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Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia

‘The History of Cricket in Sussex from the Earliest Records to the Present Time’. Alfred J. Gaston. London 1898. Original decorative paper wrappers. Padwick 2704. Minor foxing and some wear to wrapper extremities otherwise in good condition. Scare... View full lot details

‘Sussex County Cricket Club. Its Diamond Jubilee. 1839-1899’. Alfred D. Taylor. Privately printed 1899. Original dark green cloth front wrapper with gilt title to front cover bound in half leather, lacking rear wrapper. Ex M.C.C. Library. Padwick 2784 states this edition was limited to one hundred copies. Good/very good condition. Scarce... View full lot details

‘Sussex Cricket in the Olden Time. With Glances at the Present’. A.D. Taylor 1900. Lacking original wrappers otherwise in good condition. A scarcer title... View full lot details

‘Sussex Cricket Champions. A Record of their Doings from 1815 to 1901’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Printed by Wm. Jas. Towner, Brighton 1902. Original wrappers. Minor foxing to page block edge otherwise in good/very good condition. A rare Sussex item... View full lot details

‘Sussex Cricket Records’. By ‘Willow Wielder’. Alfred D. Taylor. Presented by Taylor Brothers, Hove 1921. Original wrappers. Minor wear to spine otherwise in good/very good condition... View full lot details

‘Cricket Siftings’. By ‘Willow Wielder’. Alfred D. Taylor. Presented by Taylor Brothers, Hove 1921. Original wrappers. Professional restoration to corner of the front wrapper and title page otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

‘A Review of the Hastings & St. Leonards Cricket Festival from 1887 to 1903’. Alfred D. Taylor. Hastings 1903. Original red decorative wrappers. Tear to the edge of the front wrapper and slight split to the top corner of the spine paper otherwise in good/very good condition. Inscribed to inside front wrapper ‘Presented to Horntye Park by the daughter of A. Clark Esq. June 2003’... View full lot details

‘Sussex Cricket Annual for 1901’. First issue of the Annual in original beige paper wrappers, edited by A.D. Taylor, ‘Willow Wielder’. Printed by W.E. Nash of Brighton. Replacement spine and appears to have some professional restoration to the border of the wrappers nearest to the spine otherwise in good condition. Rare... View full lot details

‘Sussex Cricket Annual for 1902’. Second issue of the Annual in original red paper wrappers, edited by A.D. Taylor, ‘Willow Wielder’. Printed by W.E. Nash of Brighton. Good/very good condition. Ex Woodhouse collection. Rare... View full lot details

‘Sussex Cricket Annual for 1903’. Third issue, second edition, of the Annual in original beige paper wrappers, edited by A.D. Taylor, ‘Willow Wielder’. Printed by W.E. Nash of Brighton. With player portraits of the players. Replacement spine and appears to have some professional restoration to the border of the wrappers nearest to the spine, minor staining to rear wrapper otherwise in good condition.

Ex Woodhouse collection. Rare... View full lot details

‘Sussex Cricket Annual for 1904’. Fourth issue of the Annual in original peach paper wrappers, edited by A.D. Taylor, ‘Willow Wielder’. Printed by W.E. Nash of Brighton. With player portraits of the players. Good/very condition. Ex Woodhouse collection. Rare... View full lot details

‘Sussex Cricket Annual for 1905’. Fifth issue of the Annual in original beige paper wrappers, edited by A.D. Taylor, ‘Willow Wielder’. Printed by W.E. Nash of Brighton. Some wear and annotation to wrappers and spine, annotation to first advertising page, possible part restoration to spine otherwise in good condition. Rare... View full lot details

‘Sussex Cricket Annual for 1906’. Sixth issue of the Annual in original beige paper wrappers, edited by A.D. Taylor, ‘Willow Wielder’. Printed by W.E. Nash of Brighton. Minor wear and soiling to wrappers and spine otherwise in good+ condition. Rare... View full lot details

‘Sussex Cricket Annual for 1907’. Seventh issue of the Annual in original beige paper wrappers, edited by A.D. Taylor, ‘Willow Wielder’. Printed by W.E. Nash of Brighton. Good/very good condition. Rare... View full lot details

‘Sussex Cricket Annual for 1908’. Eighth issue of the Annual in original boards, edited by A.D. Taylor, ‘Willow Wielder’. Printed by W.E. Nash of Brighton. Some professional restoration to boards and spine, age toning and wear to board extremities, browning and some restoration to internal pages otherwise in generally good condition. Rare... View full lot details

‘Sussex Cricket Annual for 1909’. Ninth issue of the Annual in original light brown paper wrappers, edited by A.D. Taylor, ‘Willow Wielder’. Printed by W.E. Nash of Brighton. Crease to rear wrapper, some restoration to the spine area, browning to pages otherwise in good condition. Rare... View full lot details

George William King. Sussex & Cambridge University 1842-1864. ‘Lillywhite’s Illustrated Handbook of Cricket 1844 edited by ‘A Cantab’, London 1844. All 22pp of the handbook text are present, but lacking all of the portraits. Bound in original green cloth with gilt title to front. Signed and dated in ink to the front endpaper ‘G.W. King, Trinity, June 12, 1844’, with a listing in pencil below in King’s hand of the teams for ‘M.B.C. 1842’ (including... View full lot details

Sussex County Cricket Club Annuals for 1939 (thirteenth year of issue). Minor soiling to original decorative card wrappers, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Glamorgan yearbooks 1933-2011, (not issued 1939-1945). Full set of Glamorgan yearbooks each with individual original wrappers and in good condition. The yearbooks are stored in ten modern blue presentation boxes, each box with gilt titles to spine and edging. Odd minor faults to individual yearbooks, otherwise in good/ very good condition... View full lot details

Matches of the Liverpool Cricket Club 1847-1864. Published by Webb and Hunt, printers, Liverpool 1865. Original green boards, with title in gilt to front board. Minor wear to boards, minor foxing to first two pages otherwise in good condition. Padwick 2210. A scarce book... View full lot details

‘The Jubilee Book of Lancashire Cricket’. William Lang. Printed and published by The Manchester Weekly Times Ltd 1914. 22pp. Original pictorial wrappers. Some age toning and minor wear to wrappers, rusting to staples, centre two folding pages cleanly detached good condition. Rare... View full lot details

‘The Cricketer’s Manual for the Border Counties containing a Review and Averages for the Season 1869’. Published by Askew Roberts, Woodall, & Venables, Bailey Head, Oswestry. Comprising match scores, match reports and club averages including those of the Shropshire county team. Bound in green cloth and marbled boards, original wrappers retained, complete. Bookplate of J.W. Goldman laid down to inside front cover. Padwick 1757. Owner’s name, ‘E. Minshall’ in ink to front end paper and... View full lot details

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

Yorkshire C.C.C. Annuals 1893 & 1894. Two limited edition facsimile reprints of the first two issues of the annual. Each bound in red cloth with gilt title and Yorkshire emblem to front cover. The 1893 published in 1990, limited edition no. 132/150. The 1894 published in 1992, limited edition no. 59/100. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Yorkshire C.C.C. annual 1894. 2nd year of issue. 136pp. 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 signature to index page of J.H. Stainton, Yorkshire cricket journalist. Padwick 3051. Very minor wear to head and base of spine, otherwise in very good condition. Rare.... View full lot details

Yorkshire C.C.C. annual 1896. 4th annual issue. 136pp plus sixteen ‘notes’ pages as issued. Edited by J.B. Wolstinholm. J. Robertshaw, Sheffield, printer. Original maroon boards, gilt titles to front board and spine paper with Yorkshire emblem to centre, gilt to edges. Slight age toning to title page otherwise in good/very good condition.... 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. Slight browning to title page otherwise in good/very good condition.... 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. Padwick 3051. Minor wear to boards otherwise in good/ very good condition. Rare.... View full lot details

Yorkshire C.C.C. annual 1899. 7th year of issue. 165pp plus ‘Notes’ pages as issued. Edited by J.B. Wostinholm and H.H. Stones. J. Robertshaw, Sheffield, printer. Original brown boards with titles in gilt to front board and spine and gilt ‘Y.C.C.C.’ emblem to centre, gilt to page edges. Good/very 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

‘The Surrey Team in 1888. Complete scores of all matches played, with full page portraits and short biographical sketches’. Office of ‘Cricket’, London 1889. Original wrapper. Minor age toning to wrapper extremities and odd foxing spot to page block edge otherwise in surprisingly very good condition Padwick 2696. Rare... View full lot details

