Catalogue for the auction of
Wisden Cricketers’ Almanacks
and Cricket Books

‘Imperial Cricket’. P.F. Warner. London 1912. Large ‘Limited Edition de Luxe’ issue of 100 copies, this being no. 95. Original full vellum covers, all edges gilt. Beautifully signed by Warner to title page ‘Pelham F. Warner’. Subscriber 95 appears to be Edgar Hornby. Some staining and wear to vellum boards, minor wear to page edges, indentation to top right hand corner of front board, internally very good condition. Rare... View full lot details

‘Long Innings- The Autobiography’. Sir Pelham Warner. London 1951. Quarter leather. Gilt to top edges, other pages uncut. Limited edition of 260, this being number 22. Signed in ink by Warner. Name of ownership and date ‘1961’ handwritten to the inside of the front end paper. VG... View full lot details

Gooch’s Golden Summer’. Bill Frindall. Boundary Books, Holmes Chapel 1991. Quarter leather. Limited edition 23/333 copies published. Signed by Gooch, Frindall and Trevor Bailey who wrote the appreciation. VG... View full lot details

‘Cricketers Of My Time’. E.W. Swanton. 1999. Limited edition quarter leather bound copy with gilt to top edge. Limited edition no. 2 of 100 copies produced, signed by Swanton. Name of ownership and date handwritten to the inside of the front end paper. Press cuttings of Swanton obituary and a letter from Boundary Books laid down to rear end paper VG... View full lot details

‘Last Over’. E.W. Swanton and David Rayvern Allen. Richard Cohen Books, London, 1996. Limited edition quarter leather bound copy with gilt to all edges by Boundary Books. Limited edition of 90 copies, this being copy 62. Signed to the limitation page by Swanton and Rayvern Allen. VG... View full lot details

‘Sketches at Lord’s’. Michael Down and Derek West. London 1990. Numbered ‘Collector’s’ limited edition of 150 copies bound in full leather by Boundary Books, in slipcase, gilt to page edges. Signed by both Down and West. Limited edition no. 73/150. Name of ownership and date handwritten to the inside of the front end paper. Very good condition... 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. 50/200. Name of ownership and date handwritten to the inside of the front end paper. Very good condition... View full lot details

‘The Compleat Cricketer. A short sketch of H.S. Altham’. E.W. Swanton. Bournemouth 1960. Limited edition of twenty five copies, this being an ‘Out of Series’ copy, signed by Altham and Swanton. Name of ownership and date ‘1968’ handwritten to the inside of the front end paper. Good/very good condition... View full lot details

‘Readers’ Guide to Hampshire Cricket’. Desmond Eagar. Privately published 1964. Green boards with gilt title to front. 12pp. Limited edition of only twenty five copies, this being number 25. Signed to the title page by Eagar. Sale plate for H.A. Cohen to inside front cover. Slipped in is the original sale receipt from Epworth Books to Cohen dated 1964. Padwick 17. Very good condition. Rare.... View full lot details

‘Cricket in Hampshire’. Stephen Saunders. Privately published 1997. Original navy cloth with gilt titles to front and spine. 30pp. Limited edition of only thirty copies, this being number 24. Signed to the limitation page by Saunders. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘A History of Derbyshire County Cricket Club 1870-1970’. John Shawcroft. First edition, Derby 1970. Green leather with gilt titles to front and spine. Limited edition no. 51/250. Good/very good condition... View full lot details

‘The History of Derbyshire County Cricket Club’. John Shawcroft. Christopher Helm series 1989. Original blue boards. Autographed limited edition of 200 copies, this being number 48. Ink signatures of fourteen Derbyshire Captains 1949-1995 on official printed insert laid down to inside cover. Signatures include Skinner, Vaulkhard, Willatt, Carr, Buxton, Barlow, Steele, Wood, Barnett etc. In official slip case. Very good condition... View full lot details

‘You Guys are History!’. Devon Malcolm. London 1998. Specially bound quarter leather binding limited edition, number 34 of 57 copies produced, signed to limitation page by Malcolm. Very good condition... View full lot details

‘Summer of ‘65’. David Green. Quorn 2015. Leather bound limited edition no. 31/50, signed by the author and by four Lancashire cricketers, Ken Shuttleworth, Alan Beddow, David Lloyd and Duncan Worsley. VG... View full lot details

‘The Story of Three Black Pears, Early Worcestershire Cricket’. Bernard Bridgewater. Worcester 1998. Limited edition no. 75/500. Green cloth with quarter leather. Very good condition... View full lot details

‘Cricket Tickets : Lord’s Ground Tickets 1993-2018’. Jules Akel. Christopher Saunders Publishing Limited, 2019. Limited edition number 5/50 books produced, signed by Jules Akel, Colin Maynard and Paul Rennie, with specimen tickets housed in pockets at the rear. Bound in green cloth and housed in slipcase. Very good condition... 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. Bound in full maroon leather with gilt titles to front and spine. Limited edition of 50 copies printed, this being no. 44, signed by the author. Good/very good condition... View full lot details

Worcestershire C.C.C. histories and biographies. A selection of fourteen mainly modern hardback and softback titles with the odd signed or limited edition including ‘Hick ‘n’ Dilley Circus’, Graeme Hick & Graham Dilley 1990, signed by Hick. ‘The Story of Three Black Pears’, Bernard Bridgewater 1998, limited edition no. 123/500. ‘Don Kenyon. His Own Man’, Tim Jones 2015, signed ‘Tim’. ‘A Celebration of New Road, Worcester- ‘”A Special Place”’, Richard Bentley 2014, signed by Bentley. Other... View full lot details

‘Pamphlets and Programmes of the 1932-33 M.C.C. Tour to Australia and New Zealand. From the collection of Roy F. Ramsbottom’. Privately published by Ramsbottom, Little Budworth 2006. Softback. Limited edition of fifty copies of which only forty were available for sale, this being no. 38. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Champions of Cricket’. Gerald Brodribb. Cricket Book Society, Hunstanton 1947. 94pp. Limited edition of only forty copies produced bound in original navy cloth, gilt title to spine. Bookplate of Brodribb to inside front cover with handwritten dedication in ink to front endpaper to ‘Gerald [Brodribb], Best Wishes, Roy [Webber]’, Webber being the then Secretary of the Cricket Book Society. Minor wear to board extremities, otherwise in very good condition. Sold with a further copy, being... View full lot details

Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1877-1878. Hardback ‘blue book’. Original decorative boards. Gilt titles and to all page edges with silver gilt Kent emblem ‘Invicta’ to centre. Printed by C.E. Davey, ‘Kent Herald’ Office 1878. Minor age toning, wear and slight darkening to board edges, slight fading and wear to spine otherwise in very good condition with titles bright. Very rare first issue of the ‘blue book’... View full lot details

Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1878-1879. Hardback ‘blue book’. Original decorative boards. Gilt titles and to all page edges with silver gilt Kent emblem to centre. Printed by C.E. Davey, ‘Kent Herald’ Office 1879. Minor age toning, wear and slight darkening to board edges, slight fading and wear to spine otherwise in very good condition with titles bright. Very rare second issue of the ‘blue book’... View full lot details

Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1879-1880. Hardback ‘blue book’. Original decorative boards. Gilt titles and to all page edges with silver gilt Kent emblem to centre. Printed by C.E. Davey, ‘Kent Herald’ Office 1880. Light foxing to odd outer page at front and rear, very minor age toning to board edges, slight fading and wear to spine otherwise in very good condition with titles bright. Rare third issue of the ‘blue book’... View full lot details

Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1880-1881. Hardback ‘blue book’. Original decorative boards. Gilt titles and to all page edges with silver gilt Kent emblem to centre. Printed by C.E. Davey, ‘Kent Herald’ Office 1881. Some breaking to internal hinges, slight fading and wear to spine otherwise in very good condition with titles bright. Rare fourth issue of the ‘blue book’... View full lot details

Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1881-1882. Hardback ‘blue book’. Original decorative boards. Gilt titles and to all page edges with silver gilt Kent emblem to centre. Printed by the ‘Kentish Gazette’ 1882. Broken front internal hinge, some age toning, wear and darkening to the board extremities, fading and wear to spine with some splitting and loss of spine paper otherwise in good/very good condition, some dulling to the silver of the emblem. The book is... View full lot details

Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1882-1883. 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’ 1883. Broken front and rear internal hinges, slight age toning, wear and darkening to the board extremities, minor fading and wear to spine otherwise in very good condition. The book reverts back to the original size of the annual and continues in... 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. Some breaking to the front internal hinges, front end paper cleanly detached, some wear, age toning and slight fading to the gilt titles, some light foxing to pages otherwise in good condition. Rare seventh issue of the ‘blue book’... View full lot details

Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1884-1885. 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’ 1885. Minor age toning, wear and slight darkening to board extremities, slight fading and wear to spine otherwise in very good condition with titles bright. Ink ownership signature of Robert Stratton Holmes, dated Liverpool 1890, to title page. Rare eighth issue of... 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. Vertical creasing to front board, minor age toning, wear and slight darkening to board extremities, slight fading and wear to spine, light foxing to odd page at the front, very minor annotation to odd page at the rear otherwise in good/very... View full lot details

Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1886-1887. Hardback ‘blue book’. Original decorative boards. Gilt titles with silver gilt Kent emblem to centre. Printed by J. Burgiss-Brown, Maidstone 1887. Minor wear and odd mark to boards otherwise in good/very good condition. Ink ownership signature to front end paper. Rare tenth issue of the ‘blue book’... View full lot details

Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1887-1888. Hardback ‘blue book’. Original decorative boards. Gilt titles with silver gilt Kent emblem to centre. Printed by J. Burgiss-Brown, Maidstone 1888. Minor wear and slight darkening to board extremities, slight fading and wear to spine, very slight breaking to internal hinges otherwise in good/very good condition. Rare... View full lot details

Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1888-1889. Hardback ‘blue book’. Original decorative boards. Gilt titles with silver gilt Kent emblem to centre. Printed by J. Burgiss-Brown, Maidstone 1889. Minor wear and slight darkening to board extremities, slight fading and wear to spine otherwise in good/very good condition. Rare... View full lot details

Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1890. Hardback ‘blue book’. Original decorative boards. Gilt titles with silver gilt Kent emblem to centre. Printed by J. Burgiss-Brown, Maidstone 1890. Minor wear and slight darkening to board extremities, slight fading and wear to spine otherwise in good/very good condition. Rare... View full lot details

Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1890-1891. Hardback ‘blue book’. Original decorative boards. Gilt titles with silver gilt Kent emblem to centre. Printed by J. Burgiss-Brown, Maidstone 1891. Minor wear and slight darkening to board extremities, slight fading and wear to spine otherwise in good/very good condition. Rare... View full lot details

Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1892. Hardback ‘blue book’. Original decorative boards. Gilt titles and to all page edges with silver gilt Kent emblem to centre. Printed by J. Burgiss-Brown, Maidstone 1892. Minor wear and slight darkening to board extremities, slight fading and wear to spine otherwise in good/very good condition. Rare... View full lot details

Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1893. Hardback ‘blue book’. Original decorative boards. Gilt titles and to all page edges with silver gilt Kent emblem to centre. Printed by J. Burgiss-Brown, Maidstone 1893. Minor age toning to boards and spine otherwise in very good condition. Blind embossed bookplate ‘Library of Michael Beer’ to title page. Rare... View full lot details

Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1894. 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’ 1894. Minor age toning to boards and spine otherwise in very good condition with bright gilt titles. Blind embossed bookplate ‘Library of Michael Beer’ to title page. Rare... View full lot details

Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1895. Hardback ‘blue book’. Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1895. 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’ 1895. Very minor age toning to boards and spine otherwise in very good condition with bright gilt titles. Bookplate of J.W. Goldman to inside front board. Additional ink signature of ownership to title... View full lot details

Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1896. 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’ 1896. Minor age toning to boards and spine otherwise in very good condition with bright gilt titles. Stamp for Kent C.C.C. to front end paper. Rare... View full lot details

Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1897. 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’ 1897. Minor age toning to boards and spine otherwise in very good condition with bright gilt titles. Bookplate of J.W. Goldman to inside front board. Rare... View full lot details

Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1898. 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’ 1898. Minor age toning to boards and spine otherwise in very good condition with bright gilt titles. Bookplate of J.W. Goldman to inside front board. Rare... View full lot details

Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1899. 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’ 1899. Some wear and age toning to boards and spine, fading to the spine paper otherwise in good/very good condition with bright gilt titles. Rare... View full lot details

Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1900. 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’ 1900. Minor age toning to boards and spine otherwise in very good condition with bright gilt titles. Bookplate of J.W. Goldman to inside front board and additional ink signature of ownership to title page dated 1905. Rare... View full lot details

Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1901. 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’ 1901. Minor age toning to front board, some staining to rear board, fading to spine otherwise in very good condition with bright gilt titles. Bookplate of J.W. Goldman to inside front board... View full lot details

Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1902. Hardback ‘blue book’. Original decorative boards. Gilt titles and to all page edges with gilt Kent emblem to centre. Printed by the Kentish Express (Igglesdon & Co) of Ashford 1902. Minor age toning to boards, some fading and wear to spine otherwise in very good condition with bright gilt titles... View full lot details

Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1903. Hardback ‘blue book’. Original decorative boards. Gilt titles and to all page edges with gilt Kent emblem to centre. Printed by the Kentish Express (Igglesdon & Co) of Ashford 1903. Some minor fading to spine paper otherwise in very good condition with bright gilt titles... View full lot details

Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1904. Hardback ‘blue book’. Original decorative boards. Gilt titles and to all page edges with gilt Kent emblem to centre. Printed by the Kentish Express (Igglesdon & Co) of Ashford 1904. Some minor fading to spine paper otherwise in very good condition with bright gilt titles... View full lot details

Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1905-1910. Six editions of the hardback ‘blue book’. Original decorative boards. Gilt titles and to page edges with gilt Kent emblem to centre. ‘Light’ fading to spines, odd minor faults otherwise in good/ very good condition with gilt titles bright... View full lot details

Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1911 to 1915, 1919 and 1920. Seven editions of the hardback ‘blue book’. Original decorative boards. Gilt titles and to page edges, of the first five editions, with gilt Kent emblem to centre. ‘Light’ fading to spines, odd newspaper cutting loosely attached to inner boards, corner crease to the 1912 edition front board, some wear and damage to the boards of the 1920 edition, loss to the corner of the... View full lot details

Kent County Cricket Club. The Canterbury Cricket Week 1842-1891 : Its Origin, Career, and Jubilee. E. Milton Small. Printed for the Author by J.A.Jennings, Canterbury (1892). This is the second issue, having 2 additional pages (pp152-154) with the scores from the 1891 matches. Decorative printed paper wrappers. Ageing and wear to wrappers, loss of spine paper, and a piece cut from the top corner of the first advertising page, some breaking to page block otherwise... View full lot details

Somerset County Cricket Club 1890. Very rare first edition of the Year Book. Alex Hammett, Taunton 1891. Original decorative boards. Minor wear and soiling to boards, loss to the lower corner of the front wrapper, corner crease and nick to the rear wrapper otherwise in good/very good condition... View full lot details

Somerset County Cricket Club Year Book 1890 and 1891. Compiled by Tom H. Knight. Alex Hammett, Taunton 1892. Original decorative boards. Minor wear and soiling to boards otherwise in very good condition. Rare second year of publication... View full lot details

Somerset County Cricket Club Year Book 1892. Compiled by Tom H. Knight. Alex Hammett, Taunton 1893. Original decorative boards. Minor wear and soiling to boards otherwise in very good condition. Rare third year of publication.... View full lot details

Somerset County Cricket Club Year Book 1893. Compiled by Tom H. Knight. Alex Hammett, Taunton 1894. Original decorative boards. Minor wear and soiling to boards otherwise in very good condition. Rare fourth year of publication... View full lot details

Somerset County Cricket Club Year Book 1894. Compiled by Tom H. Knight. Alex Hammett, Taunton 1895. Original decorative boards. Minor wear and soiling to boards, some surface loss to the vertical edge of the rear board otherwise in good/very good condition. 5th year of publication... View full lot details

Somerset County Cricket Club Year Book 1895. Compiled by W.E. Webb. Hammett & Co, Taunton 1896. Original decorative boards. Minor wear and soiling to boards otherwise in very good condition. 6th year of publication... View full lot details

Somerset County Cricket Club Year Book 1896. Compiled by W.E. Webb. Hammett & Co, Taunton 1897. Original decorative boards. Minor wear and soiling to boards otherwise in very good condition. 7th year of publication... View full lot details

Somerset County Cricket Club Year Book 1897. Compiled by W.E. Webb. Hammett & Co, Taunton 1898. Original decorative boards. Minor wear and soiling to boards otherwise in very good condition. 8th year of publication... View full lot details

Somerset County Cricket Club Year Book 1898. Compiled by W.E. Webb. Hammett & Co, Taunton 1899. Original decorative boards. Very good condition. 9th year of publication... View full lot details

Somerset County Cricket Club Year Book 1899. Compiled by G.S. McAulay. Hammett & Co, Taunton 1900. Original decorative boards. Minor wear and soiling to boards otherwise in very good condition. 10th year of publication... View full lot details

Somerset County Cricket Club Year Book 1900. Compiled by G.S. McAulay. Hammett & Co, Taunton 1900. Original decorative boards. Minor wear and soiling to boards otherwise in very good condition. Scarce... View full lot details

Somerset County Cricket Club Year Book 1901. Compiled by G.S. McAulay. Hammett & Co, Taunton 1901. Original decorative boards. Minor wear and soiling to boards otherwise in very good condition. Scarce... View full lot details

Somerset County Cricket Club Year Book 1902. Compiled by G.S. McAulay. Hammett & Co, Taunton 1902. Original decorative boards. Minor creasing to the surface of the the front board at the top and bottom, wear and soiling to boards otherwise in good/very good condition. Scarce... View full lot details

Somerset County Cricket Club Year Book 1903. Compiled by G.S. McAulay. Hammett & Co, Taunton 1904. Original decorative boards. Minor wear, staining and soiling to boards otherwise in good/very good condition. Scarce... View full lot details

Somerset County Cricket Club Year Book 1904. Compiled by G.S. McAulay. E.S. & A. Robinson Ltd, Taunton 1905. Original decorative boards. Minor wear and soiling to boards otherwise in very good condition. Scarce... View full lot details

Somerset County Cricket Club Year Book 1905. Compiled by G.S. McAulay. E.S. & A. Robinson Ltd, Taunton 1906. Original decorative boards. Minor wear and soiling to boards otherwise in very good condition. Scarce... View full lot details

Somerset County Cricket Club Year Book 1909. Compiled by G.S. McAulay. Hamment & Co, Taunton 1910. Original decorative boards. Very good condition. Scarce... View full lot details

Somerset County Cricket Club Year Book 1910. Compiled by G.S. McAulay. Hamment & Co, Taunton 1911. Original decorative boards. Very good condition. Scarce... View full lot details

Somerset County Cricket Club Year Book 1911. Compiled by G.S. McAulay. Hamment & Co, Taunton 1912. Original decorative boards. Minor wear and slight breaking to front internal hinge otherwise in very good condition. Scarce... View full lot details

Somerset County Cricket Club Year Book 1912. Compiled by G.S. McAulay. Hamment & Co, Taunton 1913. Original decorative boards. Minor wear and soiling to boards otherwise in very good condition. Scarce... View full lot details

Somerset County Cricket Club Year Book 1913. Compiled by G.S. McAulay. Hamment & Co, Taunton 1914. Original decorative boards. Minor wear and soiling to rear board otherwise in very good condition. Scarce... View full lot details

Somerset County Cricket Club Year Book 1920 and 1921. Somerset County Herald, Taunton. Original decorative wrappers. Some wear and rusting to the staples at the front of the book, minor wear, soiling to wrappers, small damge to the edge of the spine where it meets the front wrapper to the 1921 edition otherwise in good/very good condition... View full lot details

‘Somerset Cricketers’. Stephen Hill (also Barry Phillips and Julian Wyatt). All four hardback volumes with dustwrappers covering the periods 1882-1914, 1919-1939, 1946-1970, and 1971-2000, published in Wellington, Somerset, 2016-2019. The first volume signed by authors Hill and Phillips. Sold with ‘Somerset County Cricket Club. Players, Photographs and Statistics 1891-2002’. Eddie Lawrence 2002. Limited edition 129 of 500 copies produced, signed by the author. Plus ‘Photographic History of Somerset C.C.C. 1891-1991’, a Crediton Cricket Club Fixture... View full lot details

Surrey C.C.C. Handbook 1884. 1st edition. Original brown boards with gilt titles to front board. Wear to front and rear board with slight loss to corners, total loss of spine with tape to edge, marks to rear board, Some breaking to spine with tape to ‘General Committee’ page, the page after the title page and to inside rear board edge, some wear to gilt title otherwise in good condition. Rare to see the first... View full lot details

Surrey C.C.C. Handbook 1886. 3rd edition. Original brown boards with gilt titles to front board. Wear and marks to front and rear board with slight loss to corners, replacement spine with neat tape repairs to internal hinges at front and rear, some wear to gilt title otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

Surrey C.C.C. Handbook 1887. 4th edition. Original brown boards with gilt titles to front board. Wear and marks to front and rear board with slight loss to corners, neat tape repairs to internal hinges at front and rear, wear to gilt title otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

Surrey C.C.C. Handbook 1890, 1891 and 1892. Original brown boards with gilt titles to front board, some wear to gilt titles. The 1890 edition with both boards detached, wear and marks to front and rear board with slight loss to corners, the rear boards with heavier wear with loss of brown surface paper to two corner areas, annotation to one rear page, the 1891 edition with light wear to boards, tape strip to top of... View full lot details

Surrey C.C.C. Handbook 1893, 1894, 1896, 1897, 1898 and 1899. Original brown boards with gilt titles to front board, some wear to gilt titles on the 1896 edition. Some wear to boards and spines, the 1897 edition with replacement spine, the 1898 edition with neat tape repairs to internal hinges at front and rear, breaking to internal hinges of the 1899 edition, front board becoming detached otherwise in good condition. Qty 6... View full lot details

Surrey C.C.C. Handbook 1900 to 1909. Original brown boards with gilt titles to front board, some wear to gilt titles, with the exception of the 1900 edition which has been rebound, in similar brown boards. Some wear to boards and spines, the 1902 edition with replacement spine, neat tape tape repairs to internal hinges at front and rear, the 1903 edition with breaking and wear to spine, the board covers becoming detached, the 1904 edition... View full lot details

Surrey C.C.C. Handbook 1910 to 1914, 1915-1920 and 1921. Original brown boards with gilt titles to front board. Some wear to boards and spines, the 1912 edition with breaking to spine, boards becoming detached otherwise in good+ condition. Seven books in total including the rarer wartime edition which has a letter from the Secretary of Surrey C.C.C. to H.A. Wolfe, asst Sports Editor at the Liverpool Echo dated April 1964... View full lot details

Surrey cricket. Three titles. ‘Old Cricket and Cricketers’, H.H. Montgomery (Bishop of Tasmania), London 1890. Original pictorial paper wrappers, contained in modern grey cloth clamshell box. Padwick 817. ‘Surrey Cricket and Cricketers’, R.S. Holmes, London 1896. Bound in later green cloth, original pictorial wrappers retained. Padwick 2682. ‘The Epic of the Oval’, E.B.V. Christian, privately printed 1930. Original brown card wrappers, tipped in to modern tan cloth. Padwick 1022. Slipped in is a single page... 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. Padwick 3051. Some colour discolouration to boards and spine paper, slight loss to top edge of the front endpaper otherwise in good/very good condition. The rare and elusive first edition... View full lot details

Yorkshire C.C.C. annual 1894. 2nd year of issue. 136p 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.’ emblem to centre, gilt to page edges. Ownership stamp of ‘K.A. Auty’ to title page. ‘19.24’ written in red ink to inside front board. Very minor wear to boards and spine, front end paper cleanly detached otherwise in very good... 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. Very minor wear to boards and spine otherwise in very good condition. Rare.... View full lot details

Yorkshire C.C.C. annual 1896. 4th annual issue. 136pp plus ‘notes’ pages as issued. Edited by J.B. Wolstinholm. J. Robertshaw, Sheffield, printer. Original maroon boards, gilt titles to front board and spine and spine paper with Yorkshire emblem to centre, gilt to edges. Very minor wear to boards and spine, minor wear to front internal hinge otherwise in very good condition.... 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. Some wear to boards, light creasing to front board, slight breaking to front internal hinge otherwise in very good condition. Rare.... View full lot details

