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‘The Jubilee Book of Cricket’. K.S. Ranjitsinhji. Edinburgh 1897. Limited edition of 350 copies signed by Ranjitsinhji, this being number 80. Hand made paper, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Original vellum board covers. Bookplate of the sports journalist and author, Gordon Ross, to front endpaper. Padwick 467. Soiling to covers, internally in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Indian Cricketers’ Tour of 1911’. Published by H.C. Muckerjee of Calcutta. Printed by E.G. Pearson for the Times Press, Bombay. Bound in original card covers with title printed to centre of the front cover. Presentation copy with ink annotation to title page, ‘Presented, with compliments, to the Editor of the “The Sportsman” for favour of review. H.C. Mukerji’. Laid down printed photograph of “The Combined Teams” to frontispiece. Minor wear and age toning to... View full lot details

‘Who’s Who in Indian Cricket’. Edited by Syed M.H. Maqsood. 1st edition, New Delhi 1940. Printed at the Caxton Press, New Delhi. [vii] 132pp. Original stiffened boards and cloth spine. Padwick 3819. Ownership stamp of ‘V. Pattabhiraman’ to pages. Worm damage and wear to boards and pages, otherwise in fair/ good condition.... View full lot details

‘Who’s Who in Indian Cricket’. Edited by Syed M.H. Maqsood. 2nd edition, New Delhi 1942. Printed at the Caxton Press, New Delhi. [v] 116pp. Original stiffened boards and cloth spine. Padwick 3819. Worm damage and wear to boards and pages, loss to spine, some breaking to internal hinges, otherwise in fair condition.... View full lot details

‘Who’s Who in Indian Cricket’. Edited by Syed M.H. Maqsood. 4th edition ‘1944-45’ , Delhi 1945. Printed at Model Press, Delhi. [vi] 96pp. Original stiffened boards and cloth spine. Padwick 3819. Worm damage and wear to boards and pages. Breaking to internal hinges and page block, otherwise in fair/ good condition.... View full lot details

‘Who’s Who in Indian Cricket’. Edited by Syed M.H. Maqsood. 5th edition ‘1945-46’ , Delhi 1946. Printed at The Model Press, Delhi. [xvi] 71pp. Original stiffened boards and cloth spine. Padwick 3819. Ownership stamps of ‘V. Pattabhiraman, Advocate, Madras’ throughout. Some worm damage to boards and pages, minor age toning. Slight breaking to rear internal hinge, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘Who’s Who in Indian Cricket’. Edited by Syed M.H. Maqsood. 6th (final) edition ‘1947’ , Delhi 1947. Printed at The Model Press, Delhi. [viii] 78pp. Original stiffened boards and cloth spine. Padwick 3819. Minor worm damage to boards and pages. Wear and soiling to boards and small loss to spine. Some breaking to internal hinges, otherwise in fair/ good condition.... View full lot details

Indian cricket 1960s-1970s. A selection of Indian publications including a small brochure for the ‘Laying of the Foundation Stone’ for the new Cricket Stadium at Chepauk, Madras, 8th February 1971, published by the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association. Official brochure for the ‘Mercantile Cricket Association visit of All India State Bank Cricket Team [to Ceylon] 1966’ with accompanying typed letter to Irving Rosenwater. Board of Control for Cricket in India ‘43rd Annual Report and Statement of... View full lot details

‘The Story of the Tests’. S.K. Gurunathan. Madras 1961-1964. Volumes I-III. Original pictorial wrappers. Vol. I, India v England 1932-1959, Vol. II, v Australia & West Indies and Vol. III v Pakistan, New Zealand & England 1961-1964. Minor wear to spines, otherwise in good condition. Sold with ‘India Cricketers’, S.K. Roy, third edition, Calcutta 1946, original decorative boards, and ‘Cricket Delightful’, Mushtaq Ali, Calcutta 1967. Hardback, dustwrapper with tear. Good condition. Qty 5.... View full lot details

