'Close of Play'
Catalogue for the auction of items from the cricket collection of Chris Saunders
Held on Saturday 13th September 2025 at
The Leonardo Hotel, Gloucester Road, Cheltenham GL51 0TS
Category: Cricket Photographs
Lot 390:
Estimate: £200/300
Hammer: £180
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
Lot 391:
Estimate: £70/100
Hammer: £120
‘The Kent Cricket Annual’ 1933-1939. Compiled by Sir Home Gordon. A complete run of five official annuals for seasons 1933-1936 and 1939, all in original decorative card wrappers. Minor soiling to wrappers, wear to the spine of the 1936 edition otherwise in good condition... View full lot details
Lot 392:
Estimate: £200/300
Hammer: £170
‘A Short Biography of Walter A. Humphreys, The Famous Sussex Cricketer’. Alfred J. Gaston. c1890. No publisher or date given. Excellent woodcut of Humphreys to front wrapper. 8pp plus wrappers. Minor rusting to staple, minor nick to top edge of the front wrapper otherwise in good condition. A scarce item... View full lot details
Lot 393:
Estimate: £80/120
Hammer: £130
‘A Royal Road to Cricket by an old Sussex Cricketer’. W.A. Bettesworth. Iliffe & Son, London 1891. Dedicated to Lord Sheffield. Original pictorial card wrappers with replacement cloth spine. Illustrated throughout by Bettesworth. 24pp plus adverts. Padwick 6838. Wear, tear and soiling to wrappers with tape repairs to inside back cover, internally in good condition.... View full lot details
Lot 394:
Estimate: £60/90
Hammer: £60
‘The History of Cricket in Sussex from the Earliest Records to the Present Time’. Alfred J. Gaston. London 1898. Original decorative paper wrappers bound in blue boards with gilt titles to front board. Padwick 2704. Minor soiling and age toning to wrappers otherwise in good condition. Scare... View full lot details
Lot 395:
Estimate: £60/90
Hammer: £55
‘Cricket Extraordinary’. By Alfred D. Taylor. Reprinted from the Hove Gazette. Hove 1903. Original wrappers. 22pp. Minor rusting to staples otherwise in good/very good condition. Preserved in a brown cloth case... View full lot details
Lot 396:
Estimate: £70/100
Hammer: £60
‘Sussex Cricket Records’. By ‘Willow Wielder’. Alfred D. Taylor. Presented by Taylor Brothers, Hove 1921. Original wrappers. Wrappers a little sunned otherwise in good condition... View full lot details
Lot 397:
Estimate: £70/100
Hammer: £120
‘Sussex County Cricket 1728-1923’. Compiled by “Leather Hunter” A.J. Gaston. Brighton. 2nd edition 1924. Original pictorial wrappers. This copy is one of the special limited editions, signed by the author and bound in art linen. Some light fading to linen boards otherwise in very good condition... View full lot details
Lot 398:
Estimate: £100/150
Hammer: £110
‘Kings of Cricket- Anecdotes and Reminiscences from 1858 to 1892’. Richard Daft. Bolton 1893. Black quarter leather with brown cloth, gilts titles and illustration to cover and spine, gilt to top edge. Limited large paper subscribers’ edition of 150 copies, signed and numbered by Daft, this being no. 31. Subscriber number 31 was J.W. Arrowsmith of Bristol, the well known book publisher. Odd minor faults otherwise in good/very good condition... View full lot details
Lot 399:
Estimate: £130/160
Hammer: £110
‘Kings of Cricket- Anecdotes and Reminiscences from 1858 to 1892’. Richard Daft. London 1893. Standard 8vo edition of the book with laid down letter from Daft to E.V. Lucas, whose library it came from, ownership monogram to front end paper. The letter dated October 1893 and presumably sent to Lucas in response to a letter from Lucas praising ‘Kings of Cricket’, as it states ‘It gives me great satisfaction to hear that my book has... View full lot details
Lot 400:
Estimate: £60/90
Hammer: £55
‘Richards’ Nottinghamshire Cricket Guide’. Three editions for 1923, 1927 and 1928. Edited by ‘Incog’ (F.S. Ashley-Cooper). Printed and published by C.H. Richards, Nottingham. Original paper wrappers. Padwick 2519. Rusting to staples, wrappers becoming detached on the 1923 & 1927 issues, some age toning otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details
Lot 401:
Estimate: £80/120
Hammer: £140
Scottish cricket. ‘Brechin Cricket Club Bazaar Book’. Printed by W. & G. Alexander, Brechin 1927. 36pp souvenir booklet for the Club fundraising bazaar held 23rd & 24th September 1927. Original grey/ brown decorative paper wrappers. Illustrated with photographs of previous captains, teams etc., comprising a history of the Club, ‘Gleanings from the Annals’ with reference to ‘Annals of Brechin Cricket’ by Alfred O’Neil, lists of stalls and stallholders, advertising etc. Bookplate of Anthony Woodhouse to... View full lot details
Lot 402:
Estimate: £40/60
Hammer: £45
‘The Catch. A Correspondence’. Harold Pinter and Alan Wilkinson. Charingworth, 2003. Comprising answers to questions posed by Wilkinson regarding a spectacular catch taken by Pinter at second slip whilst playing for Gaities C.C. Bound in card wrappers, limited edition no. 52/500, signed by Miriam Macgregor who provided a small boxwood engraving of the catch. Very good condition... View full lot details
Lot 403:
Estimate: £50/70
Hammer: £70
‘Thomas Verity, Eminent Victorian’. Irving Rosenwater 1999. Limited edition ‘No. 3 of 12 proof copies specially run off’ for private circulation and not for sale, signed by Rosenwater and dated 1999. Three page loosely bound article further annotated by Rosenwater to the final page, ‘Printed in July 1999 for forthcoming (Autumn) Cricket Society Journal’. Excellent condition. Rare... View full lot details
Lot 404:
Estimate: £120/160
Hammer: £95
‘The Story of a Cricket Playbill’. Irving Rosenwater 1968. Printed for private circulation in 1968. Limited edition number 20 of only twenty five numbered copies produced, signed by the author. This copy was given to Gordon Seyner and is accompanied by a short letter slipped in from the author, dated 18th June 1968, ‘To my very good friend- the only non-collector to have a copy’. Rosenwater was best man at Seyner’s wedding. Minor age toning... View full lot details
Lot 405:
Estimate: £100/150
Hammer: £75
‘J.N. Pentelow. A biographical enquiry’. Irving Rosenwater. Privately printed for the author in London, 1969. Limited edition number 19 of only fifty numbered copies produced, signed by the author. None of the copies were for sale, all were given to friends of the author. Minor age toning to wrappers, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Rare.... View full lot details
Lot 406:
Estimate: £140/180
Hammer: £240
‘J.M. Kilburn. An Appreciation’. Irving Rosenwater. Privately printed for the author in London, November 1993. Limited edition number 8 of only twenty numbered copies produced, signed by the author. Non were available for sale. Excellent condition. Rare... View full lot details
Lot 407:
Estimate: £180/250
Hammer: £150
‘I.T. Botham. A Few Highlights’. Irving Rosenwater. Privately printed for the author in London, September 1993. Limited edition number 9 of only twenty five numbered copies produced, signed by the author. None were available for sale. Very good condition. Rare.... View full lot details
Lot 408:
