Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Wisden Cricketers’ Almanacks,
Football & Sporting Memorabilia

‘Farewell to Cricket’. Don Bradman. Theodore Brun Ltd. London 1950. Limited de luxe edition number of 500 copies, produced in green morocco binding with gilt motif of Bradman to front board and titles in gilt to spine, this being number 131. Signed to limitation page by Bradman. Gilt to top edge. Slight breaking to the front and rear hinge otherwise in good/very good condition. Rare. Sold with ‘Bradman The Great’, B.J. Wakley, London 1959. Qty... View full lot details

‘William Brockwell: His Triumph and Tragedy’. James D. Coldham. Privately printed. London 1970. Limited edition no. 7o/100, signed by the author. Bound in black board, with original wrappers, gilt titles to spine. Very good condition... View full lot details

“My Cricket Collection” and “Cricket Literature”’. G. Neville Weston. Third edition privately published, Kidderminster 1974. Bound in black boards with title to spine in gilt. Limited edition of fifty copies, this being number 38. Signed to the limitation page by Weston. Padwick 41. Sold with ‘The Catalogue of Cricket Literature’, originally published in 1906, this being a facsimile reprint by S.R. Publishers 1972. VG. Qty 2... View full lot details

‘My Dear Victorious Stod. A Biography of A.E. Stoddart’. D. Frith. New Malden, privately printed 1970. Signed limited edition number 21/400. Sold with ‘The Archie Jackson Story. A Biography’. David Frith. Ashurst 1974. Blue leather with gilt titles to front and spine. Limited edition of 1000 copies, this being number 151, signed by the author. Sold with ‘Frith on Cricket’. London 2010, signed by Frith. VG. Qty 23... View full lot details

‘Cricket’s Collectors’. David Frith. The Cricket Memorabilia Society. Surrey 2012. Limited edition no. 129/150 copies produced, signed by The President of the Cricket Memorabilia Society, Tom Graveney, and by Vice President, David Frith. VG... View full lot details

‘Alletson’s Innings’. John Arlott. First edition. London 1957. Original green cloth, limited edition number 117 of 200 produced, signed by Arlott. Good/ very good condition... View full lot details

‘Great Cricketers. The Age of Grace & Trumper’. Compiled by George Beldam, jnr. Boundary Books, Cheshire 2000. Limited edition no. 160 of 548, signed by Cornelia Beldam. Short listed for the Cricket Society Book of the Year in 2000. Good/ very good condition... View full lot details

‘Arthur Wellard 1902-1980. (Somerset, England and Gaieties)’. Harold Pinter. Privately published booklet by the author 1981. 11 pages, frontispiece team portrait of the Gaieties C.C. including Wellard, original stiffened card wrappers, 8vo. This copy of this scarce booklet is accompanied by a two page handwritten letter, on ‘52 Campden Hill Square, London’ headed paper, dated April 27th 1985 from Harold Pinter to Mrs Wellard ‘Dear Mrs Wellard, Here is a cassette of my broadcast and... View full lot details

‘Basingstoke Boy’. John Arlott. 1990. Numbered limited ‘Collector’s Edition’ bound in full leather by Boundary Books with marbled endpapers, gilt to all page edges. Signed by John Arlott. Limited edition no. 161/200. Very good condition... View full lot details

‘The Archie Jackson Story. A Biography’. David Frith. Ashurst 1974. Blue leather with gilt titles to front and spine. Limited edition of 1000 copies, this being number 123, signed by the author. VG.... View full lot details

‘Shane Warne. My Illustrated Career’. Shane Warne. London 2006. Leather hand bound limited edition number 701 of 1000 copies produced, signed by Warne to the limitation page. In green slipcase, including the six limited edition photographs of Warne reproduced from the book. Excellent condition... View full lot details

‘Eton v Harrow at Lords’. Sir Home Gordon. London 1926. Harrow limited edition of 325 copies, this being number 56. Original decorative blue cloth covers with gilt title and emblems to front and spine. Some wear and bumping to boards, otherwise in good condition. Sold with three carte de visite photographs, two depict Harrow School teams, one dated to verso 1872 with players’ names annotated in pencil, the other undated but of the same period.... View full lot details

W. Duthoit’s Yorkshire Cricketers’ Guide for 1878. Published by W. Duthoit of Leeds. 118pp plus adverts. Original pink wrappers, bound in cream boards with titles in gilt to spine. Photoplate of Ephraim Lockwood opposite the title page. Some general wear to wrappers, some wear to front wrapper extremities, light minor foxing to odd page, light vertical fold to front wrapper and first few pages otherwise in good condition throughout. A rare publication... View full lot details

‘The Cricketing Career of Robert Peel, Y.C.C., Twelve years of County Cricket, 1882 to 1893’. Printed and published by Samuel Stead, Observer Office, Morley 1894. 21pp plus adverts. Original wrappers featuring image of Peel to front wrapper, bound in light blue boards with gilt titles to spine. Some wear to wrappers, light foxing otherwise in good overall condition. A scarcer booklet on Bobby Peel, a very successful but controversial Yorkshire cricketer... View full lot details

‘Yorkshire Team, 1897’. Rev. H.A. Tate. Cricket Press, London 1897. Sixteen page magazine style book comprising a match by match description of Yorkshire’s season with first-class averages and pen portraits of fourteen members of the team. The front cover has a real sepia photograph of the team. Bound in modern brown cloth, original wrappers retained, with gilt titles to spine. Some general ageing throughout with some nicks and small loss to page edges, odd small... View full lot details

‘Yorkshire Cricket Album. Photos of the Team. A Book of Records’. J. Whitham, Sheffield c1901. 16pp booklet comprising twelve pen portraits of Hawke, Jackson, Mitchell, Taylor, Milligan, Brown, Tunnicliffe, Denton, Hirst, Wainwright, Haigh, Rhodes and Hunter. Also lists batting and bowling records, close finishes etc. Bound in blue cloth boards, original wrappers retained, with titles in gilt to spine. Some wear to original wrappers with small corner loss to front and rear wrappers, or soiling... View full lot details

‘Reminiscences of David Hunter- The Genial Yorkshire Stumper’. Scarborough 1909. Small 8vo. Bound in black boards, lacking original wrappers, with gilt titles to spine. Small ownership stamp to title page otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

Northamptonshire v. Yorkshire: At The Wicket 1908-1960’. Compiled by James D. Coldham. Printed by A. Pennings & Co (for the compiler 1961). Bound in black boards with original wrappers, gilt titles to front board and spine. Limited edition of only twenty five copies, this being number 16, signed by Coldham. VG... View full lot details

Yorkshire C.C.C. Annual 1893. 1st year of issue. 100pp. Edited by J.B. Wostinholm. J. Robertshaw, Sheffield, printer. Original maroon boards with tooled decoration, titles in gilt to front board with white rose emblem to centre, gilt to page edges. Ownership signature and date 1967 to front end paper. Padwick 3051. Very minor wear to board corners and head and base of spine otherwise in very good condition. The rare and elusive first edition... View full lot details

Yorkshire C.C.C. Annual 1894. 2nd year of issue. 136pp plus ‘Notes’ pages as issued. Edited by J.B. Wostinholm. J. Robertshaw, Sheffield, printer. Original olive boards with titles in gilt to front board and white ‘Y.C.C.C.’ emblem to centre, gilt to page edges. Ownership signature and date 1967 to front end paper. Padwick 3051. Very minor wear to board corners and head and base of spine, otherwise in very good condition. Rare.... View full lot details