‘The Surrey Eleven in 1895. A Descriptive Record of the Matches Played in that Season’. James L. McCance. Merritt & Hatcher, London 1896. 60pp Original pictorial paper wrappers. Minor wear to wrappers, pencil annotation to lower border of front wrapper, repaired tear to rear front end paper otherwise in surprisingly very good condition. Padwick 2687. Rare... View full lot details

‘The Surrey Eleven in 1896. A Descriptive Record of the Matches Played in that Season’. James L. McCance. Merritt & Hatcher, London 1897. Bound in green cloth with title to front board, original decorative wrappers retained. Ex M.C.C. Collection, previously sold at Christies sale of November 2010. Padwick 2687. A nice copy in good/ very good condition... View full lot details

‘Surry Triumphant: or The Kentish-Mens Defeat. A new ballad being a parody of Chevy-Chace’. John Duncombe. Printed J. Johnson, London 1773. First edition. 24pp. Bound in brown and marbled half leather with woodcut title vignette. The match took place at Bishopsbourne Paddock, the seat of Sir Horatio Mann, on 24 July, 1773, for £2000, and page A2 gives the scores of the two innings, showing Surrey triumphant by 153 runs. The Rev. John Duncombe... 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. ‘The Scores of Matches played by the Wimbledon Cricket Club 1871-1889’. Compiled by E.W.J. Reeves. Printed by W.H.H. of Walsall 1890. Original blue cloth, gilt title to spine. Bookplate of Epworth Second Hand Books to inside front cover. Padwick 2671. Chipping and darkening to spine, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

Surrey cricket. ‘John Wisden’s Cricket Match Histories’. Three booklets by F.S. Ashley-Cooper, published by John Wisden & Co., London 1922, bound together as one volume in green cloth, gilt title to front, all with original dark blue card wrappers preserved. The three volumes are ‘I. Kent v. Surrey 1731-1921’, ‘II. Surrey v. Notts 1851-1921’, and ‘III. Middlesex v. Surrey 1730-1921’. Padwick 2675. Very good condition.... 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 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 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 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 1865. ‘The Canterbury Cricket Week. An authentic narrative of the origin and career of the institution; including the programmes of The Old Stagers’ Performances... Volume First’. Printed and published by William Davey, Canterbury 1865. First (and only) edition. Original red cloth, with gilt titles, and coloured and gilt border bands, all edges gilt. Coloured decorative half-title page. Includes seventeen real photographs on five plates of players and officials. Photographs include N.... View full lot details

‘Kent Cricket: A Few Notes’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Privately printed 1929. 16pp Christmas card booklet privately printed in 1929 with printed Christmas greeting to first page, hand addressed to ‘J. Dover Betham’ in ink by Ashley-Cooper. Original pictorial card wrappers with cord tie. Comprises sections on ‘Kent Match Results 1719-1929’, ‘Woolley’s Hundreds’, ‘Ames’ Wicket-Keeping’ etc. Bookplate of A.E. Winder facing title page. Padwick 2132. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Kent cricket. Two histories relating to Kent cricket by F.S. Ashley-Cooper, both in original decorative paper wrappers. Titles are the rarer ‘Kent Cricket Records 1719-1929’, Canterbury 1929, signature of Kent collector, H.W. Warner to title page. ‘Kent County Cricket’, George W. May, London 1924 with some soiling to wrappers, wear and small loss to first advertising page. Rusting to staples of both, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Kent cricket. Four histories relating to Kent cricket. Titles are ‘Surry [sic] Triumphant or the Kentish-Mens Defeat. A new ballad being a parody of Chevy-Chase’, John Duncombe, ‘Issued in 1937 by Bourne Paddock Cricket Club’. 16pp reprint of the 1773 original. ‘Canterbury Cricket Week. Its Origin, Career, and Jubilee 1842-1891’, F. Milton Small, first issue, Canterbury 1891, bound in modern blue cloth, original wrappers preserved, speckled page edges, ownership name of F.S. Ashley-Cooper to title... 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, third issue 1892. viii, 154pp plus the additional page of 1892 scores. Padwick 2089. Original decorative paper wrappers. Small loss and wear to spine, internally in 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 histories. Four titles including ‘A Short History of Nottinghamshire Cricket including the Season of 1887’. E. Browne. Nottingham 1887. Original decorative cloth boards with wear. ‘Nottinghamshire Cricket Scores and Biographies. From 1838 (Opening of the Trent Bridge Ground)’ Volumes 1 and 2, compiled by C.H. Richards. Printed & published by George Richards of Nottingham 1888 & 1890. The two volumes bound together as one in quarter leather, red speckled page edges, lacking original... View full lot details

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

‘Hampshire & Isle of Wight Leaders. Social and Political’. Charles A. Manning. London 1903, gilt to all page edges.. The book includes several prominent sportsman including Hampshire cricketer Lt-Colonel Christopher Heseltine, original Hampshire C.C.C. Committee members, The Earl of Portsmouth, W.W.B. Beach. Very light foxing to odd page otherwise in good condition... 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. Ownership signature of Sydney Santall (Warwickshire 1894-1914) to front endpaper of Volume I. Minor wear to spine papers of Vols. I & II, otherwise... View full lot details

‘Derbyshire County Cricket’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. George W. May, London 1924. Original decorative cover. Padwick 1842. Minor wear and ageing to cover, rusting to staples otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘A History of Derbyshire County Cricket Club 1870-1970’. John Shawcroft. Derby 1970. Original green morocco with gilt titles to front and spine. First limited edition of 250 copies, this being number 2. Foreword by the Duke of Devonshire, signed in ink by the Duke below his frontispiece photograph, who signed the first fifty copies. Formerly the property of Frank Peach, archivist and editor of the Club’s Annual. Padwick 1854. Minor wear to spine edges, otherwise... View full lot details

‘The Leicester Ivanhoe Cricket Club 1873-1923’. J.R. Gimson, B.W.N. Russell and R.G. Waddington. Leicester 1923. Original brown cloth boards, titles to front and spine. 230pp with additional 11pp ‘Index’ compiled by Henry Grierson tipped in to rear. Bookplate of W.F. Curtis to inside front cover, inscribed and signed in ink ‘To the Sussex County C.C. with many happy memories, W.F. Curtis’. Opposite on the front endpaper is the cancelled Sussex C.C.C. library plate bearing Curtis’... View full lot details

Northamptonshire cricket. ‘Northamptonshire Past & Present’, Journal of the Northamptonshire Record Society, Vol. V no. 4 1976, comprising a three page article by J.D. Coldham on ‘The Northamptonshire Cricket Song’ sung by Charles E. Thorpe at a meeting of the Club in 1885 to raise funds for a new ground. Padwick 2449. Very good condition. Sold with ‘Northamptonshire v. Yorkshire At the Wicket 1908-1960’ compiled by James D. Coldham 1961. Limited offprint of twenty five... View full lot details

‘Somerset County Cricket’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. George W. May, London 1924. Original decorative paper wrappers. Padwick 2553. Minor wear and ageing to cover, rusting to staples otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

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

‘Annals of Brechin Cricket’. Alfred O’Neil. Brechin 1927. Original decorative boards. Presentation copy from Alfred O’Neil with ink inscription to front end page ‘To Fred Hall esq with the compliments of the author. Alfred O’Neil 25th May 1928’. Wear to boards and extremities otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

‘Reminiscences of the Grange Cricket Club, Edinburgh, with selected matches 1832-1862’. W. Moncrieff. David Douglas, Edinburgh 1891. Red brown cloth, gilt to top page edges. The frontispiece is a real photograph of the club ground with a posed match. Ownership signature of A.D. Taylor of Brighton to front end paper, also signed to inside from board by H.W. Warner. Some wear and discolouration to boards otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

’The Midland Rangers’ Tour, August 1st to 12th 1882. By Senex’. An account of a tour of the West Country in doggerel verse. Matches played against Truro, Penzance, Plymouth Garrison and Cuckoo-Penners. Original decorative light blue wrappers bound in red boards with gilt title to spine. 18pp. Good condition. Ex Cohen Collection, sold as part of lot 543 in his sale of January 1995 by Phillips... View full lot details

‘The Suffolk Cricket Annual 1903, 1904 and 1905’. Edited by Randolph L. Hodgson. Original card wrappers. The three editions bound as one. Padwick 2591. The wrapper for 1904 detached otherwise in good+ condition... View full lot details

‘Norfolk County Cricket Club. Season 1905. Souvenir of a Record Season’. Published by Jarrold & Sons, Norwich. Original blue cloth with gilt title and County emblem to front cover. Comprises records of all matches played in the Minor Counties Championship for 1905, in which Norfolk were champions. Presentation copy ‘To the Reverend H.B.J. Armstrong from C.B. Leathes Prior June 1909’. Frontispiece photograph of Rev. G.B. Raikes, captain. Padwick 2445. Ex David Armstrong collection (former Secretary... View full lot details