Yorkshire C.C.C. annual 1898. 6th annual issue. 146pp plus fourteen ‘notes’ pages as issued. Edited by J.B. Wolstinholm. J. Robertshaw, Sheffield, printer. Original green/ grey boards, titles to front board and spine paper with Yorkshire emblem to centre, gilt to edges. Some wear and odd white paint mark to boards, minor bumping to board corners, press cuttings laid down to inside of front board and front end paper, ink name and address of ownership to... 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. Very minor wear to spine paper otherwise in very good condition. Rare.... View full lot details

Yorkshire County Cricket Club Annuals 1900 (eighth year of issue) to 1921. Twenty two editions of the annual including the war time editions. Minor faults and fading to boards of odd editions otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

Yorkshire C.C.C. annual 1901. 9th annual issue. Original decorative boards, gilt to edges. Very good condition... 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. Original worn and damaged wrappers with old tape marks near to spine, nicks to front wrapper, significant loss to corner of rear wrapper, new staples to edge replacing original ones,... View full lot details

‘The Yorkshire Cricket Chronicle’. June 20th and July 20th 1903. Published by authority of the Yorkshire Committee, printed by J.W. Northend of Sheffield. Two 16pp booklets comprising articles, images of the players etc. Padwick 1216. Original worn, age toned, damaged and detached wrappers to both editions loss to both front and rear wrappers to both copies otherwise in generally good condition. Rare publications. Ex Winder collection... View full lot details

‘Geoffrey Boycott. The Autobiography’. London 1987. Signed leather bound luxury edition limited to 151 copies to commemorate the number of Boycott’s first class centuries. This copy is number 48, dedicated to his innings of 119no against Australia at Adelaide, 1971. Signed limited edition label to inside front cover. Yorkshire rose in gilt to front cover, England crown and three lions emblem to rear cover, gilt titles to spine and page edges. In slipcase. Name of... View full lot details

‘Recollections and Reminiscences’. Lord Hawke. Williams & Norgate, first edition, London 1924. Original navy cloth with gilts titles to front board and Yorkshire rose emblem to front cover, appears to have had a replacement leather spine. Nicely signed in ink to the half title page, ‘Yours sincerely Hawke’. Padwick 7657. Name of ownership and date handwritten to the top of the title page. Very good condition... View full lot details

‘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). Some minor wear and ageing to wrapper, some chipping and very minor loss to wrapper edges otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

‘[The] History of Yorkshire County Cricket’. Three volumes, ‘1833-1903’ by R.S. Holmes, London 1904, ‘1903-1923’ by A.W. Pullin (‘Old Ebor’), Leeds 1924, ‘1924-1949’ by J.M. Kilburn, Leeds 1950. All three bound in original blue cloth with Yorkshire club emblem and title in gilt to fronts and titles in gilt to spines. The first volume with heavy wear and staining to boards, breaking to front internal hinge, appears to be lacking the frontispiece. The others with... View full lot details

‘Hodgson & Simpson’s Cricket Club, Calder Soap Works. Result of Matches, Season 1881’. Printed by S. Audsley, Smyth Street, Wakefield. 76pp. Bound in original maroon cloth covered boards. Comprises list of officers and detailed first, second and third teams match scores and averages for 1881. Staining to boards, slight breaking to front internal hinge, internally in good/ very good condition. Does not appear to be listed in Padwick. Rare.... View full lot details

Arthur Staples Benefit 1937. Rarely seen official souvenir programme for ‘Notts County v Sutton and District’, Sutton-in Ashfield, dated 23rd June 1937. The programme with editorial comment on Staples career, testimonials by Larwood, Heane, Quaife, Hammond etc, advertising and team listing. Very nicely signed in ink to the ‘Autographs’ page’ by the listed Nottinghamshire team with the exception of Lilley, additional signature of Wheat who was not listed in the twelve. Twelve signatures, Heane (Cpt),... View full lot details

‘William Scotton, The Celebrated Nottinghamshire Cricketer. His Cricket Career from commencement to the present time’. Compiled by C.H. Richards. G. Richards, Nottingham 1889. 7pp. Original front wrapper, tape repairs to worn borders of wrapper, appears to be lacking the original rear wrapper, internally good. A scarce copy In a paper holder with typed details to the front. Formerly from the Cahn Collection... View full lot details

‘Alletson’s Innings’. John Arlott. First edition London 1957. Original green cloth, limited edition number 26 of 200 produced, signed by Arlott. Minor light fading to boards otherwise in good/ very good condition. Sold with a letter from John Arlott, dated 13th August 1972 regarding the sale of the book, signed in ink by Arlott. Ex Goldman collection... View full lot details

‘Hints on Cricket’. Richard Daft. Arrowsmith, Bristol 1893. Small format 52pp book with original orange wrappers, tipped in to modern navy cloth with original H.A. Cohen Collection envelope tipped in to rear. Bookplate of M.C.C. Library to inside original front wrapper, and the Cohen sale label to the envelope. Verso of title page with ownership stamp of the Brighton collector, Alfred D. Taylor. Padwick 425. Minor loss to original front wrapper, otherwise in good/ very... View full lot details

‘Nottinghamshire Cricket and Cricketers’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Nottingham 1923. Original green cloth covers with gilt titles to front and spine. Presentation copy with handwritten dedication to ‘Geo. N. Beattie Esq. with the author’s best wishes’. Laid down to the inside front cover is a two page handwritten letter from Ashley-Cooper to Beattie, dated 18th November 1925, acknowledging the help given by Beattie, and references to Scottish cricket. Padwick 2498. A good association copy in very good... View full lot details

‘Nottinghamshire Cricket Records’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper, Nottingham 1928. Original green paper wrappers. 20pp. Rusting to staples and minor soiling to wrappers, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Sold with ‘A Cricketer’s Yarns’, Richard Daft, London 1926. Original green cloth, gilt title to spine. Bookplate of Harry A. Cohen to inside front cover. Some fading to spine, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Qty 2.... View full lot details

‘A Hundred Years of Trent Bridge’. E.V. Lucas. Privately printed for Sir Julian Cahn. Nottingham 1938. Original grey cloth with colour County emblem to front. Some foxing to boards and pages edges, otherwise in good condition. Sold with ‘Sir Julien Cahn’s Team 1923 to 1941’, Peter Wynne-Thomas, Nottingham 1994. Original blue card wrappers. 16pp. Slipped in is a mono press photograph with handwritten title ‘Sir Julien Cahn’s XI v. The Argentine. S. America. 1930’ depiciting... View full lot details

‘Kings of Cricket- Anecdotes and Reminiscences from 1858 to 1892’. Richard Daft. Bolton 1893. Tan cloth with gilt titles and illustration to cover, gilt to top edge, and later replacement green leather spine and corners. Limited large paper subscribers’ edition of 150 copies, signed and numbered by Daft, this being no. 17. Subscriber number 17 was The Hon. and Rev. F.G. Pelham, London, who became 5th Earl of Chichester in 1901, and whose bookplate is... View full lot details

‘Sobers. The Changing Face of Cricket’. Sir Garfield Sobers with Ivo Tennant. London 1996. Half leather edition limited to 60 copies to commemorate Sobers’ 60th birthday, this is copy number 19. Signed in ink by the author to limitation page. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Fifty Years of Nottinghamshire Cricket 1838-1887, being Volumes 1 and 2 of Notts Cricket Scores and Biographies’. Compiled by C.H. Richards. Printed by G. Richards of Nottingham 1890. Frontispiece carte de visite style original photograph of the ‘Nottinghamshire County Eleven 1866’. Name of ownership to front end paper and to title page, bookplate to inside front board. Good condition... View full lot details

Nottinghamshire Cricket Scores and Biographies 1888-1900. Vol 2’. Printed and published by C.H. Richards of Nottingham 1903. ex Winder Collection, two bookplates, one to inside front board and one to front end paper. Minor wear otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

‘The Norfolk Cricket Annual. Season 1889’. First year of publication. Edited by W.S. Barker and J.H. Hatch. Published by Jarrold & Sons, London and Norwich. Handsomely bound in dark green half leather and cloth, raised bands, gilt title and bat and ball emblem to spine. Original wrappers retained expertly laid to card reinforcement. Bookplate of A.E. Winder to inside front board. Padwick 2429. Minor loss to edges of original wrappers, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Norfolk Cricket Annual. Season 1890’. Second year of publication. Edited by F.W. Watson. Published by Jarrold & Sons, London and Norwich. Handsomely bound in dark green half leather and cloth, raised bands, gilt title and bat and ball emblem to spine. Original wrappers retained expertly laid to card reinforcement. Bookplate of A.E. Winder to inside front board. Padwick 2429. Minor loss to edges of original wrappers, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Norfolk Cricket Annual. Season 1891’. Third year of publication. Edited by R.H. Legge and F.W. Watson. Published by Jarrold & Sons, London and Norwich. Handsomely bound in dark green half leather and cloth, raised bands, gilt title and bat and ball emblem to spine. Original wrappers retained expertly laid to card reinforcement. Bookplate of A.E. Winder to inside front board, stamp for Alfred D. Taylor of Brighton to Preface page. Padwick 2429. Minor soiling... View full lot details

‘The Norfolk Cricket Annual. Season 1892’. Fourth year of publication. Edited by Robin H. Legge. Published by Jarrold & Sons, London and Norwich. Handsomely bound in dark green half leather and cloth, raised bands, gilt title and bat and ball emblem to spine. Original wrappers retained expertly laid to card reinforcement. Bookplate of A.E. Winder to inside front board. Padwick 2429. Frontispiece and preceding advertising page cleanly detached, minor loss to edges of original wrappers,... View full lot details

‘The Norfolk Cricket Annual. Season 1893’. Fifth year of publication. Edited by Robin H. Legge. Published by Jarrold & Sons, London and Norwich. Handsomely bound in dark green half leather and cloth, raised bands, gilt title and bat and ball emblem to spine. Original wrappers retained expertly laid to card reinforcement. Bookplate of A.E. Winder to inside front board. Padwick 2429. Very minor loss to edges of original front wrapper, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Norfolk Cricket Annual. Season 1894’. Sixth year of publication. Edited by Robin H. Legge. Published by Jarrold & Sons, London and Norwich. Handsomely bound in dark green half leather and cloth, raised bands, gilt title and bat and ball emblem to spine. Original wrappers retained, the rear wrapper with expert restoration. Bookplate of A.E. Winder to inside front board. Padwick 2429. Very minor loss to edges of original wrappers, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Norfolk Cricket Annual. Season 1895’. Seventh year of publication. Edited by Robin H. Legge. Published by Jarrold & Sons, London and Norwich. Handsomely bound in dark green half leather and cloth, raised bands, gilt title and bat and ball emblem to spine. Original wrappers retained. Bookplate of A.E. Winder to inside front board. Padwick 2429. Very minor loss to edges of original wrappers, rear wrapper with small expert restoration, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Norfolk Cricket Annual. Season 1896’. Eighth year of publication. Edited by Robin H. Legge. Published by Jarrold & Sons, London and Norwich. Handsomely bound in dark green half leather and cloth, raised bands, gilt title and bat and ball emblem to spine. Original wrappers retained. Bookplate of A.E. Winder to inside front board. Padwick 2429. Very minor loss to edges of original wrappers, front wrapper with small expert restoration, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Norfolk Cricket Annual. Season 1897’. Ninth year of publication. Edited by Robin H. Legge. Published by Jarrold & Sons, London and Norwich. Handsomely bound in dark green half leather and cloth, raised bands, gilt title and bat and ball emblem to spine. Original wrappers retained. Bookplate of A.E. Winder to inside front board. Padwick 2429. Very minor loss to edges of original wrappers, which have been expertly restored, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Norfolk Cricket Annual. Season 1898’. Tenth year of publication. Edited by Robin H. Legge. Published by Jarrold & Sons, London and Norwich. Handsomely bound in dark green half leather and cloth, raised bands, gilt title and bat and ball emblem to spine. Original wrappers retained. Bookplate of A.E. Winder to inside front board. Padwick 2429. Very minor loss to edges of original wrappers, with small expert restoration, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Norfolk County Cricket Club. Season 1905. Souvenir of a Record Season’. Published by Jarrold & Sons, Norwich. Original dark blue full leather with gilt title and County emblem to front cover, gilt to page edges, marbled endpapers. Comprises records of all matches played in the Minor Counties Championship for 1905, in which Norfolk were champions. Frontispiece photograph of Rev. G.B. Raikes, captain. Padwick 2445. Very minor rubbing to board extremities, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Norfolk Cricket Annual’ Seasons 1909-10 and 1910-11. Two annuals edited by C.B.L. Prior, both in original paper wrappers. Ownership name of Henry Blofeld in pencil to first advertising page of the 1909/10 issue, the 1910/11 issue with typed ownership label of a Norwich collector to inside front cover. Padwick 2430. The 1909/10 ex Huddersfield Public Library, front wrapper detached, staining to rear wrapper. The 1910/11 with crude old tape repairs to spine. Internally, both... View full lot details

