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Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1890. Willows ‘second’ softback reprint (2007) in light brown hardback covers with gilt lettering. Limited edition 129/250. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1891. Willows ‘second’ softback reprint (2007) in light brown hardback covers with gilt lettering. Limited edition 169/250. Good/very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1892. Willows softback reprint (1992) in light brown hardback covers with gilt lettering. Limited edition 302/500. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1893. Willows ‘second’ softback reprint (2008) in light brown hardback covers with gilt lettering. Limited edition 122/250. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1894. Willows ‘second’ softback reprint (2008) in light brown hardback covers with gilt lettering. Limited edition 102/250. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1895. Willows ‘second’ softback reprint (2008) in light brown hardback covers with gilt lettering. Un-numbered limited edition. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1896. Willows hardback ‘second’ reprint (2011) in dark brown boards with gilt lettering. Limited edition 52/250. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1897. Willows hardback ‘second’ reprint (2011) in dark brown boards with gilt lettering. Limited edition 68/250. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1898. Willows hardback ‘second’ reprint (2011) in dark brown boards with gilt lettering. Limited edition 58/250. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1899. Willows hardback reprint (1995) in dark brown boards with gilt lettering. Limited edition 449/500. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1900. Willows hardback reprint (1996) in dark brown boards with gilt lettering. Limited edition 424/500. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1901. Willows hardback reprint (1996) in dark brown boards with gilt lettering. Limited edition 471/500. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1902. Willows hardback reprint (1997) in dark brown boards with gilt lettering. Limited edition 433/500. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1903. Willows hardback reprint (1997) in dark brown boards with gilt lettering. Limited edition 358/500. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1904. Willows hardback reprint (1998) in dark brown boards with gilt lettering. Limited edition 394/500. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1905. Willows hardback reprint (1998) in dark brown boards with gilt lettering. Limited edition 470/500. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1906. Willows hardback reprint (1999) in dark brown boards with gilt lettering. Limited edition 488/500. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1907. Willows hardback reprint (1999) in dark brown boards with gilt lettering. Limited edition 463/500. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1908. Willows hardback reprint (2000) in dark brown boards with gilt lettering. Limited edition 415/500. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1909. Willows hardback reprint (2000) in dark brown boards with gilt lettering. Limited edition 341/500. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1910. Willows hardback reprint (2001) in dark brown boards with gilt lettering. Limited edition 380/500. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1911. Willows hardback reprint (2001) in dark brown boards with gilt lettering. Limited edition 423/500. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1912. Willows hardback reprint (2001) in dark brown boards with gilt lettering. Limited edition 378/500. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1913. Willows hardback reprint (2002) in dark brown boards with gilt lettering. Limited edition 359/500. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1914. Willows hardback reprint (2002) in dark brown boards with gilt lettering. Limited edition 330/500. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1915. Willows hardback reprint (2002) in dark brown boards with gilt lettering. Limited edition 394/500. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1916. Willows hardback reprint (1997) in dark brown boards with gilt lettering. Limited edition LXXXII of CC. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1917. Willows hardback reprint (1997) in dark brown boards with gilt lettering. Limited edition 489/500. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1918. Willows hardback reprint (1997) in dark brown boards with gilt lettering. Limited edition 449/500. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1919. Willows hardback reprint (1997) in dark brown boards with gilt lettering. Limited edition 351/500. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1920. Willows hardback reprint (2003) in dark brown boards with gilt lettering. Limited edition 372/500. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1921. Willows hardback reprint (2005) in dark brown boards with gilt lettering. Un-numbered limited edition. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1922. Willows hardback reprint (2006) in dark brown boards with gilt lettering. Limited edition 65/500. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1923. Willows hardback reprint (2006) in dark brown boards with gilt lettering. Limited edition 207/500. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1924. Willows hardback reprint (2006) in dark brown boards with gilt lettering. Limited edition 65/500. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1925. Willows hardback reprint (2007) in dark brown boards with gilt lettering. Limited edition 413/500. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1926. Willows hardback reprint (2007) in dark brown boards with gilt lettering. Limited edition 10/500. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1927. Willows hardback reprint (2007) in dark brown boards with gilt lettering. Limited edition 353/500. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1928. Willows hardback reprint (2008) in dark brown boards with gilt lettering. Limited edition 208/500. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1929. Willows hardback reprint (2008) in dark brown boards with gilt lettering. Limited edition 343/500. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1930. Willows hardback reprint (2008) in dark brown boards with gilt lettering. Limited edition 322/500. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1931. Willows hardback reprint (2009) in dark brown boards with gilt lettering. Limited edition 354/500. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1932. Willows hardback reprint (2009) in dark brown boards with gilt lettering. Limited edition 396/500. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1933. Willows hardback reprint (2010) in dark brown boards with gilt lettering. Limited edition 269/500. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1934. Willows hardback reprint (2010) in dark brown boards with gilt lettering. Limited edition 305/500. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1935. Willows hardback reprint (2010) in dark brown boards with gilt lettering. Limited edition 399/500. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1936. Willows hardback reprint (2011) in dark brown boards with gilt lettering. Limited edition 244/500. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1937. Willows hardback reprint (2011) in dark brown boards with gilt lettering. Limited edition 114/500. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1938. Willows hardback reprint (2012) in dark brown boards with gilt lettering. Limited edition 58/500. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1939. Willows hardback reprint (2012) in dark brown boards with gilt lettering. Limited edition 233/500. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1940. Willows hardback reprint (2003) in dark brown boards with gilt lettering. Limited edition 233/500. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1941. Willows hardback reprint (1999) in dark brown boards with gilt lettering. Limited edition 367/500. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1942. Willows hardback reprint (1999) in dark brown boards with gilt lettering. Limited edition 634/750. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1943. Willows hardback reprint (2000) in dark brown boards with gilt lettering. Limited edition 551/750. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1944. Willows hardback reprint (2000) in dark brown boards with gilt lettering. Limited edition 318/500. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1945. Willows hardback reprint (2000) in dark brown boards with gilt lettering. Limited edition 430/500. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1946. Willows hardback reprint (2012) in dark brown boards with gilt lettering. Limited edition 193/250. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1938 to 1994. 75th to 131st editions. A splendid complete run of the Almanack for the period stated, each book has been beautifully bound, very similar to a Wisden de luxe full leather bound limited edition hardback, bound without original wrappers. Gilt titles and lettering to boards and spine and gilt to all page edges. Marbled end papers. All in brown box slip cases as are the limited edition editions. The books... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1995 to 2025. 132nd to 162nd edition. Excellent complete run of the de luxe full leather bound limited edition hardback. Gilt lettering and gilt to all page block edges, in slip cases. Each book is numbered limited edition number 15, the 1995 of only 100 copies and the following years of 150 copies produced, each signed by the editor of Wisden in that year. Qty 32. Excellent/mint condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1960 to 1963. Original hardbacks. The 1960, 1962 and 1963 editions with facsimile dustwrappers. Good condition. Qty 4... View full lot details