Yorkshire C.C.C. Annual 1895. 3rd year of issue. 134pp plus ‘Notes’ pages as issued. Edited by J.B. Wostinholm. J. Robertshaw, Sheffield, printer. Original blue boards with titles in gilt to front board and gilt ‘Y.C.C.C.’ emblem to centre, gilt to page edges. Ownership signature and date 1972 to front end paper and bookplate of J.W. Goldman to inside front board. Padwick 3051. Very minor wear to board corners and head and base of spine, slight... View full lot details

Yorkshire C.C.C. Annual 1896. 4th year of issue. 136pp plus ‘Notes’ pages as issued. Edited by J.B. Wostinholm. J. Robertshaw, Sheffield, printer. Original red boards with titles in gilt to front board and spine and gilt ‘Y.C.C.C.’ emblem to centre, gilt to page edges. Ownership signature and date 1971 and bookplate of Alfred. D. Taylor to front end paper. Padwick 3051. Very minor wear to board corners and head and base of spine, slight discolouration... View full lot details

Yorkshire C.C.C. Annual 1897. 5th year of issue. 138pp plus ‘Notes’ pages as issued. Edited by J.B. Wostinholm. J. Robertshaw, Sheffield, printer. Original green boards with titles in gilt to front board and spine and gilt ‘Y.C.C.C.’ emblem to centre, gilt to page edges. Ownership signature and date 1972 to front end paper. Padwick 3051. Very minor wear to board corners, minor wear to internal hinges otherwise in very good condition. Rare.... View full lot details

Yorkshire C.C.C. Annual 1898. 6th year of issue. 146pp plus ‘Notes’ pages as issued. Edited by J.B. Wostinholm. J. Robertshaw, Sheffield, printer. Original grey boards with titles in gilt to front board and spine and gilt ‘Y.C.C.C.’ emblem to centre, gilt to page edges. Ownership signature and date 1971 to front end paper. Padwick 3051. Very minor wear to boards otherwise in very good condition. Rare.... View full lot details

Yorkshire C.C.C. Annual 1899. 7th year of issue. 165pp plus ‘Notes’ pages as issued. Edited by J.B. Wostinholm and H.H. Stones. J. Robertshaw, Sheffield, printer. Original brown boards with titles in gilt to front board and spine and gilt ‘Y.C.C.C.’ emblem to centre, gilt to page edges. Ownership signature and date 1971 to front end paper. Padwick 3051. Very minor wear to boards otherwise in very good condition. Rare.... View full lot details

Yorkshire County Cricket Club Annuals 1900 (eighth year of issue) to 2019. Complete run of the annual for the period. Original publisher’s cloth with gilt title and emblem to front covers and spines. Gilt to page edges of issues up to and including 1916 and de-luxe leather bound editions with gilt to page edges for 1934, 1936 and 1937. Plus Life Member leather bound editions again with gilt page edges for 1949, 1950, 1953 and... View full lot details

Yorkshire cricket. Six publications, ‘Some Interesting links of Yorkshire Cricket’. J.W. Overend 1918’. Original pictorial covers with image of ‘Yorkshire County Wranglers at Cambridge’ (Lockwood, Peate, Ullyett and Emmett) to front wrapper, bound in black boards. Sold with ‘How to become a First-Class Batsman’. Herbert Sutcliffe 1949. Bound in black boards, lacking wrappers, nicely signed in blue ink by Sutcliffe to front end paper, ‘The Hon. F.S. Jackson. Bound in leather with original image of... View full lot details

‘Huddersfield Sportsmen of Then and Now’. Harry Fieldhouse’s Cartoons from the Saturday Evening Examiner c.1935. Attractive booklet with full page cartoons of leading sportsman from Huddersfield including George Hirst, Wilfred Rhodes, Percy Holmes, Frank Greenwood (cricket), Sidney Abbey, Henry Tiffany, Stanley Moorhouse (rugby), Billy Smith, W.L. Hardcastle (football) etc. Padwick 2928-1. Wear and soiling to wrappers with old tape repairs to internal hinges. Pages in good condition.... View full lot details

Wilfred Rhodes/ Percy Chapman. Flicker Book. Early Flicker book in cloth covers. ‘Cricket. Rhodes & Chapman’ annotated in ink to page edges. Loss and wear to cloth, extreme bowing through use, overall in only fair condition.... View full lot details

‘The West-Riding Cricketers’ Guide and Diary, Season 1885’. Fourth year of publication. Published by Thomas Briggs, Bingley. Printed by Wm. Byles and Sons, Bradford. Padwick 3016. Ex libris Anthony Woodhouse. Wear and loss to original paper wrappers with tape repair to spine. Internally in good condition.... View full lot details

Yorkshire C.C.C. Annual 2007. Leather bound edition with gilt to all page edges. Front board with gilt titles and club emblem. Limited edition no. 106/150, signed by Darren Gough, captain. VG... View full lot details

Yorkshire cricket biographies, histories and annuals. Four signed hardback biographies, each with good dustwrapper. ‘Happy Go Johnny’, Johnny Wardle 1957, signed by Wardle. ‘From Larwood to Lillee’, Trevor Bailey & Fred Trueman 1983, signed by Trueman. ‘Fred Then and Now’, Don Mosey 1991, signed by Trueman. ‘Champion Times’, Fred Trueman & Don Mosey 1994, signed by both. Sold with ‘Bowling ‘Em Out’. Hedley Verity. London 1936. First edition with rare dustwrapper. Johnny Wardle Benefit Brochure... View full lot details

‘W. Duthoit’s Yorkshire Cricketers’ Guide for 1878. Published by W. Duthoit of Leeds. Only year of publication. Original pink wrappers. Photoplate of Ephraim Lockwood opposite title page. Ex Alfred D. Taylor collection. Padwick 2866. Splitting and small loss to spine, some wear to wrappers, internally in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘W.G. Grace. Cricketer. A record of his performances in first-class matches’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. London 1916. Bound in green boards, with original wrappers preserved, with titles in gilt to spine. The book in excellent condition throughout... View full lot details

W.G. Grace. ‘W.G. or the Champion’s Career’, Arthur J. Waring, Alexander and Shepheard, London 1896. Bound in black boards, with original wrappers, gilt titles to spine. Repair to edge of front wrapper, ink and pencil annotated records of scores to rear of the book, some age toning and minor foxing to internal pages otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

‘Dr W.G. Grace. The King of Cricket’. F.G. Warne. Burleigh’s Penny Biographies. 1899. Bound in black boards, lacking original pictorial wrappers. Some minor wear and odd faults otherwise in good condition. Sold with ‘The History of a Hundred Centuries’. W.G. Grace. Edited by W. Yardley. London 1895. Rebound preserving original wrappers. The rear wrapper with loss to lower border, both wrappers with old tape to wrapper extremities, small loss to lower border of the front... View full lot details

‘The History of a Hundred Centuries’. W.G. Grace. Edited by W. Yardley. London 1895. Some rusting to staples, minor wear to spine, small repair to edge of back wrapper otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

