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Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1933. 70th edition. Original hardback. Some general wear to boards and spine, dulling to gilt titles on front board and spine otherwise in good/very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1936. 73rd edition. Original hardback. Dulling to gilt titles on the spine paper, name of ownership handwritten to the yellow title page at the front otherwise in good/very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1936. 73rd edition. Original hardback. Some very minor wear and small amount of wrinkling to boards and spine, slight bumping to corners otherwise in good/very good condition, internally very good... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1937. 74th edition. Original hardback. Wear wear to boards and extremities, some dulling to the gilt titles on the front board, the gilt titles on the spine paper appear to have been retouched, fading and discolouration to parts of the spine paper and rear board due to damp sometime in its past, old damp staining to the last few pages of the book otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1938. 75th edition. Original hardback. Wear to boards and spine paper, dulling to gilt titles, breaking to front internal hinge, wear to head and base of spine paper, some soiling to page block otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1939. 76th edition. Original hardback. Dulled gilt titles to spine paper, some breaking to the front internal hinge otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1947 to 1949 and 1954. Original hardback editions. The 1947 and 1948 editions with browning to pages, the 1947 with dulling to gilt titles, the 1948 edition with a crease to the spine paper, the 1949 edition with some slight breaking to internal hinges and dulling to gilt titles on the spine and the 1954 edition with dulling to gilt titles, odd minor faults otherwise all four in good condition. Qty 4... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1950, 1953 and 1955. Original hardback editions. The 1950 edition with some wear and bumping to lower corners of boards, marks to rear, the 1953 edition with some dulling to gilt titles on the spine and the 1955 edition with odd very minor faults otherwise all three in good/very good condition. Qty 3... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1953, 1960, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1968 and 1972.Original hardback editions. All books lacking dustwrappers with the exception of the 1965. The 1953 edition in only fair condition, the remaining six books in good condition. Qty 7... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1956. Original hardback. Small amount of staining to the top of the page block edge otherwise in good/very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1957. Original hardback. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1958. Original hardback. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1959. Original hardback. Exceptional condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1960, 1981 to 2022. Original hardback editions with dustwrappers where applicable. The 1960 edition with light wear to the front internal hinge otherwise in good/very good condition. Sold with the run from 1981 to 2022, plus duplicate hardback editions for 2005 and 2010 and softback editions for 1994, 1995 and 1996. Some age toning to dustwrapper spines, minor wear otherwise in overall good+ condition. Sold with ‘The Little Wonder. The Remarkable History... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1960. Original hardback. Very good/excellent condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1961. Original hardback. Very good/excellent condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1966 and 1967. Original hardback editions with dustwrapper. Odd very minor faults to the dustwrappers otherwise in good/very condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1968 and 1969. Original hardback editions with dustwrapper. Odd very minor faults to the dustwrappers otherwise in good/very condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1970 and 1973. Original hardback editions with dustwrapper. Odd faults to the dustwrappers otherwise in good/very condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1971. Original hardback with dustwrapper. Very good/ excellent condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1979 to 1995. Original hardback editions with dustwrapper. Odd faults to dustwrapper edges otherwise in good/very good condition. Qty 17... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1972 to 1974 and 1976 to 2000. Original hardback editions with dustwrapper. Generally good/very good condition throughout. Sold with ‘The Little Wonder. The Remarkable History of Wisden’. Robert Winder, London 2013, ‘An Index to Wisden 1864-1984’. Compiled by Derek Barnard, London 1985 and a selection of replacement replica dustwrappers for 1946 to 1964, produced by ‘Sportspages’. Thirty two books in total... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1976 to 2022. Original hardback editions with dustwrappers where applicable with the exception of the 1981, 1988, 1997 and 2001 editions which are cloth covered editions. Also includes a additional softback edition of 2002 as well as a hardback. Good condition. Qty 48... View full lot details

‘The Jubilee Book of Cricket’. K.S. Ranjitsinhji. Edinburgh 1897. Limited edition of 350 copies signed by Ranjitsinhji, this being number 80. Hand made paper, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Original vellum board covers. Bookplate of the sports journalist and author, Gordon Ross, to front endpaper. Padwick 467. Soiling to covers, internally in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Indian Cricketers’ Tour of 1911’. Published by H.C. Muckerjee of Calcutta. Printed by E.G. Pearson for the Times Press, Bombay. Bound in original card covers with title printed to centre of the front cover. Presentation copy with ink annotation to title page, ‘Presented, with compliments, to the Editor of the “The Sportsman” for favour of review. H.C. Mukerji’. Laid down printed photograph of “The Combined Teams” to frontispiece. Minor wear and age toning to... View full lot details