‘Cheltenham Cricket Week. A Review of the Games from 1878 to 1904. Together with a brief outline of other important matches played in the district’. Alfred D. Taylor. Cheltenham 1905. 1st Edition, 60pp. Bound in green half leather with original decorative paper wrappers bound to the rear. Padwick 1943. Light vertical fold otherwise in good/ very good condition. Rare... View full lot details

‘Records of Cheltenham College Matches against Public Schools 1856-1900’. Edited by A.A. Hunter. Cheltenham 1901. 227pp. Original red boards with titles to front board and spine paper. Some fading to the titles, breaking to the front internal hinge otherwise in good+ condition.... View full lot details

‘The History of a Hundred Centuries’. W.G. Grace. Edited by W. Yardley. London 1895. Original pictorial paper wrappers. Some rusting to staples, some splitting and small loss to spine and soiling to wrappers, otherwise in good condition. Sold with two mono postcards of Grace in batting poses, one by Wrench Series no. 2931, the other Star Series. Good condition. Qty 3.... View full lot details

‘Cricket’. W.G. Grace. Bristol 1891. Original green cloth, with gilt titles to front and spine. Nicely signed in ink by Grace to the reverse of the frontispiece. Replacement spine and endpapers, with original spine paper laid down. Some staining and wear to board extremities, otherwise a nice copy in good condition.... View full lot details

William Gilbert Grace. Two volumes of ‘Men and Women of the Day’, each containing a set of impressive large ‘Woodburytype’ mono photographs of actors, authors and other celebrities of the day with accompanying biographies by Barraud of London, 1888. Includes a photograph of Grace, three quarter length, wearing cricket whites and holding a cricket bat under his arm. Each photograph is laid down to official photographer’s mount with printer’s name to lower border. The photographs... View full lot details

‘Clifton College 1862-1912’. A portfolio of thirty one pages comprising forty three original sepia photographic plates of events and personalities in the history of the College with scenes of the college buildings, masters and sports including cricket and athletics. The plates are laid to pages loosely contained within grey boards with green cloth spine, printed title and College emblem to front and cord tie. Includes four page index printed by The Vandyke Printers, Bristol. Cricket... View full lot details

‘The Chronicle of W.G.’, J.R. Webber, Nottingham 1998. Limited subscriber’s edition softback number 20/440. Signed to the limitation page by the author, also Marianne Day, Granddaughter of W.G., and G.F. Grace, Great Nephew of W.G. Sold with two further limited edition softbacks, both signed by the respective author(s). ‘A Springbok Down Under. South Africa on Tour 1931/1932’, Brian Bassano & Rick Smith, Tasmania 1991, limited edition no. 8/400. ‘A Century of Surrey Stumpers’, David Sawyer... View full lot details

W.G. Grace biographies. Six original titles, all hardbacks with one softback, each signed by the author with inscribed dedications and/ or letters to the collector, Roger Mann, who assisted with the research for each. Titles include two by G. Derek West, ‘Twelve Days of Grace’ hardback 1989, and ‘Six More Days of Grace’ softback 1992. Others are ‘W.G.’, Robert Low 1997. ‘W.G. Grace. A Life’, Simon Rae 1998. ‘Cricket With Grace’, David Rayvern Allen 1990.... View full lot details

‘Haygarth at Harrow (1839-1842)’. Compiled by Roger Heavens. Louth 2018. Limited edition no. 86/100. Signed by Heavens. Dustwrapper. Very good condition... View full lot details

‘Felix and the Eleven of England’, Gerald Brodribb. Boundary Books, Manchester 2002. Full leather with gilt title to spine and gilts to page edges, in slipcase. Limited Edition of 250 copies, this being hand marked ‘M.C.C. Copy’, each signed by a descendent of Felix, J.E. Wanostrocht, by Ted Dexter, President of M.C.C., and by Hubert Doggart, Chairman of the M.C.C. publishing committee and contributor of a charming foreword. Very good condition. Formerly in the M.C.C.... View full lot details

‘An Unjust Slur on Bobby Peel’. Irving Rosenwater. London 1997. Printed for private circulation in London, February 1997. Limited edition number 20 of only twenty numbered copies produced, signed by Rosenwater. Good condition. Rare... View full lot details

‘I.T. Botham. A Few Highlights’. Irving Rosenwater. Privately printed for the author in London, September 1993. Limited edition number 5 of only twenty five numbered copies produced, signed by the author. None were available for sale. VG. Rare.... View full lot details

‘Cricket. A Set of Etchings’. Corridan Graddon. St Albans 1983. Original green boards with gilt titles and decoration. Limited edition number 93/100. Signed by the artist. VG... View full lot details

‘The Noblest Game’. John Arlott and Neville Cardus. First edition, London 1969. Signed ‘Special Edition’ limited to one hundred copies, this being no. 75, signed by Cardus and Arlott to limitation page. Original green cloth and leather spine with raised bands and gilt title, gilt to top page edge. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Australian limited edition histories and biographies. Three softback titles, each limited edition and/ or signed. ‘The M.C.C. Tour to Australia 1903-1904’, Ronald Cardwell 1988, limited edition no. 106/287, signed by the author and Bill O’Reilly. ‘Making the Grade. 100 Years of Grade Cricket in Sydney 1893/4- 1993/4’, Max Bonnell et al. 1994. ‘Billy Murdoch. Cricketing Colossus’, Richard Cashman & Ric Sissons, Sydney 2019, paperback edition signed by the authors. Also one hardback, ‘Googlyman. The Story... View full lot details

‘James Lillywhite’s XI in Goulburn 1876’. Ronald Cardwell. Cherrybrook, N.S.W. 2007. Limited edition no. 63/111 copies produced. Signed by Rob Jeffrey, Trevor Bayliss and the author. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Stoddy’s Mission. The First Great Test Series 1894-1895’. David Frith. New South Wales 1994. Limited edition of 100 copies produced, this being number 13, signed by Frith to the title page. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Lost Art. A History of Under-Arm Bowling’. Gerald Brodribb. Boundary Books, Goostrey 1997. Limited edition of fifty copies produced, this being number 5, signed by the author. Quarter leather with gilt to spine, gilt to top edge, marbled endpapers. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Allan Border. Beyond Ten Thousand. My Life Story’. Allan Border. Nedlands W.A., 1993. Special edition bound in full green leather with decorative gilt title to front and spine, gilt to all page edges. ‘Limited to 10,123 copies... equal to the number of Test runs Allan scored’, this being copy number 51. Signed in ink with dedication to the front endpaper limitation page, ‘To Frank. Many thanks for all your assistance, particularly the early years.... View full lot details

‘Calling the Shots. Correspondence over fifty years between Don Bradman and Jim Swanton’. Michael Down. Boundary Books, Childrey 2017. Original pictorial hard covers. Limited edition of 100 copies, this being an unnumbered gift copy to ‘Roger’, signed by the author. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Captain of the Crowd’. Albert Craig, Cricket and Football Rhymester 1849-1909’. Tony Laughton. Boundary Books, Childrey 2008. Limited edition number 16 of fifty copies produced, signed by the author. Specially bound and boxed with twelve facsimiles of the rarest Craig compositions reproduced on art paper. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Felix and the Eleven of England’, Gerald Brodribb. Boundary Books, Manchester 2002. Full leather with gilt title to spine and gilts to page edges, in slipcase. Limited Edition of 250 copies, this being copy number 116, each signed by a descendent of Felix, J.E. Wanostrocht, by Ted Dexter, President of M.C.C., and by Hubert Doggart, Chairman of the M.C.C. publishing committee and contributor of a charming foreword. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Playfair Cricket Annuals 1951-2019. A good run of the Annual 1951 to 1965, 1967 to 1974, 1976 to 1998, 2004, 2005 and 2019. The annuals from 1951 to 1962 in larger format and from 1963 to 2019 in smaller format. Duplicate issues of the 1951, 1954, 1955, 1956 and 1958 editions. Odd minor faults, otherwise in good condition. Qty 54.... View full lot details

Marylebone Cricket Club. Matches for the Season with full scores and batting averages’. Editions for 1893, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911 (2), 1913, 1944-45 (3 copies) and 1948-49. Sold with ‘Marylebone Cricket Club. Pavilion and Ground Regulations, list of members’. Editions for 1953-54 (3), 1955-56 (2) and 1957-48 (4) and Wisden Cricketers’ Almanacks for 2004, 2007 and 2019 (2), the first two editions lacking dustwrappers. Plus a few individual books ‘Pageantry of... 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