Estimate: £180/250
Hammer: £180
‘W.G. Grace: A Leviathan Was He’. Irving Rosenwater. Printed for private circulation, London, October 1997. Limited edition number 19 of only twenty copies produced, signed by the author. None were for sale. Very good condition.... View full lot details
Lot 409:
Estimate: £50/80
Hammer: £60
‘Sir Donald Bradman- Ninety Not Out. A Brief Tribute in Words and Figures’. Irving Rosenwater. Newnham 1998. Limited edition number 89 of ninety numbered copies produced of which eighty copies, numbers 11-90, were for sale, signed by the author. Very good condition.... View full lot details
Lot 410:
Estimate: £80/120
Hammer: £130
‘Craig - on the Cricket Champions of 1897’. Albert Craig. Published by The All England Athletic Publishing Co. 1st Edition, London 1898. Original decorative paper wrappers. 44pp history of Lancashire cricket and statistics of their performances since 1864, illustrations of Briggs and Watson. Lancashire were County Champions in 1897. Padwick 2256. Some age toning to wrappers, slight splitting to spine, otherwise in good/ very good condition. A nice copy. Scarce.... View full lot details
Lot 411:
Estimate: £60/90
Hammer: £50
‘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. Good/very good condition.... View full lot details
Lot 412:
Estimate: £150/250
Hammer: £260
‘The Australian Cricket Annual’. 1896, 1897 and 1898. Edited by John C. Davis. George Robertson & Co., Sydney 1896. Printed by Edward Lee & Co., Sydney. All three editions bound in green boards, the 1896 and 1898 editions with original decorative paper wrappers, titles in gilt to spine. Padwick 3357. Minor soiling and wear to wrappers of the 1896 edition, the 1897 edition lacking front wrapper, poor rear wrapper, damaged first advertising page and lacking... View full lot details
Lot 413:
Estimate: £70/100
Hammer: unsold
Southern Tasmanian Cricket Association. Eighteenth Annual Circular for Season 1884-85’. 88pp. Hobart Town. Printed at the ‘Mercury’ Steam Press Office 1884. Original yellow pictorial wrappers. Minor loss to the wrapper edges otherwise in good condition... View full lot details
Lot 414:
Estimate: £70/100
Hammer: unsold
Southern Tasmanian Cricket Association. Nineteenth Annual Circular for Season 1884-85’. 98pp. Hobart Town. Printed at the ‘Mercury’ Steam Press Office 1885. Original pink pictorial wrappers. Very minor loss to the wrapper top edge, discolouration to the wrapper edges otherwise in good condition... View full lot details
Lot 415:
Estimate: £70/100
Hammer: unsold
Southern Tasmanian Cricket Association. Twentieth Annual Circular for Season 1885-86’. 70pp. Hobart Town. Printed at the ‘Mercury’ Steam Press Office 1886. Original beige pictorial wrappers. Very minor wear to the head of the spine otherwise in good/very good condition... View full lot details
Lot 416:
Estimate: £70/100
Hammer: unsold
Southern Tasmanian Cricket Association. Twenty-first Annual Circular for Season 1886-87’. 56pp. Hobart Town. Printed at the ‘Mercury’ Steam Press Office 1887. Original peach pictorial wrappers. Very minor wear to the wrapper extremities otherwise in good/very good condition... View full lot details
Lot 417:
Estimate: £70/100
Hammer: unsold
Southern Tasmanian Cricket Association. Twenty-second Annual Circular for Season 1887-88’. 72pp. Hobart Town. Printed at the ‘Mercury’ Steam Press Office 1888. Original light green pictorial wrappers. Some discolouration to wrappers otherwise in good/very good condition... View full lot details
Lot 418:
Estimate: £70/100
Hammer: unsold
Southern Tasmanian Cricket Association. Twenty-third Annual Circular for Season 1888-89’. 72pp. Hobart Town. Printed at the ‘Mercury’ Steam Press Office 1889. Original light brown pictorial wrappers. Some wear and loss to the top edge of the front wrapper, minor staining to odd page otherwise in good/very good condition... View full lot details
Lot 419:
Estimate: £70/100
Hammer: unsold
Southern Tasmanian Cricket Association. Twenty-fourth Annual Circular for Season 1889-90’. 68pp. Hobart Town. Printed at the ‘Mercury’ Steam Press Office 1890. Original light brown pictorial wrappers. Some wear and loss to the wrapper extremities otherwise in good/very good condition... View full lot details
Lot 420:
Estimate: £50/80
Hammer: unsold
Southern Tasmanian Cricket Association. Twenty-fifth Annual Circular for Season 1890-91’. 54pp. Hobart Town. Printed at the ‘Mercury’ Steam Press Office 1891. Original light green pictorial wrappers. Tape to spine and tape repair across the back wrapper, minor loss to rear wrapper edge otherwise in good/very good condition... View full lot details
Lot 421:
Estimate: £180/250
Hammer: unsold
‘The Australian Cricket Team of 1893’. Henry V.L. Stanton of ‘The Sportsman’. First edition, ‘Sport & Play’, Birmingham 1893. 18pp. Pre-tour booklet comprising biographies with portraits of Messrs. J.M. Blackham, H.C. Bannerman, G. Giffen and C.T.B. Turner. Original decorative paper wrappers. Padwick 4980. A little fragile, wear to spine, nicks and small loss to wrapper edges, browning to page edges otherwise in good condition. Rare.... View full lot details
Lot 422:
Estimate: £200/300
Hammer: £340
‘The Australian Team in England. Season 1899’. Compiled by Sidney Billingham. Toley Brothers Limited, London 1899. Small 8vo. 50pp plus adverts at rear. Excellent souvenir with text and statistics on previous Australian tours, illustrated with caricatures of the players. Bound in beige boards with good original pictorial paper wrappers. Padwick 4988. A scarce item in very good condition, one of few survivors... View full lot details
Lot 423:
Estimate: £100/150
Hammer: £110
‘Don Bradman and the Changing of the Guard A Pictorial Narrative’. Peter Lloyd and Peter Schofield, 2021. Limited edition no 79 of 117 produced, signed by Lloyd, Schofield, Mike Coward and Bernard Wimpress. In slip case. Very good condition... View full lot details
Lot 424:
Estimate: £180/250
Hammer: £260
Don Bradman. ‘Pageant of Cricket’. D.Frith. London 1987. Foreword by Don Bradman. De-luxe leather bound limited edition of two hundred numbered copies, this being number 131, signed by Don Bradman and the author, Frith. Bound in full red leather, all edges gilt and preserved in slipcase. Very good condition... View full lot details
Lot 425:
Estimate: £150/250
Hammer: £140
‘Victor Trumper’s Photograph Album of the 1909 Australian Tour of England’. Facsimile reproduction of the album, bound in black leather and accompanied by introductory booklet’s housed in a pocket at the front of the album giving details of the photographs. Published in 2005 in a limited edition of 200 copies, this being number 13. VG... View full lot details
Lot 426:
Estimate: £30/50
Hammer: £60
‘The Quest for Bowlers’. C.T.B. Turner (‘The Terror’). Cornstalk Publishing Co., Sydney, Australia 1926. Grey boards in original dustwrapper. A fairly scarce book published following Australia’s defeat to England 1-0 in the 1926 Ashes series. Padwick 745. Some nicks, tears and soiling to the dustwrapper. Odd pencil annotations to pages, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details
Lot 427:
Estimate: £50/80