‘A History of Indian Cricket’. Mihir Bose. London 1990. Hardback with good dustwrapper. Signed to the title and other early pages by twelve members of the 2002 touring party to England and ten others. Signatures include Venkataraghavan, Chandrasekhar, Mushtaq Ali, Wadekar, Abbas Ali Baig, Engineer, Solkar, Gavaskar, Mankad, Yajurvindra Singh, Dravid, Kumble, Tendulkar, Mongia, Sehwag, Laxman, Ganguly, Harbhajan Singh etc. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Revival of Sport in Barbados: A Complete Chronicle of the Intercolonial Cricket Tournament, 1920, Barbados vs. Trinidad and Barbados Turf Club Races 16th-17th February 1920’. Barbados Advocate 1920. 60pp plus advertising pages. Original pictorial front wrapper, lacking rear, bound in green boards with title in gilt to spine. The front wrapper with wear to extremities, small loss to corners, odd page to the rear with corner loss, the last page with wear to extremities... View full lot details

Pakistan. Two titles. ‘Pakistan’s Book of Cricket Records’, compiled by Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Rawalpindi 1971. Original decorative paper wrappers. Presentation copy to Irving Rosenwater, signed by the compiler, dated 13th August 1974. Small tear to gutter of first page, otherwise in good/ very good condition. ‘Cricket in Pakistan’, Syed M.H. Maqsood, ‘second’ edition (actually third), Karachi 1954, cloth covers with handwritten title to spine. Some soiling to boards, age toning to pages, otherwise in good... View full lot details

‘West Indies Cricket History and Cricket Tours to England 1900, 1906 and 1923 including matches in Scotland, Ireland and Wales’. By the Editor of the “Sporting Chronicle”. Lloyd S. Smith. Yuille’s Printerie, 15 Chacon Street, Port of Spain, Trinidad 1922. 240pp. Original decorative front wrapper, lacking original rear wrapper. Loss to the lower right hand corner of the front wrapper and title page otherwise in good condition. Bound in navy blue moroccan leather boards by... View full lot details

Intercolonial Cricket Tournament 1925. Trinidad, Barbados, British Guiana. Report & details of play’. The Daily Argosy, Printers. Georgetown. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. Post tournament. Padwick 3693. Inscription to top border of front wrapper E.T. Nelson ... from W.G.B. 1926. Some wear, corner creasing and soiling to front wrapper, some rusting to staples otherwise in good condition. Previously sold as part of lot 374 at the Christie’s sale of ‘The Guy Curry Cricket Library’ 2006. A... View full lot details

Leeward Islands Cricket Tournament, 1927.... Complete details by Beresford Browne’. Matches: Antigua v St. Kitts, Dominica v Montserrat and final match Antigua v Dominica. Compiled and published for the Antigua Cricket Tournament Publications Association, [1928]. 8vo. 41pp plus advertising pages. Padwick 3729. Post-tournament publication bound in green buckram, preserving original pink printed wrappers. Minor tear to front wrapper, minor wear to wrapper extremities, Ex Arlott, A.E. Winder bookplate to inside from board. Previously sold as... View full lot details

‘Inter-Colonial Cricket Tournament, 1927. 18th Contest, played at Kensington Oval, Barbados, January-February 1927’. J. Wynford Gibbons. Globe Office. Small 8vo. 20pp. Bound in red buckram, wrappers preserved. post-tournament. Padwick 3696. Good condition. Ex Arlott, A.E. Winder bookplate to inside from board. Previously sold as part of lot 372 at the Christie’s sale of ‘The Guy Curry Cricket Library’ 2006. Scarce... View full lot details

Intercolonial Cricket Tournament 1929. Played at Bourda, Georgetown, B.G. Sept-Oct 1929’. Reprinted from The Daily Chronicle, Printers. Georgetown. 8vo. Original printed wrappers, minor signature in ink to top border of front wrapper. Post tournament. Padwick 3697. Some rusting to staples otherwise in good/very good condition. A rare tournament publication... View full lot details