‘Middlesex County Cricket Club’. Three volumes, ‘1864-1899’ by W.J. Ford, London 1900, ‘1900-1920’ by F.S. Ashley-Cooper, London 1921, and ‘1921-1947’ by N. Haig, London 1949. All three uniformly bound in original red cloth with Middlesex club emblem of the three seaxes in gilt to fronts and titles in gilt to spines. Some fading and soiling to spines of Vols. I & II, minor wear to board extremities, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Hampshire County Cricket’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. London 1924. Original pictorial paper wrappers. Padwick 2025. Sold with ‘200 Years of Cricket in Hursley: Bicentenary Booklet 1785-1985’. Qty 2. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Lord’s and the M.C.C. Eight titles. ‘Extracts from the Minutes of The Committee from the year 1826 to 1867’, London 1867. Original red cloth with ‘M.C.C.’ in gilt to front. Bookplates to inside front cover for A.D. Taylor and A.E. Winder. Padwick 1226. ‘The Centenary of the Marylebone Cricket Club’, London 1887 comprising a history of the club, attendees at the Centenary Dinner, speeches etc. Original red cloth with gilt title and M.C.C. emblem to... View full lot details

Gloucestershire cricket. ‘Scores made in County Matches by the Gloucestershire County Cricket Club’, published by Arrowsmith, Bristol. A compilation of issues of the Annual comprising over 800 pages covering seasons 1870-1914. Handsomely bound in red calf and marbled boards, raised bands and gilt title to spine. Very good condition. ‘Gloucestershire County Cricket’, F.S. Ashley-Cooper, London 1924. Original decorative card wrappers with rusting to staples and some wear to spine. ‘1889. When Play Began at Ashley... View full lot details

‘Scottish Cricketers’ Annual and Guide containing an authentic record....’. No. I. Season 1870-71. First issue. Edited by Percival King, Edinburgh. Bound in grey boards with original front wrapper, titles in silver to spine. Very good condition. Ex Winder collection with plate to inside front wrapper... View full lot details

‘Scottish Cricketers’ Annual and Guide containing an authentic record....’. No. II. Season 1871-72. Second issue. Edited by Percival King, Edinburgh. Bound in grey boards with original wrappers, titles in silver to spine. Very good condition. Ex Winder collection with plate and M.C.C. with stamp to inside front wrapper... View full lot details

‘Scottish Cricketers’ Annual and Guide containing an authentic record....’. No. III. Season 1872-73. Third issue. Edited by Percival King, Edinburgh. Bound in grey boards with original wrappers, titles in silver to spine. Minor fault to the binding of the front wrapper otherwise in very good condition. Ex Winder collection with plate and M.C.C. with stamp to inside front wrapper... View full lot details

‘Scottish Cricketers’ Annual and Guide containing an authentic record....’. No. IV. Season 1873-74. Fourth issue. Edited by Percival King, Edinburgh. Bound in grey boards with original wrappers, titles in silver to spine. Minor fault to the binding of the front wrapper otherwise in very good condition. Ex Winder collection with plate and M.C.C. with stamp to inside front wrapper... View full lot details

‘Scottish Cricketers’ Annual and Guide containing an authentic record....’. No. V. Seasons 1874-75-76. Edited by Percival King, Edinburgh. Bound in grey boards with original front wrapper, titles in silver to spine. Minor fault to the binding of the front wrapper otherwise in very good condition. Ex Winder collection with plate to inside front wrapper... View full lot details

‘Scottish Cricketers’ Annual and Guide containing an authentic record....’. No. VI. Season 1876-77. Edited by Percival King, Edinburgh. Bound in grey boards with original wrappers, titles in silver to spine. Minor fault to the binding of the front wrapper, some wear to wrappers otherwise in good/very good condition. Ex Winder collection with plate and M.C.C. with stamp to inside front wrapper... View full lot details

‘Scottish Cricketers’ Annual and Guide containing an authentic record....’. No. VII. Season 1877-78. Edited by Percival King, Edinburgh. Bound in grey boards with original wrappers, titles in silver to spine. Minor fault to the binding of the front wrapper, some staining to the rear wrapper otherwise in goo/very good condition. Ex Winder collection with plate and M.C.C. with stamp to inside front wrapper... View full lot details

‘Scottish Cricketers’ Annual and Guide containing an authentic record....’. No. VIII. Season 1878-79. Edited by Percival King, Edinburgh. Bound in grey boards with original front wrapper, titles in silver to spine. Minor fault to the binding of the front wrapper otherwise in good/very good condition. Ex Winder collection with plate and M.C.C. with stamp to inside front wrapper... View full lot details

‘Scottish Cricketers’ Annual and Guide containing an authentic record....’. No. IX. Season 1879-80. Edited by Percival King, Edinburgh. Bound in grey boards with original wrappers, titles in silver to spine. Minor fault to the binding of the front wrapper otherwise in good/very good condition... View full lot details

‘Scottish Cricketers’ Annual and Guide containing an authentic record....’. No. X. Season 1880-81. Edited by Percival King, Edinburgh. Bound in grey boards with original wrappers, titles in silver to spine. Minor fault to the binding of the front wrapper otherwise in good/very good condition. Ex Winder collection with plate and M.C.C. with stamp to inside front wrapper... View full lot details

‘Scottish Cricketers’ Annual and Guide containing an authentic record....’. No. XI. Season 1881-82. Edited by Percival King, Edinburgh. Original red card wrappers, titles in gilt to front board. Vertical crease to front wrapper otherwise in good/very good condition. Ex Woodhouse collection with plate to front end paper... View full lot details

‘Scottish Cricketers’ Annual and Guide containing an authentic record....’. No. XII. Season 1882-83. Edited by Percival King, Edinburgh. Original red card wrappers, titles in gilt to front board. Some minor age toning and wear to wrappers otherwise in good/very good condition. Ex Winder collection with plate and M.C.C. with stamp to inside front wrapper and front end paper... View full lot details

‘Scottish Cricketers’ Annual and Guide containing an authentic record....’. No. XIII. Season 1883-84. Edited by Percival King, Edinburgh. Original red card wrappers, titles in gilt to front board. Minor fading to spine paper otherwise in good/very good condition. Ex Winder collection with plate and M.C.C. with stamp to inside front wrapper and front end paper... View full lot details

‘Scottish Cricketers’ Annual and Guide containing an authentic record....’. No. XIV. Season 1884-85. Edited by Percival King, Edinburgh. Original red card wrappers, titles in gilt to front board. Minor fading to spine paper, mionor wear and age toning to wrappers, slight splitting from front internal hinge otherwise in good/very good condition. Ex Winder collection with plate and M.C.C. with stamp to inside front wrapper... View full lot details

‘Scottish Cricketers’ Annual and Guide containing an authentic record....’. No. XV. Season 1885-86. Edited by Percival King, Edinburgh. Bound in grey boards with original wrappers, titles in silver to spine. Wear to front wrapper extremities with small loss, some breaking to front internal hinges otherwise in good/very good condition. Ex Winder collection with plate and M.C.C. with stamp to front end paper... View full lot details

‘Scottish Cricketers’ Annual and Guide containing an authentic record....’. No. XVI. Season 1886-87. Edited by Percival King, Edinburgh. Bound in half leather/mottled boards lacking original wrappers, titles in gilt to spine. Wear to first few pages and staining to lower page corner otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘Scottish Cricketers’ Annual and Guide containing an authentic record....’. No. XVII. Season 1887-88. Edited by Percival King, Edinburgh. Bound in grey boards with original wrappers, titles in silver to spine. Wear, soiling and staining to front wrapper, some breaking to front internal hinges otherwise in good/very good condition. Ex Winder collection with plate and M.C.C. with stamp to first advertising page... View full lot details

Carlton Cricket Club, Edinburgh, Scotland. Six books, ‘Carlton Redivivus 1919’, The Northern Offensive’ 1921, ‘The Morayshire Manoeuvres’ 1922, ‘Shreds and Patches’ 1923, ‘Abstracts and Chronicles’ 1924 and ‘Outings and Innings at Inns, Linns and Castles’ 1934. Minor faults to odd books otherwise in good/very good condition. Qty 6... View full lot details

‘Reminiscences of Cricket on the Borders’. Robert Douglas. Selkirk 1909. Original green boards with gilt titles to front board. Very good condition... View full lot details

‘Cricket in Perth 1827-1921’. History of the Perthshire Cricket Club. James Barlas, Perth, 1921. Original souvenir brochure stamped ‘Prize draw No. 7552’ to front cover. Original decorative paper wrappers. Padwick no. 3285. Minor ageing to wrappers otherwise in good/very good condition... View full lot details

Greenock Cricket Scores 1862 to 1874’. John Steven. Greenock 1875. Bound in half leather boards, ink marks to base of page block otherwise in good condition. Sold with ‘Selkirk Cricket Club. Fifty Years Play at Philiphaugh 1872-1922’. William Anderson, Selkirk 1922. Minor ageing, otherwise in very good condition. Qty 2... View full lot details

‘Clackmannan County Cricket Club’ (Near Alloa, Scotland). Official handbook for 1926. Excellent pictorial card covers. Padwick no. 3242. Minor ageing and slight rust marks otherwise in very good condition... View full lot details

‘West of Scotland Cricket Club’ (Glasgow, Scotland). Official handbook for 1925. Excellent pictorial card covers. Padwick no. 3198. Minor ageing and rusting to staples otherwise in very good condition... View full lot details

‘Dr N.L. Stevenson’s Northern Tour, Hardback edition with light blue boards, gilt titles to boards. Privately printed by Lindsay & Co, Edinburgh 1927. G/VG... View full lot details

‘The Cricket of Abel, Hirst & Shrewsbury’. Edited by E.F. Benson and E.H. Miles. London 1903. Original red decorative boards. Odd faults otherwise in good condition. Sold with ‘The Story of The Tests’. Kenyon Wynne. The London Book Club 1927. Browning to pages. Qty 2... View full lot details

Wandering cricket club histories. Four hardback titles. ‘The Crofton Wanderers’ Cricket Tours 1883-1893’, C.W.L. Fernandes, Leeds 1893. Original black cloth with club emblem to front, replacement spine. Presentation copy to Club member H. Walton, signed by the author and dated ‘January 1/[18]94’ to inside front cover with bookplate of A.E. Winder. Bumping to original covers. ‘Annals of the Free Foresters’, W.K.R. Bedford, W.E.W. Collins and others, Edinburgh 1895. Nicely bound in quarter green calf/ cloth... View full lot details

‘Newport Athletic Club. The record of half a Century 1875-1925’. Compiled and edited by W.J. Townsend Collins. Newport c.1925. 206pp. Original decorative card covers. Comprises reports on all sporting activities at the Club with cricket references pp. 102-144. Padwick 3183. Slight breaking to front internal hinge, small wear to foot of spine, minor soiling to wrappers, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Not previously seen by the auctioneer.... View full lot details

‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. Volume I. Numbers 1-21 (10th May to 28th September 1882). Complete with title and contents pages to front. Illustrated. Bound in brown cloth with title in gilt to spine label, red speckled page edges. Tear to pp. 57/58, minor bumping to one corner, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. Volumes II nos. 22-49 (16th February to 27th December 1883), VIII nos. 200-229 (24th January 1889 to 27th December 1889), and X nos. 260-289 (27th January to 31st December 1891). All three volumes bound in original publishers cloth with titles in gilt, complete with title and contents pages to front. Illustrated. Vol. VIII includes seven of the eight score sheet supplements issued, lacking the supplement for 8th August,... View full lot details

‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. Volume III nos. 50-79 (31st January to 25th December 1884), and Volume IV nos. 80-109 (29th January to 24th December 1885. The two volumes bound together as one in later green cloth with gilt title to spine. Illustrated. Vol. III complete with title page to front, lacking contents pages, includes the five score sheet supplements issued, bound in to rear of volume. Vol. IV complete with title and... View full lot details

‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. Volume V nos. 110-139 (28th January to 30th December 1885). Bound in later green cloth with gilt title to spine. Illustrated. Complete with title and contents pages bound in to front, also two of the three score sheet supplements issued, apparently lacking the supplement for 1st July. Bumping to board corners, odd minor nicks to page edges, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. Volumes VI nos. 140-169 (27th January to 29th December 1887), and VII nos. 170-199 (26th January to 27th December 1888). Illustrated. Vol. VI bound in earlier green cloth, gilt title to spine, red speckled page edges. Complete with title and contents pages to front, also the six supplement score sheets issued. Wear to board extremities, some breaking to internal hinges, wear to page edges, otherwise in generally fair/... View full lot details

‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. Volume IX nos. 230-259 (27th January to 27th December 1890). Bound in later green cloth with gilt title to spine. Illustrated. Complete with title and contents pages bound in to front, also ten of the eleven score sheet supplements issued, apparently lacking the supplement for 3rd July. Odd annotations to pages and minor nicks to page edges, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. Volume XI nos. 290-319 (28th January to 29th December 1892). Bound in earlier green cloth with gilt title to spine, red speckled page edges. Illustrated. Complete with title and contents pages bound in to front, also the eight pictorial pictures supplements issued, and the score sheet supplement for 21st July bound in to back. Appears to be lacking the score sheet supplement for 26th May. Good/ very good... View full lot details

‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. Volume XII nos. 320-349 (26th January to 28th December 1893). Bound in original publishers cloth with titles in gilt to front and spine, red speckled page edges. Illustrated. Complete with title and contents pages bound in to front, also the six score sheet supplements issued, lacking two of the three smaller pictorial supplements for 26th January and 4th May. Some breaking to page block, some wear to board... View full lot details

‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. Volume XIII nos. 350-379 (25th January to 28th December 1894). Bound in earlier green cloth, gilt title to spine, red speckled page edges. Illustrated. Lacking title and contents pages. Issues complete. Minor wear to board extremities, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. Volume XIV nos. 380-409 (31st January to 26th December 1895). Bound in earlier green cloth, gilt title to spine, red speckled page edges. Illustrated. Complete with title and contents pages bound in to front, the score sheet supplement for 13th June to rear. Also includes six of the eight known large format advertising supplements for ‘Famous Cricketers and Cricket Grounds’, each bound in with some trimming. Players depicted... View full lot details

‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. Volume XV nos. 410-439 (30th January to 31st December 1896). Bound in earlier black cloth, gilt title to spine, red speckled page edges. Illustrated. Complete with title and contents pages bound in to front, also the three score sheet supplements issued. Some breaking to front internal hinge, age toning and light vertical creasing to pages, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. Volume XVI nos. 440-469 (28th January to 30th December 1897). Bound in earlier green cloth, gilt title to spine, red speckled page edges. Illustrated. Complete with title and contents pages bound in to front. Slight breaking to internal hinges, minor age toning to pages, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. Volumes XVII nos. 470-499 (27th January to 22nd December 1898) and XVIII nos. 500-529 (26th January to 21st December 1899). Illustrated. Vol. XVII bound in earlier dark blue cloth, gilt title to spine, red speckled page edges. Complete with title and contents pages bound in to front. Includes the two pictorial supplements issued of F.E. Lacey and G.G. Hearne/ W. Attewell. Lacking the poster supplement of 14th April.... View full lot details

‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. Volumes XIX nos. 530-559 (25th January to 20th December 1900) and XX nos. 560-589 (31st January to 19th December 1901). Both volumes similarly bound in earlier dark green/ black cloth, titles and ownership initials ‘R.J.P.’ in gilt to spine, complete with title and contents pages bound in to fronts. Illustrated. Vol. XIX lacking poster supplement for 12th April. pp. 1/2 partially detached, pp. 15/16 cleanly detached, postcard of... View full lot details

‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. Volume XXI nos. 590-619 (30th January to 18th December 1902). Bound in original publisher’s cloth, gilt title to front and spine, red speckled page edges. Illustrated. Complete with title and contents page bound in to front. Lacking poster supplement for 10th April. Small handwritten date label applied to foot of spine. Front endpaper cleanly detached. Minor age toning to pages, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. Volume XXII nos. 620-649 (29th January to 31st December 1903). Bound in original publisher’s cloth, gilt title to front and spine, red speckled page edges. Illustrated. Complete with title and contents page bound in to front. Lacking poster supplement for 9th April. Small handwritten date label applied to foot of spine. Small bump to top edge of front cover, minor age toning to pages, otherwise in good/ very... View full lot details

‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. Volume XXIII nos. 650-679 (28th January to 22nd December 1904). Bound in later green cloth, gilt title to spine, some original wrappers retained. Illustrated. Complete with title and contents page bound in to front. Lacking poster supplement for 21st April. Some loss and expert repairs to early pages of first issue, minor age toning to pages, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. Volumes XXVI nos. 740-769 (31st January to 19th December 1907) and XXVII nos. 770-799 (30th January to 24th December 1908). Illustrated. Both volumes bound in later green cloth, gilt title to spines, complete with title and contents pages bound in to fronts. Vol. XXVI with some loss to corners of pages and wear to some page edges. Vol. XXVII lacking poster supplement of 9th April, tear to title... View full lot details

‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. Volume XXVIII nos. 800-829 (28th January to 21st December 1909). Bound in original publisher’s cloth, gilt title to front and spine. Illustrated. Complete with title and contents page bound in to front. Lacking poster supplement for 22nd April. Minor wear to board extremities, some age toning to pages, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. Volume XXIX. Numbers 830-859. 27th January to 22nd December 1910. Illustrated. Bound in later green cloth, gilt title to spine. Complete with title and contents pages bound in at front, lacking poster supplement for 21st April. Minor staining to the odd pages, slight age toning, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. Volume XXX. Numbers 860-889. January 26th to December 1911. Illustrated. Bound in later green cloth, gilt title to spine. Complete with title and contents pages bound in at front, lacking poster supplement for 15th April. The title ‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’ at the top of each page of issues 887-889 was changed on the 7th October issue (number 887) to ‘Rugby, Football and Cricket’. This... View full lot details

‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. Volume II (New Series). Numbers 31-60 (18th January to 17th December 1913). Complete with title and contents pages bound in to front. Illustrated. Bound in later green cloth with gilt title to spine, red speckled page edges. Very good condition with pages nice and bright throughout. A rarer issue.... View full lot details

‘The Cricket Quarterly. A Journal devoted to the Noble Game of Cricket’ 1963-1970. Edited by Rowland Bowen. Complete run of the journal comprising thirty two issues. Padwick 1195. Minor faults to the odd issue, otherwise in very good condition. Sold with ‘The Cricketer Quarterly’, complete run of the magazine in official green binders, from Summer 1973 (first issue) to Spring 2004. G/VG.... View full lot details

‘The All England Cricket & Football Journal and Athletic Review’ 1878. Volume One. Published by Martin Hurst of Sheffield. Bound volume of the Journal containing twelve editions from April 1877 to March 1878, all with original wrappers featuring a real photograph portrait of a player or team to the front wrapper. The book bound with title page, large full page frontispiece real photograph portrait of ‘The Yorkshire Cricketers’ of 1878 and index. This was a... View full lot details

‘The All England Cricket & Football Journal and Athletic Review’ 1879. Volume Two. Published by Martin Hurst of Sheffield. Bound volume of the Journal containing twelve editions from April 1878 to April 1879, all with original wrappers featuring a real photograph portrait of a player or team to the front wrapper. The book bound with title page, large full page frontispiece real photograph portrait of ‘The Derbyshire Cricketers’ of 1879 and index. Minor ageing... View full lot details

James Lillywhite’s Cricketers Annual 1872-1900. Complete full run of the ‘Red Lillywhite’ Annual edited by Charles W. Alcock. Each copy individually bound in modern red cloth, gilt titles to fronts and spines, with original red/orange boards retained. All photographic plates present from the 1876 edition as issued. The 1872 (1st) issue lacking section of front wrapper, soiling to first advertising page, pencil annotations to rear, the 1900 (29th and final) issue with some soiling and... View full lot details

John (+ James) Lillywhite’s Cricketers’ Companion 1865-1885. Complete run of the annual handsomely bound together in four volumes in full green leather with gilt titles to spines and raised bands. The first volume comprises the issues for 1865-1870, the 1865, 1866 and 1867 lacking original wrappers, the 1868 with front green wrapper, lacking rear, the 1869 with rear wrapper, lacking front, and the 1870 with full wrappers retained. The second volume contains the issues for... View full lot details

‘Arthur Haygarth’s [and M.C.C.] Cricket Scores And Biographies Of Celebrated Cricketers. Volumes I to XIII covering the seasons 1746-1876, published London 1876-1880, and Vol. XV ‘Biographies and Biographical Index’ published 1925. Lacking Vol. XIV. Vols. I & II bound in quarter leather, marbled boards and endpapers, with gilt title label and raised bands to spines. Heavy wear to boards, both volumes with front cover and/or spine detached and splitting to spines. Vols. III & IV... View full lot details

‘The Cricket Handbook’ 1893-1895. Three original copies of the handbook issued in 1893 (first year of issue), 1894 and 1895 (final year), published by the Cricket Field Offices in the ‘Pastime Series’. Each issue with original paper wrappers (the 1895 appears to have a replacement rear wrapper and spine) and all contained together in modern clamshell box in leather and marbled boards. The 1893 and 1895 issues with the bookplate of A.E. Winder. The 1893... View full lot details

‘The Cricket Year Book’ 1886-1889. The four annuals, published in Manchester and London, bound together as one volume in blue cloth, gilt title to spine. The 1886 issue with original front paper wrapper retained but detached with loss to edges and soiling, lacking rear wrapper. The 1888 with front and rear wrappers retained. The 1887 (with red speckled page edges) and 1889 both lacking original wrappers. Padwick 1051. Odd pages affected by worm damage, other... View full lot details

‘The Oxford University Almanack and Register for the Year 1867’. Published by J. Vincent, Oxford, 1867. Comprises the laws of cricket and 55 pages of university and college match scores, Original limp blue wrappers with title label in green to front cover. Front wrapper detached some wear to spine otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

‘History of the Test Matches 1877-1905’, ‘Cover-Point’ T. Broadbent Trowsdale, Routledge. London 1905. Image of Monty Noble to front wrapper. In very nice condition. Sold with ‘With Stoddart’s team in Australia’. K.S. Ranjitsinhji. London 1898 in original pictorial boards and ‘England v Australia. The Story of the Test Matches 1877-1904’. J.N. Pentelow. Bristol 1904, both in good condition. Qty 3... View full lot details

‘Feltham’s Cricketer for 1877’. Edited by George H. West. Virtue & Co., London 1877. First year of issue. Original green boards with titles in gilt to front board. Frontispiece engraving of Richard Daft. Green oval label for ‘T.Kidd, Hosier, Glover, Shirt & Collar Maker’ of Hull laid to front cover. Padwick 1073. Breaking to front internal hinge, some splitting to foot of spine, minor wear to boards otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘’Feltham’s Cricketer for 1878’. Edited by George H. West. Virtue & Co., London 1878. Second year of issue. Original blue boards with titles in gilt to front board. Frontispiece engraving of Henry Jupp. Padwick 1073. Breaking to front and rear internal hinges, minor wear to boards otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘Catalogue of a choice Collection of Books and Engravings on Cricket, including rare items from A.D. Taylor’s collection’. Alfred J. Gaston. Brighton 1927. 16pp bound in later green cloth, listing ‘probably the bulk’ of Taylor’s collection according to D.R. Allen. Bookplates of A.E. Winder to inside front of the original wrapper, and to the inside of the front board. Padwick 19-2. Odd pencil annotations to pages. Light horizontal and vertical folds, otherwise in good/ very... View full lot details

‘The C. Christopher Morris Cricket Library and Collection’. Official brochure for the collection held at The Haverford College Library, Haverford, Philadelphia. 14pp illustrated card brochure comprising details of the Committee and Advisory Group date stamped, ‘As at March 15, 1969’, and history of the library. Padwick 30. Attached is an initialled business card of Charles H. Winter Jr. with handwritten note to verso regarding the death of J.H. Lister, whose funeral Winter had attended. Sold... View full lot details