‘Great Cricketers. The Age of Grace & Trumper’. Compiled by George Beldam, jnr. Boundary Books, Cheshire 2000. Limited edition no. 411 of 548, signed by Cornelia Beldam. Short listed for the Cricket Society Book of the Year in 2000. Very good condition... View full lot details

‘Cricket’. W.G. Grace. Bristol 1891. Original green cloth, with gilt titles to front and spine. Nicely signed in ink by Grace to the reverse of the frontispiece. Previously sold as lot 409 in the by Christie’s sale of 9th October 1987. Breaking to internal hinges, otherwise a nice copy in good condition... View full lot details

William Gilbert Grace junior. ‘The Universe: or the Infinitely Great and the Infinitely Little’. F.A. Pouchet. Ninth edition, Blackie & Son, Glasgow & London 1888. Original blue cloth with ornate decorative boards and spine. Gilt to all page edges. Presentation copy with dedication in ink to front end paper to ‘Willliam Gilbert Grace, July 6 [18]88, with love from Uncle and Aunt Nicholls’. Appears to be signed in pencil by Grace junior to the inside... View full lot details

Lancashire publications. ‘Batting and Bowling. With Hints on Fielding and Wicket-Keeping’. R. Gordon Barlow. London 1882. Bound in green boards, with original pictorial wrappers, gilt titles to spine. Old tape to spine edge border of the wrappers. Sadly the top corner edge of the green boards appears to have been chewed by a dog at some point causing a small amount of loss to the top right hand corner affecting slightly the wrapper and book... View full lot details

‘Forty Seasons of First-Class Cricket being the Autobiography and Reminiscences of Richard Gorton Barlow’. R.G. Barlow. First edition, Manchester 1908. Original green cloth with gilt title to front and spine and gilt illustration of Barlow to front cover. Signed in ink to the third end paper by A.N. Hornby, and handwritten dedication in ink in Barlow’s hand to the title page, ‘With the Author’s Compliments’, suggesting that Barlow presented this copy to his fellow Lancashire... View full lot details

‘A Bibliography of Sir Neville Cardus for the years 1913-2023’. Compiled by Prof J.H. St. J. Mcllwaine, edited by Ken Grime. Limited edition number 69/100 produced signed to limitation label by Mcllwaine and Grime. Sold with six further limited edition booklets produced by ‘The Neville Cardus Archive; at Lancashire C.C.C. ‘Cardus: A Reader’s Guide (Ltd edition of 300), ‘My Dear Michael... Cricketing & other extracts from Neville Cardus’s letters to Michael Kennedy, 1959-74’ (Ltd edition... View full lot details

Signed and limited edition books. ‘Cricket’s Great Characters’, Gordon Ross, 1977, limited edition no. 109/300, signed by Ross, ‘Early Memoirs of Frank Woolley’. Kent 1976. Limited signed edition number 34/1000 copies. Signed by Woolley, ‘Magnificent Seven’. Andrew Collomosse. Ilkley 2010. Personal printed dedication to A.D. Laycock laid down to front end paper, signed by Ray Illingworth, Brian Close and the author. Plus two signed leather bound books ‘Cricket Today’ Colin Cowdrey 1961 and Peter... View full lot details

Early cricket books. Seven titles, five bound in full leather boards with gilt titles to spine. Titles are ‘Cricket Illustrated’. ‘Cowan’s Practical Picture Books’ number 3. By G.W. Beldam, Cowans & Gray 1908, ‘The Cricket Field’. J. Pycroft. London 1887, ‘Cricket Stories: Wise and Otherwise’. Gathered by C.W. Alcock. Bristol 1901, ‘Willow & Leather- A Book of Praise’. E.V. Lucas. Bristol 1898, ‘How’s That, Cricket including a Century of Grace’ Harry Furniss. Arrowsmith 1896. These... View full lot details

Cricket books. Eleven titles, several bound in full leather boards with gilt titles to spine. Titles include ‘Scores of the Oxford & Cambridge Cricket Matches from 1827’. H. Perkins 1898, ‘The Blues and Their Battles with scores of all Cricket Matches played between the Universities 1827-1892’. J.N. Pentelow. 1893, ‘Nottinghamshire Cricket and Cricketers’. F.S. Ashley Cooper. London 1923, ‘Victor Trumper- The Beau Ideal of a Cricketer’. Vasant Raiji. Bombay 1964, ‘Ranji. The Authorised Biography’. Roland... View full lot details

‘Famous Cricketers and Cricket Grounds’. C.W. Alcock 1895. Bound copy with original wrappers for each edition. Good condition. Sold with ‘Cricket of Today and Yesterday’. Volumes 1 and 2. Percy Cross Standing. London 1904 and ‘The Book of Cricket’. C.B. Fry 1895. All with original pictorial boards. The Alcock with worn, stained and faded boards, wear to spine, internally good, the Cross Standing with some wear to head and base of spine otherwise in good... View full lot details

Signed cricket books. Good selection of thirty eight mainly biographies and autobiographies of cricketers all signed by the player featured. Signatories include Chris Cowdrey, Dexter, D’Oliveria,, Graveney, Len Hutton, Trueman, Statham, Gower, Greig, Sobers, Malcolm, Warr, Botham (2), Nixon, D. Steele, Bedser twins, Gough, Hussain etc. Good condition... View full lot details

Signed cricket books. Good selection of thirty mainly biographies and autobiographies of cricketers all signed by the player featured. Signatories include Gover, Willis, Randall, Brearley, Hemmings, Woolmer, Cork, John Major MP, Botham, A. Greig, Sobers, Bedser twins, C. Broad etc. Good condition... View full lot details

Signed cricket books. Good selection of thirty one mainly biographies and autobiographies of cricketers all signed by the player featured. Signatories include Benaud (2), Snow, Gooch, Len Hutton, Bailey, Boycott, Gower, A. Greig, Underwood, Lamb, Atherton, Appleyard etc. Sold with a further selection of books with the signature of the player featured on a label laid down to the title or end page. Signatures include Walcott, S. Waugh, K. Miller, J. Hobbs, W. Lawry, Trueman,... View full lot details

Overseas cricketers signed cricket books. Good selection of twenty four mainly biographies and autobiographies of overseas cricketers all signed by the player featured. Signatories include M. Waugh, Lara, Wessels, Gavaskar, Engineer, Benaud (4), B. Richards. R. Hadlee, R. Marsh, Warne, Lillee, J. Thomson, Sobers, C. Walsh, M. Holding, C. Cairns, Aravinda de Silva etc. Good condition... View full lot details

Signed cricket books. Two boxes of seventy five general cricket books including autobiographies, histories, tours etc. Over thirty of the books signed by the player/subject/author featured. Signatories include Gower, Tyson, G. Thorpe, J. Arlott, Sobers, Greig, Botham, Edmonds, Close, J. Edrich, D. Reeve etc. A good selection. Good condition... View full lot details

Cricket Books and brochures. Selection of books including ‘M.C.C. Scores of Matches etc 1886’, ‘Crickety Cricket’ Moffat 1898, ‘Spaldings Cricket Guide and How to play Cricket by Prince Ranjitsinhji 1906 (front wrapper detached), Ron Headley [Benefit] souvenir book 1972, ‘The Life Story of an Eton, Cambridge and All England Cricketer’. C.T. Studd, Derief Taylor Testimonial Fund 197 brochure, ‘Daily Worker Cricket Handbook’ 1948 and 1950, ‘News Chronicle Cricket Annuals’ 1946, 1949, 1951-53 etc. Some faults,... View full lot details