Hammer: £55
‘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. Good/very good condition.... View full lot details
Lot 428:
Estimate: £250/350
Hammer: unsold
‘New Zealand Cricketers’ Annual 1895’. Edited by ‘Trundler’ Thames (William Henry Newton). Abel, Dykes & Co. Auckland 1895. Original paper wrappers. Rare first edition of the publication which lasted until 1898 (four years). Contains an account of the tour by Fiji to New Zealand, Stoddart’s team in Australia etc. Frontispiece image of the Fiji team. Minor loss to spine, a little fragile otherwise a good copy in original wrappers... View full lot details
Lot 429:
Estimate: £200/300
Hammer: £150
‘New Zealand Cricketers’ Annual 1896’. Edited by ‘Trundler’ Thames (William Henry Newton). Abel, Dykes & Co. Auckland 1896. Bound in green boards, with original paper wrappers, gilt titles to front board. Second edition of the publication which lasted until 1898 (four years). Contains an account of the tour by New South Wales to New Zealand etc. Frontispiece image of the New South Wales team. Good/very good condition... View full lot details
Lot 430:
Estimate: £100/150
Hammer: £180
‘Men in White. The History of New Zealand International Cricket 1894-1985’. Don Neely, Richard King and Francis Payne. Auckland 1986. Deluxe full leather bound limited collectors’ edition of 1200 copies, this copy being number 1101. The largest cricket book ever produced measuring 15.5”x22” and weighing 13.2kg! Gilt to all edges. In red cloth slip case. Includes the original four page colour broadsheet ‘invitation to subscribe’ slipped in. Some flaking to spine, otherwise in very good... View full lot details
Lot 431:
Estimate: £300/400
Hammer: £900
‘The Jubilee Book of Cricket’. K.S. Ranjitsinhji. Edinburgh 1897. Limited edition of 350 copies signed by Ranjitsinhji, this being number 126. Hand made paper, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Original oatmeal cloth covers. Padwick 467. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details
Lot 432:
Estimate: £400/600
Hammer: £360
‘Parsi Cricket with hints on bowling, batting...’. M.E. Pavri. Bombay 1901. Original decorative pictorial boards. Padwick 462. Good/very good condition. A rarely seen title... View full lot details
Lot 433:
Estimate: £70/100
Hammer: £110
‘The Crickinia Indian Cricketers’ Annual 1939-40. First issue. Edited by Muni Lal. Lahore. Bound in original boards with title printed to top border, original decorative paper wrappers. The book signed to the ‘Five Cricketers of the Year’ photographic plate on page 59 by Merchant and Amar Nath. A letter from the Editor, Muni Lal to D.G. Crampton, dated May 1945 accompanies the book. Lal gives a synopsis of the principal contents in the 1939/40... View full lot details
Lot 434:
Estimate: £40/60
Hammer: £35
‘The Crickinia Indian Cricketers’ Annual 1940-41. Second issue. Edited by Muni Lal. Lahore. Bound in turquoise blue board, lacking original paper wrappers. Minor wear to boards otherwise in good condition... View full lot details
Lot 435:
Estimate: £50/70
Hammer: £190
‘The Crickinia Indian Cricketers’ Annual 1943-44. Fifth issue. Edited by Muni Lal. Lahore. Original decorative paper wrappers. Some nicks to wrapper edges otherwise in good condition... View full lot details
Lot 436:
Estimate: £700/900
Hammer: £620
‘Indian Cricket Chronology and Memorabilia’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Merritt and Hatcher 1911. Original red decorative paper wrappers with red cord to spine. 16pp. Limited edition of only thirty copies produced, this being no. 29. Limitation statement to rear wrapper with handwritten dedication and signature in ink to ‘Cecil Speigalhalter Esq from F.S. Ashley-Cooper’. The chronology spans a period from 1743 up to the visit of the All Indian team in England in 1911. It is the... View full lot details
Lot 437:
Estimate: £80/120
Hammer: £130
‘The Indian Cricket-Field Annual 1957-58 to 1964-65. Edited by Dicky Rutnagur. Bombay. Complete run of the Annual from 1957-58 (first year of issue) to 1964-65 (eighth year), each copy has been signed by the Editor Dicky Rutnagur and the first three isues by Anandji Dossa, the statistician. Some wear to the covers and spines of odd books otherwise in good condition. Qty 8... View full lot details
Lot 438:
Estimate: £700/1000
Hammer: £1600
‘A History of the Sind Cricket Tournament and Karachi Cricket in General’. C.B. Rubie and B.D. Shankar. Edwin Forster, Karachi 1928. Original red cloth with titles in gilt to cover and spine. Padwick 3896. Some wear to covers and spine otherwise in good+ condition. Presentation copy with handwritten dedication in ink to front cover, ‘With the author’s compliments and sincere thanks’, signed by Rubie. Rare... View full lot details
Lot 439:
Estimate: £500/800
Hammer: £460
‘A Chronicle of Cricket amongst Parsees, and the struggle: Polo versus Cricket’. Shapoorjee Sorabjee. Privately printed. Bombay circa 1898. Original printed stiff wrappers in a lattice pattern, bound in green boards, with gilt titles to spine. Minor staining and age toning to wrappers otherwise in good/very good condition. A scarce Indian publication... View full lot details
Lot 440:
Estimate: £250/350
Hammer: £240
‘7th (Q.O.) Hussars Cricket Matches Played 1873-1888’. Secunderabad 1899. Bound in black cloth with gilt title to centre of the front board. Presentation copy inscribed in ink to front endpaper, ‘J.L. Nicholson from H.M. Ridley. January 1911’ with latin quote below ‘O Mihi Praeteritas referendat jupitor amor’ tgranslating to ‘Would that Jove would take me back to past years’. Nicholson was one of the players, Ridley wrote the preface. A rarer Indian edition. Good/very good... View full lot details
Lot 441:
Estimate: £30/50
Hammer: £38
‘Sunny Days’. Sunil Gavaskar’s Own Story. 1984. Signed to title page ‘Best Wishes’. soft wrappered edition. Good condition... View full lot details
Lot 442:
Estimate: £80/120
Hammer: £160
‘40 Years of Active Cricket’. Bodhaji Devli Shanker. Lucknow 1955. Rebound in green boards preserving the original green paper wrappers. Signed to the small pen picture on the first introduction page by the author. Cricketing reminiscences of a regular cricket who also wrote ‘The History of Sind Cricket’. A rarely seen book... View full lot details
Lot 443:
Estimate: £40/60
Hammer: £38
‘Pakistan vs. England. Tour of 1954’. M.H. Maqsood and M.I. Merchant. Karachi 1954. Rebound in red boards with titles in gilt to spine, good condition... View full lot details
Lot 444:
Estimate: £50/80
Hammer: £55
‘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. Sold with ‘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. Both good/very good condition... View full lot details
Lot 445:
Estimate: £500/700
Hammer: £660
‘Three Early Philadelphian Cricket Publications’. English Eleven tour to Philadelphia 1872. ‘International Cricket Fete. Official Hand-Book for the International Cricket Fete, at Philadelphia 1872’. Published by J.B. Lippincott & Co. of Philadelphia September 1872. Woodcut on title page. 66pp. Sold with the companion volume of ‘A Sequel to the Official handbook, Official Report on the International Cricket Fetes at Philadelphia in 1868 and 1872... a Full account of the Visit of the English Gentlemen Cricketers’... View full lot details
