£25StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1473 Cricket and sporting books. Selection of twenty one books including ‘Annals of Cricket’. W.W. Read. Sampson Low, London 1896. Original quarter vellum over dark green boards, gilt title to spine. Contents on hand-made paper, rough edges. Top edge gilt. This is the limited edition version lacking its limited edition page and signature, ‘World of Cricket. Fifty Years of Cricket. England v Australia, Colony v Colony 1856-1895, Records etc of the Cricket Field’. F.J. Ironside 1895. Published by W. Dy View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£12StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1474 Cricket tours, histories and biographies 1890s onwards. Three boxes comprising over eighty titles including some early first edition hardback biographies and histories, some signed, plus later yearbooks, annuals etc. Includes three titles signed by Garry Sobers, ‘Sir Gary[sic]’, Trevor Bailey, London 1976. ‘Sobers. The Changing Face of Cricket’, Garfield Sobers, London 1996. ‘Six of the Best. Cricket’s most famous over’, Grahame Lloyd, Cardiff 2008, signed by Sobers and Lloyd. Others signed by t View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£65StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1475 ‘Frederick Lillywhite’s [& M.C.C.] Cricket Scores And Biographies Of Celebrated Cricketers’. Complete run of twenty hardback reprints of the original volumes covering the period 1746-1854. Published by Roger Heavens. Comprises Volumes I-XV, continuing with ‘Arthur Haygarth’s Cricket Scores and Biographies’, Vols. XVI-XX. Cambridge 1996-2016. Limited editions, Vols. I-XVII each of 500 numbered copies, Vols. XVIII-XX limited to 175 and signed by Heavens, various limitation numbers. Vols. XV-XX wit View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£150StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1476 Association of Cricket Statisticians publications. Good run of thirty five ‘Famous Cricketers Series’ booklets comprising numbers 2, 3, 15-25, 28-44, 46-63, 76 and 82-98. Subjects include Ponsford, Merchant, Weekes, Hill, Bradman, Walcott, Worrell, Compton, Sobers, Grace, Parr, Spofforth, Giffen, Woodfull, Crawford, Jessop, Taylor, Jackson, Valentine, Perrin, Goddard etc. Includes one duplicate of no. 40, Harvey. Minor rubbing to some wrappers, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Qty 67. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£20StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1477 ‘British Sports and Sportsmen Past and Present’. Compiled and edited by ‘The Sportsman’. London 1908. Volumes 1 & 2. Original green and beige cloth boards. Gilt titles to fronts and spines, gilt to top page edges. Comprises a series of large portraits with biographical details of famous sportsmen including cricketers, Parr, Briggs, Daft, Emmett, Hawke, Jupp etc. Volume 1 with some breaking to internal hinges. Minor wear to boards, otherwise internally in good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£30StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1478 ‘The Cricket Quarterly. A Journal devoted to the Noble Game of Cricket’ 1963-1970. Edited by Rowland Bowen. Eastbourne & Mullion, Cornwall. Complete run of the journal uniformly bound in eight volumes with all title pages, forewords and indices, each in blue cloth boards with gilt titles to spines, lacking original card wrappers. Padwick 1195. Slipped in is a photocopied page of ‘Late Addenda and Errata’ issued as a supplement to Vol. 8, No. 4. Some fading to the spine of Vol. VII, otherwise in View details Estimates£130 - £160Winning Bid£220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1479 ‘The Guide to Cricketers containing full directions for playing the noble and manly game of Cricket....’ London 1852. 5th Edition. 8vo. Collected and edited by Frederick Lillywhite. Published by W.&T. Piper of London. Printed by W.H. Crockford. Bound in brown half leather with marbled boards with original wrappers and advertising pages, with title in gilt to spine. 104pp. Bookplate to front end paper. Minor age toning to wrappers otherwise in good/very good condition. Rare View details Estimates£300 - £500Winning Bid£380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1480 ‘Great Batsmen Their Methods at a Glance’ and ‘Great Bowlers and Fielders Their Methods at a Glance’. George W. Beldam and Charles B. Fry. London 1905 and 1906. Both volumes in original green cloth with gilt illustrations to fronts and gilt titles to spines, gilt to top edges. Padwick 687 & 721. ‘Great Batsmen’ with age toning to spine, breaking to page block. Both titles with nicks to spines, some wear to extremities and wrinkling to boards. Other odd minor faults, overall in generally good con View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1481 ‘Beyond a Boundary’. C.L.R. James. First edition, London 1963. Original hardback in cloth boards, gilt to spine, lacking dustwrapper. Odd pencil annotations. Very good condition. View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1482 ‘The Laws of Cricket’. Cricket Press Series. Three editions, each in original paper wrappers. Issues are 1912 ‘1st year of publication’, 1924, and ‘Revised to date 1937. 66th year of publication’. The 1924 front wrapper detached with some wear and loss, lacking rear wrapper. Padwick 195. Sold with two further similar Cricket Press Series booklets, ‘The Laws of Rugby Football. 68th Year of Publication’, and ‘Rules of Hockey. 