County and Club handbooks/ yearbooks 1950s-1990s. Box comprising a large selection of over one hundred and fifty annuals, Club histories, A.C.S. publications etc. Contents include ‘Cricketing References in Norwich Newspapers, 1701 to 1800’, J.S. Perry 1979. A run of Club Cricket Conference Handbooks for seasons 1952, 1953, 1955-1976, 1978, 1981 and 1989-1991. County Cricket Association handbooks for Nottinghamshire 1963, 1972, 1978-1980, 1984, 1989-1993, 1997, Surrey 1985-1993 also, Middlesex and Yorkshire. Northern Cricket League handbooks including... View full lot details

Cricket histories, biographies and annuals. Four first edition hardback titles by P.F. Warner in original cloth covers, two signed. Titles are ‘Cricket in Many Climes’, London 1900, signed in ink to front endpaper by Sydney Santall (Warwickshire 1894-1914). ‘The Book of Cricket’, P.F. Warner, London 1911. ‘My Cricketing Life’, P.F. Warner, London 1921, ownership name to front endpaper of R.L. Arrowsmith. Tear to fold out frontispiece photo. ‘The Fight for the Ashes in 1926’, London... View full lot details

‘[John &] James Lillywhite’s Cricketers’ Annual 1881-1897. Seven editions of the annual. ‘John & James Lillywhite’s Cricketers’ Companion’ for 1881 bound in modern green cloth, gilt title to spine, original green paper wrappers preserved. Foxing to page edges, otherwise in good condition. ‘James Lillywhite’s Cricketers’ Annual’ in original red cloth, issues for 1883, 1887, 1888, 1889, 1891, and 1897. The 1883 with soiling and staining to covers becoming detached. The 1897 covers becoming detached and... View full lot details

Biographies, histories and annuals. A selection of nine titles including two limited edition and/ or signed. ‘George Lohmann. The beau ideal’, Ric Sissons, Leichhardt 1991, limited edition no. 266/500, signed by Sissons. ‘Tragic White Roses’, Mick Pope, Swinton 1995, no. 228/450. Facsimile reprints of ‘James Lillywhite’s Cricketers’ Annual’ 1883 (spotting to wrappers) and 1894 published by ‘Cricket Lore’ 1990s. ‘Annals of Cricket’, W.W. Read, London 1896, original pictorial stiffened boards. ‘The Cricketer’ magazine Vol. II... View full lot details

James Lillywhite’s Cricketers’ Annual 1878-1900. Complete full run of the ‘Red Lillywhite’ Annual for the period, edited by Charles W. Alcock, comprising eight individual issues in original red cloth, and seven bound volumes of multiple issues in quarter leather and marbled or cloth boards. Includes the odd duplication. Issues bound together are 1878-1880, 1881-1883, 1884-1886, 1886 & 1887, 1889-1892, 1893-1896, and 1897-1899. Individual issues are for years 1887, 1888, 1892, 1893 (2 copies), 1895,... View full lot details

‘The Guide to Cricketers containing full directions for playing the noble and manly game of Cricket...’ 1864. Compiled and Edited by Frederick Lillywhite. Published by Fred. Lillywhite, Kennington Oval, London 1864. 19th Edition. 8vo. Original rear paper wrapper, lacking front wrapper, also first two advertising pages and title page. Padwick 1086. First three pages becoming detached, otherwise complete. Staining and age toning to rear wrapper, light foxing to pages, otherwise in good condition. Rare.... View full lot details

‘The Guide to Cricketers containing full directions for playing the noble and manly game of Cricket...’ 1865. Compiled and Edited by Frederick Lillywhite. Published by Fred. Lillywhite, Kennington Oval, London 1865. 20th Edition. 8vo. Rebound in green cloth, gilt title to spine, lacking original wrappers otherwise complete. Neat annotations in coloured inks to pages, loss and age toning to first few pages, otherwise in good condition. Rare.... View full lot details

‘Feltham’s Cricketer for 1877’ and ‘... for 1878’. First and second (only) years of issue. Edited by George H. West. London 1877 & 1878. The two issues bound together as one volume in green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Original red stiffened card wrappers to both issues retained. The 1877 with frontispiece engraving of Richard Daft, bookplate and stamp of M.C.C. library to original inside front cover. The 1878 with frontispiece engraving of Henry... View full lot details

Catalogues and guides. Five titles including one signed. ‘Sussex Cricket Postcards (1901 to 1947)’, Bob Jones and Nicholas Sharp, Hainault 1994, hardback with good dustwrapper, signed ‘Bob’ and ‘Nicholas’ to page facing title page. Also ‘Catalogue of the Collection of “The Yorker” for the exhibition held at Piccadilly, published by Whitbread & Co., London 1954. ‘Cricket On Old Picture Postcards’, Grenville Jennings, Nottingham 1985. ‘The Catalogue of British & Foreign Cigarette Cards 1888-1987’, London Cigarette... View full lot details

‘On the Tented Fields of the South 1882’. By The Childe (W.F. Buckland) Printed at the ‘Free Lance’ Office, Vulcan Lane, Auckland (New Zealand) 1883. 32pp, Report of a southern tour of the Auckland Representative Eleven with ‘pomes’ in prose and verse, descriptions and scores of the tour. Original light blue paper wrappers with titles in black to front cover, minor age toning otherwise in very good condition. A very rare and early New Zealand... View full lot details

‘Pavilion Echoes from the South 1884-85’. By The Twelve. Printed by Cecil Gardner & Co, High Street, Auckland (New Zealand) 1885. 36pp plus advertising to rear. This is the third account of an Auckland tour to the south, following those of 1874 and 1882. They played the major teams on the island plus Wellington. Original blue paper wrappers, only fair condition with repairs to wrappers, foxing throughout, worm holes to front wrapper. Signature of ownership... View full lot details

‘Cricket in Hawke’s Bay’ Containing a complete History of the game’s progress in this District...’ F.F. Cane 1921. Printed by G.W. Venables of Napier. Original brown patterned wrappers with gilt title. Ex M.C.C. Library with label. This was originally F.S. Ashley-Cooper’s copy and has occasional notes to margin and a page of manuscript notes in pencil in Ashley-Cooper’s hand, the book was then sold by Diana Rait Kerr to Leslie Gutteridge, a book dealer and... View full lot details

‘Plunket Shield and Canterbury Cricket Souvenir’. Published by H.E. Lawrence and printed by Theo Cox 1913. Light blue wrappers with titles in silver to front wrapper. Staples have been removed, minor rusting to the staple holes otherwise in good condition. Canterbury team records, illustrations, player profiles and advertisements. A rare item... View full lot details

New Zealand cricket histories and biographies. First edition hardbacks and one softback. Hardback titles are ‘The New Zealanders in England 1931’, O.S. Hintz, London 1931. ‘New Zealand Cricketers’, R.T. Brittenden, Wellington 1961. Dustwrapper. Includes a selection of twenty one white cards slipped in, individually signed by New Zealand players, including Sutcliffe, Tindill, Wallace, Weir, Blair, Cowie, Donnelly, Kerr, Moir, Rabone etc. ‘Sword of Willow’, John Reid, first edition Wellington 1962. Modern signature of Reid on... View full lot details

‘The New Zealand Cricket Guide. [A Book of Records]’. Two issues for 1927 and 1931. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Published by C.H. Richards, Nottingham 1927 & 1931 respectively. Both in original paper wrappers. Padwick 3740. The 1927 issue with Ashley-Cooper’s address card slipped in, annotated in ink in his hand, ‘With kindest regards’. Small crease to the front wrapper of the 1927, rusting to staples, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Centuries scored in the United States and Canada, 1844 to June 14th 1902’. F.F. Kelly. Jersey City 1902. Original black cloth boards, front cover gilt lettered, red page edges. Broken front and rear internal hinges, number ‘124’ written to top corner of front board otherwise in good condition. Ex Auty collection. Rare... View full lot details

‘Chadwick’s American Cricket Manual. Also the Game of Lacrosse’. Henry Chadwick. New York. Robert. M de Witt, 1873. First edition. 128pp[4]. Original pictorial boards, some wear to board edges and extremities otherwise in good condition. A scarce item on early American cricket. Padwick 411 & 4037... View full lot details

‘The American Cricket Annual for 1890. First year of publication. Compiled and edited by Jerome Flannery, New York 1890. Original pictorial wrappers. Padwick 4045. Some wear and staining to wrappers and spine, some loss to wrapper edges, internally good/very good condition... View full lot details