‘Wisden Trade Catalogue. List of Prices for 1862. Cricketing & other British Sports. Warehouse, 2 New Coventry Street, Leicester Square, London’. Headed to ‘Regiments and Cricket Clubs’. Small 8vo.16pp. The front wrapper has an illustration of Wisden’s Shop with a paragraph regarding what the shop has to offer. The list of prices is followed by bats, stumps, gloves etc as well as cricket photographic prints, the Lillywhite and Wisden patent catapulta and other sporting goods... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 2006. Original hardback edition with dustwrapper. Nicely signed in ink by all five ‘Cricketers of the Year’ to their photograph plate, Matthew Hoggard, Ricky Ponting, Simon Jones, Brett Lee and Kevin Pietersen. Also signed to other picture pages by Shoib Akhtar and Shane Warne. Signed to text pages by twelve 2005 England players, Anderson, Ali, Batty, Bell, Collingwood, Giles, Jones, Key, Plunkett, Solanki, Tremlett and Udal. Some bowing to the book otherwise... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 2007. Original hardback edition with dustwrapper. Signed in ink by ‘The Leading Cricketer of the Year’ Muttiah Muralitharan and in ink by all five ‘Cricketers of the Year’ to their photograph plate, Paul Collingwood, Mahela Jayawardene, Mohammad Yousuf, Monty Panesar and Mark Ramprakash. Also signed to other picture pages by Paul Collingwood (twice) and Ashley Giles. Signed to text pages by twelve 2006 England players, Anderson, Ali, Batty, Bell, Bresnan, Chapple, Clarke,... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 2008. Original hardback edition with dustwrapper. Signed in ink by ‘The Leading Cricketer of the Year’ Jaques Kallis and in ink by all five ‘Cricketers of the Year’ to their photograph plate, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Ottis Gibson, Ryan Sidebottom, Zaheer Khan and Ian Bell. Also signed to text pages by eight of ‘The Wisden Forty’, Bell, Chanderpaul, Clark, Ganguly, Jayawardene, Misbah-Ul-Haq, Ponting, Sangakkara, Vettori and Younis Khan. Slight bowing to the book block... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 2010. Original hardback edition with dustwrapper. Signed in ink by all five ‘Cricketers of the Year’ to their photograph plate, Stuart Broad, Michael Clarke, Graham Onions, Graeme Swann and Matt Prior. Also signed to another of the book plates by Bopara and to text pages by nine 2009 England players, Batty, Bell, Bopara, Bresnan, Broad, Collingwood, Cook, Davies, Denly, Foster, Trott and Wright. Good condition.... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 2011. Original hardback edition with dustwrapper. Signed in ink by three of the five ‘Cricketers of the Year’ to their photograph plate, Tamin Iqbal, Chris Read and Jonathan Trott. Also signed to other book plates by Siddle, Collingwood and Cook and to text pages by nineteen 2010 England players, Anderson, Bell, Bopara, Bresnan, Broad, Carberry, Collingwood, Cook, Davies, Denly, Finn, Lumb, Sidebottom, Tredwell, Trott, Wright and Yardy. Slight cock to spine otherwise... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 2012. Original hardback edition with dustwrapper. Signed in ink by all of the five ‘Cricketers of the Year’ to their photograph plate, Kumar Sangakkara, Tim Bresnan, Glen Chapple, Alistair Cook and Alan Richardson. Also signed to other book plate by Saeed Ajmal and to text pages by nineteen 2011 England players, Anderson, Bairstow, Bell, Bopara, Bresnan, Broad, Collingwood, Dernbatch, Finn, Morgan, Patel, Shahzad, Stokes, Tredwell, Trott, Woakes, Wright and Yardy. Slight... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 2013. Original hardback edition with dustwrapper. Signed in ink by ‘The Leading Cricketer of the Year’ Michael Clarke and by all of the five ‘Cricketers of the Year’ to their photograph plate, Dale Steyn, Hashim Amla, Nick Compton, Jacques Kallis and Marlon Samuels. Also signed to text pages by fourteen 2012 England players, Anderson, Bairstow, Bell, Bopara, Broad, Compton, Dernbatch, Finn, Hales, Morgan, Patel, Tredwell, Trott, and Wright. Good condition.... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 2014. Original hardback edition with dustwrapper. Signed in ink by ‘The Leading Cricketer of the Year’ Dale Steyn and by all of the five ‘Cricketers of the Year’ to their photograph plate, Charlotte Edwards, Ryan Harris, Chris Rogers, Joe Root and Shikar Dhawan. Also signed to text pages by nineteen 2013 England players, Anderson, Bairstow, Bell, Bopara, Bresnan, Broad, Carberry, Compton, Dernbatch, Finn, Hales, Lumb, Morgan, Patel, Rankin, Root, Stokes, Tredwell,... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 2015. Original hardback edition with dustwrapper. Signed in ink by all of the five ‘Cricketers of the Year’ to their photograph plate, Gary Balance, Adam Lyth, Angelo Mathews, Keeton Patel and Moeen Ali. Also signed to text pages by twenty three 2014 England players including Anderson, Bell, Bopara, Bresnan, Broad, Cook, Dernbatch, Hales, Lumb, Morgan, Root, Stokes, Taylor, Tredwell, Trott, Woakes, Wright etc. Good condition.... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 2016. Original hardback edition with dustwrapper. Signed in ink by all of the five ‘Cricketers of the Year’ to their photograph plate, Kane Williamson, Jonny Bairstow, Brendon McCullum, Steve Smith and Ben Stokes. Also signed to text pages by twenty one 2015 England players including Ali, Anderson, Bairstow, Bell, Bopara, Broad, Cook, Hales, Morgan, Rashid, Root, Roy, Stokes, Trott, Woakes, Wood etc. Good condition.... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 2018. Original hardback edition with dustwrapper. Signed in ink by all of the five ‘Cricketers of the Year’ to their photograph plate, Anna Shrubsole, Shai Hope, Heather Knight, James Porter and Natalie Sciver. Also signed to text pages by twenty three 2017 England players including Anderson, Bairstow, Ball, Broad, Buttler, Cook, Hales, Jennings, Malan, Morgan, Rashid, Root, Roy, Stokes, Woakes, Wood etc. Good condition.... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 2009. Original hardback edition with dustwrapper. Signed in ink by ‘The Leading Cricketer of the Year’ Verinder Sehwag and in ink by all five ‘Cricketers of the Year’ to their photograph plate, James Anderson, Dale Benkenstein, Mark Boucher, Neil McKenzie and Claire Taylor. Also signed to text pages by twelve 2008 England players including Ambrose, Anderson, Bell, Bopara, Bresnan, Broad, Collingwood, Mustard, Patel, Shah, Wight etc. Good condition.... View full lot details