‘Who’s Who in Indian Cricket’. Edited by Syed M.H. Maqsood. 1st edition, New Delhi 1940. Printed at the Caxton Press, New Delhi. [vii] 132pp. Original stiffened boards and cloth spine. Padwick 3819. Ownership stamp of ‘V. Pattabhiraman’ to pages. Worm damage and wear to boards and pages, otherwise in fair/ good condition.... View full lot details

‘Who’s Who in Indian Cricket’. Edited by Syed M.H. Maqsood. 2nd edition, New Delhi 1942. Printed at the Caxton Press, New Delhi. [v] 116pp. Original stiffened boards and cloth spine. Padwick 3819. Worm damage and wear to boards and pages, loss to spine, some breaking to internal hinges, otherwise in fair condition.... View full lot details

‘Who’s Who in Indian Cricket’. Edited by Syed M.H. Maqsood. 4th edition ‘1944-45’ , Delhi 1945. Printed at Model Press, Delhi. [vi] 96pp. Original stiffened boards and cloth spine. Padwick 3819. Worm damage and wear to boards and pages. Breaking to internal hinges and page block, otherwise in fair/ good condition.... View full lot details

‘Who’s Who in Indian Cricket’. Edited by Syed M.H. Maqsood. 5th edition ‘1945-46’ , Delhi 1946. Printed at The Model Press, Delhi. [xvi] 71pp. Original stiffened boards and cloth spine. Padwick 3819. Ownership stamps of ‘V. Pattabhiraman, Advocate, Madras’ throughout. Some worm damage to boards and pages, minor age toning. Slight breaking to rear internal hinge, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘Who’s Who in Indian Cricket’. Edited by Syed M.H. Maqsood. 6th (final) edition ‘1947’ , Delhi 1947. Printed at The Model Press, Delhi. [viii] 78pp. Original stiffened boards and cloth spine. Padwick 3819. Minor worm damage to boards and pages. Wear and soiling to boards and small loss to spine. Some breaking to internal hinges, otherwise in fair/ good condition.... View full lot details

Indian cricket 1960s-1970s. A selection of Indian publications including a small brochure for the ‘Laying of the Foundation Stone’ for the new Cricket Stadium at Chepauk, Madras, 8th February 1971, published by the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association. Official brochure for the ‘Mercantile Cricket Association visit of All India State Bank Cricket Team [to Ceylon] 1966’ with accompanying typed letter to Irving Rosenwater. Board of Control for Cricket in India ‘43rd Annual Report and Statement of... View full lot details

‘The Story of the Tests’. S.K. Gurunathan. Madras 1961-1964. Volumes I-III. Original pictorial wrappers. Vol. I, India v England 1932-1959, Vol. II, v Australia & West Indies and Vol. III v Pakistan, New Zealand & England 1961-1964. Minor wear to spines, otherwise in good condition. Sold with ‘India Cricketers’, S.K. Roy, third edition, Calcutta 1946, original decorative boards, and ‘Cricket Delightful’, Mushtaq Ali, Calcutta 1967. Hardback, dustwrapper with tear. Good condition. Qty 5.... View full lot details

‘A History of Indian Cricket’. Mihir Bose. London 1990. Hardback with good dustwrapper. Signed to the title and other early pages by twelve members of the 2002 touring party to England and ten others. Signatures include Venkataraghavan, Chandrasekhar, Mushtaq Ali, Wadekar, Abbas Ali Baig, Engineer, Solkar, Gavaskar, Mankad, Yajurvindra Singh, Dravid, Kumble, Tendulkar, Mongia, Sehwag, Laxman, Ganguly, Harbhajan Singh etc. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Revival of Sport in Barbados: A Complete Chronicle of the Intercolonial Cricket Tournament, 1920, Barbados vs. Trinidad and Barbados Turf Club Races 16th-17th February 1920’. Barbados Advocate 1920. 60pp plus advertising pages. Original pictorial front wrapper, lacking rear, bound in green boards with title in gilt to spine. The front wrapper with wear to extremities, small loss to corners, odd page to the rear with corner loss, the last page with wear to extremities... View full lot details