Cricket Books. Selection of twenty one books including biographies, autobiographies, tour and general books, includes media pack for the T20 World Cup held in England 2009, one book signed by artist John Ireland. Sold with forty ‘Sporting Book Club’ editions, nineteen covering cricket and twenty one covering other sports. Good condition... View full lot details

Cricket Books. A collection of pre World War one books: ‘The Complete Cricketer’, Albert E. Knight, London 1906, ‘Twenty Four Years of Cricket’. Arthur A. Lilley. London 1912, ‘The Jubilee Book of Cricket’. Ranjitsinhji, subscribers edition, ‘The Book of Cricket- A New Gallery of Famous Players’. C.B. Fry. Editor. London 1899, ‘Famous Cricketers & Cricket Grounds’. C.W. Alcock. London 1895, ‘The Memorial Biography of Dr W.G. Grace’. Lord Hawke, Harris and Home Gordon. London 1919,... View full lot details

F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Three titles by Ashley-Cooper. ‘Nottinghamshire Cricket and Cricketers’, Nottinghamshire 1923. Original green cloth. Slipped in is an original printed four page report of the Annual General Meeting of Nottinghamshire C.C.C. held 13th February 1924, which reports on the publication of the book. ‘Cricket Highways and Byways’, London 1927. Original green cloth. Both titles in good condition. ‘The Cricket-Field’, James Pycroft, edited by F.S. Ashley-Cooper, London 1922. Original blue cloth, some wear to boards,... View full lot details

Club cricket histories 1867-1983. Four original hardback titles. ‘Guide to the Cricket Ground’, George H. Selkirk, London 1867. Some wear and staining. ‘History of Cricket in Kendal from 1836 to 1905’, James Clarke, Kendal 1906, some foxing, odd page detached. ‘Annals of Brechin Cricket 1849-1927’, Alfred O’Neil, Brechin 1927. ‘A Century of Cricket in South Northumberland 1864-1969’, George Harbottle 1969, signed by the author, good dustwrapper. Also one softback, ‘Cricket in Barnack 1847-1983’, Brian Palmer,... View full lot details

Instructional cricket books. Box comprising nineteen mainly hardback titles. Earlier titles include ‘Cricket. A Popular Handbook of the Game’, G.A. Hutchinson 1887. ‘Cricket for Beginners’, A.C. MacLaren 1896. ‘Cricket’, R.H. Lyttelton 1898. ‘Cricket’, C.B. Fry, K.S. Ranjitsinhji, G.L. Jessop, C.L. Townsend & G. Brann, 1903. ‘The Art of Cricket’, Warwick Armstrong 1922. ‘Cricket and How to Play It’, Gilbert Jessop 1925. ‘Cricket. Can It Be Taught?’, G.A. Faulkner 1926. ‘Batting’, Herbert Sutcliffe and ‘Bowling’, M.S.... View full lot details

Signed cricket autobiographies and histories. Fourteen hardback titles, each with good dustwrapper. Includes one title signed to the title page, ‘Not Out’, Dickie Bird 1978. The remainder signed to label or cutting laid down. Titles are ‘Yorkshire and Back’, Ray Illingworth 1980. ‘The Cricket Revolution’, Bob Willis 1981. ‘Lamb’s Tales’ and ‘My Autobiography, Allan Lamb 1985 and 1996. ‘At the Double’, Richard Hadlee 1985. ‘Out of the Wilderness’, Graham Gooch 1985. ‘Another Bloody Tour’, Frances... View full lot details

Cricket histories and biographies. Eight titles including ‘The Cricket Field’, Rev James Pycroft, London 1873. Sixth edition, revised. Original pictorial boards. Photographic plate of W.G. Grace opposite title page. Breaking to front internal hinge, some staining and wear to boards. ‘Annals of Cricket’. W.W. Read. London 1896. Original pictorial boards with some wear. ‘The Game of Cricket’, Frederick Gale, London 1888, page block partially detached. ‘Kings of Cricket’, Richard Daft, Bristol 1893, breaking to internal... View full lot details

Fairfield Books. Twenty two titles published by Fairfield Books, Bath, each signed by the author and/or subject(s). Includes eleven hardback and three softback signed titles by Stephen Chalke. Signed hardbacks are ‘Runs in the Memory’ 1997, ‘On the Spot’ 1998, ‘Caught in the Memory’ 1999, ‘At the Heart of English Cricket’ 2001, ‘Guess My Story’ 2003, ‘No Coward Soul’ 2003, ‘The Flame Still Burns’ 2007, ‘The Way It Was’ 2008, ‘Micky Stewart and the changing... View full lot details

Cricket biographies and histories. A selection of twenty titles, mainly hardbacks, including four limited editions, the majority signed by the author/ subject. Limited editions are ‘My Dear Victorious Stod’, David Frith 1970, limited edition no. 341/400, signed by Frith. ‘M.C.C. Tour to Australia 1903-1904’, Ronald Cardwell 1988, signed by the author and Bill O’Reilly, no. 160/287. ‘Beyond Reasonable Doubt...’, Joy Munns 1994, signed by Munns, limited edition no. 250/1000. ‘The Elusive Mr Cardus’, Bob Hilton... View full lot details

Cricket histories 1860s onwards. A selection of fourteen titles covering tours, histories and biographies, the majority hardbacks. Earlier titles include ‘Guide to the Cricket Ground’, George H. Selkirk’, London 1867. ‘Cricket’, E. Lyttelton, London 1894. ‘Annals of the Free Foresters’, W.K.R. Bedford & W.E.W. Collins, Edinburgh 1895. ‘Willow & Leather’, E.V. Lucas, Bristol 1898, original decorative paper wrappers. ‘Cricket Highways and Byways’, F.S. Ashley-Cooper, London 1927. ‘Middlesex County Cricket Club’, two volumes, 1900-1920, F.S. Ashley-Cooper,... View full lot details

‘The Cricketers Portrait Gallery. 34 Portraits of Noted Players’. Printed by Tempest, Leeds 1903. 16pp. Original decorative paper wrappers. Comprising reproductions of engravings and photographs of notable cricketers of the period, with Surrey players, Abel and Wood, featured on the front cover, Read and Key on the back. Others include Ranjitsinhji, Lilley, MacGregor, Australians Trott, Giffen, Graham, Gregory, also Lord Hawke, Jackson, Hunter, Denton, Maclaren, Hirst (Yorkshire) etc. Padwick 7197. Vertical fold, light creasing, otherwise... View full lot details

‘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. Minor ageing to boards, some minor wear to the head of the spine. Loosely... View full lot details

‘The Famous Cricketer William Gunn, Full Account of his Cricket Career’. Printed and Published by C.H. Richards, Nottingham 1921. 15pp. Bound in red boards, with original wrappers, gilt titles to spine. Good/very good condition... View full lot details

‘A Biographical Sketch of Arthur Shrewsbury, the Famous Notts Cricketer. With full details of his chief performance in England & Australia’. Compiled and published by S.W. Hitchin, Nottingham 1890. This is an oddity as it appears two copies of the book have been bound together, one with original stiffened boards and the other with original wrappers, the stiffened boards are in blue and the wrappers in pink. Both editions with 42 pages, but the stiffened... View full lot details