‘The English Cricketers’ Trip to Canada and the United States in 1859’. Frederick Lillywhite. First edition, London 1860. Original green cloth boards with title in gilt to front. viii, 68pp plus fold out map and advertisements. Illustrated. Padwick 4893. Wear to spine and covers, odd nicks to page and map edges, slight breaking to page block, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘The 2nd Australian XI’s Tour of Australia, Britain and New Zealand in 1880/81 with Appendices’. Alfred James 1994. Privately published in red boards with gilt titles to spine. Limited edition of 100 copies, this being number 15, signed by the author. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Australians In England. A complete record of the cricket tour of 1882, with the batting and bowling averages of the Australians and the Englishmen who played against them’. C.F. Pardon. Reprinted with additions from ‘Bell’s Life’, London 1882. viii, 192pp plus advertisements. Portrait frontispiece of W.R. Murdoch, captain of the Australians. Original decorative card wrappers with replacement card spine. Contained in a modern green cloth case with gilt title to spine. Padwick 4974. Wear,... View full lot details

‘The [Doings of the] Fourth Australia Cricket Team, their Scores in the Colonies and in England with Portraits and Biographies’. Published at the Office of “Cricket”, London 1884. vi, 140pp. Original decorative stiffened card boards. Comprises biographies and portraits of the tourists and reports and scores of all matches played on the tour. Padwick 4976. Rear board detached, front wrapper and first eight pages becoming detached, lacking spine, internally in good condition. Scarce.... View full lot details

‘Cricket. Shaw and Shrewsbury’s Team in Australia 1884-1885. The Voyage out. Description of Matches, Description of the Players, The Voyage Home, Batting and bowling averages’. Alfred Shaw and Arthur Shrewsbury. Nottingham 1885. 181pp plus adverts. Rebound in olive cloth, gilt title to spine, original rear decorative wrapper retained, lacking original front wrapper and title page. Padwick 4409. Frontispiece photograph of the team detached. Soiling and wear to rear wrapper, small loss to top corner of... View full lot details

‘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... View full lot details

‘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... View full lot details

Australian tours. J.W. McKenzie facsimile reprints. Three hardback titles with dustwrappers. ‘The Australian Cricketers’ Tour through Australia, New Zealand and Great Britain in 1878’ by ‘Argus’ 1878, reprinted 1980, limited edition no. 37/150. Slight wear to dustwrapper. ‘The Third Australian Team in England’ 1882, reprinted 1989. ‘The Don Meets the Babe. The 1932 Australian Cricket Tour of North America’. Ric Sissons with a foreword by Sir Donald Bradman. J.W.McKenzie, Ewell 1995. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Australian tours. J.W. McKenzie facsimile reprints. Three hardback titles with good dustwrappers. ‘The Doings of the Fourth Australian Cricket Team in England 1884’, 1884, reprinted 1990. ‘The 1899 Australians in England’, Peter Sharpham 1997. ‘The Australians in England 1902’ reprinted 1993. Sold with ‘Trumper’s Team in Queensland 1906’, John Hawkins, Newnham 2012, limited edition softback no. 122/150 signed by the author. Very good condition. Qty 4.... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour of South Africa 1922/23. ‘The M.C.C. Team in South Africa 1922-23 with Special Sketch of South Africa’s International Cricket History by Capt. I.D. Difford’. 4th Edition. Cape Times, Cape Town 1923. 76pp. Bound in green cloth, original green wrappers retained. Illustrated with photographs, scores and statistics etc. Padwick 4632. Minor staining to original front wrapper, otherwise in very good condition. Rare.... View full lot details