‘The American Cricket Annual for 1891. Second year of publication. Compiled and edited by Jerome Flannery, New York 1891. Original publisher’s blue cloth with gilt title to front cover. Padwick 4045. Minor wear to boards, tear to front end paper otherwise in good/very good condition... View full lot details

‘The American Cricket Annual for 1892. Third year of publication. Compiled and edited by Jerome Flannery, New York 1892. Original publisher’s blue cloth with gilt title to front cover. Padwick 4045. Very good condition... View full lot details

‘The American Cricket Annual for 1893. Fourth year of publication. Compiled and edited by Jerome Flannery, New York 1893. Original publisher’s blue cloth with gilt title to front cover. Padwick 4045. Minor wear to boards otherwise in very good condition... View full lot details

‘The American Cricket Annual for 1894. Fifth year of publication. Compiled and edited by Jerome Flannery, New York 1894. Original pictorial wrappers. Padwick 4045. Wear and loss to wrappers and spine paper, loss to edges of title page also, internally good condition... View full lot details

‘Spalding’s Official Cricket Guide for 1909. Fourth year of publication. Compiled and edited by Jerome Flannery, New York 1909. Original publisher’s blue cloth with gilt title to front cover. Very good condition... View full lot details

North American and European cricket. Two softback titles on cricket in North America. ‘The Champion Band. The First English Cricket Tour [Parr in Canada & U.S.A. 1859]’, Scott Reeves, Sheffield 2014. Signed by Reeves. ‘A History of Canadian Cricket: An immigrant’s game?’, Patrick Adams 2010. Sold with ‘The Story of Continental Cricket’, P.C.G. Labouchere, T.A.J. Provis & Peter S. Hargreaves, first edition, London 1969. Original hardback with very good dustwrapper. Very good condition. Qty 3.... View full lot details

‘Interport Cricket. 1866-1908. A Record of matches between Hong Kong, Singapore and Shanghai’. Compiled by J.W. Bains. Printed by the Shanghai Times. 1908. 132pp. Bound in original boards, with small original ‘Errata’ page inserted, with titles to front board (now faded). The book contains various correspondence from the original owners relation offering the book first to the China Society and then on to the Lord’s library, all dated 1988. The rear board is detached and... 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

‘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

‘The Australians In England. A complete record of the cricket tour of 1882, with the batting and bowling averages of the Australians and the Englishmen who played against them’. C.F. Pardon. Reprinted with additions from ‘Bell’s Life’, London 1882. Portrait frontispiece of W.R. Murdoch, captain of the Australians. Rebound in green cloth, gilt title to spine, speckled page edges. Original wrappers retained, front wrapper detached, trimmed, with wear and tape repair. Padwick 4974. Faults to... 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. Some loss to spine and wrappers. Some soiling to wrappers, rusting to staples. Internally in good/ very good condition. Rare.... View full lot details

‘”Heck” & “Walnut” Cricket Comicalities. Souvenir of the English Cricketers Australian Tour 1928-1929’. Interesting and rare 30pp pre-tour souvenir booklet comprising fixtures, comical illustrations by ‘Heck’, limericks by ‘Walnut’, of the M.C.C. touring party and Australians, such as ‘Now, Freeman’s the lad who can turn ‘em/ His wrong ‘uns want care to discern them/ When they come with a spin/ Stay at home and keep in/ Where you’ll read ‘em, digest ‘em and learn’ em’.... 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. Rebound in grey cloth, title to spine, lacking original wrappers. Piece trimmed from top portion of the title page, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘Souvenir of Stoddart’s English Cricket Team 1894-5’. Original 14pp souvenir booklet plus two supplementary[?] loose pages of ‘Score Sheet’ and ‘ £10 Coupon’ competition entry form. Comprises biographies of the touring party members and advertising. Padwick 4414. Players’ county annotated in pencil beside each player. The rare booklet is in fragile condition with front wrapper cleanly detached, lacking staple, age toning to pages. The competition entry page with loss to edges and tear.... View full lot details

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

‘The Book of the Two Maurices’. M.C.C. Australasian Tour 1929-30’. Turnbull & Allom, London 1930, and ‘The Two Maurices Again. M.C.C. South African Tour 1930-31’, Turnbull & Allom, London 1931. Both titles with original dustwrappers. ‘Again’ is a presentation copy with handwritten dedications and signature in ink to front endpaper, ‘With the compliments of one of the conspirators, Maurice J. Turnbull’, and a further dedication and signature of what appears to be another Turnbull. Included... View full lot details

‘Cricket from the Grandstand’. Keith Miller. London 1959. Original hardback. Signed with dedication to the title page ‘From the Best-est Man to the Best-est Couple... Keith’. Good dustwrapper. Good condition. Sold with a small framed mono printed photograph of Miller walking out to bat with Arthur Morris, signed in ink to the image by both Miller and Morris. Overall 6.25”x8”. Good condition. Qty 2.... View full lot details

Arthur Mailey. ‘Cricket Sketches for the 1928-1929 Tests’. W.C. Penfold & Co. Sydney 1928. Tipped in to modern blue cloth, original pictorial covers retained. 24pp comprising cartoons featuring players in the lead up to the 1928/29 Ashes tour. Padwick 4457. A rarer Mailey booklet in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Australian Cricket Guide. A Book of Records’. Two issues for 1926 and 1930. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Published by C.H. Richards, Nottingham 1926 & 1930 respectively. Both in original paper wrappers. Padwick 3328. Rusting to staples, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

Triangular Test Tournament 1912. ‘Triangular Cricket. Being a Record of the Greatest Contest in the History of the Game’, E.H.D. Sewell, London 1912. Original cloth covers with decorative front cover, gilt title to spine, gilt to top page edges. Padwick 5012. Very good condition. Sold with ‘Cricket Brawl. The 1912 Dispute’, Rick Smith, Tasmania 1995, original softback, limited edition no. 154/225 signed by Smith. Good condition. Qty 2.... View full lot details

Triangular Test Tournament 1912. ‘Duke & Son’s Record of Test Match Cricket’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Penshurst 1912. 24pp booklet with original decorative paper wrappers, produced in the lead-up to the Triangular Test Tournament between England, Australia and South Africa, comprising statistics and portraits. Padwick 4333. Ownership name in ink to front wrapper. Minor foxing to wrappers, rusting to staples, otherwise in very good condition. Rare. One of the scarcest of Ashley-Cooper’s guides.... View full lot details

‘With Stoddart’s team in Australia. Being the Record of the 1897-8 Tour’. Prince K.S. Ranjitsinhji. London, third edition, 1898. Original green cloth with titles in gilt to front and spine and pictorial image of Ranji to front. Padwick 4423. Slight breaking to rear internal hinge, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘England v. Australia. The Record of a Memorable Tour’. P.F. Warner. Mills & Boon, London, first edition 1912. Bound in original maroon cloth, gilt title to front and spine. Presentation copy ‘To J.W. Hearne with every good wish and in appreciation of his fine batting from The Author. June [1912]’. Hearne was a member of Warner’s 1911/12 tour to Australia. Some fading to spine, odd plate detached, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘England v. Australia 100th Test-Match Souvenir’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Published by C.H. Richards, Nottingham 1921. Tipped in to modern green cloth gilt title to spine, original brown paper wrappers retained. Presentation copy with a note tipped in on Ashley-Cooper’s letterhead, annotated in ink ‘Kindest regards’. Padwick 5021. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Australian tours to England. Three hardback titles on early tours. ‘Cricket Walkabout. The Australian Aboriginal Cricketers on Tour 1867-8’, D.J. Mulvaney, Melbourne 1967. Good dustwrapper. ‘Horan’s Diary. The Australian Touring Team 1877-1879’, Frank Tyson, Nottingham 2001. Limited edition no. 31/330, signed by Tyson. Good dustwrapper. ‘A Cricketer on Cricket’, W.J. Ford, London 1900. Original cloth covers with some soiling. Fragment of a typed letter slipped in, signed ‘Desmond [Eagar]’. Sold with a ‘Centenary Test Official... View full lot details

‘The Book of the Two Maurices’. M.C.C. team Australasia 1929/30’. Turnbull & Allom. London 1930 and ‘The Two Maurices Again. M.C.C. team South Africa 1930/31’. Turnbull & Allom. London 1931. Original blue cloth. Cricket Society label to inside front covers. Some splitting and wear to the spine of the 1930 edition, slight breaking to internal hinges of both, otherwise in overall good condition... View full lot details