‘One Hundred and Fifty Years of Trent Bridge 1888-1988’. P. Wynne-Thomas. Nottingham 1987. Signed to the front end paper by twenty three former Nottinghamshire players. Signatures include T. Robinson, C. Broad, Johnson, Cooper, Cairns, Evans, Pollard, Randall, Newell, Hemmings etc. Good condition... View full lot details

‘Surrey v. Notts at the Wicket’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Published at the ‘Cricket’ Office, London, 1899. 16pp booklet with portraits and statistics, with original paper wrappers featuring a portrait of ‘Mr. W. Burrup, Hon. Sec. Surrey County C.C. 1855 to 1872’. Tipped in to modern green cloth with gilt title to spine. Bookplate of J.W. Goldman to inside front cover. Padwick 2496. The booklet has been expertly restored with some pages reinstated out of sequence, but... 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, &c’. Alfred Shaw and Arthur Shrewsbury. Nottingham 1885. 181pp plus adverts and excellent bookplate photograph of the team. Original decorative card wrappers. Presentation copy with handwritten dedication in ink to title page to the collector, ‘C.P. [Charles Pratt] Green, Malvern, from Arthur Shrewsbury July 8th 1890’. Bookplate of J.W. Goldman... View full lot details

‘Great Cricket Charity Auction Sale’. Original catalogue for the auction held at Lord’s on behalf of St. Dunstan’s Hostel on 14th July 1917, ‘On the occasion of the Military Charity Match, An English Army XI v An Australian Imperial Force XI’. The auctioneer was George Robey. Items included bats used by Grace, Trumper, Lohmann, Hirst, Abel, Rhodes, Spofforth etc. Printed by ‘Sporting Life’. Tipped in to modern cream cloth. Padwick 45-1 (but not seen). Odd... View full lot details

Alfred J. Gaston. ‘Cricket Literature for Sale’. Four page listing with prices of books, ‘Pictures, Engravings, Window Bills, &c.’ for sale by Gaston at 104 Hollingbury Park Avenue, Brighton. Undated but very likely 1924 as a run of Wisdens up to 1923 is listed. Also listed are Love’s ‘Cricket an Heroic Poem’ 1744, ‘Surrey Triumphant’ 1773, and twenty two issues of Lillywhite’s Guide described as ‘Very rare indeed’. Printed by Crowhurst of Brighton. Tipped in... View full lot details

‘A Catalogue of the Extensive Collection of Books on Cricket formed by J.W. Goldman Esq. (The First Portion)’. Catalogue with original decorative paper wrappers for the auction held by Messrs. Hodgson & Co. at 115 Chancery Lane, London, on 24th November 1966. This was the book dealer, E.K. Brown’s copy with prices realised annotated in ink in Brown’s own hand. Slipped in is the eight page list of results with buyers’ names (including many pseudonyms).... View full lot details

Alfred D. Taylor. Four page price list with title to front, ‘For Sale. Having recently purchased a quantity of books on Cricket and Football they are offered for sale at very moderate charges by Alfred D. Taylor, 1, Hove Place, West Brighton, Sussex’. A copy of the ‘Worcestershire Cricket Guide of 1905’ dates this to c.1905. Contained in a modern green quarter leather slipcase with ribbon ties with bookplate of A.E. Winder to inside front... View full lot details

‘A Royal Road to Cricket by an old Sussex Cricketer’. W.A. Bettesworth. London 1891. Dedicated to Lord Sheffield. Padwick 6838. Original pictorial wrappers bound in light brown boards with gilt titles to spine. Some wear, soiling and small amount of damage to wrappers, internally in good condition... View full lot details

Sussex cricket. Four biographies, histories etc published by the Sussex Cricket Museum & Educational Trust, Hove. ‘The Indefatigable Thomson’, Nicholas Sharp and Norman Epps 2018, limited edition no. 75/150, signed by Ian Thomson, ‘Prince Philip. Cricket’s Royal Duke. Robin Marlar, Colin Maynard and Ted Dexter 2021, ‘A Celebration lunch for Robin Marlar and Jim Parks 80th Birthdays’ (2011). Limited edition 139/150 and ‘Golden Minnows in the World Cup 2019’. Robin Marlar 2019. Limited edition 169/500,... View full lot details

Sussex cricket. Five biographies, histories etc published by the Sussex Cricket Museum & Educational Trust, Hove. ‘Hubert Doggart 90 not out’, Packham & Sharpe, Hove 2015, limited edition number 6/100, signed to title page and front cover by Doggart and to title page by John Barclay (letter from an editor included inside), ‘Prince Philip. Cricket’s Royal Duke. Robin Marlar, Colin Maynard and Ted Dexter 2021, ‘A Celebration lunch for Robin Marlar and Jim Parks 80th... View full lot details

Sussex cricket. Five biographies, histories etc published by the Sussex Cricket Museum & Educational Trust, Hove. ‘A Failed Experiment?’, David Jeater, no. 78/100, signed by the author and Jim Parks, ‘Murray Goodwin. A modern-day Sussex Great’. Bruce Talbot’. Limited edition 138/150, signed by Goodwin, ‘Mark Robinson. An Appreciation’. Jon Filby & Nicholas Sharp 2016, limited edition no. 124/150. Signed by Robinson and two contributors, ‘A Celebration lunch for Robin Marlar and Jim Parks 80th Birthdays’... View full lot details

Sussex cricket. Four limited edition booklets published by the Sussex Cricket Museum & Educational Trust, Hove. ‘Richard Barrow. Celebration Dinner’, May 2019. limited edition 40/50, Daniel Ibrahim. Youngest Player to score a Championship Half-Century’, June 2021, limited edition 32/55, signed Dan to front cover, ‘Two Double Centuries in an innings for Sussex and first double century on Debut for Sussex’. Tom Haines and Cheteshwar Pujara. Derbyshire v Sussex 2022, limited edition 49/60, appears to have... View full lot details

‘Field of Dreams. 150 Years at The County Ground, Hove’. Patrick Ferriday & James Mettyear 2022. Limited edition number 57 of 150 copies produced signed by Claire Connor, President of M.C.C., John Barclay, President of Sussex C.C.C., Chris Adams, Three time Championship winning Captain and Rob Andrew, Chief Executive, Sussex C.C.C. Sold with ‘A Pictorial History of Sussex County Cricket Club’. Editored by R. Packham, N. Sharp, P. Barnes & J. Filby. Hove 2014, signed... View full lot details

‘On The Level. Cricket and Society in 18th Century Brighton’. John Goulstone 2019. Hardback with dustwrapper. Limited edition number 45 of fifty hardback copies produced, signed by Goulstone. Very good condition... View full lot details

‘A History of Cricket at Knepp Castle and the Parish of Shipley’ [West Sussex] David Boorman, Published by the Sussex Cricket Museum. Limited edition paperback edition no 38/50, signed by Boorman. VG... View full lot details

‘Sussex County Cricket Club. Its Diamond Jubilee. 1839-1899’. Alfred D. Taylor. Privately printed 1899. Original dark green cloth boards with gilt title to front cover. Padwick 2784 states this edition was limited to one hundred copies. Some mottling to boards, otherwise a nice copy in very good condition.... View full lot details