Pakistan. Two titles. ‘Pakistan’s Book of Cricket Records’, compiled by Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Rawalpindi 1971. Original decorative paper wrappers. Presentation copy to Irving Rosenwater, signed by the compiler, dated 13th August 1974. Small tear to gutter of first page, otherwise in good/ very good condition. ‘Cricket in Pakistan’, Syed M.H. Maqsood, ‘second’ edition (actually third), Karachi 1954, cloth covers with handwritten title to spine. Some soiling to boards, age toning to pages, otherwise in good... View full lot details

‘West Indies Cricket History and Cricket Tours to England 1900, 1906 and 1923 including matches in Scotland, Ireland and Wales’. By the Editor of the “Sporting Chronicle”. Lloyd S. Smith. Yuille’s Printerie, 15 Chacon Street, Port of Spain, Trinidad 1922. 240pp. Original decorative front wrapper, lacking original rear wrapper. Loss to the lower right hand corner of the front wrapper and title page otherwise in good condition. Bound in navy blue moroccan leather boards by... View full lot details

Intercolonial Cricket Tournament 1925. Trinidad, Barbados, British Guiana. Report & details of play’. The Daily Argosy, Printers. Georgetown. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. Post tournament. Padwick 3693. Inscription to top border of front wrapper E.T. Nelson ... from W.G.B. 1926. Some wear, corner creasing and soiling to front wrapper, some rusting to staples otherwise in good condition. Previously sold as part of lot 374 at the Christie’s sale of ‘The Guy Curry Cricket Library’ 2006. A... View full lot details

Leeward Islands Cricket Tournament, 1927.... Complete details by Beresford Browne’. Matches: Antigua v St. Kitts, Dominica v Montserrat and final match Antigua v Dominica. Compiled and published for the Antigua Cricket Tournament Publications Association, [1928]. 8vo. 41pp plus advertising pages. Padwick 3729. Post-tournament publication bound in green buckram, preserving original pink printed wrappers. Minor tear to front wrapper, minor wear to wrapper extremities, Ex Arlott, A.E. Winder bookplate to inside from board. Previously sold as... View full lot details

‘Inter-Colonial Cricket Tournament, 1927. 18th Contest, played at Kensington Oval, Barbados, January-February 1927’. J. Wynford Gibbons. Globe Office. Small 8vo. 20pp. Bound in red buckram, wrappers preserved. post-tournament. Padwick 3696. Good condition. Ex Arlott, A.E. Winder bookplate to inside from board. Previously sold as part of lot 372 at the Christie’s sale of ‘The Guy Curry Cricket Library’ 2006. Scarce... View full lot details

Intercolonial Cricket Tournament 1929. Played at Bourda, Georgetown, B.G. Sept-Oct 1929’. Reprinted from The Daily Chronicle, Printers. Georgetown. 8vo. Original printed wrappers, minor signature in ink to top border of front wrapper. Post tournament. Padwick 3697. Some rusting to staples otherwise in good/very good condition. A rare tournament publication... View full lot details

Intercolonial Cricket Tournament 1936. Twenty-Fourth Contest. Barbados: Advocate Co, 1936. J.M. Hewitt and W.B. Millar 8vo. 22p. and 3 advertising pages with pink wrappers, bound in green buckram boards with gilt titles to spine, a post-tournament publication. Complimentary copy from W.B. Millar, signed and dated 3rd March 1936, and inscribed in ink: “I shall be happy at any time to supply you with information relative to the game in these parts ...” on blank page.... View full lot details

Australia v West Indies ‘Tied Test’ 1960/61. ‘The Greatest Test of All’. J.H. Fingleton. London 1961. Hardback with dustwrapper. Signed to the title page by six players who took part in the famous tied 1st Test at Brisbane, 9th- 14th December 1960. Signatures are Richie Benaud, Neil Harvey and Bob Simpson of Australia, and West Indians Cammie Smith, Peter Lashley and Conrad Hunte. Some wear and old tape repairs to dustwrapper, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘A Souvenir of To-day’s Test Match. Europeans vs Ceylonese. 6th March 1925. Small souvenir with pictorial wrappers featuring the two captains, Major Brooke and V.S. de Kretser. Published by Lipton, Limited. 24pp. Some age toning to wrappers otherwise in good/very good condition. Bookplate of J.W. Goldman to inside front wrapper. A rare souvenir... View full lot details