Lot 446:
Estimate: £150/250
Hammer: £140
‘The English Cricketers’ Trip to Canada and the United States in 1859’. Frederick Lillywhite. First edition, London 1860. 79pp. Original green cloth boards with title in gilt to front. Illustrated, complete with fold out map. Padwick 4893. Appears to have replacement endpapers. Ink staining to bottom edge affecting the covers, some pages and plates to varying degrees. Adhesive mark to front cover, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details
Lot 447:
Estimate: £140/180
Hammer: £210
‘Cricket and Cricketers’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. The Offices of The American Cricketer, Philadelphia 1907. Original red cloth with pictorial front cover, titles to front cover and spine. 102pp. Covers the history and development of cricket, written for American readers. Signed bookplate of B.J. Wakley to inside front cover. Padwick 59. Minor fading to spine, otherwise a nice copy in very good condition. Scarce.... View full lot details
Lot 448:
Estimate: £600/800
Hammer: unsold
‘How to Play Cricket. A Manual for American Cricketers’. Published by T.S. Dando, Philadelphia 1881. Original grey wrappers with title to front ‘The American Cricketers’ Manual’. 74pp. Illustrated. Padwick 459 records the editor as George M. Newall, but the preface states ‘The chapters on “The Average System” and that on “The Umpire” were written at the earnest request of the editor by two representative American cricketers, to whom his thanks are especially due’. Newall wrote... View full lot details
Lot 449:
Estimate: £100/150
Hammer: £180
‘Ten Thousand Miles Through India & Burma. An Account of the Oxford University Authentics’ Cricket Tour With Mr K.J. Key...’. Cecil Headlam. London 1903. Green cloth boards, gilt to top page edges. Padwick 1642. Light internal foxing throughout otherwise in good/ very good condition... View full lot details
Lot 450:
Estimate: £150/250
Hammer: £140
‘Scores of the Apsley Park Cricket Club’ 1886-1893. Eight volumes of match scores, averages and rules for each of the eight seasons bound together in one volume in contemporary blue calf and marbled boards, marbled page edges. Padwick 1937. Stamp of ‘Arthur F. Tooke’ to inside front board. Some rubbing to spine and cover extremities, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details
Lot 451:
Estimate: £150/250
Hammer: £120
‘South African Cricketers’ Annual. Season 1905-06. Edited by J.T. Henderson. Time Printing Co, Pietermaritzburg 1906. Original red limp cloth covers with titles printed in black which state incorrectly ‘Season 1906-07’. Padwick 3615. Covers worn and soiled with creasing, spine faded, broken front and rear internal hinges with old tape repairs otherwise in good condition. A rarely seen annual... View full lot details
Lot 452:
Estimate: £1200/1600
Hammer: unsold
The Tournament Chronicle’ 1884-1885 [South Africa]. Printed and published by Charles Cox of the Port Elizabeth Advertiser Office. Individual issues one to nine, all published, covering the period Monday 23rd December 1884 to Friday 2nd January 1885 with full description and scores of all the matches in the Christmas Tournament held in Port Elizabeth. Excellent vignette of a cricket scene to each title page of the Chronicle. Bound together in red boards, spine worn with... View full lot details
Lot 453:
Estimate: £250/350
Hammer: £420
‘England v. Australia. The Record of a Memorable Tour’. P.F. Warner. Mills & Boon 1912. This is the large paper limited edition of only 50 copies produced, this being no. 28, nicely signed by the author to limited page and to title page. Original decorative cream boards with titles in gilt, gilt to top edge. Good /very good condition. Newspaper cuttings laid down to inside front board. Ex Gordon Ross collection. Rare... View full lot details
Lot 454:
Estimate: £140/180
Hammer: £220
‘The M.C.C. in Northern India’. C.E. Newham. Lahore 1926. Published on behalf of the Committee. Original colour card wrappers. 48pp plus adverts. Wrappers a little soiled, breaking to the rear hinge otherwise in good condition. Scarce... View full lot details
Lot 455:
Estimate: £200/300
Hammer: £170
‘The M.C.C. Tour in Argentina’ 1912. Compiled by James McGough. Printed and published by The British Printery, Buenos Aires. Bound in green cloth, with original pink wrappers. Post tour brochure with 24 pages. Padwick 4933. Very good condition. Ex-Winder collection, sold as part of lot 688 in his sale. Rare.... View full lot details
Lot 456:
Estimate: £2000/3000
Hammer: unsold
‘The Cricketing Record of Major Warton’s Tour. 1888-1889’. Published by Charles Cox, Port Elizabeth 1889. Original publisher’s red stiff cloth boards. 219 pages with fourteen full page lithographic engraved portraits of the players including Warton, the Manager and Charles Aubrey Smith, the Captain. Boards worn, faded and soiled, binding a little shaken, breaking to internal hinges with some page section becoming slightly loose. Padwick 4619. A scarce book from this early first tour of South... View full lot details
Lot 457:
Estimate: £200/300
Hammer: unsold
‘A Concise Hint and Guide to Cricket’. Isaiah Thomas. Privately printed. Belize, British Honduras 1908. 4pp treatise focusing on the characteristics required of Umpires, heading: ‘With due, just and proper references to Umpires’, Captains, heading: ‘With strict attention and precise direction to Captains’ and more generally to Cricketers, heading: A thorough insight and full precaution to cricketers’. The year ‘1908’ handwritten to front wrapper below the title. Light folds otherwise in good condition. Preserved in... View full lot details
Lot 458:
Estimate: £300/500
Hammer: £260
‘Elphinstone College Tours’. Jamshed Dinshaw Antia. Bombay 1913. Original pictorial green boards. 219pp plus adverts. Some staining and discolouration to boards otherwise in good condition. A rare Indian volume... View full lot details
Lot 459:
Estimate: £800/1200
Hammer: unsold
‘Den Kjobenhavn Boldspilklub. Haandbog i Cricket og Langbold’. Copenhagen C.C. Lose’s Forlag. 1866. 50pp. Small Danish cricket handbook with wood-engraved illustrations, original pictorial wrapper boards. First edition. Very rare... View full lot details
Lot 460:
Estimate: £140/180
Hammer: £160
‘A Chapter of History’. ‘Buenos Aires Cricket Club: Club Dinner to celebrate the Winning of the First Division Championship’, held at the Strangers’ Club, Buenos Aires on the April 7th 1925. The booklet, with original wrappers, contains the menu for the dinner, a photograph of the club team and an article on ‘The First Decade of the Buenos Ayres (sic) Cricket Club 1861-1871’ by ‘J. McG’ (James McGough, who wrote extensively on Argentinian cricket). Rebound... View full lot details
Lot 461:
Estimate: £50/70
Hammer: £48
‘With the M.C.C. to New Zealand’. P.R. May. London 1907. Original green cloth boards with title to front. Padwick 3746. Wear and staining to boards and spine, some minor foxing page edges and endpapers, internally in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details