Australian cricket and cricketers. Five titles, each signed by the respective author(s), some with dedication. Includes one hardback, ‘Horan’s Diary. The Australian Touring Team 1877-1879’, Frank Tyson, Nottingham 2001, limited edition no. 52/330. Also four softbacks, ‘Vic’s Boys. Australia in South Africa 1935-36’, Brian Bassano & Rick Smith, Tasmania 1993. ‘The Day of “The Demon”. Maldon v. C.I. Thornton’s XI 19th June 1878’, Michael Dowsett, revised edition 2002. ‘North v South. Tasmanian Cricket’s Civil War’,... View full lot details

‘The Tests of 1930. The 17th Australian Team in England’. P.G.H. Fender. First edition, London 1930. Original publisher’s red cloth, gilt title to spine, top page edges green. Signed with dedication in black ink to title page, ‘To “George” [Duckworth?] with every good wish from Percy G.H. Fender. Jan 12th 1932’. per D.R.J.’. Minor soiling to spine, slight breaking to front internal hinge, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Ranji. A Centenary Album’. Vasant Raiji, Bombay 1972. Original decorative gold boards. Some wear to boards otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

‘India vs M.C.C. Tests 1951-52’. N.S. Phadke. Bombay 1952. Original decorative card wrappers. Minor wear to spine, otherwise in good/ 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 47. Hand made paper, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Original vellum board covers. Padwick 467. Small stains to rear cover, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Feats, Facts, and Figures of 1901’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Published for private circulation by Merritt & Hatcher, London 1902. Second year of issue (there being none issued in 1900) of which only thirty copies were produced, this being copy number seventeen. 60pp. Bound in green cloth, title to front, original pale blue front paper wrapper retained, lacking rear wrapper. Signed presentation copy with dedication in ink to limitation page in Ashley-Cooper’s own hand to ‘A.L. Ford,... View full lot details

‘Feats, Facts, and Figures of 1903’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Published for private circulation by Merritt & Hatcher, London 1904. Fourth year of issue (there being none issued in 1900) of which only thirty copies were produced, this being copy number sixteen. 51pp. Bound in blue cloth and marbled boards, gilt title to spine, original paper wrappers retained. Presentation copy signed in ink to limitation page by Ashley-Cooper and dated 1904. Padwick 920. Original front wrapper cleanly... 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 1847. ‘Second edition [issue]’. 16mo. 62pp. Original green cloth with gilt titles ‘Denison’s Cricketers’ Companion 1843’ to front. Padwick 1068. Lacking original front endpaper. Light creasing and minor staining to original wrappers, some breaking to page block, pp 57-60 cleanly detached, otherwise a... 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 1846’. William Denison. Published by Simpkin, Marshall & Co., London 1847. 16mo. 108pp plus advertising. Nicely bound in later full green leather, gilt title ‘Denison’s Cricketer’s Companion 1847’ to front, raised bands to spine, original paper wrappers retained. Padwick 1068. Minor wear and soiling to original wrappers, light foxing to page edges, otherwise a... 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 second issue 1816. Printed and published by J. Baxter. ‘Illustrated by an Elegant Copper-Plate Engraving’. 55pp. Bound in later full maroon leather, gilt title to spine, original stiffened paper wrappers retained. Includes the folded frontispiece engraving of the ‘Cricketing’ scene, with a match in progress in the Paddock, a field below Lewes Castle, with... 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

‘Great Batsmen. Their Methods at a Glance’ and ‘Great Bowlers and Fielders. Their Methods at a Glance’. G.W. Beldam and C.B. Fry. London 1905 & 1906. 1st editions. Both volumes handsomely rebound in black leather, raised bands and gilt titles to spines, gilt to top edges. Slight fading to spines, otherwise in very good condition. Qty 2.... View full lot details

Instructional cricket books 1912-1951. Four original hardback first edition titles (one exception), each with good original dustwrapper. Titles are ‘Cricket (Batsmanship)’, C.B. Fry, London 1912. ‘Cricket Up-to-date’, E.H.D. Sewell, London 1931. ‘Cricket’, Andrew Ducat, London 1933. ‘How to Play Cricket’, Learie Constantine, reissued with new title London 1951. Minor foxing to page edges, some soiling to dustwrappers, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Cricket in Ireland. ‘Cricket in the Writings of James Joyce’, Geoffrey K. Whitelock 1975. Limited edition no. seven of only twenty copies produced. Presentation copy with dedication to inside front limitation page, to ‘Dear John [Arlott], Being a devotee alike of Cricket, Humour and Literature you are liable to find some amusement in this trifle, Geoffrey’. Bound in later blue cloth boards, original blue card wrappers retained, with bookplates of A.E. Winder who bought the... View full lot details

‘The South African Cricket Guide 1929. A Book of Records’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Published by C.H. Richards, Nottingham 1929. Original paper wrappers. Padwick 3593. Minor age toning to wrappers, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The West Indies Cricket Guide 1928. A Book of Records’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Published by C.H. Richards, Nottingham 1928. Original paper wrappers. Padwick 3669. Some creasing, otherwise in good condition. Sold with ‘The West Indies in Australia 1930-31’, Brian Bassano & Rick Smith, Apple Books, Tasmania 1990. Paperback, limited edition no. 56/300. Signed by the authors. Good/ very good condition. Qty 2.... View full lot details

Dutch instructional booklets. Two first edition titles from the series ‘De Groene Krekelserie’, both in original green decorative paper wrappers, published by the ‘Propaganda-Commissie van den Nederlandschen Cricket Bond’. Titles are ‘Het Bowlen [Bowling]’, L.J. Sodderland, 1941. Number ‘II’ in the series. Padwick 744. ‘Wicktkeepen [Wicket-keeping]’, A.M.J. De Beus, 1937[?], Padwick 759, number ‘IV’ in the series (‘IV’ having been altered in pencil to ‘I’). Both in good/ very good condition. Sold with three later... View full lot details

‘1851-1911. South Devon Cricket Club, Newton Abbott’. Illustrated by Charles Lane Vicary. Newton Abbott 1911. Diamond jubilee souvenir booklet. 36pp with original decorative paper wrappers. Padwick 1858. Cricket Society stamp to inside front cover. Rusting to staples, otherwise in good/ very good condition... View full lot details

‘Patents for Inventions. Abridgments [sic] of Specifications relating to Toys, Games and Exercises A.D. 1672-1866’. Bennet Woodcroft. Published at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents for Inventions, printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode, London 1871. Bound in green cloth, gilt title to spine, original blue paper wrappers retained. Includes twenty one patents for cricket equipment. Padwick 342-1. Small loss and tear to original front wrapper, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘Charterhouse Cricket June, 1942’. John Sammes. Published by the author , Reigate, Surrey 1952. Comprising a two page poem by Sammes who watched a Charterhouse School cricket match in 1942 at the height of the War. He returned in 1952 and wrote this poem after seeing in the Memorial Chapel the name of one of the players who appeared in the match of 1942. Tipped in is a long single page letter from Sammes to... View full lot details

Fifty Years of Sport at Oxford, Cambridge and the Great Public Schools. Eton, Harrow and Winchester’. Arranged by Lord Desborough. Edited by R.H. Lyttelton, Arthur Page and Evan B. Noel. London 1922. Original red cloth. Gilt title to spine. Padwick 1344. Wear and fading to spine and to a lesser extent the boards otherwise in good condition. Formerly in the M.C.C. Collection... View full lot details

‘Eton v Harrow at Lords’. Edited by Sir Home Gordon. London 1926. Harrow limited edition of 325 copies, this being number 310. Original blue cloth covers with gilt emblems and title to front and spine, gilt to top page edges. Staining to rear cover, some bumping to corners, otherwise in good/ very good condition... View full lot details

‘An Account of all The Cricket Matches played between Eton and Westminster; Westminster and Charterhouse; Rugby and Marlborough; and Marlborough and Cheltenham. By the compiler of the Harrow, Eton, and Winchester School Matches from 1805 [Arthur Haygarth]’. Published by F. Lillywhite and Wisden, London 1857. Bound in modern blue cloth, gilt title to spine, original pink card wrappers retained. Comprises the first original 14pp followed by an additional 23pp with neatly handwritten and newspaper cuttings... View full lot details