‘The Cricket Guide’. Mohummud Abdullah Khan. Lucknow, The Royal Printing Press 1891. Small 8vo. 28pp. Full-page diagram of fielding positions, errata slip on folding green paper. First and only edition. ‘Intended for the use of young players, containing a short but comprehensive account of the game, embracing all the important rules and directions nicely arranged in due succession. Original printed pink wrappers. Bound in red cloth boards for F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Slight sun fading to upper... View full lot details

‘The Auckland Cricketers’ Trip to the South. A complete history of the late successful tour of the Auckland representatives to Christchurch, Dunedin, Wellington and Nelson’. W.F. Buckland [See update below]. Auckland, New Zealand. E.Wayte, Bookseller, Queen Street. Printed by Reed and Brett. 1874. 8vo, pp(3),4-58 and eight advertising pages with buff printed paper wrappers. The covers have faded from the original pink and are a little spotted, small portions are missing from the edges... View full lot details

‘The Auckland Cricketers’ Trip to the South. A complete history of the late successful tour of the Auckland representatives to Christchurch, Dunedin, Wellington and Nelson’. W.F. Buckland. Auckland, New Zealand. E.Wayte, Bookseller, Queen Street. Printed by Reed and Brett. 1874. 8vo, pp(3),4-58. A bound photocopy of the original book, lacking the eight advertising pages Bound in red boards with gilt titles to front board. This appears to be a copy taken from the Auckland Public... View full lot details

‘Cricket Notes by “Not Out”. Interprovincial Cricket Matches’. (New Zealand. Canterbury v Otago). Christchurch, New Zealand Printed by ‘The Press’ Company, Limited, Cashel Street 1879. 8vo, pp(3),4-31. With the original pink front wrapper, lacking the rear. Page 30 has been separately printed at the time and stuck down to the rear of page 29. small repairs and conservation to the edges of the wrapper, repair to bottom corner, and title page, also with a repair... View full lot details

‘New Zealand Cricket’. Two hardback volumes by T.W. Reese covering 1841-1914 and 1914-1933, published Christchurch 1927 and Auckland 1937. Vol. 1 in original green cloth, titles to front and spine with silver fern emblem to spine. Vol. 2 in red cloth with good original dustwrapper. Padwick 3751. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Rules of the New Zealand Cricket Council and Roll of Honor 1895 to 1913’. Small official handbook issued by the New Zealand Cricket Council for season 1913/14 comprising list of officers, rules for the Plunkett Challenge Shield and Heathcote Williams Challenge Shield competitions, representative teams roll of honour, match and player statistics etc. Bound in original black leather with gilt title and name ‘J.H. Watts’ to front cover. Does not appear to be listed in... View full lot details

‘The Australian Cricketers’ Tour through Australia, New Zealand, and Great Britain’ containing a full racy account of the matches, dinners, excursions &c in which they have been engaged. by Argus (P.E. Reynolds) 1878. 8vo. Original printed pictorial purple wrappers featuring Spofforth to centre. The book rather crudely bound to spine, loss to wrapper extremities at front and rear, some rounding to wrapper and page corners, slight soiling to title page and last advertising page otherwise... View full lot details

‘World of Cricket. Fifty Years of Cricket. England v Australia, Colony v Colony 1856-1895, Records etc of the Cricket Field’. F.J. Ironside. 3rd Edition 1895. Published by W. Dymock, Sydney 1895. Printed by McCarron, Stewart & Co., Sydney. Original decorative wrappers in poor and fragile condition, old tape repairs to spine, foxing to pages, overall in fair condition.... View full lot details

‘England versus Combined Australia. Illustrated official souvenir, Sydney, 1897. Landscape format booklet published immediately prior to the first Test in Sydney, containing biographies and pen pictures of the thirteen members of Stoddart’s touring party, nineteen Australian players, articles, advertising etc. Bound in blue cloth, lacking original wrappers. Padwick 4419. Some ageing and expert repairs to page spines, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘Our Cricketers Past & Present’. Published by A.D. Jones 1897. Collection of six scarce booklets parts I-VI and the ‘Special Australian Number’, part VII, featuring the Australian’s 1896. With twenty four black and white photographs of individual players and teams to each copy. Bound in cloth boards as one without original wrappers. Some damage and wear to boards otherwise appears complete and in good condition. Sold with three hardback titles in original cloth boards. ‘Alfred... View full lot details