‘The S.C. Packer Collection. “Cricketana”’. A Catalogue of Cricketana instructed by the Executors of S.C. Packer, deceased. To be sold by Messrs Warner, Sheppard & Wade at 16-18 Halford Street, Leicester on 12th September 1961. Original catalogue for the sale. Padwick 45-4. Some splitting to spine, minor soiling, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Felix on the Bat: Being a scientific inquiry into the use of the cricket bat: together with the history and use of the catapulta. Also, The Laws of Cricket as revised by the Marylebone Club’. Nicholas Wanostrocht. First edition. London 1845. Padwick 397. Forty pages plus addenda and advertising pages to rear, with ten lithograph plates (seven hand-coloured, three mono). Original decorative green cloth covers with gilt titles and cricket scene image to front, page... View full lot details

Felix on the Bat: Being a scientific inquiry into the use of the cricket bat: together with the history and use of the catapulta. Also, The Laws of Cricket as revised by the Marylebone Club’. Nicholas Wanostrocht. Third edition. London 1855. Padwick 397. Seventy four pages, with ten lithograph plates (seven hand-coloured, three mono). Original decorative green cloth covers with gilt titles and cricket scene image to front, page edges gilt. Some wear to... View full lot details

‘The Allahakbarrie Book of Broadway Cricket for 1899’. Sir James Matthew Barrie, privately printed, 1st edition 1899. Twelve photographic illustrations, original semi transparent wrappers with gilt titles to front. A fine copy of this higly coveted and most elusive title, copies only being circulated among team members and close friends. Previously sold as lot 189 in the B.J. Wakley auction held by Bonhams in April 2003... View full lot details

‘Feats, Facts, and Figures of 1899’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Published for private circulation by Merritt & Hatcher, London 1899. First year of issue, of which only twenty copies were produced. 51pp. Original pale blue paper wrappers. Presentation copy with inscription in ink in Ashley-Cooper’s own hand to ‘C.W. Alcock Esq., 20 November. 1899. Copy no. 2’. Some age toning to wrappers, closed tear to front cover, neatly rebacked otherwise in good original condition. Presented in a... View full lot details

‘Feats, Facts, and Figures of 1904’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Published for private circulation by Merritt & Hatcher, London 1905. Fifth year of issue (there being none issued in 1900) of which only thirty copies were produced, this being copy number 27. 63pp plus iii. Original green front and rear paper wrappers. Presentation copy to ‘J.D. Betham Esq.’ signed by F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Preserved in a marbled board box with green calf and gilt titles to spine. Padwick... View full lot details

Feats, Facts, and Figures of 1906’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Published for private circulation by Merritt & Hatcher, London 1907. Seventh year of issue (there being none issued in 1900) of which only thirty copies were produced, this being copy number 20. 63pp plus iv. Original pale blue paper wrappers bound in marbled half leather boards with gilt titles to spine. Padwick 920. Small loss to foot of spine paper. Light age toning to pale wrappers... View full lot details

‘Sketches of the Players’. William Denison. London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co., Rudolph Ackermann, R. Dark [and others], 1846. 76pp plus advertising pages. Padwick 876. Original printed buff front wrapper with printed title to front. Replacement rear wrapper and spine, some wear and creasing to original front wrapper, rounding to corners, ancient names written to front wrapper, ink inscription to inner wrapper which has stained onto the title page, minor soiling and foxing to inner pages... View full lot details

‘The Cricketer’s Companion; containing the scores of the principal matches of cricket, played at Lord’s and other grounds in the Season 1843’. William Denison. Published by W. Clement, Junior of the Strand 1844. 12mo. Original green cloth with gilt titles ‘Denison’s Cricketers’ Companion 1843’. 54pp. First edition. Presenation copy with various inscriptions to front end paper, the first reads ‘Mr J. Laws, with J.H.’s best wishes’ and the second reads ‘From E. St Homewood to... View full lot details

‘The Cricketer’s Companion; containing the scores of the principal matches of cricket, played at Lord’s and other grounds in the Season 1844’. William Denison. Published by Sherwood and Co of London 1845 ‘and sold by W. Clement Jun., R. Dark, Eton: Mary Clapshaw, Canterbury: F. Pilch, Brighton: Box, Oxford: H. Slatter.....’. 12mo. Original green cloth with gilt titles ‘Denison’s Cricketers’ Companion 1845’. Four advertisement pages at rear. Second edition, 2nd issue with the “Laws of... 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. Bound in brown boards, 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 Castle, with a key to fielding positions. Ex Goldman collection.... View full lot details

‘Lambert’s Cricketer’s Guide or a concise treatise on the noble game of cricket...’. William Lambert. Sussex Press, Lewes. Third Edition 1817?. Printed and published by J. Baxter. ‘Illustrated by an Elegant Copper-Plate Engraving’. 62pp plus one advertising page. Bound in brown boards, with original stiffened paper front wrapper retained, lacking rear. Includes the folded frontispiece engraving of the ‘Cricketing’ scene, with a match in progress in the Paddock, a field below Lewes Castle, with a... View full lot details

‘Annals of Cricket’. W.W. Read. Sampson Low, London 1896. Original quarter vellum over dark green boards, gilt title to spine. Contents on hand-made paper, rough edges. Top edge gilt. Limited edition number 23 in the deluxe edition of 250 copies, nicely signed in ink to the limitation page by Read. Name of ownership and date handwritten to the top of the title page. Good/very good condition. Rare... View full lot details

‘Curiosities of First-Class Cricket’. F.S. Ashley Cooper. Edmund Seale, London 1901. ‘Signed and interleaved’ limited edition of 100 copies, this being number 8, nicely signed in ink by Ashley-Cooper to the limitation label laid down to front endpaper. A presentation copy from Ashley-Cooper to R. Leigh Ibbs (a cricketer with Hampstead) with handwritten inscription by the author to front end paper dated 20th August 1901. Original green cloth with decorative gilts and title to front... View full lot details

‘Cricket’. W.G. Grace. Bristol 1891. ‘Crown Quarto Edition de Luxe’ edition magnificently bound in full black leather with titles in gilt to spine, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Limited de luxe edition of 652 numbered copies, signed by the author Grace, this being no. 301. Very good condition... View full lot details

‘Bat v Ball. The Book of Individual Cricket Records, &c. 1864-1900’. Compiled by J.H. Lester. Boots Wholesale Printing and Stationery Department, Nottingham and London 1900. ‘Edition de luxe’. Four different editions of the title were published including the scarce ‘Edition de luxe’. Publisher’s note on page v indicates an ‘Edition de luxe... is being arranged for’. This scarce ‘Edition de luxe’ is handsomely bound in black calf with beautifully marbled endpapers, gilt to page edges,... 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 plus four advertising pages. Good original decorative green boards with cricketers in gilt to cover, gilt title to spine. Lacking one advertising poage to rear otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

‘Heir at Law’. George Coleman 1800. Bound in mauve boards, lacking original wrappers, with titles in gilt to spine. 68pp. Small damage to title page with small loss, signatures of ownership to title page, some minor tears, nicks and staining to odd pages, appears complete... 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. Ex M.C.C. collation, good/very good condition... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour to Australia 1920/21. ‘A Voyage with the Mails Between Brisbane- London... A memento by an amateur photographer’. London Stereoscopic Company, London, third edition c.1920. A large format souvenir book with decorative blue cloth, comprising photographs and descriptions of ports of call on the journey on the Orient Line ‘S.S. Osterley’. Includes a collection of twenty one signatures in ink on two pages, the majority signed to the ‘Autographs’ page, including the signatures of... View full lot details

‘Gauntlet’s Cricketers Record, containing the full scores of all The Great Matches played during the Season 1860; the Averages of the Players together with a List of the Batsman who have obtained 100 runs or more and Rules of the Game of Cricket’. Published by Gauntlet, Sevenoaks, Kent, printed by Vardy Printer of Bishopgate, London 1860. 58pp, should be 60pp. Bound in half leather green boards, with original front wrapper laid down to end paper... View full lot details

‘The Sportsman’s Magazine. Volume I’. Hodgson & Co., Newgate Street, London 1824. Bound in contemporary brown boards with later replacement spine. Includes three frontispiece engravings, one of ‘The Otter Hunt at Ewton, Devonshire’ facing another of a scene with general sporting activities surrounding a plinth bearing the title ‘The Sportsman’s Magazine Vol. 1’ and publication details and date of 1824 below. This is followed by a fold-out engraving of a rowing match on the Thames,... View full lot details

‘Great Batsmen Their Methods at a Glance’ and ‘Great Bowlers and Fielders Their Methods at a Glance’. George W. Beldam and Charles B. Fry. London, ‘Great Batsmen being a 1907 reissue, ‘Great Bowlers’ first edition 1906. The two volumes each in original green cloth with gilt illustrations to fronts and gilt titles to spines, gilt to top edges. ‘Great Bowlers’ inscribed and signed in ink to title page ‘A. Wallis Myers from George W. Beldam’,... View full lot details

‘The Rise, Progress, & Vicissitudes of Cricket in Herefordshire since its introduction to the county’. Reprinted from the Hereford Times, Hereford 1874. 62pp. Bound in original brown cloth, gilt title to front cover. Ownership name and inscription in black ink to front endpaper of R.[?].H. Rhodes, dated 1878, and further inscription in pencil to inside front cover, ‘Given by Heaton Rhodes to F. Wilding, June 1939’. Padwick 2035. Breaking to front internal hinge, minor wear... View full lot details

‘Death’s Doings; consisting of numerous original compositions, in prose and verse, the friendly contributions of various writers; principally intended as illustrations of thirty plates, designed and etched by R. Dagley, author of “Select Gems from the Antique” &c.’. Second London edition ‘with considerable additions’. London 1827. Published in two volumes, this is Volume I comprising 224 pages, with a cricket section, ‘The Game of Life; or Death Among the Cricketers’, a poem by S. Maunder,... View full lot details

‘The Cricketers’ Register for 1833’. 32pp booklet originally issued in three parts by ‘The New Sporting Magazine’ in the magazine’s issues of August (no. 28), September (no. 29) and October (no. 30) of 1833, paginated so they could be extracted from the magazine and compiled into one volume, as here. Bound in green cloth. Rare to see the cricket content in this format. Good condition... View full lot details

‘The Australian Cricket Annual’. First Year 1896. A complete Record of Australian Cricket in 1895-6’. Edited by John C. Davis. George Robertson & Co., Sydney 1896. Printed by Edward Lee & Co., Sydney. 192pp, xii. Complete. Original decorative paper wrappers. Padwick 3357. Front wrapper almost detached, some loss to the front wrapper, very small loss to the foot of the spine paper, some age toning and spotting to wrappers otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Australian Cricket Annual’. Second Year 1897. A complete Record of Australian Cricket in 1896-7’. Edited by John C. Davis. George Robertson & Co., Sydney 1897. 250pp plus advertising pages. Complete. Original decorative paper wrappers. Padwick 3357. Some wear and age toning to wrappers with loss to the wrapper extremities at front and rear, some loss and age toning/fading to the spine paper otherwise in good/ very good condition internally. Rare.... View full lot details

The Australian Cricketers’ Tour through Australia, New Zealand, and Great Britain’ containing a full racy account of the matches, dinners, excursions &c in which they have been engaged. by Argus (P.E. Reynolds) 1878. 8vo. Original front printed purple wrapper featuring Spofforth to centre, lacking end advertisement page (p93/94) and rear purple wrapper. Seven preliminary advertisement pages and complete with text pages. Total loss of spine, breaking to page block, page section becoming loose, old tape... View full lot details

‘The Tour of the Australian Eleven through England, America and the Colonies with Conway’s Australian Cricketers’ Annual for 1877-78’. Melbourne. Fergusson & Moore 1879. Bound without original wrappers in half calf and marbled boards with raised bands and gilt titles to spine. 400pp. Small hole to the title page, minor foxing and odd stain otherwise in good/very good condition. Small library stamp for ‘A.C.S. Dean Chamberlin Libary’ to two internal pages. A scarce cricket tour... View full lot details