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‘The Empire’s Cricketers’ from original drawings. By Alfred Chevallier Tayler with biographical sketches by George William Beldam. The Fine Art Society, London 1905. First edition folio volume with contents page followed by the forty eight original chromolithograph plates in original red cloth binding with gilt titles to front board, each print with the original accompanying printed biography of the featured player. Some ageing and staining to red boards, some discolouration to the spine paper, some... View full lot details

‘The Empire’s Cricketers. Catalogue of an Exhibition of portrait drawings in coloured chalks of The Empire’s Cricketers by A. Chevallier Tayler. Held in the rooms of The Fine Art Society 148, New Bond Street, June & July, 1905. With a new introduction by John Hawkins’. Christopher Saunders Books 2006. Limited edition of 100 copies, each signed and numbered by John Hawkins this being number 19. Excellent condition.... View full lot details

‘Cheltenham Cricket Week. A Review of the Games from 1878 to 1904. Together with a brief outline of other important matches played in the District’. Alfred D. Taylor. Cheltenham 1905. 1st Edition, 60pp. Bound in green quarter leather complete with original decorative paper wrappers. Padwick 1943. Note to title page reads ‘Purchased from the collection of Revd R.S. Holmes. July 1933’. Rare... View full lot details

‘The Cricket Annual and Calendar 1909 and 1910’. Cricket & Sports Publishers Ltd, Cannon Street, London. The only two editions of the Annual published, complete with wrappers bound together in yellow boards. Both Annuals in very good condition. Rarer Annuals... View full lot details

‘The Yorkshire Cricket Chronicle’. No.10. July 23rd, No.12 August 3rd, No.13 August 10th and No.14 August 13th 1903. Published by authority of the Yorkshire Committee, printed by J.W. Northend of Sheffield. Four 16pp booklets comprising articles, images of the players etc. Padwick 1216. Original worn, age toned, discoloured and damaged wrappers to all four editions with loss to edges, No.12 with detached rear wrapper, no.14 with detached front wrapper, the rear wrapper of No.10 almost... View full lot details

Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1883-1884. Hardback ‘blue book’. Original decorative boards. Gilt titles and to all page edges with gilt Kent emblem to centre. Printed by Cross & Jackman, ‘The Canterbury Press’ 1884. Minor age toning/darkening to board edges and spine, wear with very minor loss to head and base of the spine otherwise in very good condition with titles bright. Rare seventh issue of the ‘blue book’... View full lot details

Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1885-1886. Hardback ‘blue book’. Original decorative boards. Gilt titles and to all page edges with gilt Kent emblem to centre. Printed by Cross & Jackman, ‘The Canterbury Press’ 1886. Some darkening to the spine otherwise in good/very good condition. Ownership signature of Robert Stratton Holmes, dated ‘Liverpool 9.7.[18]90’ to title page. Rare ninth issue of the ‘blue book’... View full lot details

Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1895-1998. Full run of Kent annuals ‘Blue Books’ from 1895 to 1945 and a full run of Kent yearbooks/annuals from 1947 to 1998. The annuals and yearbooks are all uniformly bound in maroon boards with speckled page edges, the annuals lacking their original blue boards, the yearbooks bound with their original wrappers/covers throughout, some members copies in maroon cloth covers included. The annuals and yearbooks bound into twenty seven books.... View full lot details

‘Worcestershire County Cricket Club Bazaar... Descriptive Catalogue of the Unique Collection of Cricket Trophies, Historic Bats, Balls etc.’ 1903. Original 15pp catalogue in paper wrappers for the exhibition held at the Shirehall, Worcester, 7th- 9th May 1903, ‘Organised by Mr. C.P. [Charles Pratt] Green’. The exhibition featured items from the collections of A.J. Gaston of Brighton, A.W. Shelton of Nottingham, Odd & Son of Croydon, Charles Pratt Green of Malvern, and A. Farrants of Putney.... View full lot details

‘The Story of Three Black Pears, Early Worcestershire Cricket’. Bernard Bridgewater. Worcester 1998. Limited edition no. 150/500. Green cloth with quarter leather. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘”Cricket’s” Year Book’. Cricket Office. London. Two editions for 1897 & 1905. Original pictorial covers, the rare 1897 1st edition with image of Ranjitsinhji to front, the 1905 with Plum Warner. Padwick 1058. The 1895 with small loss to wrapper corners and edge, front wrapper becoming detached. The 1895 with tape repair to front wrapper edge, rusting to staples, otherwise in good condition. Sold with ‘M.C.C. Members 1871’ booklet in red cloth, gilt title to... View full lot details