The Leonardo Hotel, Gloucester Road, Cheltenham GL51 0TS
Lot 390:
Estimate: £200/300
Hammer: £180
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
Lot 391:
Estimate: £70/100
Hammer: £120
‘The Kent Cricket Annual’ 1933-1939. Compiled by Sir Home Gordon. A complete run of five official annuals for seasons 1933-1936 and 1939, all in original decorative card wrappers. Minor soiling to wrappers, wear to the spine of the 1936 edition otherwise in good condition... View full lot details
Lot 392:
Estimate: £200/300
Hammer: £170
‘A Short Biography of Walter A. Humphreys, The Famous Sussex Cricketer’. Alfred J. Gaston. c1890. No publisher or date given. Excellent woodcut of Humphreys to front wrapper. 8pp plus wrappers. Minor rusting to staple, minor nick to top edge of the front wrapper otherwise in good condition. A scarce item... View full lot details
Lot 393:
Estimate: £80/120
Hammer: £130
‘A Royal Road to Cricket by an old Sussex Cricketer’. W.A. Bettesworth. Iliffe & Son, London 1891. Dedicated to Lord Sheffield. Original pictorial card wrappers with replacement cloth spine. Illustrated throughout by Bettesworth. 24pp plus adverts. Padwick 6838. Wear, tear and soiling to wrappers with tape repairs to inside back cover, internally in good condition.... View full lot details
Lot 394:
Estimate: £60/90
Hammer: £60
‘The History of Cricket in Sussex from the Earliest Records to the Present Time’. Alfred J. Gaston. London 1898. Original decorative paper wrappers bound in blue boards with gilt titles to front board. Padwick 2704. Minor soiling and age toning to wrappers otherwise in good condition. Scare... View full lot details
Lot 395:
Estimate: £60/90
Hammer: £55
‘Cricket Extraordinary’. By Alfred D. Taylor. Reprinted from the Hove Gazette. Hove 1903. Original wrappers. 22pp. Minor rusting to staples otherwise in good/very good condition. Preserved in a brown cloth case... View full lot details
Lot 396:
Estimate: £70/100
Hammer: £60
‘Sussex Cricket Records’. By ‘Willow Wielder’. Alfred D. Taylor. Presented by Taylor Brothers, Hove 1921. Original wrappers. Wrappers a little sunned otherwise in good condition... View full lot details
Lot 397:
Estimate: £70/100
Hammer: £120
‘Sussex County Cricket 1728-1923’. Compiled by “Leather Hunter” A.J. Gaston. Brighton. 2nd edition 1924. Original pictorial wrappers. This copy is one of the special limited editions, signed by the author and bound in art linen. Some light fading to linen boards otherwise in very good condition... View full lot details
Lot 398:
Estimate: £100/150
Hammer: £110
‘Kings of Cricket- Anecdotes and Reminiscences from 1858 to 1892’. Richard Daft. Bolton 1893. Black quarter leather with brown cloth, gilts titles and illustration to cover and spine, gilt to top edge. Limited large paper subscribers’ edition of 150 copies, signed and numbered by Daft, this being no. 31. Subscriber number 31 was J.W. Arrowsmith of Bristol, the well known book publisher. Odd minor faults otherwise in good/very good condition... View full lot details
Lot 399:
Estimate: £130/160
Hammer: £110
‘Kings of Cricket- Anecdotes and Reminiscences from 1858 to 1892’. Richard Daft. London 1893. Standard 8vo edition of the book with laid down letter from Daft to E.V. Lucas, whose library it came from, ownership monogram to front end paper. The letter dated October 1893 and presumably sent to Lucas in response to a letter from Lucas praising ‘Kings of Cricket’, as it states ‘It gives me great satisfaction to hear that my book has... View full lot details
Lot 400:
Estimate: £60/90
Hammer: £55
‘Richards’ Nottinghamshire Cricket Guide’. Three editions for 1923, 1927 and 1928. Edited by ‘Incog’ (F.S. Ashley-Cooper). Printed and published by C.H. Richards, Nottingham. Original paper wrappers. Padwick 2519. Rusting to staples, wrappers becoming detached on the 1923 & 1927 issues, some age toning otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details
Lot 401:
Estimate: £80/120
Hammer: £140
Scottish cricket. ‘Brechin Cricket Club Bazaar Book’. Printed by W. & G. Alexander, Brechin 1927. 36pp souvenir booklet for the Club fundraising bazaar held 23rd & 24th September 1927. Original grey/ brown decorative paper wrappers. Illustrated with photographs of previous captains, teams etc., comprising a history of the Club, ‘Gleanings from the Annals’ with reference to ‘Annals of Brechin Cricket’ by Alfred O’Neil, lists of stalls and stallholders, advertising etc. Bookplate of Anthony Woodhouse to... View full lot details
Lot 402:
Estimate: £40/60
Hammer: £45
‘The Catch. A Correspondence’. Harold Pinter and Alan Wilkinson. Charingworth, 2003. Comprising answers to questions posed by Wilkinson regarding a spectacular catch taken by Pinter at second slip whilst playing for Gaities C.C. Bound in card wrappers, limited edition no. 52/500, signed by Miriam Macgregor who provided a small boxwood engraving of the catch. Very good condition... View full lot details
Lot 403:
Estimate: £50/70
Hammer: £70
‘Thomas Verity, Eminent Victorian’. Irving Rosenwater 1999. Limited edition ‘No. 3 of 12 proof copies specially run off’ for private circulation and not for sale, signed by Rosenwater and dated 1999. Three page loosely bound article further annotated by Rosenwater to the final page, ‘Printed in July 1999 for forthcoming (Autumn) Cricket Society Journal’. Excellent condition. Rare... View full lot details
Lot 404:
Estimate: £120/160
Hammer: £95
‘The Story of a Cricket Playbill’. Irving Rosenwater 1968. Printed for private circulation in 1968. Limited edition number 20 of only twenty five numbered copies produced, signed by the author. This copy was given to Gordon Seyner and is accompanied by a short letter slipped in from the author, dated 18th June 1968, ‘To my very good friend- the only non-collector to have a copy’. Rosenwater was best man at Seyner’s wedding. Minor age toning... View full lot details
Lot 405:
Estimate: £100/150
Hammer: £75
‘J.N. Pentelow. A biographical enquiry’. Irving Rosenwater. Privately printed for the author in London, 1969. Limited edition number 19 of only fifty numbered copies produced, signed by the author. None of the copies were for sale, all were given to friends of the author. Minor age toning to wrappers, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Rare.... View full lot details
Lot 406:
Estimate: £140/180
Hammer: £240
‘J.M. Kilburn. An Appreciation’. Irving Rosenwater. Privately printed for the author in London, November 1993. Limited edition number 8 of only twenty numbered copies produced, signed by the author. Non were available for sale. Excellent condition. Rare... View full lot details
Lot 407:
Estimate: £180/250
Hammer: £150
‘I.T. Botham. A Few Highlights’. Irving Rosenwater. Privately printed for the author in London, September 1993. Limited edition number 9 of only twenty five numbered copies produced, signed by the author. None were available for sale. Very good condition. Rare.... View full lot details
Lot 408:
Estimate: £180/250
Hammer: £180