63rd Year of Publication’. Rusting to staples, some ageing and minor sta View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£25StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1483 London City cricket clubs. Two club histories, ‘Coutts’ Cricket Club 1860-1960’ compiled by Malcolm Dawkins, published by the Club 1960, limited to 100 copies. Illustrated with real photographs laid to pages. Blue cloth, gilt title to front. Bookplate of A.E. Winder to inside front cover. Padwick 1323. ‘A happy memory of Cricket. 100 years of cricket at Lloyd’s Register [1882-1982]’, Denis Kidd, Crawley 1982. Original decorative card wrappers. Minor wear to covers, otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£50 - £80StatusUnsold Lot #1484 ‘Marylebone Cricket Club Valuation for Insurance. Draft Copy’. Christie, Manson & Woods, October 2004. 107pp followed by an additional five pages of ‘Comments on the Draft Valuation... of the books in the M.C.C. Library’. Listings include references to Epps’ ‘Collection of the Grand Matches’ valued at £12,000 and £14,000, Britcher’s ‘A Complete List’ at £80,000 etc. Bound in cloth boards in M.C.C. colours of red and yellow with gilt emblem to front. Only three copies in this extended format are View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£70StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1485 ‘The Life of the Hon. Robert Grimston’. Frederick Gale. Longmans, Green & Co., London 1885. xii, 322pp. Bound in original blue cloth, gilt title ‘Memoir of the Hon. Robert Grimston’ to spine. Laid down frontispiece photograph of Grimston. Annotation in ink to half title page in Gale’s own hand ‘Bequeathed to F.N. Richardson’. Tipped in is a four page letter (front page detached) from Gale, dated 7th October 1884, apparently to Henry Richardson, acknowledging his contribution to the book, and who View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£30StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1486 ‘Catalogue of Cricket Books and Pictures’. Rev. Robert Stratton Holmes. A unique catalogue, handwritten in ink, of the extensive collection of books and pictures acquired by Holmes from the 1880s until his death in 1933. The catalogue comprises two small notebooks bound together in one volume in cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Laid down to the front cover is a title label handwritten in ink by George Neville Weston who was given the book by Holmes’ son when Weston bought some of the collectio View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning Bid£600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1487 ‘The Book of Sports, Athletic Exercises, and Amusements’. William Martin. First edition, Darton and Clark, London 1840. iv, 238pp. Illustrated with eighteen wood-engraved plates. Rebound in quarter calf with marbled boards, raised bands and gilt title label to spine. Lacking original wrappers. pp 83-104 on the practice and laws of cricket. Padwick 7129. Some engravings faded. Foxing to some pages, otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£20StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1488 ‘Sports and Pastimes’. Verses by Robert Overton. ‘Designed in England. Printed in Germany’ c.1900. Comprises title page followed six single-sided pages printed on card comprising humorous poems covering rowing, hunting, football, coaching, fishing, driving, bathing, racing, cricket and tennis, with attractive colour illustrations throughout. Three small holes to page edges where previously bound, the title has been tipped in to modern blue cloth, gilt title to spine, with original colour pictori View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1489 ‘Famous Cricket Teams Photos...’. R. Scott & Co., Manchester 1899-1905. Six booklets out of seven known to have been produced, each of 16pp, comprising mono printed photographs of teams and some with additional individual players. Three issues are numbered to the original decorative paper wrappers (with varying titles), some of which feature an individual player to the front. Issues appear to be No. 1 1899 ‘Photos of the Principal County Cricket Teams and the Australians’, ‘No. 2’ 1900, ‘Photo A View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1490 ‘Famous Cricketers’. R. Scott & Co., Manchester c.1905-1905. Three issues, the first published c.1903, 24pp with white pictorial wrappers with image of C.B. Fry to front, inside pages with individual portraits including Jackson, Jessop, Maclaren, Braund, Quaife, Hirst, Wood, Mason, Trumper etc. with additional text and statistics. Another c.1905 (dated 1906 to spine), 16pp in slightly smaller format, green pictorial wrappers with George Hirst to front and ornately decorated portrait pages to ins View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£130StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1491 Horse Racing. ‘Burgh Barony Races 1883’. Original and early racecard and entry ticket for the meeting held at the racecourse on the Lowther Estate near Penrith on Tuesday and Wednesday 28th and 29th August 1883. The racecard with some wear, age toning, folds and nicks to edges. The yellow entry ticket for the first day’s admission to the No.1 Grandstand and the Paddock Enclosure. The ticket with slight signs of wear, adhesive marks to reverse of the ticket otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£85StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1492 Horse Racing. ‘Sandown Park Club. December Meeting 1883’. Original and early racecard for the meeting held at the Surrey racecourse on 6th, 7th and 8th December 1883. The racecard with some wear, age toning and folds otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£38StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Items per page 102550100 Previous|1...1011121314151617|Next1234567891011121314151617 Previous 1234567891011121314151617 Next Previous 1234567891011121314151617 Next
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