‘Cricket. Full Scores made in Test Matches between England and Australia 1877 to 1902’. Compiled by ‘Umpire’ (A.A. Ambridge). Published by Ambridge, New Plymouth, New Zealand 1902. 60pp, illustrated. Original paper wrappers. Padwick 4355. Wrappers split at spine and almost detached, otherwise in good condition. Very rare.... View full lot details

Arthur Mailey. ‘Mailey’s Googlies. County and Test Cricket Sketches by the Great Australian Bowler’. Graphic Publications. London 1921. Tipped in to modern brown cloth, original pictorial covers retained. Minor ageing and wear, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

The Ashes. England v Australia 1926-2009. Box comprising twenty titles, the majority hardbacks. One title signed, ‘Collins’s Men’, A.E.R. Gilligan, London 1926, signed to the front endpaper in ink by Gilligan. Fading to spine. Other earlier titles include ‘Gilligan’s Men’, M.A. Noble, London 1925, wear to covers, splitting to spine. ‘Cricket. The Tests of 1930’, P.G.H. Fender, London 1930, dustwrapper with some loss. ‘Australia 55’, Alan Ross, London 1955, attractive and good dustwrapper. ‘Defending the... View full lot details

Arthur Mailey. ‘Cricket Sketches for the 1928-1929 Tests’. W.C. Penfold & Co. Sydney 1928. Bound in to modern blue cloth, lacking original pictorial covers. 20pp comprising cartoons featuring players in the lead up to the 1928/29 Ashes tour with printed full page image of Archie Jackson. Padwick 4457. Wear with small damage to the title page, minor spotting and soiling otherwise in good condition. A rarer Mailey booklet.... View full lot details

‘Bodyline’. ‘Cricket Sketches and Short Stories, by the Australian Googly Bowler 1932-1933’. Arthur Mailey. Sydney 1933. 31pp. Tipped in to modern navy cloth with excellent original pictorial wrappers retained. Profusely illustrated. Issued during the M.C.C. 1932-33 ‘Bodyline’ tour of Australia. Signature in ink of Mailey on piece laid down to inside of the outer cover. Padwick 6881. Some foxing to wrappers and pages, otherwise in good/ very good condition. A rare item.... View full lot details

‘Beyond Ten Thousand. My Life Story’. Allan Border. Nedlands W.A. 1993. Hardback with good dustwrapper. Signed to the title page by Border and to the facing page by ten Australian players. Signatures are Dean Jones, Geoff Marsh, Graham Yallop, Tony Dodemaide, Keith Stackpole, Ray Jordon, Steve Rixon, Paul Sheehan, Jeff Thomson and Geoff Lawson. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Argentine Cricket Tour, Brazil 1953’. Edited by C.T. Nash. Rio de Janeiro: 1953. 8vo. Green buckram boards, preserving original pictorial wrappers. Includes includes an account of previous Argentine tours in Brazil. [John Arlott]. A.E. Winder bookplate to inside front board. Padwick 5755. Good/very good condition. A scarce tour book. Previously sold as lot 254 at the Christie’s sale of ‘The Guy Curry Cricket Library’ 2006... View full lot details

‘Cricket in Perth 1827-1921’. History of the Perthshire Cricket Club. James Barlas, Perth, 1921. Original souvenir brochure stamped ‘Prize draw No. 4172’ to front cover. Original decorative paper wrappers. Padwick no. 3285. Light vertical fold, minor ageing to wrappers otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