‘W.G. Grace: A Leviathan Was He’. Irving Rosenwater. Printed for private circulation, London, October 1997. Limited edition number 19 of only twenty copies produced, signed by the author. None were for sale. Very good condition.... View full lot details
Lot 409:
Estimate: £50/80
Hammer: £60
‘Sir Donald Bradman- Ninety Not Out. A Brief Tribute in Words and Figures’. Irving Rosenwater. Newnham 1998. Limited edition number 89 of ninety numbered copies produced of which eighty copies, numbers 11-90, were for sale, signed by the author. Very good condition.... View full lot details
Lot 410:
Estimate: £80/120
Hammer: £130
‘Craig - on the Cricket Champions of 1897’. Albert Craig. Published by The All England Athletic Publishing Co. 1st Edition, London 1898. Original decorative paper wrappers. 44pp history of Lancashire cricket and statistics of their performances since 1864, illustrations of Briggs and Watson. Lancashire were County Champions in 1897. Padwick 2256. Some age toning to wrappers, slight splitting to spine, otherwise in good/ very good condition. A nice copy. Scarce.... View full lot details
Lot 411:
Estimate: £60/90
Hammer: £50
‘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. Good/very good condition.... View full lot details
Lot 412:
Estimate: £150/250
Hammer: £260
‘The Australian Cricket Annual’. 1896, 1897 and 1898. Edited by John C. Davis. George Robertson & Co., Sydney 1896. Printed by Edward Lee & Co., Sydney. All three editions bound in green boards, the 1896 and 1898 editions with original decorative paper wrappers, titles in gilt to spine. Padwick 3357. Minor soiling and wear to wrappers of the 1896 edition, the 1897 edition lacking front wrapper, poor rear wrapper, damaged first advertising page and lacking... View full lot details
Lot 413:
Estimate: £70/100
Hammer: unsold
Southern Tasmanian Cricket Association. Eighteenth Annual Circular for Season 1884-85’. 88pp. Hobart Town. Printed at the ‘Mercury’ Steam Press Office 1884. Original yellow pictorial wrappers. Minor loss to the wrapper edges otherwise in good condition... View full lot details
Lot 414:
Estimate: £70/100
Hammer: unsold
Southern Tasmanian Cricket Association. Nineteenth Annual Circular for Season 1884-85’. 98pp. Hobart Town. Printed at the ‘Mercury’ Steam Press Office 1885. Original pink pictorial wrappers. Very minor loss to the wrapper top edge, discolouration to the wrapper edges otherwise in good condition... View full lot details
Lot 415:
Estimate: £70/100
Hammer: unsold
Southern Tasmanian Cricket Association. Twentieth Annual Circular for Season 1885-86’. 70pp. Hobart Town. Printed at the ‘Mercury’ Steam Press Office 1886. Original beige pictorial wrappers. Very minor wear to the head of the spine otherwise in good/very good condition... View full lot details
Lot 416:
Estimate: £70/100
Hammer: unsold
Southern Tasmanian Cricket Association. Twenty-first Annual Circular for Season 1886-87’. 56pp. Hobart Town. Printed at the ‘Mercury’ Steam Press Office 1887. Original peach pictorial wrappers. Very minor wear to the wrapper extremities otherwise in good/very good condition... View full lot details
Lot 417:
Estimate: £70/100
Hammer: unsold
Southern Tasmanian Cricket Association. Twenty-second Annual Circular for Season 1887-88’. 72pp. Hobart Town. Printed at the ‘Mercury’ Steam Press Office 1888. Original light green pictorial wrappers. Some discolouration to wrappers otherwise in good/very good condition... View full lot details
Lot 418:
Estimate: £70/100
Hammer: unsold
Southern Tasmanian Cricket Association. Twenty-third Annual Circular for Season 1888-89’. 72pp. Hobart Town. Printed at the ‘Mercury’ Steam Press Office 1889. Original light brown pictorial wrappers. Some wear and loss to the top edge of the front wrapper, minor staining to odd page otherwise in good/very good condition... View full lot details
Lot 419:
Estimate: £70/100
Hammer: unsold
Southern Tasmanian Cricket Association. Twenty-fourth Annual Circular for Season 1889-90’. 68pp. Hobart Town. Printed at the ‘Mercury’ Steam Press Office 1890. Original light brown pictorial wrappers. Some wear and loss to the wrapper extremities otherwise in good/very good condition... View full lot details
Lot 420:
Estimate: £50/80
Hammer: unsold
Southern Tasmanian Cricket Association. Twenty-fifth Annual Circular for Season 1890-91’. 54pp. Hobart Town. Printed at the ‘Mercury’ Steam Press Office 1891. Original light green pictorial wrappers. Tape to spine and tape repair across the back wrapper, minor loss to rear wrapper edge otherwise in good/very good condition... View full lot details
Lot 421:
Estimate: £180/250
Hammer: unsold
‘The Australian Cricket Team of 1893’. Henry V.L. Stanton of ‘The Sportsman’. First edition, ‘Sport & Play’, Birmingham 1893. 18pp. Pre-tour booklet comprising biographies with portraits of Messrs. J.M. Blackham, H.C. Bannerman, G. Giffen and C.T.B. Turner. Original decorative paper wrappers. Padwick 4980. A little fragile, wear to spine, nicks and small loss to wrapper edges, browning to page edges otherwise in good condition. Rare.... View full lot details
Lot 422:
Estimate: £200/300
Hammer: £340
‘The Australian Team in England. Season 1899’. Compiled by Sidney Billingham. Toley Brothers Limited, London 1899. Small 8vo. 50pp plus adverts at rear. Excellent souvenir with text and statistics on previous Australian tours, illustrated with caricatures of the players. Bound in beige boards with good original pictorial paper wrappers. Padwick 4988. A scarce item in very good condition, one of few survivors... View full lot details
Lot 423:
Estimate: £100/150
Hammer: £110
‘Don Bradman and the Changing of the Guard A Pictorial Narrative’. Peter Lloyd and Peter Schofield, 2021. Limited edition no 79 of 117 produced, signed by Lloyd, Schofield, Mike Coward and Bernard Wimpress. In slip case. Very good condition... View full lot details
Lot 424:
Estimate: £180/250
Hammer: £260
Don Bradman. ‘Pageant of Cricket’. D.Frith. London 1987. Foreword by Don Bradman. De-luxe leather bound limited edition of two hundred numbered copies, this being number 131, signed by Don Bradman and the author, Frith. Bound in full red leather, all edges gilt and preserved in slipcase. Very good condition... View full lot details
Lot 425:
Estimate: £150/250
Hammer: £140
‘Victor Trumper’s Photograph Album of the 1909 Australian Tour of England’. Facsimile reproduction of the album, bound in black leather and accompanied by introductory booklet’s housed in a pocket at the front of the album giving details of the photographs. Published in 2005 in a limited edition of 200 copies, this being number 13. VG... View full lot details
Lot 426:
Estimate: £30/50
Hammer: £60
‘The Quest for Bowlers’. C.T.B. Turner (‘The Terror’). Cornstalk Publishing Co., Sydney, Australia 1926. Grey boards in original dustwrapper. A fairly scarce book published following Australia’s defeat to England 1-0 in the 1926 Ashes series. Padwick 745. Some nicks, tears and soiling to the dustwrapper. Odd pencil annotations to pages, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details
Lot 427:
Estimate: £50/80
Hammer: £55
‘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. Good/very good condition.... View full lot details