‘Boyle & Scott’s Australian Cricketers’ Guide for 1881-82’. Henry F. Boyle and David Scott. Printed by Kemp Bros of Melbourne 1882. 3rd issue. 8vo. 202pp including advertisements. Complete. Original decorative paper wrappers, both wrapper trimmed at the corners. Comprises chapters on Cricket in Victoria, intercolonial matches, Shaw’s England team etc. Pages 112-116 with diagrams of field-placings. Ownership name of Harry Septimus Freeman, Carlton 1882’ in ink to the top of the title page. Padwick 3362.... View full lot details

‘The Australians In England. A complete record of the cricket tour of 1882 and 1884, with the batting and bowling averages of the Australians and the Englishmen who played against them’. C.F. Pardon. London 1882 and 1884. The two editions bound in marble half leather with raised band and titles to spine. Portrait frontispiece of W.R. Murdoch, captain of the Australians to each edition. Both editions with original pictorial board wrappers, the 1884 edition with... View full lot details

‘World of Cricket. Fifty Years of Cricket. England v Australia, Colony v Colony 1856-1895, Records etc of the Cricket Field’. F.J. Ironside. 3rd Edition 1895. Published by W. Dymock, Sydney 1895. Printed by McCarron, Stewart & Co., Sydney. Original decorative wrappers. Some wear to wrappers with minor loss to wrapper extremities at front and rear, ink signature of ownership to top border of the front wrapper, dated 1896, internally in good/very good condition... View full lot details

‘The Australian Cricket Guide 1926’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. C.H. Richards, Nottingham. Original cover bound into brown boards. Very good condition... View full lot details

Southern Tasmanian Cricket Association. Rare Third Annual Circular for Season 1869-70’. Double sided single page large format circular. Presumably printed at the ‘Mercury’ Steam Press Office, Hobart. Tears to top and bottom repaired with tape to second back side, nicks to edges and folds otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

Southern Tasmanian Cricket Association. Rare fourth Annual Circular for Season 1870-71’. 16pp. Hobart Town. Printed at the ‘Mercury’ Steam Press Office. Review of the season, lacking original wrappers otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

Southern Tasmanian Cricket Association. Rare fifth Annual Circular for Season 1871-72’. 16pp. Hobart Town. Printed at the ‘Mercury’ Steam Press Office 1871. Lacking original wrappers, some splitting to page spine, minor annotation to first page otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

Southern Tasmanian Cricket Association. Rare sixth Annual Review for Season 1872-73’. 12pp. Hobart Town. Printed at the ‘Mercury’ Steam Press Office 1873. Lacking original wrappers, ‘Sixth’ written to centre of the front page otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

Southern Tasmanian Cricket Association. Seventh Annual Circular for Season 1873-74’. 20pp. Hobart Town. Printed at the ‘Mercury’ Steam Press Office 1873. It is not known if this edition was printed with wrappers. Good condition... View full lot details

Southern Tasmanian Cricket Association. Eighth Annual Circular for Season 1874-75’. 32pp. Hobart Town. Printed at the ‘Mercury’ Steam Press Office 1874. It is not known if this edition was printed with wrappers. Good condition... View full lot details

Southern Tasmanian Cricket Association. Fourteenth Annual Circular for Season 1880-81’. 70pp. Hobart Town. Printed at the ‘Mercury’ Steam Press Office 1880. It is not known if this edition was printed with wrappers. Good condition... View full lot details

Southern Tasmanian Cricket Association. Thirty Eighth Annual Circular for Season 1903-04’. 72pp. Hobart. Printed at the ‘Mercury’ Office 1904. Original wrappers. Some slight loss to wrapper edges otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

South Australian Cricket Association Report and statement of Accounts for the year ended August 31st 1921. Original wrappers, some loss to corners of front wrapper, some soiling and minor annotation to top border of front wrapper and title page, wear to spine and staple areas with small loss otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

Rules and By-Laws of the New South Wales Cricket Association 1895-96. Small bound booklet with rules and by-laws. 8pp. Good condition... View full lot details

Melbourne Cricket Club. Annual Report for the Season 1888-1889. Mason, Firth & McCutchen, Melbourne 1889. 92pp. Bookplate of Thomas Parkin to inside front board, his name and address in Melbourne handwritten to front end paper and dated 1891. Bound in red boards Good condition. Scarce... View full lot details

South Melbourne Cricket Club. Jubilee Report 1912. Original wrappers. 72pp, Illustrations. Bound in gold and red boards. Some rusting to staples, good condition... View full lot details

‘Cricket Humour. Stories & Sketches by Arthur Mailey’. The Market Printery, Sydney 1956. Colourful pictorial wrappers. Tipped in to modern navy cloth with gilt title to spine, incorrectly dated ‘1936’. The frontispiece features a printed sketch by Mailey of Ian Johnson, with the signature of Mailey in ink on piece laid down above. Padwick 6882. Light foxing and age toning, otherwise in good/very good condition.... View full lot details

Australian tour to England 1882. ‘”The Sporting Mirror”. A Scarce Cricket Booklet’. Twenty leaves of pages extracted from the Sporting Mirror comprising articles including a preview of the second Australian tour in England, reports on some matches including the only Test (Australia won by seven runs), biographies of Blackham, Bannerman, Boyle, McDonnell, Massie, Palmer, and the Australian tour averages. Pages loose in later grey paper wrappers with typed title to front wrapper. Good condition.... View full lot details

‘Images of Bradman. Rare and famous photographs of a cricket legend...’. Peter Allen & James Kemsley. Bradman Museum, Bowral, 1994. Deluxe limited edition number 854/974, signed by Bradman, bound in full green leather in presentation box. Very good condition... View full lot details

‘The Jubilee Book of Cricket’. K.S. Ranjitsinhji. Edinburgh 1897. Limited edition of 350 copies signed by Ranjitsinhji, this being number 334. Magnificently bound in full black leather with titles in silver and gilt to spine. Name of ownership and date handwritten to the front end paper with detail ‘Bought from the library of Brigadier R.C. Chichester-Constable DSO, Yorkshire, following his death. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Indian Cricket Almanack. 1946/47-2004. Edited by Gurunathan/ Sundaresan/ Thygarajan etc. Madras. Complete run of the Annual for the period. Original soft covers, boards and dustwrappers where applicable. Issues for 1982-1991 with year of issue annotated by hand to cloth spines. Odd minor faults to earlier issues, otherwise in good condition. Qty 57.... View full lot details

West Indies. ‘The Barbados Cricketers’ Annual for 1895-96. Second year of publication’. Edited and compiled by J. Wynfred Gibbons. Printed at the West Indian Guardian, Barbados 1896. Original paper wrappers. Annotation in ink to front wrapper, ‘With the Compiler’s Complts’. Ownership stamp to inside front cover. Padwick 3677. Some age toning to wrappers with some wear to extremities and small loss to rear wrapper. Internally in very good condition. A rare Annual.... View full lot details

West Indies. ‘The Barbados Cricketers’ Annual for 1896-97. Third year of publication’. Edited and compiled by J. Wynfred Gibbons. Printed at the Globe Office, Barbados 1897. Bound in modern brown cloth, gilt title to spine, original front wrapper retained, lacking rear wrapper. Padwick 3677. Loss and damage to fragile front wrapper and first few pages, with expert repair to wrapper and tape repairs to gutter. Heavy age toning throughout and wear to page corners and... View full lot details

West Indies. ‘The Barbados Cricketers’ Annual for 1897-98. Fourth year of publication’. Edited and compiled by J. Wynfred Gibbons. Printed at the Globe Office, Barbados 1898. Original paper wrappers. Padwick 3677. Wrappers faded, replacement spine. Odd nicks and wear to edges of wrappers, some staining to page block edges, otherwise in good condition. A rare Annual.... View full lot details

West Indies. ‘The Barbados Cricketers’ Annual for 1899-00. Sixth year of publication’. Edited and compiled by J. Wynfred Gibbons. Printed at the Globe Office, Barbados 1900. Original paper wrappers. Padwick 3677. Small loss and wear to front wrapper, replacement spine. Odd nicks and wear to edges of wrappers, otherwise in good/ very good condition. A rare Annual.... View full lot details

West Indies. ‘The Barbados Cricketers’ Annual for 1900-01. Seventh year of publication’. Edited and compiled by J. Wynfred Gibbons. Printed at the Globe Office, Barbados 1901. Original paper wrappers. Padwick 3677. Small loss and wear to front wrapper, replacement spine. Odd nicks and soiling to edges of wrappers and page edges, otherwise in good condition. A rare Annual.... View full lot details

West Indies. ‘The Barbados Cricketers’ Annual for 1901-02. Eighth year of publication’ and ‘1903-04 Tenth year of publication’. Edited and compiled by J. Wynfred Gibbons. Printed at the Globe Office, Barbados 1902 and 1904 respectively. Both issues each bound in modern brown cloth, original paper wrappers retained. Padwick 3677. Heavy loss and expert repairs to the front wrappers of both issues with significant age toning throughout. The 1903/04 issue with worm damage to page edges.... View full lot details

West Indies. ‘The Barbados Cricketers’ Annual for 1905-06. Twelfth year of publication’. Edited and compiled by J. Wynfred Gibbons. Printed at the Globe Office, Barbados 1906. Original paper wrappers. Padwick 3677. Odd nicks and minor wear to wrappers, replacement spine, otherwise in good condition. A rare Annual.... View full lot details

West Indies. ‘The Barbados Cricketers’ Annual for 1906-07. Thirteenth year of publication’. Edited and compiled by J. Wynfred Gibbons. Printed at the Globe Office, Barbados 1907. Original paper wrappers. Padwick 3677. Some loss and soiling to front wrapper and first eight pages. Rear wrapper restored. Replacement spine. Some age toning to pages, otherwise in good condition. A rare Annual.... View full lot details

West Indies. ‘The Barbados Cricketers’ Annual for 1907-08. Fourteenth year of publication’. Edited and compiled by J. Wynfred Gibbons. Printed at the Globe Office, Barbados 1908. Original paper wrappers. Padwick 3677. Some water damage to wrappers with staining to front and rear endpapers and page edges. Odd nicks to wrapper edges, replacement spine, otherwise in good condition. A rare Annual.... View full lot details

West Indies. ‘The Barbados Cricketers’ Annual for 1908-09. Fifteenth year of publication’. Edited and compiled by J. Wynfred Gibbons. Printed at the Globe Office, Barbados 1909. Original paper wrappers. Padwick 3677. Minor wear and soiling to wrappers and page edges, replacement spine, otherwise in good/ very good condition. A rare Annual.... View full lot details

West Indies. ‘The Barbados Cricketers’ Annual for 1909-10. Sixteenth year of publication’. Edited and compiled by J. Wynfred Gibbons. Printed at the Globe Office, Barbados 1910. Original paper wrappers. Padwick 3677. Some wear and soiling to wrappers and page edges, replacement spine. Worm hole running through all pages, otherwise in good condition. A rare Annual.... View full lot details

West Indies. ‘The Barbados Cricketers’ Annual for 1910-11. Seventeenth year of publication’. Edited and compiled by J. Wynfred Gibbons. Printed at the Globe Office, Barbados 1911. Original paper wrappers. Padwick 3677. Some wear to wrappers and page edges, replacement spine. Worm hole running through all pages, otherwise in good condition. A rare Annual.... View full lot details

West Indies. ‘The Barbados Cricketers’ Annual for 1911-12. Eighteenth year of publication’. Edited and compiled by J. Wynfred Gibbons. Printed at the Globe Office, Barbados 1912. Original paper wrappers. Padwick 3677. Some fading and minor wear to wrappers, small loss to spine. Worm hole running through the majority of pages, otherwise in good condition. A rare Annual.... View full lot details

West Indies. ‘The Barbados Cricketers’ Annual for 1912-13. Nineteenth year of publication’. Edited and compiled by J. Wynfred Gibbons. Printed at the Globe Office, Barbados 1913. Original paper wrappers. Padwick 3677. Minor creasing to wrappers, replacement spine, otherwise in good/ very good condition. A rare Annual.... View full lot details

West Indies. ‘The Barbados Cricketers’ Annual for 1913-14. Twentieth [final] year of publication’. Edited and compiled by J. Wynfred Gibbons. Printed at the Globe Office, Barbados 1914. Original paper wrappers. Padwick 3677. Ownsership names in ink to front wrapper and Preface page. Fading, loss and wear to wrappers, front wrapper and first two pages detached. Rusting to staples, some worm damage to page edges, otherwise in generally fair condition. A rare Annual.... View full lot details