Scottish Cricket Histories. Four titles including three in original cloth boards. ‘Guide to the Cricket Ground’, George H. Selkirk, London 1867. ‘Drumpellier Cricket Club 1850 to 1906’, John Thomson, Airdrie 1908. Signed bookplate of B.J. Wakley to inside front cover. ‘Annals of Brechin Cricket 1849-1927’, Alfred O’Neill, Brechin 1927. Also one softback, ‘The Bicentenary of Cricket in Scotland 1785- 1985’, C.M. Roberts, Clackmannan 1985. Minor wear to board extremities, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘John Lawrence’s Handbook of Cricket in Ireland’ 1865-1866. First Number (issue). Compiled and edited by J.T.H.[Hurford]. Lawrence, Dublin. Original paper wrappers laid down to boards with replacement spine. Signed bookplate of B.J. Wakley to inside front cover. Padwick 3315. Wear and soiling to original wrappers, internally in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘John Lawrence’s Handbook of Cricket in Ireland’ 1866-1867. Second Number (issue). Compiled and edited by J.T.H. [Hurford]. Lawrence, Dublin. Bound in modern green boards, gilt titles to front and spine, original decorative wrappers retained. Padwick 3315. Minor and staining to original front wrapper, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘John Lawrence’s Handbook of Cricket in Ireland’ 1868-1869. Fourth Number (issue). Compiled and edited by J.T.H. [Hurford]. Lawrence, Dublin. Bound in modern green boards, gilt title label ‘1868’ to spine, original decorative wrappers retained. Padwick 3315. Original wrappers somewhat grubby, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘John Lawrence’s Handbook of Cricket in Ireland’ 1869-1870. Fifth Number (issue). Compiled and edited by J.T.H. [Hurford]. Lawrence, Dublin. Padwick 3315. Bound in modern green boards, gilt titles to front and spine, original decorative wrappers retained. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘John Lawrence’s Handbook of Cricket in Ireland’ 1874-75. Tenth Number (issue). Compiled and edited by J.T.H. [Hurford]. Original tooled green cloth with gilt title to front. Padwick 3315. Some wear to board and spine extremities, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘John Lawrence’s Handbook of Cricket in Ireland’ 1877-78. Thirteenth Number (issue). Compiled and edited by J.T.H. [Hurford]. Original stiffened decorative card covers. Bookplate of Anthony Woodhouse to front endpaper. Padwick 3315. Front and rear covers both detached with old tape, wear to spine. Internally in good condition.... View full lot details

‘John Lawrence’s Handbook of Cricket in Ireland’ 1878-79. Fourteenth Number (issue). Compiled and edited by J.T.H. [Hurford]. Original tooled green cloth with gilt titles to front and later(?) title label to spine. Padwick 3315. Very minor wear to board extremities, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘A Short Account of the Origin of the Kilkenny Cricket Club, and of its Proceedings in the years 1830-1831’. James Butler, Marquess of Ormonde. Printed by Poulter of London, 1832. Published to celebrate Kilkenny’s two victories over Lord Dunlo’s neighbouring team of Ballinasloe, comprising full scores of the matches and concluding with a poem, ‘A Paean of Triumphal Rhymes’. Handsomely rebound in later brown half morocco with marbled boards, gilt title to spine and gilt... View full lot details

‘Nederlandsche Cricket Bond. 1883-1933’. ‘Gedenkboek Uitgegeven Ter Gelegenheid Van Het Vijftigjarig Bestaan Van Den Nederlandschen Cricket Bond. 1883 30th September 1933’. 317pp. Original maroon cloth with gilt titles to front and spine. Illustrated with additional 40pp of photoplates to rear. Souvenir book in Dutch published for the 50th Anniversary. Padwick 4214. Includes three pages slipped in of typed notes of a translation of part of the section on ‘International Cricket’. Minor wear to head... View full lot details

‘Drie Cricket-Spelers [Three Cricket Players]’. F.W. Farrar. Utrecht 1896. Dutch text. Original pale brown cloth covers, gilt titles to front and spine, illustration of two skaters to front. Sale plate of H.A. Cohen collection to inside front cover. Padwick 5993. Minor soiling to boards, spine gilt faded, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The American Cricket Annual for 1890’. First year of publication. Compiled and edited by Jerome Flannery. Published by C.J. Sabiston, New York 1890. Original blue wrappers with gilt title to front. Padwick 4045. Minor wear to wrapper extremities, some water staining to page edges, otherwise in good/very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The American Cricket Annual for 1891’. Second year of publication. Compiled and edited by Jerome Flannery. Published by The Week’s Sport Co., New York 1891. Original decorative paper wrappers. Padwick 4045. Minor wear and small loss to spine extremities, some water staining to page edges, otherwise in good/very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The American Cricket Annual for 1893’. Fourth year of publication. Compiled, edited and published by Jerome Flannery, New York 1893. Bound in later blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine, speckled page edges, original decorative paper wrappers retained. Padwick 4045. Wear to spine edge of front wrapper, both wrappers with tape to internal hinges. Slight breaking to page block, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details