Lot 428:
Estimate: £250/350
Hammer: unsold
‘New Zealand Cricketers’ Annual 1895’. Edited by ‘Trundler’ Thames (William Henry Newton). Abel, Dykes & Co. Auckland 1895. Original paper wrappers. Rare first edition of the publication which lasted until 1898 (four years). Contains an account of the tour by Fiji to New Zealand, Stoddart’s team in Australia etc. Frontispiece image of the Fiji team. Minor loss to spine, a little fragile otherwise a good copy in original wrappers... View full lot details
Lot 429:
Estimate: £200/300
Hammer: £150
‘New Zealand Cricketers’ Annual 1896’. Edited by ‘Trundler’ Thames (William Henry Newton). Abel, Dykes & Co. Auckland 1896. Bound in green boards, with original paper wrappers, gilt titles to front board. Second edition of the publication which lasted until 1898 (four years). Contains an account of the tour by New South Wales to New Zealand etc. Frontispiece image of the New South Wales team. Good/very good condition... View full lot details
Lot 430:
Estimate: £100/150
Hammer: £180
‘Men in White. The History of New Zealand International Cricket 1894-1985’. Don Neely, Richard King and Francis Payne. Auckland 1986. Deluxe full leather bound limited collectors’ edition of 1200 copies, this copy being number 1101. The largest cricket book ever produced measuring 15.5”x22” and weighing 13.2kg! Gilt to all edges. In red cloth slip case. Includes the original four page colour broadsheet ‘invitation to subscribe’ slipped in. Some flaking to spine, otherwise in very good... View full lot details
Lot 431:
Estimate: £300/400
Hammer: £900
‘The Jubilee Book of Cricket’. K.S. Ranjitsinhji. Edinburgh 1897. Limited edition of 350 copies signed by Ranjitsinhji, this being number 126. Hand made paper, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Original oatmeal cloth covers. Padwick 467. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details
Lot 432:
Estimate: £400/600
Hammer: £360
‘Parsi Cricket with hints on bowling, batting...’. M.E. Pavri. Bombay 1901. Original decorative pictorial boards. Padwick 462. Good/very good condition. A rarely seen title... View full lot details
Lot 433:
Estimate: £70/100
Hammer: £110
‘The Crickinia Indian Cricketers’ Annual 1939-40. First issue. Edited by Muni Lal. Lahore. Bound in original boards with title printed to top border, original decorative paper wrappers. The book signed to the ‘Five Cricketers of the Year’ photographic plate on page 59 by Merchant and Amar Nath. A letter from the Editor, Muni Lal to D.G. Crampton, dated May 1945 accompanies the book. Lal gives a synopsis of the principal contents in the 1939/40... View full lot details
Lot 434:
Estimate: £40/60
Hammer: £35
‘The Crickinia Indian Cricketers’ Annual 1940-41. Second issue. Edited by Muni Lal. Lahore. Bound in turquoise blue board, lacking original paper wrappers. Minor wear to boards otherwise in good condition... View full lot details
Lot 435:
Estimate: £50/70
Hammer: £190
‘The Crickinia Indian Cricketers’ Annual 1943-44. Fifth issue. Edited by Muni Lal. Lahore. Original decorative paper wrappers. Some nicks to wrapper edges otherwise in good condition... View full lot details
Lot 436:
Estimate: £700/900
Hammer: £620
‘Indian Cricket Chronology and Memorabilia’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Merritt and Hatcher 1911. Original red decorative paper wrappers with red cord to spine. 16pp. Limited edition of only thirty copies produced, this being no. 29. Limitation statement to rear wrapper with handwritten dedication and signature in ink to ‘Cecil Speigalhalter Esq from F.S. Ashley-Cooper’. The chronology spans a period from 1743 up to the visit of the All Indian team in England in 1911. It is the... View full lot details
Lot 437:
Estimate: £80/120
Hammer: £130
‘The Indian Cricket-Field Annual 1957-58 to 1964-65. Edited by Dicky Rutnagur. Bombay. Complete run of the Annual from 1957-58 (first year of issue) to 1964-65 (eighth year), each copy has been signed by the Editor Dicky Rutnagur and the first three isues by Anandji Dossa, the statistician. Some wear to the covers and spines of odd books otherwise in good condition. Qty 8... View full lot details
Lot 438:
Estimate: £700/1000
Hammer: £1600
‘A History of the Sind Cricket Tournament and Karachi Cricket in General’. C.B. Rubie and B.D. Shankar. Edwin Forster, Karachi 1928. Original red cloth with titles in gilt to cover and spine. Padwick 3896. Some wear to covers and spine otherwise in good+ condition. Presentation copy with handwritten dedication in ink to front cover, ‘With the author’s compliments and sincere thanks’, signed by Rubie. Rare... View full lot details
Lot 439:
Estimate: £500/800
Hammer: £460
‘A Chronicle of Cricket amongst Parsees, and the struggle: Polo versus Cricket’. Shapoorjee Sorabjee. Privately printed. Bombay circa 1898. Original printed stiff wrappers in a lattice pattern, bound in green boards, with gilt titles to spine. Minor staining and age toning to wrappers otherwise in good/very good condition. A scarce Indian publication... View full lot details
Lot 440:
Estimate: £250/350
Hammer: £240
‘7th (Q.O.) Hussars Cricket Matches Played 1873-1888’. Secunderabad 1899. Bound in black cloth with gilt title to centre of the front board. Presentation copy inscribed in ink to front endpaper, ‘J.L. Nicholson from H.M. Ridley. January 1911’ with latin quote below ‘O Mihi Praeteritas referendat jupitor amor’ tgranslating to ‘Would that Jove would take me back to past years’. Nicholson was one of the players, Ridley wrote the preface. A rarer Indian edition. Good/very good... View full lot details
Lot 441:
Estimate: £30/50
Hammer: £38
‘Sunny Days’. Sunil Gavaskar’s Own Story. 1984. Signed to title page ‘Best Wishes’. soft wrappered edition. Good condition... View full lot details
Lot 442:
Estimate: £80/120
Hammer: £160
‘40 Years of Active Cricket’. Bodhaji Devli Shanker. Lucknow 1955. Rebound in green boards preserving the original green paper wrappers. Signed to the small pen picture on the first introduction page by the author. Cricketing reminiscences of a regular cricket who also wrote ‘The History of Sind Cricket’. A rarely seen book... View full lot details
Lot 443:
Estimate: £40/60
Hammer: £38
‘Pakistan vs. England. Tour of 1954’. M.H. Maqsood and M.I. Merchant. Karachi 1954. Rebound in red boards with titles in gilt to spine, good condition... View full lot details
Lot 444:
Estimate: £50/80
Hammer: £55
‘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. Sold with ‘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. Both good/very good condition... View full lot details
Lot 445:
Estimate: £500/700
Hammer: £660
‘Three Early Philadelphian Cricket Publications’. English Eleven tour to Philadelphia 1872. ‘International Cricket Fete. Official Hand-Book for the International Cricket Fete, at Philadelphia 1872’. Published by J.B. Lippincott & Co. of Philadelphia September 1872. Woodcut on title page. 66pp. Sold with the companion volume of ‘A Sequel to the Official handbook, Official Report on the International Cricket Fetes at Philadelphia in 1868 and 1872... a Full account of the Visit of the English Gentlemen Cricketers’... View full lot details