West Indies. ‘Intercolonial Cricket Tournament 1907. Trinidad v. British Guiana and Trinidad v. Barbados’. Published and printed by ‘The Argosy’ Company, Georgetown, Demerara 1907. Rebound in red quarter leather with marbled boards, gilt title to spine. Original paper wrappers retained. 108pp. Post-tournament booklet comprising scores and match reports. Padwick 3686. Ex libris Haverford College. Loss and expert repairs to original front wrapper, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Not previously seen by the auctioneer.... View full lot details

‘Intercolonial Cricket after the War’. Edited by H.R. Harewood. British Guiana 1937. Original wrappers, 104pp plys adverts. Bound in black boards with gilt title to front board. Some browning to pages otherwise in good+ condition. Scarce... View full lot details

‘The Revival of Sport in the West Indies: A Complete Chronicle of the Intercolonial Cricket Tournament, 1920, Barbados vs. Trinidad and Barbados Turf Club Races 16th-17th February 1920’. Barbados Advocate 1920. 60pp plus advertising pages. Original pictorial wrappers, bound in red boards with title to spine. Old paper label affixed to the top corner of the front wrapper, some slight loss to the edge of the top right hand corner, odd marks otherwise in good/very... View full lot details

‘Jamaica Cricket 1863-1926, being a sixty-three year record of the game’. Compiled and published by J. Coleman-Beecher, Lingston. Printed by The Gleaner Co Ltd 1926. 97pp plus advertising pages, illustrated. Original pictorial front wrapper, lacking rear, bound in brown and marbled half leather boards with gilt title to spine. Original pull-out folding illustration of the 1925/26 M.C.C. team inserted just before the title page as published. Loosely inserted into the book is a letter from... View full lot details

‘Maco. The Malcolm Marshall Story’. Pat Symes 2000. Limited edition number 81 of 100 copies published. Signed by Symes. Various press cuttings laid down to the inside of boards and end papers. Name of ownership and date handwritten to the inside of the front board. VG... View full lot details

‘Wellington Cricketers Association Cricket Annual. Season 1890-91’. Edited by F.E. Brittain. Bock & Co., Wellington 1891. 106pp. Includes mounted photographs of the ‘Wellington Representatives 1890-91’ and of the ‘Canterbury Representatives 1890-91’. Original paper wrappers. Padwick 3758. Annotations in red ink to team photographs and facing pages. Small loss to edges of front and rear wrappers with some soiling, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Rare first year of issue of the Annual in this form.... View full lot details

‘Wellington Cricketers Association Cricket Annual. Seasons 1891-92 & 1892-93’. Edited by F.E. Brittain. Bock & Co., Wellington 1893. 110pp. Original paper wrappers. Padwick 3758. Minor wear and splitting to spine, otherwise in very good condition. Rare.... View full lot details

New Zealand Cricketers’ Annual 1895 and 1896. Edited by ‘”Trundler” of Thames’ (William Henry Newton). Abel, Dykes & Co., Auckland 1895 (first year of issue) & 1896 (second year). Two issues bound as one volume in maroon leather, gilt title to spine, red speckled page edges. Original wrappers for both issues retained. Originally from the collection of A.D. Taylor with signed annotation in pencil to front endpaper, ‘Only existed four years, A.D. Taylor’, with ‘Alfred... View full lot details

New Zealand Cricketers’ Annual 1897 and 1898. Edited by ‘”Trundler” of Thames’ (William Henry Newton). Abel, Dykes & Co., Auckland 1897 (third year of issue) & 1898 (fourth and final year). Two issues bound as one volume in maroon leather, gilt title to spine, red speckled page edges. Original wrappers for both issues retained. Originally from the collection of A.D. Taylor with ‘A.D. Taylor’s copy’ annotated to front endpaper, and ‘Alfred D. Taylor. Collector of... View full lot details

New Zealand. ‘A Record of the Past Cricket Season 1889-90’. Compiled by F.E. Brittain. Bock and Co., Wellington 1890. Only year of issue. 54pp. Original paper wrappers. Contains frontispiece photograph of W.H. Levin, President of the Wellington Cricketers’ Association. Padwick 3752. Ownership name in ink of ‘Newton’ to front. Front wrapper partially detached, small losses to extremities with reinforcement/ repair to verso. Some internal foxing, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Rare.... View full lot details

‘History of Otago Representative Cricket 1863-1906 with a chapter on the “Pre-Rep” period, 1848-1863’. J.W.H. Bannerman. Dunedin, 1907. Original blue cloth with gilt title to front board, red speckled page edges. M.C.C. bookplate to inside front board. Padwick 3784. Minor fading to spine, slight bumping and wear to corners, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

New Zealand. ‘Early Cricket in Southland from 1860 and right up to 1908’. J.W.H. Bannerman. W. Smith, Invercargill 1908. Bound in red leather, gilt title to spine, original decorative paper wrappers retained. Bookplate of A.E. Winder to inside front board. Padwick 3791. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Cricket Almanack of New Zealand 1948-2022. Complete run of the annual from 1948 (first issue) to 2022 with odd duplication. All issues in soft covers with the exception of the 1978 hardback with dustwrapper. Some wear and old tape repair to the spine of the 1950, minor wear to other earlier editions, overall in good/ very good condition. Qty 77.... View full lot details

‘The Immortals’. The Book of New Zealand Test Players’. Paul Verdon. Auckland 2006. Limited edition number 334 of 665 copies, signed by the author and by ‘every living former and present Test player able to complete the exercise’. One hundred and seventy signatures to dedicated decade pages. Signatures include W. Hadlee, Kerr, Tindall, Rabone, Reid, Snedden, Alabaster, Blair, Dempster, MacGibbon, Meale, Cameron, Congdon, D. Hadlee, Howarth, Pollard, G. Turner, Vivian, L.Cairns, Chatfield, Edgar, R. Hadlee,... View full lot details

‘New Zealand Cricket’. Two volumes by T.W. Reese, ‘1841-1914’ Christchurch 1927, and ‘1914-1933’ Auckland 1936. Both bound in original publisher’s cloth, titles to fronts and spines. Some wear and minor soiling to boards, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

South African Cricket Association. Annual Reports for 1907, 1909, 1910, 1911 and 1914. The majority published by Charles Perrin, Johannesburg. The 1907 edition with some wear and age toning, the 1909 and 1910 editions with detached wrappers, the 1911 and 1914 edition in good order. Qty 5... View full lot details

South African Cricket Annual 1951/52-2007. A complete run of the Annual for seasons 1951/52 (first issue), 1952/53, 1954-1957, 1959, 1960, 1961/62, and 1963-2019 in paper wrappers. There was no issue for 1958. Odd duplication. Odd minor faults to earlier issues, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Qty 56.... View full lot details

South Africa cricket histories. Four volumes including three hardback titles in original publisher’s cloth. ‘The History of South African Cricket [1876-1914]’, M.W. Luckin, Johannesburg 1915. ‘South African Cricket 1919-1927’, M.W. Luckin, Johannesburg 1928 with wear and staining to boards. ‘South African Cricket 1927-1947’, Louis Duffus, Johannesburg 1948. Odd minor faults, other faults as described, otherwise in good condition. Also ‘South African Cricket 1947-1960’, Brian Bassano, Turners Hill 1996, in softback. Very good condition. Qty 4.... View full lot details

‘Cricket. An Heroic Poem Illustrated with the critical observations of Scriblerus Maximus’. James Love [Dance]. Published by W. Bickerton 1744. First edition. 25pp. Woodcut title vignette. Bound in blue morocco leather with beautifully gilt title lettering in the inner compartment of a double panel, gilt to all edges, front board very slightly bowed. The very rare first edition of the first separately published poem on cricket. James Dance (1722-1774) who assumed the name of Love... View full lot details

‘An Adieu to the Turf: A Political Epistle from The E--l of A------n to His Grace The A--------p of Y--k’. Bertie Willoughby, Earl of Abingdon. Printed for M. Smith, London 1778. Twenty four page poem rebound in modern quarter leather and marbled boards, gilt title to spine. 24pp plus seven pages of ‘Dedication to Mr. Tattersall’. Cricket interest on page three of the poem, “Scarce fourteen years had pass’d away/ When first I thought of... View full lot details

‘The Rural Life of England’ Volume II. William Howitt. London 1838. Original green cloth with tooled floral design to front and ornate gilt title to spine. pp 273-276 comprise an account of a match played in September 1835 between the Sussex and Nottingham Clubs, the first match played at Brighton and a return played in Nottingham 7th- 9th September watched by a crowd of 20,000, with a carrier pigeon relaying the result of the match... View full lot details

‘Angliae Notitia or the Present State of England’. Edward Chamberlayne. ‘The Nineteenth edition, with great Additions and Improvements’. Printed by T. Hodgkin for R. Chiswell etc., London 1700. Rebound in black calf with raised bands and gilt title to spine, red page edges. A very early mention of cricket on p.48, ‘The Natives will endure long and hard labour in so much, that after 12 hours hard Work, they will go in the evening to... View full lot details

‘An Essay of Health and Long Life’. George Cheyne. ‘Printed for George Strahan, at the Golden Ball over-against the Royal Exhange in Cornhill; and J. Leake, Bookseller at Bath’, London 1724. Bound in early full calf with tooled design to covers, raised bands to spine. Health advice with cricket reference on pp. 97-98, ‘To those that have Rheumatic Pains, to play at Billiards, Tennis or Cricket, till they sweat plentifully...’. Acquisition date in ink to... View full lot details

‘Some Statistics or the Influences of the Weather on the Wicket, with a method for its elimination in the comparison of averages’. Bernard Dale. London 1891. 31pp. Bound in original red cloth with gilt title to front. Comprises comparisons of performances of Lohmann, Briggs, Attwell, Spofforth, Turner etc. with the fluctuations of the weather eliminated. Slipped in is a neatly handwritten page by F.S. Ashley-Cooper comparing statistics of runs scored at Lord’s, the Oval and... View full lot details

‘Cricket. Its Theory and Practice by Captain Crawley’. G.F. Pardon. Chambers’s Useful Hand-Books, London, first edition 1865. Original red decorative wrappers with engraving of a cricket scene to front. Tipped in to modern green cloth. Ownership name in ink to page facing title page of ‘Charles C. Coles 1865’, and in pencil of A.D. Taylor to reverse of title page. Padwick 461. Fading and wear to original wrappers, some staining to pages, otherwise in good... View full lot details

‘A Handbook of Cricket’. Edmund Routledge 1862-1889. Two limited edition studies of the Handbook, of which numerous editions were published. ‘A Guide to Edmund Routledge’s Handbook of Cricket’, Roger Hancock 2007, no. 5/50, and ‘Edmund Routledge;s Handbook of Cricket. An Additional Guide’, Nicholas Sharp 2015, no. 25/50. Both titles signed by the respective author. Good/ very good condition. Sold with five different original editions of the Handbook, each comprising 64pp. First edition 1862, original pictorial... View full lot details

‘Cricket Records with a Commentary’. A.C. Coxhead. London 1899. 91pp. Bound in original pictorial cloth with illustration of W.G. Grace to front. This was F.S. Ashley-Cooper’s personal copy with his signature in ink to front endpaper, dated 3rd July 1899, and odd handwritten notes and annotations in his hand to pages. Padwick 106. Slight breaking to internal hinges, minor soiling to boards, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Cricket Books. The 100 Best (Old and New) with notes, values, etc’. Charles J. Britton. Birmingham 1929. Original stiffened boards with printed title to front cover. Ownership signature in ink of J.D. Coldham to front endpaper. Padwick 5. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Bat, Ball, Wicket and All. An account of the origin and development of the implements, dress and appurtenances of the National game’. G.D. Martineau. Sporting Handbooks, London 1950. 128pp. Original yellow cloth with dustwrapper. Slipped in is a single page typed letter from Martineau to John Arlott, dated 19th August 1950, thanking him for his kind words. Nicely signed in ink by Martineau. Padwick 333. Minor scuffing to rear of dustwrapper, otherwise in very good... View full lot details

‘Cricket. A New Edition’. P.F. Warner, Badminton Library, London 1920. Original decorative cloth boards. Signed in ink to the title page by Warner and E.R. Wilson who was one of the contributors. Padwick 81. Some foxing to page edges, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details