‘Teams of the Universities & Public Schools 1882’. Frank & Fitz-gerald Falkner. J. Cornish & Sons, London 1882. Rebound in later beige cloth, gilt title to spine, lacking original wrappers. Sale plate of H.A. Cohen to inside front cover. Listed but not seen by Padwick no. 1361. Scare. Minor foxing to pages, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Bradfield v. Radley Cricket, 1853-1898’. Compiled by T. Steele. Printed by Edward J. Blackwell, Reading. First edition c.1899. Original paper wrappers. 46pp. Tipped in to modern maroon boards, gilt title to spine. Comprises numbered listing of thirty six matches, lacking three of the early games of which it is assumed records had not survived. Padwick 1375. Light vertical fold, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Nugae Scholasticae’. By ‘An Old Pupil’. Published by A. Hall, Virtue & Co., London 1858. Bound in later boards, leather spine with gilt title. Original pictorial card wrappers retained. Comprising three sections, the second, ‘A Bromsgrove Match’ describes a journey through Birmingham to a cricket match. Sale plate of H.A. Cohen to inside front original wrapper. Padwick 1380. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘A Complete Record of Scores With Bowling Analyses of all Cricket Matches and full particulars of all Football Matches and Rifle Contests between Charterhouse and other Public Schools from 1850 to 1890’. B. Ellis. Printed by Wright & Co., London 1891. Original decorative blue cloth covers. 103pp, comprising 54pp of cricket content. Ownership signature in ink to title page of Robert Stratton Holmes. Laid down to inside front cover is a single page handwritten letter... View full lot details

‘Players in Inter-University Cricket Matches from 1827 to 1877’. Published by Gazette Printing Works, Bampton Street, Tiverton 1877. 14pp. ‘A space is left, after each name, for address’. Original paper wrappers. Tipped in to modern cream cloth. Padwick 1619. Light vertical fold otherwise in good condition. Rare.... View full lot details

‘The Cambridge University Cricket Calendar’ 1890 and 1892. G.J. Gray. Cambridge 1891 and 1893 respectively. The 1890 issue in original card wrappers, the 1893 in original paper wrappers. Bound together in one volume in later green cloth, probably for John Arlott who has annotated in ink to the front endpaper, ‘These were the only two volumes of “The Cambridge University Cricket Calendar”. Note: the volume titled 1890 was published in 1891, but deals with season... View full lot details

‘Oxford Memories. A Retrospect after Fifty Years’. Rev. James Pycroft. London 1886. In two volumes. Includes an early history of Oxford University cricket and the author’s recollections of cricket and cricketers, including Felix, Mynn, Cobbett and the Old Kent Eleven. Both volumes bound in original publisher’s navy cloth. Bookplate of J.W. Goldman to inside front cover of both volumes. Padwick 1640. Some pages uncut by the binder. Title page to Vol. II cleanly detached, otherwise... View full lot details

‘Inter-University Records. Full particulars of all competitions between Oxford and Cambridge 1827-1887’. Compiled by C.A. Mudge. Wright & Co. (Cricket Press), London 1887. With cricket section pp 32-80. Bound in blue cloth boards with title in gilt to spine, original paper wrappers retained. Padwick 1657. Expert repairs to original wrappers, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Blues and Their Battles with scores of all Cricket Matches played between the Universities’. Volume I 1829-1892 and Volume II 1829-1893. Edited by J.N. Pentelow. 98pp and 100pp respectively. Each volume rebound with original stiffened wrappers retained, titles neatly annotated to cloth spines. Padwick 1658. Arlott’s handwritten annotations in pencil to front endpaper of both volumes. Good/ very good condition. Qty 2.... View full lot details

‘Scores of the Oxford & Cambridge Cricket Matches 1827-1887’. Henry Perkins. J.S. Virtue & Co. Ltd of London. 1887. 1st edition. Original pictorial boards with tape repair to replacement spine. Also a sixth edition published by Hutchinson, London 1906, with scores included up to 1905, in original blue cloth. Padwick 1659. Sold with ‘Cricket. Oxford v. Cambridge. Full scores &c. of all matches played from 1827 to 1876’. Published by John Wisden & Co., London... View full lot details

Schools cricket. ‘Scores of the Principal Cricket Matches played by Cheltenham Collage’. Edited by ‘An Old Collegian [Henry James, Baron James of Hereford]’. Cheltenham 1868. 95pp. Original green cloth, gilt title to front. Comprises scores, statistics etc. and a list of past professionals employed including three Lillywhites, Grundy and Caffyn. Bookplate of J.W. Goldman to inside front cover. Padwick 1388. Minor foxing to pages, otherwise in very good condition throughout.... 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

‘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

‘Chronicles of a Country Cricket Club’. A. Eric Bayly and Walt Briscoe. First edition, London 1900. Original pictorial cloth covers, gilt title to spine. Comprises twelve humorous tales of an unnamed cricket club. One features the visit to the club of a well-known apparent Parsee, Banjherat. A Parsee team had last toured England in 1888 and a full-India team toured in 1911. Ranjitsinhji was entrancing Sussex and England at the time but Banjherat was not... View full lot details

‘The Noble Game of Cricket. Illustrated & Described from the Collection of Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bt. at Gatton Park, Surrey’. London 1941. Original green boards, with gilt titles to front and spine, gilt to top edge. Contains 100 plates of cricketing scenes with accompanying descriptions from the Collection. Limited edition of 150. Minor faults to covers and spine, internally in very good condition. Rare.... 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 handmade paper, untrimmed edges. Top edge gilt. Limited edition number 26 in the deluxe edition of 250 copies, nicely signed in ink to the limitation page by Read. Padwick 911. Sold with an original unused copy of the wrappers for the standard edition of the book. Good/very good condition. Rare... View full lot details

‘A Bibliography of Cricket’. E.W. Padwick. London 1977. First Edition, with dustwrapper. Only 750 copies were printed. Sold with ‘Padwick’s Bibliography of Cricket’ Volume II, compiled by Eley & Griffiths. London 1991. First edition dustwrapper with tears and some soiling, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Qty 2.... View full lot details

‘Fresh Light on Pre-Victorian Cricket. A Collection of New Cricket Notices from 1709 to 1837’. G.B. Buckley. Birmingham 1937. Original hardback with excellent original dustwrapper. Padwick 870. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Heir at Law; A Comedy in Five Acts’. George Colman the younger. Longman, London 1808. 88pp rebound in modern cream cloth, lacking original wrappers. Padwick 874 lists two earlier editions of 1797 and 1800, but not this edition. The ‘Catalogue of an Exhibition on Cricket’ curated by Diana Rait Kerr in 1950 describes the play as ‘an example of the penetration of the game into the lives of every class of society’, with references... View full lot details

‘The Invalids. A Chronicle’. J.C. Squire. Privately printed 1923. Original blue boards with gilt title to front. 35pp followed by 8pp of photographic illustrations of teams and players. Limited to 125 copies, this is a presentation copy with dedication in ink to front endpaper to ‘R Strauss from JCS’, and a single page handwritten letter laid down to inside front cover inviting Strauss to make his maiden appearance(s) for the Invalids. The letter is undated... View full lot details

Village and League cricket. Three first edition hardback titles, all with good dustwrappers. ‘Village Cricket’, A.J. Forrest, London 1957. ‘Cricket in the Leagues’, John Kay, London 1970, foreword by Learie Constantine. ‘Village Cricket’, Gerald Howat, Newton Abbot 1980, signed to the front endpaper by Howat. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Northern counties cricket histories. Three first edition hardback titles. ‘A Fifty Years’ Record of the Bowdon Cricket Club [Cheshire]’, F.M. Jackson & E.H. Longson, Altrincham 1906. Ownership signature to front endpaper. ‘Century of Penrith Cricket [Cumberland] 1866-1966’, J.L. Hirst 1967. ‘History of Cricket in Kendal [Westmorland] from 1836 to 1905’, James Clarke, Kendal 1906. Also ‘Wallasey Cricket Club [Cheshire] 1864-1964’, H.A. Wolfe 1964, Centenary souvenir brochure in original paper wrappers, with letter slipped in from... View full lot details

Cricket Societies’ publications. Seven titles. ‘Cricket on Boxing Day’, Northern Cricket Society 1964, limited edition no. 25/100. Original red cloth. ‘The Cricket Book Society Secretary’s Report’, Roy Webber, Hunstanston 1947, sold with original membership card issued to J.D. Coldham, and printed ‘Newsheet’ no. 1, April 1948. ‘The Field of Cricket. Official Journal of the Society of Cricket Statisticians’, quarterly issue No. 1, July 1947, bound in modern blue cloth, gilt title to spine, original paper... View full lot details

‘Cricket In Many Climes’. P.F. Warner. First edition, London 1900. Original decorative green cloth boards, gilt titles to front and spine. Comprises accounts of five overseas tours. Ownership name of ‘C.B. Fry’ annotated in pencil to front endpaper. Padwick 4354. Some wear and soiling to covers with odd wormholes, very slight breaking to internal hinges, foxing to pages, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘Abel & Briggs. An Amusing Adventure in South Africa 1898’. W.R. Wright. All England Athletic Publishing Co., London 1898. Four page folded penny card with portraits of Abel and Briggs to front with reference to ‘[Albert] Craig on the Cricket Champions 1898’. To the inside a story of the two characters amusing themselves with catapult shooting in the bush while on the 1898/99 tour to South Africa, and their encounter with a local bushman. Padwick... View full lot details