Sussex cricket. Three original exhibition catalogues relating to Sussex cricket including two held at Hove Museum of Art. ‘Sussex Cricket Past and Present’, original illustrated catalogue for the exhibition held ‘under the auspices of Sussex County Cricket Club’ in 1957, and ‘The Golden Ages of Sussex Cricket’ in 1978. Also ‘Sussex v Australia and the Australian Connection 1878-2001’, held at the County Ground, Hove 2001. Sold with an official souvenir programme for Lord Sheffield’s Australian... View full lot details

Sussex cricket. Three titles. ‘Sussex County Cricket 1728-1923[-5]’, Alfred J. Gaston, Brighton. Fourth edition comprising the third edition of 1924 with the insertion of additional pages to rear and alteration to title on original front wrapper. Dedication in ink to title page in Gaston’s hand ‘To Hunter Schieler Esq.’, dated 14th October 1934. Padwick 2769. Minor wear to original wrappers, rusting to staples, otherwise in good condition. ‘The Golden Ages of Sussex Cricket’, catalogue for... View full lot details

‘Sussex Archaeological Collections relating to the History and Antiquities of the County’. Published by The Sussex Archaeological Society. George P. Bacon, Lewes, Volume XXVIII, 1878. pp. 59-82 comprise ‘On the Archaeology of Sussex Cricket’ by the editor, C.F. Trower, with an engraving of the ‘Cottage at Westhampton where Lillywhite was born’. Fading, damage and loss to spine, otherwise in good condition. Sold with ‘Sussex Archaeological Collections’, a six page reprint produced in 1976 from... View full lot details

‘Heartaches Cricketers’ Almanack’ for 1982, 2019, 2020 and 2022. The 1982 edition is a limited edition no. 10/100, signed to the title page by Club founder and captain Tim Rice, and also a Tim Rice compliment slip laid down to the front end paper also signed by Rice. The 2020 edition also signed and dedicated by Rice. Sold with a printed image of the ‘Odiham & Greywell C.C. v Heartaches C.C. 2009 match being... View full lot details

Tom Webster’s Annuals 1920’s. Selection of four Annuals for 1923, 1924, 1926 and 1927 containing Webster’s cartoons, featuring many sports, including cricket, football, horse racing, golf, billiards, boxing, boat race etc, published in the Daily Mail for each year. Minor wear and age toning to wrappers, some wear to spines and wrapper extremities otherwise in good condition. Sold with a bound volume of Punch Magazine for 1898, with various cartoons, some featuring cricket and including... View full lot details

Cricket handbooks and annuals 1906-1980s. Box comprising a selection of handbooks and annuals. Earlier titles include ‘The Cricket Handbook’ 1906. John Leng & Co. Ltd., Fleet Street, London. Some soiling and wear to original decorative paper wrappers. Age toning to pages, otherwise in good condition. Rare early edition. Four booklets compiled by E.L. Roberts, published by E.F. Hudson in Birmingham, ‘England versus Australia 1877-1934’ 1934, ‘Hedley Verity, Yorkshire & England 1930-1939’ 1943, ‘Bradman 1927- 1941’... View full lot details

Hampshire C.C.C. County Cricket Guide 1913. Official County Guide edited and published by H. King, ‘Hants Advertiser Newspaper’. Original red decorative wrappers. Padwick 2029. Some wear to covers and spine, rusting to staples, otherwise in good/ very good condition... View full lot details

Hampshire C.C.C. County Cricket Guide 1931. Official County Guide edited and published by H. King, ‘Southern Newspapers Ltd.’. Original red decorative wrappers. Padwick 2029. Very good condition... View full lot details

Hampshire C.C.C. County Cricket Guide 1938. Official County Guide edited and published by H. King, ‘Southern Newspapers Ltd.’. Original red decorative wrappers. Padwick 2029. Very good condition... View full lot details

‘Evening News Cricket Annual’ 1897-1907. Complete set of all eleven issues of the annual published by Associated Newspapers, London, each in original decorative paper wrappers, all contained in a modern maroon slip box. All issues illustrated by ‘Rip’, the first three compiled by ‘Umpire’. The last two issues for 1906 & 1907 are a slightly larger format with the title ‘Evening News Cricket & Sporting Annual’. Padwick 1070. Wrappers for the 1899 issue split and... View full lot details

‘Frank Sugg’s Pocket Cricket Annual 1898-1903. Three issues of the Annual for 1898, 1899 and 1903. Edited by Frank and Walter Sugg, Liverpool. Padwick 1115. The 1898 issue tipped in to modern blue cloth boards, original decorative card wrappers retained. Some wear to original wrappers, otherwise in good/ very good condition. The 1899 in original red cloth wrappers. Some age toning, otherwise good. The 1903 in original paper wrappers with some wear and age toning,... View full lot details

‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’ 1885 & 1888. Two bound volumes. Volume IV. Numbers 80-109 (31st January to 24th December 1885). Bound in modern green leather, title in gilt to spine. Title page and contents page to front, lacking original wrappers. Lacking issue no. 98 and supplement for 23rd July. Loss and tape repair to p.13/14. Staining to some pages. Volume VII. Numbers 170-199 (26th January to 27th December 1888). Bound in publisher’s... View full lot details

Association of Cricket Statisticians publications. Near complete run of ninety two ‘Famous Cricketers Series’ booklets comprising numbers 7-50, 54, 55, 57-100 with duplicate copies of nos. 26 & 29. Subjects include Washbrook, Armstrong, Tarrant, Ranjitsinhji, Hammond, Grace, Duleepsinhji, Statham , Lindwall, Parr, Spofforth, Blythe, Weekes, Bradman, Walcott, Hayward, Compton etc. G/VG... View full lot details

‘Cricket, and how to play it, with the rules of the Marylebone Club’. John Wisden. Dean & Son of Fleet Street. New and revised edition c1880. Bound in light brown boards, original decorative pictorial paper wrappers, gilt titles to spine. Good/very good condition... View full lot details

Cricket, and how to play it, with the rules of the Marylebone Club’. by Robert Abel (Member of the Surrey Eleven). Dean & Son of Fleet Street. (Dean’s Champion Handbooks) 1894. New and revised edition. Padwick 482. Bound in green boards, with original decorative paper wrappers, gilt titles to spine. Minor age toning to rear wrapper otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

‘Boys of England Cricket Guide’ New Edition Complete. Edwin John Brett. New and revised edition. 32pp, portraits. date unknown, first publication believed to be 1867? but this may well be slightly later. Bound in black boards, with original colourful pictorial wrappers, gilt titles to spine. The booklet with minor age toning and slight foxing otherwise in very good condition. Rare... View full lot details

‘Surrey Cricket and Cricketers 1773 to 1895. A complete summary of every match played with various interesting tables’. Rev. R.S. Holmes. Offices of “Cricket”, London 1896. 80pp plus advertising pages. Original decorative paper wrappers bound in black boards. Good/ very good condition... View full lot details

‘Hampshire County Cricket’, H.S. Altham, J. Arlott, E.D.R. Eagar & R. Webber 1957. Bound in black leather with gilt titles to spine. Signed to title page by all four contributors, Altham, Arlott, Eagar and Webber and signed to the back of the title page by former Hampshire player, Sam Pothecary. VG... View full lot details