Somerset County Cricket Club annuals 1940-2017. Box comprising a good run of Year Books / Handbooks/ Almanacks for the period. Original decorative boards and wrappers. Issues are for seasons 1940-1946 (combined war-time edition), 1947, 1948/49 to 1965/66, 1967, 1967/68, 1979 to 2005, 2005/06, 2008/09, 2009/10, 2010, 2014 & 2017. Lacking the 1951/52 edition, with duplicate editions of the 1953/54, 1959/60, 1979 and 1980 editions. The edition for 1940-1946 was the Somerset’s Secretary’s copy and is... View full lot details

Playfair Cricket Annuals 1948-2023. A good run of the Annual including earlier issues for 1948 (first year of issue), 1956 and 1957 (larger format) and a complete run from 1963-2012. Minor faults to odd earlier copy, generally good condition. Qty 53.... View full lot details

‘The Surrey Eleven in 1895. A Descriptive Record of the Matches Played in that Season’. James L. McCance. Merritt & Hatcher, London 1896. 60pp. ‘For Review’ label to first page. Padwick 2687. Original front pictorial paper wrapper, lacking rear wrapper. Loss to spine, tape to front wrapper and spine, otherwise in good condition. Rare.... View full lot details

‘A Summary of Surrey Cricket 1844-99’. Anthony Benitez De Lugo (Marquis de Santa Susana). Privately printed, Madrid 1900. Rarer title bound in half maroon leather with marbled boards, gilt title to spine, original paper wrappers preserved. 80pp. Padwick 2680. Some creasing and wear to original wrappers, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘Surrey at the Wicket. A complete record of all the matches played by the County Eleven since the formation of the club...’. Compiled and published by Anthony Benitez de Lugo. Madrid 1888. Original red cloth boards, red page edges. iii + 159pp. Padwick 2679. Splitting and small loss to head of spine, slight breaking to page block, outer page edges becoming a little brittle, otherwise in good condition. Scarce.... View full lot details

‘A. Benitez de Lugo’. D.T. Smith. Corsham 2011. Red card wrappers with title to front. Limited edition no. ‘A2’ of only 22 copies produced. Signed to the title page by the author. Very good condition.... View full lot details

The Epic of the Oval’. E.B.V. Christian, privately printed 1930. 36pp. Original brown card wrappers, contained in pale green cloth clamshell case, gilt title to spine. Padwick 1022. Slight foxing to pages, minor wear to wrapper extremities, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘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 plain grey/ buff stiffened card boards with leather and gilt title label to front cover. 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... View full lot details

W.G. Grace. Three early titles in original paper wrappers. ‘Scores and Mode of Dismissal of “W.G.” in First-Class Cricket. With summary of results 1865-1895’. Compiled by Rev H.A. Tate. First edition, London 1896. Some soiling to wrappers. ‘The History of a Hundred Centuries’. W.G. Grace, edited by W. Yardley. London first edition 1895. Wear and soiling to wrappers. ‘W.G. Grace. Cricketer. A record of his performances in first-class matches’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. London 1916. Some loss... View full lot details

‘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. 8, signed by the author. Light foxing to wrappers and frontispiece photograph page, small damage to head of spine, otherwise in good/very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Batting, Bowling, Fielding’. W.G. Grace. J.W. Arrowsmith, Bristol 1892. Original full red calf covers with gilt title to front, gilt to page edges. 3-95pp. Reprinted from Grace’s book of 1891. Dedication in ink to second front endpaper to ‘Thomas Padwick Esq. from W. Methven Brownlee’. Padwick 434. Slight breaking to page block, some wear to board and spine extremities, scrape to rear cover, otherwise in good condition. A nice association copy.... View full lot details

W.G. Grace. Five titles by or about Grace, hardbacks unless stated. ‘The Memorial Biography of Dr W. G. Grace’, Lord Hawke, Lord Harris and Sir Home Gordon, London 1919. Original decorative cloth boards. Signature of [Lord] Hawke in ink on piece laid down to title page. Large bookplate of H.A.L. Cohen to inside front cover. Padwick 7586. Minor soiling to boards and rubbing to board edges, otherwise good. ‘W.G. Grace 1848-1915. To mark the Fiftieth... View full lot details