Intercolonial Cricket Tournament 1936. Twenty-Fourth Contest. Barbados: Advocate Co, 1936. J.M. Hewitt and W.B. Millar 8vo. 22p. and 3 advertising pages with pink wrappers, bound in green buckram boards with gilt titles to spine, a post-tournament publication. Complimentary copy from W.B. Millar, signed and dated 3rd March 1936, and inscribed in ink: “I shall be happy at any time to supply you with information relative to the game in these parts ...” on blank page.... View full lot details

Australia v West Indies ‘Tied Test’ 1960/61. ‘The Greatest Test of All’. J.H. Fingleton. London 1961. Hardback with dustwrapper. Signed to the title page by six players who took part in the famous tied 1st Test at Brisbane, 9th- 14th December 1960. Signatures are Richie Benaud, Neil Harvey and Bob Simpson of Australia, and West Indians Cammie Smith, Peter Lashley and Conrad Hunte. Some wear and old tape repairs to dustwrapper, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘A Souvenir of To-day’s Test Match. Europeans vs Ceylonese. 6th March 1925. Small souvenir with pictorial wrappers featuring the two captains, Major Brooke and V.S. de Kretser. Published by Lipton, Limited. 24pp. Some age toning to wrappers otherwise in good/very good condition. Bookplate of J.W. Goldman to inside front wrapper. A rare souvenir... View full lot details

‘The Cricket Guide’. Mohummud Abdullah Khan. Lucknow, The Royal Printing Press 1891. Small 8vo. 28pp. Full-page diagram of fielding positions, errata slip on folding green paper. First and only edition. ‘Intended for the use of young players, containing a short but comprehensive account of the game, embracing all the important rules and directions nicely arranged in due succession. Original printed pink wrappers. Bound in red cloth boards for F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Slight sun fading to upper... View full lot details

‘The Auckland Cricketers’ Trip to the South. A complete history of the late successful tour of the Auckland representatives to Christchurch, Dunedin, Wellington and Nelson’. W.F. Buckland [See update below]. Auckland, New Zealand. E.Wayte, Bookseller, Queen Street. Printed by Reed and Brett. 1874. 8vo, pp(3),4-58 and eight advertising pages with buff printed paper wrappers. The covers have faded from the original pink and are a little spotted, small portions are missing from the edges... View full lot details

‘The Auckland Cricketers’ Trip to the South. A complete history of the late successful tour of the Auckland representatives to Christchurch, Dunedin, Wellington and Nelson’. W.F. Buckland. Auckland, New Zealand. E.Wayte, Bookseller, Queen Street. Printed by Reed and Brett. 1874. 8vo, pp(3),4-58. A bound photocopy of the original book, lacking the eight advertising pages Bound in red boards with gilt titles to front board. This appears to be a copy taken from the Auckland Public... View full lot details

‘Cricket Notes by “Not Out”. Interprovincial Cricket Matches’. (New Zealand. Canterbury v Otago). Christchurch, New Zealand Printed by ‘The Press’ Company, Limited, Cashel Street 1879. 8vo, pp(3),4-31. With the original pink front wrapper, lacking the rear. Page 30 has been separately printed at the time and stuck down to the rear of page 29. small repairs and conservation to the edges of the wrapper, repair to bottom corner, and title page, also with a repair... View full lot details

‘New Zealand Cricket’. Two hardback volumes by T.W. Reese covering 1841-1914 and 1914-1933, published Christchurch 1927 and Auckland 1937. Vol. 1 in original green cloth, titles to front and spine with silver fern emblem to spine. Vol. 2 in red cloth with good original dustwrapper. Padwick 3751. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Rules of the New Zealand Cricket Council and Roll of Honor 1895 to 1913’. Small official handbook issued by the New Zealand Cricket Council for season 1913/14 comprising list of officers, rules for the Plunkett Challenge Shield and Heathcote Williams Challenge Shield competitions, representative teams roll of honour, match and player statistics etc. Bound in original black leather with gilt title and name ‘J.H. Watts’ to front cover. Does not appear to be listed in... View full lot details