‘The English Cricketers’ Trip to Canada and the United States in 1859’. Frederick Lillywhite. First edition, London 1860. Original green boards with title in gilt to front. Illustrated, complete with fold out map. Padwick 4893. Slight breaking to internal hinges and page block, some internal foxing, otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

‘England v Australia, the Story of the Test Matches’, J.N. Pentelow, Bristol 1895, bound in three quarter red leather binding with marbled boards, lacking original wrappers, with gilt titles to spine. Bold ink signature of Pentelow laid to front end paper, Ex Goldman Collection. Good condition... View full lot details

‘The Australian Cricket Team of 1893’. Henry V.L. Stanton of ‘The Sportsman’. First edition, ‘Sport & Play’, Birmingham 1893. 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. Rusting to staple, otherwise in very nice condition. Rare.... View full lot details

‘Shadows Over the Wicket with the British Empire XI Seasons 1940 to 1945’ by ‘The Official Scorer’, E. Hoskin. Printed and published by John Jennings, Gloucester, 1946. Original decorative card wrappers. Hoskin was the official scorer for the British Empire team and this was his copy signed in ink by him to the title page with further signatures of players and others to the title page and inside front cover. Signatures are W. Taylor (Umpire),... View full lot details

‘Cricket’. Frederic Wood. Warne’s Bijou Books series, London 1866. Original very small format book in original brown decorative cloth with tooled gilt illustration of a batsman and title to front cover. Gilt to page edges. Colour plate of a cricket scene to front. Padwick 485. Good condition... View full lot details

‘Scores Made In County Matches by The Gloucestershire County Cricket Club’. 1870-1987. Published by J.W. Arrowsmith, Bristol. A compilation of issues comprising a full run for the period, all bound in one volume in maroon boards with title and Gloucestershire emblem to front board in gilt. Includes an original front wrapper of ‘Scores of the Gloucestershire County Cricket Club’ with single page of two matches played in 1863 and 1868 bound in to the front.... View full lot details

‘Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket. A Collection of 1000 New Cricket Notices from 1697 to 1800’. G.B. Buckley. Birmingham 1935. Bound in red three quarter leather binding, with marbled end papers, gilt titles to spine. VG... View full lot details

‘From “Last” to “Lords”. Incidents during the career of G.P. Harrison, The Old County Cricketer’. J.W. Northing. Bound in black boards. Signed by Harrison with pencil date written next to the signature of May 17th 1934. G/VG... View full lot details

‘The Centenary of the Marylebone Cricket Club 1787-1887’. Compiled by Henry Perkins 1887. A short summary of the history of the club, the names of those present at the Centenary Dinner, and a resume of the speeches delivered thereat. Twenty seven page book, hardback red covers with titles and page edges in gilt. Printed by G.H. Whittmann of London. Breaking to internal hinges, centre page section detached otherwise in good/very good condition. G... View full lot details

‘The Cricket Bat and how to use it. A Treatise on the Game of Cricket. With Practical and Scientific Instructions on Batting, Bowling and Fielding...’. ‘An Old Cricketer’. Nicholas Wanostrocht. London 1863. 96pp. Bound in leather boards, with gilt titles to spine, the pages unevenly bound, some breaking to internal hinges otherwise in good condition. Sold with ‘The Cricket Field or The History and the Science of Cricket’. J. Pycroft. Boston 1859. 269pp. Bound in... View full lot details

‘Gentlemen v Players’, Percy Cross Standing, Wright & Co, London 1892. Bound in three quarter leather binding (worn) with original decorative card wrappers. This book was originally in the library of A.J. Gaston, cricket collector of Brighton and has his handwritten notes to many pages, in addition there are handwritten notes, corrections and additions made by Arthur Haygarth, author of ‘Cricket Scores and Biographies’ and by F.S. Ashley-Cooper. The Ashley-Cooper notes usually initialled by him.... View full lot details

‘The Origins of Cricket. The History of two Hampshire Clubs (Odiham & Greywell C.C. circa 1980. Two copies of the 30pp booklet, one bound in green boards. The bound copy signed to the ‘autographs’ page by ten players of the Old England XI including D’Oliveira, Parks, Hobbs, Milton, Booth, Cartwright, Titmus Oakman etc and the other by a Hampshire team, twelve signatures including Parks, Gower, Udal, Middleston, Ayling, Connor Terry, Tremlett etc who presumably played... View full lot details

‘A Portfolio of Cricket Prints. A Nineteenth Century Miscellany’. Introduction and Notes by Irving Rosenwater. London 1962. Original pictorial wrappers. Odd minor faults otherwise in good/very good condition... View full lot details

‘The Story of Warwickshire Cricket. A History of the Warwickshire County Cricket Club and Ground 1882-1972’. L. Duckworth. London 1974. Dustwrapper. The book nicely signed in ink to the front end paper by fourteen members of the Warwickshire team. Signatures include David Brown (Captain), Kanhai, Kallicharran, Jameson, Willis, Murray, M. Smith, Amiss, Hemmings, Whitehouse etc. The book contains a letter of provenance for the signatures from the club Secretary dated 7th June 1975. Odd minor... View full lot details

‘Our Village. Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery’. Mary Russell Mitford. A collection of the five volumes published from Mitford’s series, ‘Our Village’ drawn from scenes and characters based upon her life in the village of Three Miles Cross in Berkshire. Comprises Volume I third Edition, London 1825, which includes a chapter, ‘A Country Cricket Match’, Volume II second edition 1827, and Volume III first edition 1828. All three published by Geo. B. Whittaker, Ave... View full lot details

‘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... View full lot details

‘Hampstead Cricket Club. A Record of the Year 1901’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Privately printed for the members of the Hampstead Cricket Club 1901. Bound in modern green cloth with gilt title to front, original card wrappers retained. Comprises 71pp of match scores, statistics etc. with references to F.R. Spofforth and A.E. Stoddart etc. Annotation in pencil to title page ‘Presentation copy to “Country Vicar”, and dedication in ink, ‘R.H. Hodgson, Esq., With the best wishes of... View full lot details

‘A Score, A Score and Ten. Poems’. G.D. Martineau. London 1927. Original hardback with very good dustwrapper. A collection of poetry including a section on ‘Songs of the Crease’ with nine poems on cricket. To the front end paper is an eight line handwritten poem titled ‘Cricket and Politics’, signed by Martineau. Padwick 6494. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Pakistan tour to India 1960/61. ‘Pakistan v/s India. Cricketers in Cartoon’ by Thackeray. A ‘Marmik Publication’ printed and published by S.K. Thackeray, Bombay, 1960. 36pp booklet with decorative wrappers comprising cartoon portraits and biographies of the Pakistan and India players for the 1960/61 tour. Printed signatures of the Pakistan players to rear cover. Slipped in is an unused double sided printed scoresheet. Padwick 5720. Some age toning, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Cricketers’ Guide, or A Concise Treatise on the Noble Game of Cricket, as practised by the most eminent players...’. William Lambert. Fifth edition ‘with considerable additions and corrections’. Sussex Press, Lewes: printed and sold by J. Baxter; by Mozley, Derby; and in London, by Langley and Co. c.1819[?]. 62pp booklet lacking the important folding copperplate engraved frontispiece plate. The book appears to have been bound in early card wrappers to which is laid a... View full lot details