‘The Cricketers Portrait Gallery. 34 Portraits of Noted Players’. Printed by Tempest, Leeds 1896. 16pp. Landscape booklet in original pictorial paper wrappers featuring W.G. Grace and W.L. Murdoch to the front, comprising reproductions of engravings and photographs of notable cricketers of the period, with Surrey players, Abel and Wood, featured on the title page, Read and Key on the final page. Others include Ranjitsinhji, Lilley, MacGregor, Australians Trott, Giffen, Graham, Gregory, also Lord Hawke, Jackson,... View full lot details

‘Arthur Haygarth Reconsidered’. Irving Rosenwater. Newnham, Gloucestershire 1997. Limited edition number 46 of one hundred numbered copies produced, of which ninety were for sale, signed by the author. Ownership name to title page. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Sir Donald Bradman- Ninety Not Out. A Brief Tribute in Words and Figures’. Irving Rosenwater. Newnham 1998. Limited edition number 23 of ninety numbered copies produced of which eighty copies, numbers 11-90, were for sale, signed by the author. Ownership name to title page. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Renton’s Ruse. An Australian Cricket Story’. By John Patrick. With prefatory note by Irving Rosenwater. London 1999. Printed for private circulation. Limited edition number 19 of thirty numbered copies produced, signed by Rosenwater. Ownership name to inside front cover. Minor soiling to rear wrapper, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Sir Home Gordon, Bart- An Affectionate Retrospect’. Irving Rosenwater. Printed for private circulation, Newnham 2000. Limited edition number 40 of sixty numbered copies produced and signed by the author of which nos. 11-60 were for sale. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Roy Webber. Statistician’. Irving Rosenwater. Printed for private circulation, Newnham 2001. Limited edition number 34 of one hundred numbered copies produced, of which ninety were for sale, signed by the author. Excellent condition.... View full lot details

‘The Celebrated Goldman Sale: being a facsimile of the original catalogue of the extensive collection of books on cricket formed by J.W. Goldman Esq 1966’. Irving Rosenwater. London 2002. Limited edition of 100 copies produced, of which nos. 16-100 were published in blue card covers, this being no. 54, signed by the author. Small mark to front cover, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Padwick “Bibliography”- Its Genesis’. Irving Rosenwater. Printed for private circulation, Newnham on Severn 2002. Limited edition of 75 numbered copies of which 65 were available for sale, this being number 50, signed by the author. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘When F.R. Woolley Scored a Century for Lancashire’. Irving Rosenwater. Printed for private circulation, London 2003. Limited edition of fifty numbered copies produced, this being number 6, signed by the author. Excellent condition.... View full lot details

‘H.T. Waghorn- A Singular Portrait’. Irving Rosenwater. Newnham 2005. Limited edition number 35 of 125 numbered copies produced, of which 115 were for sale, signed by Rosenwater. Excellent condition.... View full lot details

‘Harold Gimblett’s Hundred’. John Arlott. Richard Walsh Books, Taunton 1991. Limited edition number 53/123, nicely signed in ink by Arlott to limitation page. Card covers with red cord tie. G/VG... View full lot details

‘My Cricket Collection and Cricket Literature’. G. Neville Weston. 3rd edition 1974. Limited edition number 19 of only 50 copies produced, signed by the author. Some age toning to boards, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Hal Cohen. Memoir of a Great Collector’. Michael Down. Privately printed 1994. Published in a limited edition of twenty numbered copies, this is an unnumbered presentation copy from and signed by the author. Minor soiling to wrappers, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

Martin Wilson. Two limited edition titles by Wilson, both published by Christopher Saunders, Newnham on Severn and signed by the author. ‘Dawn’s Early Light. Cricket in America before 1820’, 2008, no. 48/160, and ‘First Cricket In...’, 2009, no. 44/150. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘E.W.S. (1907-2000). The Last Interview’. David Rayvern Allen 2000. Limited edition of ninety three copies, this being number 55, signed by Rayvern Allen. Excellent condition.... View full lot details

‘A Guide to Edmund Routledge’s Handbook of Cricket’. Roger Hancock 2007. Limited edition no. 24/50, signed by the author. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Trevor Bailey’. Tony Lewis. Richard Walsh Books, Somerset 1998. Original red cloth covers. Limited edition no. 35/50. Signed to title page by Bailey and Lewis. Excellent condition.... View full lot details