Lot 446:
Estimate: £150/250
Hammer: £140
‘The English Cricketers’ Trip to Canada and the United States in 1859’. Frederick Lillywhite. First edition, London 1860. 79pp. Original green cloth boards with title in gilt to front. Illustrated, complete with fold out map. Padwick 4893. Appears to have replacement endpapers. Ink staining to bottom edge affecting the covers, some pages and plates to varying degrees. Adhesive mark to front cover, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details
Lot 447:
Estimate: £140/180
Hammer: £210
‘Cricket and Cricketers’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. The Offices of The American Cricketer, Philadelphia 1907. Original red cloth with pictorial front cover, titles to front cover and spine. 102pp. Covers the history and development of cricket, written for American readers. Signed bookplate of B.J. Wakley to inside front cover. Padwick 59. Minor fading to spine, otherwise a nice copy in very good condition. Scarce.... View full lot details
Lot 448:
Estimate: £600/800
Hammer: unsold
‘How to Play Cricket. A Manual for American Cricketers’. Published by T.S. Dando, Philadelphia 1881. Original grey wrappers with title to front ‘The American Cricketers’ Manual’. 74pp. Illustrated. Padwick 459 records the editor as George M. Newall, but the preface states ‘The chapters on “The Average System” and that on “The Umpire” were written at the earnest request of the editor by two representative American cricketers, to whom his thanks are especially due’. Newall wrote... View full lot details
Lot 449:
Estimate: £100/150
Hammer: £180
‘Ten Thousand Miles Through India & Burma. An Account of the Oxford University Authentics’ Cricket Tour With Mr K.J. Key...’. Cecil Headlam. London 1903. Green cloth boards, gilt to top page edges. Padwick 1642. Light internal foxing throughout otherwise in good/ very good condition... View full lot details
Lot 450:
Estimate: £150/250
Hammer: £140
‘Scores of the Apsley Park Cricket Club’ 1886-1893. Eight volumes of match scores, averages and rules for each of the eight seasons bound together in one volume in contemporary blue calf and marbled boards, marbled page edges. Padwick 1937. Stamp of ‘Arthur F. Tooke’ to inside front board. Some rubbing to spine and cover extremities, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details
Lot 451:
Estimate: £150/250
Hammer: £120
‘South African Cricketers’ Annual. Season 1905-06. Edited by J.T. Henderson. Time Printing Co, Pietermaritzburg 1906. Original red limp cloth covers with titles printed in black which state incorrectly ‘Season 1906-07’. Padwick 3615. Covers worn and soiled with creasing, spine faded, broken front and rear internal hinges with old tape repairs otherwise in good condition. A rarely seen annual... View full lot details
Lot 452:
Estimate: £1200/1600
Hammer: unsold
The Tournament Chronicle’ 1884-1885 [South Africa]. Printed and published by Charles Cox of the Port Elizabeth Advertiser Office. Individual issues one to nine, all published, covering the period Monday 23rd December 1884 to Friday 2nd January 1885 with full description and scores of all the matches in the Christmas Tournament held in Port Elizabeth. Excellent vignette of a cricket scene to each title page of the Chronicle. Bound together in red boards, spine worn with... View full lot details
Lot 453:
Estimate: £250/350
Hammer: £420
‘England v. Australia. The Record of a Memorable Tour’. P.F. Warner. Mills & Boon 1912. This is the large paper limited edition of only 50 copies produced, this being no. 28, nicely signed by the author to limited page and to title page. Original decorative cream boards with titles in gilt, gilt to top edge. Good /very good condition. Newspaper cuttings laid down to inside front board. Ex Gordon Ross collection. Rare... View full lot details
Lot 454:
Estimate: £140/180
Hammer: £220
‘The M.C.C. in Northern India’. C.E. Newham. Lahore 1926. Published on behalf of the Committee. Original colour card wrappers. 48pp plus adverts. Wrappers a little soiled, breaking to the rear hinge otherwise in good condition. Scarce... View full lot details
Lot 455:
Estimate: £200/300
Hammer: £170
‘The M.C.C. Tour in Argentina’ 1912. Compiled by James McGough. Printed and published by The British Printery, Buenos Aires. Bound in green cloth, with original pink wrappers. Post tour brochure with 24 pages. Padwick 4933. Very good condition. Ex-Winder collection, sold as part of lot 688 in his sale. Rare.... View full lot details
Lot 456:
Estimate: £2000/3000
Hammer: unsold
‘The Cricketing Record of Major Warton’s Tour. 1888-1889’. Published by Charles Cox, Port Elizabeth 1889. Original publisher’s red stiff cloth boards. 219 pages with fourteen full page lithographic engraved portraits of the players including Warton, the Manager and Charles Aubrey Smith, the Captain. Boards worn, faded and soiled, binding a little shaken, breaking to internal hinges with some page section becoming slightly loose. Padwick 4619. A scarce book from this early first tour of South... View full lot details
Lot 457:
Estimate: £200/300
Hammer: unsold
‘A Concise Hint and Guide to Cricket’. Isaiah Thomas. Privately printed. Belize, British Honduras 1908. 4pp treatise focusing on the characteristics required of Umpires, heading: ‘With due, just and proper references to Umpires’, Captains, heading: ‘With strict attention and precise direction to Captains’ and more generally to Cricketers, heading: A thorough insight and full precaution to cricketers’. The year ‘1908’ handwritten to front wrapper below the title. Light folds otherwise in good condition. Preserved in... View full lot details
Lot 458:
Estimate: £300/500
Hammer: £260
‘Elphinstone College Tours’. Jamshed Dinshaw Antia. Bombay 1913. Original pictorial green boards. 219pp plus adverts. Some staining and discolouration to boards otherwise in good condition. A rare Indian volume... View full lot details
Lot 459:
Estimate: £800/1200
Hammer: unsold
‘Den Kjobenhavn Boldspilklub. Haandbog i Cricket og Langbold’. Copenhagen C.C. Lose’s Forlag. 1866. 50pp. Small Danish cricket handbook with wood-engraved illustrations, original pictorial wrapper boards. First edition. Very rare... View full lot details
Lot 460:
Estimate: £140/180
Hammer: £160
‘A Chapter of History’. ‘Buenos Aires Cricket Club: Club Dinner to celebrate the Winning of the First Division Championship’, held at the Strangers’ Club, Buenos Aires on the April 7th 1925. The booklet, with original wrappers, contains the menu for the dinner, a photograph of the club team and an article on ‘The First Decade of the Buenos Ayres (sic) Cricket Club 1861-1871’ by ‘J. McG’ (James McGough, who wrote extensively on Argentinian cricket). Rebound... View full lot details
Lot 461:
Estimate: £50/70
Hammer: £48
‘With the M.C.C. to New Zealand’. P.R. May. London 1907. Original green cloth boards with title to front. Padwick 3746. Wear and staining to boards and spine, some minor foxing page edges and endpapers, internally in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details