‘Lillywhite’s Guide to Cricketers’ 1864 and ‘James Lillywhite’s Cricketers Annual’ 1873-1900. ‘The Guide to Cricketers, containing full directions for playing the noble and manly game of Cricket...’ London. 1864. 19th Edition. Collected and Edited by Frederick Lillywhite. Original copy of the rare 1864 edition in original paper wrappers. Heavy loss and staining to wrappers and spine with rounding to page corners. Also a good run of the Cricketer’s Annual for years 1873, 1875, 1877 and... View full lot details

The Stoics Cricket Club. Official menu for the 75th Anniversary Dinner of this famous wandering club held at Simpsons Restaurant, London on 14th November 1952. Large 12pp menu with card wrappers, comprising history, photographs, menu, toasts etc. with coloured cord. Some famous names feature. Minor wear to spine, otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

‘Cricket in the Weald. With Final Foot-notes to the previous Issues of this Series’ by H.P.-T. [Percy Francis Thomas]. Published and printed by C.H. Richards, Nottingham 1929. 128pp plus 23pp index to publications to rear. Original paper wrappers. Padwick 837. Very good condition.... View full lot details

New Zealand Cricket 1914-1933. Vol II. T.W. Reese. Auckland 1936. Original dustwrapper. Padwick 3751. Bookplate of Anthony Woodhouse to front endpaper. Minor tears to dustwrapper with tape repair. Small tear to one page, otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

‘Triangular Cricket. Being a Record of the Greatest Contest in the History of the Game’. E.H.D. Sewell. London 1912. Top edge gilt. Original green cloth, title and decoration to front and gilt to spine and top page edges. Padwick 5012. Minor wear to boards, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Somerset County Cricket Facts and Figures from 1891 to 1924’. Compiled by F.J.C. Gustard. Taunton 1925. Ex J.W. Goldman collection. Sold with a hardback album with cuttings images of Somerset teams from 1891 to 2001 laid to pages. Qty 2. Very good condition... View full lot details

‘Cricket Notes’. William Bolland. Trelawney Saunders, London 1851. ‘With a letter containing Practical Hints by William Clark’. Bound in publisher’s red cloth with gilt emblem to front for ‘All The Men and Women Players’. Replacement spine. To inside front endpaper is the ownership name in ink of Robert Stratton Holmes, dated ‘Liverpool 30.6.[18]86’, with a cutting of a newspaper review laid down below. Scarce signature to title page of Charles Box, Grosvenor Park, Camberwell, dated... View full lot details

‘Cricket Scores, Notes, &c. From 1730-1773. Written as reported in the different newspapers....’. Compiled by H.T. Waghorn. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh 1899. Original red decorative boards, tooled bat and ball emblem to front, gilt title to spine. Bookplates of W. Clafton and G.B. Buckley to inside front cover and front endpaper with pencil annotations by Buckley stating that this was a presentation copy to him and that annotations to pages throughout are in his... View full lot details

‘Cricket. How to Become a Great Batsman and a Great Bowler’. J.A. Veerasawmy. Georgetown, Demerera, British Guiana, first edition 1936. Presentation copy ‘To R.J. Abel Esq. “A Great Batsman” from J.A. Veerasawmy’ with a lengthy handwritten dedication, ‘With fond memory and sincere gratitude for the honour of having had cricketing lessons from so great a cricketer, lessons which laid the foundations of my cricket thought and which inspired this effort. J.A. Veerasawmy 16-3-36’. The printed... View full lot details

‘Scores of the “Incogniti” Cricket Club 1861 to 1870’. Compiled by A.W.L. Hemming. James Wakeham, London 1871. Comprises lists of fixtures, match scores and batting averages by season. Original purple cloth covers, gilt title to spine. Padwick 1277. Tipped in to the front of the book are two letters from Hemming to A.J. Gaston. The first 6pp letter, dated 22nd June 1894, refers to Gaston’s series of articles in the ‘Cricket Field’ in 1894 where... View full lot details

‘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. Rebound in later green cloth with gilt titles to front and spine. Presentation copy inscribed in ink to front end paper ‘Presented by the compiler to “Old Ebor” [A.W. Pullin], 14th June 1904’. Sale plate of H.A. Cohen... View full lot details

‘Lord’s 1787-1945’. Sir Pelham Warner. George G. Harrap & Co., London, first edition 1946. Original blue cloth covers with gilt to front and spine, and good dustwrapper. Presentation copy signed in ink to the title page by Warner, with dedication to half title page, ‘To Percy [Chapman] from Plum with every good wish’, and ownership signature to front endpaper of ‘A.P.F. Chapman Dec 1946’. Padwick 1021. Slight breaking to front internal hinge, some foxing to... View full lot details

‘Sportsascrapiana. Facts in Athletics’. Edited by ‘CAW’ [C.A. Wheeler]. Simpkin, Marshall & Co., London, second edition 1868. Original colour pictorial stiffened boards with later replacement spine. Includes cricket reminiscences of Edward H. Budd (Middlesex, Gentlemen, M.C.C., England etc. 1804-1831). Handwritten dedication in ink to the title page by Wheeler, ‘Dear Mr. Prowse, Please accept this humble vol. Believe me! Thine to the chine...’. Bookplate to inside front cover of A.E. Winder with ownership signature of... View full lot details

‘Bat and Ball’ B.B.C. Television broadcast 26th August 1954. 26 pages of mainly large format typed instructions, transcripts and directions for the enactment and filming of the programme on the story of the Bat and Ball ground at Hambledon, which took place at Earl’s Court Arena. The suggested running order opens with John Arlott standing near the monument to introduce the setting, the members, equipment and play. The match was enacted with well-known cricketers participating... View full lot details

‘Lambert’s Cricketer’s Guide or Instructions and Rules, for playing the Noble Game of Cricket...’. William Lambert. Sussex Press, Lewes. First Edition 1816. Printed and published by J. Baxter. ‘Illustrated by an Elegant Copper-Plate Engraving’. 55pp. Handsomely bound in full calf with raised bands and gilt title label to spine, original stiffened paper wrappers retained. Includes the folded frontispiece engraving of the ‘Cricketing’ scene, with a match in progress in the Paddock, a field below Lewes... View full lot details

‘A Picture of the Manners, Customs, Sports, and Pastimes of the Inhabitants of England’, Jehoshaphat Aspin. London 1825. Description of cricket on pp246-249 with stoolball and trap ball. Original decorative board covers with red leather spine. Wear to boards. ‘The Illustrated Family Friend Almanack and Housekeeper’s Guide’ 1854. Original decorative paper wrappers with illustration to front cover featuring a cricket scene. Bookplates of A.E. Winder to inside front covers of both titles. ‘Feltham’s Cricket Directory... View full lot details

‘The Torpedo, A Poem to the Electrical Eel. Addressed to Mr. John Hunter, Surgeon: and Dedicated to The Right Honourable Lord Cholmondeley.’ London 1777. Bound in later blue cloth with black calf spine and corners, gilt title to spine, marbled endpapers. Comprises 17 pages of verse with five page introductory ‘Dedication to Lord Cholmondeley’. A footnote on page 14 refers to the Duke of Dorset, ‘Every one knows the attachment of the Duke of D-rs-t... View full lot details