‘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. Limited edition no. 81 of 100 copies produced, signed by the author. Padwick 42. Some soiling to wrappers, otherwise in good condition. Rare.... View full lot details

‘Sam Cook’. Alan Gibson. Privately published by Richard Walsh Books 1992. Limited edition no. 21/50. Bound in original brown cloth and signed to the title page by both Cook and the author. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘A Handbook for William Lambert’s Cricketer’s Guide’. Roger Hancock. Brighton 2006. Limited edition no. 12/50. Slipped in are two Addendum slips, each with the same limitation number, both signed by Hancock and dated March and June 2007. Also a signed separate letterhead ‘With compliments’. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Substitutes’. David Roylance. 1973. 13pp. White card wrappers. The history of, and the Laws relating to, substitutes in cricket. This is no. 56 of a limited edition of 75 copies, each signed, numbered and dated by the author. Good condition.... View full lot details

‘Wm. Whittam’s Modern Cricket and Other Sports’ 1883-1886. Four issues for years 1883 (first year) to 1886 (fourth) edited by G.T. Groves and published in Sheffield by William Whittam (1883-1885) and Groves & Son (1886). Each issue in original stiffened board wrappers in different colours. Padwick 1129. Some wear and loss to spines, soiling to boards, otherwise in good condition. Qty 4.... View full lot details

‘Peeps into the Past...The Long’ Un’ (Harry Smith-Turberville). Evans & Co, Warwick 1917. Original colourful decorative covers bound in red boards with gilt titles to spine. ‘Author’s Compliments’ label attached to front wrapper, some slight soiling to wrappers otherwise in good/very good condition... View full lot details

‘A Peep into the Past...A Cricket Souvenir’ (W.R. Weir). W.R. Wright. F.H. Ayers. London 1902. Original decorative covers. Minor wear to the head of the spine otherwise in good/very good condition... View full lot details

‘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 full lot details

Australia. ‘Cricket Records’. R.H. Campbell. Melbourne 1928. Original purple cloth, gilt title to front. Very nicely signed in ink to the title page by Campbell. Padwick 3333. Covers detached with some spotting and fading. Rusting to staples, otherwise internally in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Cricket. D.R. Jardine. First edition London 1936. Original green cloth, gilt title to spine. Signed presentation copy ‘To Walter Brearley [Lancashire & England 1902-1912] who has done more than anyone else for young cricketers. D.R. Jardine 1936’. Padwick 514. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Walter Brearley. Lancashire & England 1902-1912. Eight original hardback titles all from the collection of Walter Brearley. Each title, presented to Brearley in the period 1927-1933, is inscribed with dedication from an admirer with initials ‘W.A.H.’. Titles are ‘King’s of Cricket’, Richard Daft, Bristol 1893, ‘The Book of Cricket’, P.F. Warner, London 1922, ‘My Reminiscences’, S.M.J. Woods, London 1925, ‘The Game’s the Thing’, M.A. Noble, London 1926, ‘The Summer Game’ and ‘A Cricketer’s Book’, Neville... View full lot details

‘Cricketers’ Carnival’. Learie Constantine. London 1948. Original hardback with dustwrapper. Presentation copy with handwritten dedication in ink to front endpaper ‘To Percy Chapman. Recalling many happy encounters at Lord’s & the Oval, Old Trafford & Scarborough’. Nicely signed ‘Learie Constantine, Lord’s 1949’. Padwick 7449. Some wear and soiling to the dustwrapper, the book in good condition.... View full lot details

Don Bradman. Three hardback biographies by or about Bradman, one signed. Titles by Bradman are ‘Don Bradman’s Book’, London 1938, signed by Bradman to the title page, and ‘Farewell to Cricket’, London 1950. Also ‘Bradman and the Summer that Changed Cricket’, Christopher Hilton, London 2009, good dustwrapper. Good condition.... View full lot details

Norman Gale. Two hardback titles. ‘Close of Play’, Rugby 1936, with dustwrapper. Signed presentation copy with dedication in ink to half title page, ‘Inscribed for Henry Ling by his old friend Norman Gale’. Ownership signature to inside front cover of J. Bonnyman Jones ‘Collector of Cricketana’. Padwick 6458. Very good condition. Sold with ‘Cricket Songs’, London 1894 in original decorative cloth. Padwick 6568. Some wear and soiling to spine and boards, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details