‘More Than a Game. The Story of Cricket’s Early Years’. John Major. London 2007. Signed and inscribed to bookplate label to inside front cover, ‘To Roger, whose help was invaluable & much appreciated, John Major’, and a second inscribed label to the front endpaper from the publisher, Richard Johnson. Good dustwrapper. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Signed cricket histories and biographies. A good selection of titles, each signed by the author, the majority with additional annotated dedication and/ or letters to the collector, Roger Mann, who assisted with research. Includes three hardback, ‘100 Great West Indian Test Cricketers’, Bridgette Lawrence 1988. ‘Cricket Cartoons and Caricatures’, George Plumptree 1989. ‘Sixty Summers’, Peter Cox 2006. Also softbacks, ‘Sporting Relations’, Roger McGough 1974. ‘The Datasport Book of Wartime Cricket 1940-45’, Gordon Andrews 1990. ‘C.P.Mead’,... View full lot details

Cricket biographies and histories. Box comprising a selection of biographies and histories, the majority hardbacks with dustwrappers. Includes two signed titles, ‘Peter May’, Alan Hill 1996, signed by Hill. ‘How to Become a First-Class Batsman’, Herbert Sutcliffe 1949, signature in pencil of Sutcliffe on piece laid down to frontispiece. Also three facsimile editions of ‘Frederick Lillywhite’s Scores and Biographies’ Vols. I-III published by Roger Heavens, Cambridge 1996-1998, each limited to 500 copies, nos. 260, 495... View full lot details

‘P.G.H. Fender. A Biography’. Richard Streeton. London 1981. The book has an inscription to title page which appears to be in Fender’s aged hand ‘Lorna, with every good wish... Pop (PGH?). The book has ‘Given to L. Ruskin, Bridge Cottage, Sidestrand [Norfolk] in Jan 1981 by Bill Fowler[?}. An excellent ink signature of Fender on a card is laid down just below this inscription. A letter from the author Richard Streeton accompanies the book.... View full lot details

Cricket Books. ‘Aussies and Ashes’. Bill Bowes 1961, signed to front end paper by Bowes, Keith Miller, Jack Fingleton and John Arlott, sole with ‘The Gloves are off’. Godfrey Evans 1960 signed to title page. Sold with three other books, ‘Peter Steele. The Cricketer’. Horace G. Hutchinson. Bristol 1895. First edition, ‘The Jubilee Book of Cricket’. K.S. Ranjitsinhji. London 1897 and ‘Cricket’. W.G. Grace 1891. Good condition... View full lot details

Cricket and Sporting Books. Good selection of books including histories, biographies, tours, annual etc with some signed copies included. ‘Cricket My Destiny’ Walter Hammond signed in pencil to front end paper by Jack Crapp, George Emmett and Jim Laker, ‘Les Jackson. A Derbyshire Legend’. M. Carey 1997, signed by Jackson and Carey, other signatures to books include Gooch, Fraser, Graveney etc, several books signed by their authors. Also includes menus signed by Warren Hegg,... 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 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 of To-day and Yesterday’, Volumes I & II, Percy Cross Standing, London 1902. Original decorative green cloth covers with gilt titles and batsman illustrations to covers and spines. Wonderful condition with nice bright gilts. Qty 2.... View full lot details

Douglas John Insole. Essex, Cambridge University & England 1947-1949. Four hardback titles from Insole’s personal collection. ‘Hit Hard and Enjoy It’, T.C. ‘Dickie’ Dodds 1976 with dedication to ‘D.J.’, signed ‘Dickie’. ‘Follow On’, E.W. Swanton 1977, dedicated to ‘D.J.I.’, signed ‘Jim Swanton’. ‘Cricket’s Bounty’, Hubert Doggart 2014, with dedication to ‘Doug’, signed ‘Hubert’. Also ‘Denis Compton. Cricketing Genius’. Peter West. The Denis Compton Trust 1989. Limited edition no. 201/500 signed by Richard and Nicholas Compton.... View full lot details

Signed cricket biographies. Three hardback titles. ‘With Bat & Ball’, George Giffen, London 1898. Very nicely signed in black ink to the half title page by R.M. Bell (Richard Moore Bell, London County, M.C.C. etc. 1902-1908), dated ‘March 1899, and also to the front endpaper by Bell. Original green cloth and bright gilt titles to front and spine. A nice copy. ‘Jerks in from Short-Leg’ by ‘Quid’ (R.A. Fitzgerald), London 1866. Original blue cloth with... View full lot details

P.F. Warner. Two first edition titles by Warner. ‘Imperial Cricket’, London 1912. Unnumbered subscriber’s edition beautifully bound full calf leather, raised bands and gilt title to spine, gilt to top page edges. Very good condition. ‘Cricket in Many Climes’, London 1900, bound in green quarter leather and green cloth, raised bands with gilt titles and emblems to spine, marbled endpapers, gilt to top page edges. Ex J.W. Goldman collection. Minor wear and staining to boards,... View full lot details

Signed cricket biographies and histories. Fourteen first edition titles, of which thirteen are hardbacks. Includes five signed by the respective author(s). Titles are ‘Sussex Cricket’, A.E.R. Gilligan, London 1933. ‘Happy Go Johnny’, Johnny Wardle, London 1957. ‘Chappelli’, Ian Chappell, Richmond, Victoria 1976. ‘Cricket and All That’, Denis Compton & Bill Edrich, London 1978. ‘Of Didcot and the Demon’, Anthony Gibson, Bath 2009. The remainder of the biographies with signatures laid down of Don Bradman, Harold... View full lot details

Large format books. ‘Cricket of To-day and Yesterday’, Volume I, Percy Cross Standing, London 1902. Nicely bound in quarter leather, the spine with raised bands and ornate gilt decoration and gilt title label, red speckled page edges. Minor wear to board extremities, otherwise in very good condition. ‘Famous Cricketers & Cricket Grounds’. C.W. Alcock. London 1895. Rebound in full black leather, gilt to spine, red speckled page edges, original front wrappers for each issue retained,... View full lot details

Pre-war cricket histories. Seven hardback titles in original cloth covers unless stated. Titles are ‘The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes. Cricket’, Duke of Beaufort, London 1888. ‘Annals of the Free Foresters 1856-1894’. W.K.R. Bedford and W.E.W. Collins. Edinburgh 1895. ‘Annals of Cricket’, W.W. Read, London 1897, original stiffened pictorial boards with heavy wear and tape repair to spine. ‘With Bat and Ball’, George Giffen, London 1898, ex Sussex C.C.C. library. ‘My Book of Cricket... View full lot details

Pre-war cricket memoires. Seven hardback titles in original cloth covers, all first editions with one exception. Titles are ‘The Jubilee Book of Cricket’, K.S. Ranjitsinhji, sixth edition London 1898. ‘Seventy-One Not Out. The Reminiscences of William Caffyn’, edited by ‘Mid-On’ (Richard Daft), Edinburgh 1899. ‘Cricket in Many Climes’, P.F. Warner, London 1900. ‘My Cricketing Life’, P.F. Warner, London 1921. ‘Recollections and Reminiscences’, Lord Hawke, London 1924. ‘Sporting Memories’, Major W. Troup, London 1924. ‘Ashes- And... View full lot details

Cricket histories. ‘Wickets in the West; or, The Twelve in America’. R.A. Fitzgerald. London 1873. The account of the M.C.C. tour to North America in 1872 led by Fitzgerald’. Publisher’s original maroon cloth with gilt illustration of W.G. Grace and signature in gilt to front, gilt title to spine. Ex libris. Padwick 4895. Wear and bumping to corners. ‘Lord’s and the M.C.C.’, Lord Harris and F.S. Ashley-Cooper, London 1914, original blue cloth and leather spine,... View full lot details

Cricket tour books. Five titles. ‘How We Recovered the Ashes’, P.F. Warner, London 1905. Rebound in early full leather, original decorative paper wrappers retained. Wear to covers. Two hardback titles by Percy Fender in original cloth covers, ‘The Turn of the Wheel. M.C.C. Team Australia, 1928-1929’, London 1929, and ‘The Tests of 1930. The 17th Australian Team in England’, London 1930. ‘With Stoddart’s Team in Australia’, K.S. Ranjitsinhji, third edition London 1898. Original decorative front... View full lot details