‘The Australian Cricketers’ Tour through Australia, New Zealand, and Great Britain’ containing a full racy account of the matches, dinners, excursions &c in which they have been engaged. by Argus (P.E. Reynolds) 1878. 8vo. Original printed pictorial purple wrappers featuring Spofforth to centre. The book rather crudely bound to spine, loss to wrapper extremities at front and rear, some rounding to wrapper and page corners, slight soiling to title page and last advertising page otherwise... 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 in poor and fragile condition, old tape repairs to spine, foxing to pages, overall in fair condition.... 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

‘Our Cricketers Past & Present’. Published by A.D. Jones 1897. Collection of six scarce booklets parts I-VI and the ‘Special Australian Number’, part VII, featuring the Australian’s 1896. With twenty four black and white photographs of individual players and teams to each copy. Bound in cloth boards as one without original wrappers. Some damage and wear to boards otherwise appears complete and in good condition. Sold with three hardback titles in original cloth boards. ‘Alfred... View full lot details

‘Cricket. Full Scores made in Test Matches between England and Australia 1877 to 1902’. Compiled by ‘Umpire’ (A.A. Ambridge). Published by Ambridge, New Plymouth, New Zealand 1902. 60pp, illustrated. Original paper wrappers. Padwick 4355. Wrappers split at spine and almost detached, otherwise in good condition. Very rare.... View full lot details

Arthur Mailey. ‘Mailey’s Googlies. County and Test Cricket Sketches by the Great Australian Bowler’. Graphic Publications. London 1921. Tipped in to modern brown cloth, original pictorial covers retained. Minor ageing and wear, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

The Ashes. England v Australia 1926-2009. Box comprising twenty titles, the majority hardbacks. One title signed, ‘Collins’s Men’, A.E.R. Gilligan, London 1926, signed to the front endpaper in ink by Gilligan. Fading to spine. Other earlier titles include ‘Gilligan’s Men’, M.A. Noble, London 1925, wear to covers, splitting to spine. ‘Cricket. The Tests of 1930’, P.G.H. Fender, London 1930, dustwrapper with some loss. ‘Australia 55’, Alan Ross, London 1955, attractive and good dustwrapper. ‘Defending the... View full lot details

Arthur Mailey. ‘Cricket Sketches for the 1928-1929 Tests’. W.C. Penfold & Co. Sydney 1928. Bound in to modern blue cloth, lacking original pictorial covers. 20pp comprising cartoons featuring players in the lead up to the 1928/29 Ashes tour with printed full page image of Archie Jackson. Padwick 4457. Wear with small damage to the title page, minor spotting and soiling otherwise in good condition. A rarer Mailey booklet.... View full lot details

‘Bodyline’. ‘Cricket Sketches and Short Stories, by the Australian Googly Bowler 1932-1933’. Arthur Mailey. Sydney 1933. 31pp. Tipped in to modern navy cloth with excellent original pictorial wrappers retained. Profusely illustrated. Issued during the M.C.C. 1932-33 ‘Bodyline’ tour of Australia. Signature in ink of Mailey on piece laid down to inside of the outer cover. Padwick 6881. Some foxing to wrappers and pages, otherwise in good/ very good condition. A rare item.... View full lot details

‘Beyond Ten Thousand. My Life Story’. Allan Border. Nedlands W.A. 1993. Hardback with good dustwrapper. Signed to the title page by Border and to the facing page by ten Australian players. Signatures are Dean Jones, Geoff Marsh, Graham Yallop, Tony Dodemaide, Keith Stackpole, Ray Jordon, Steve Rixon, Paul Sheehan, Jeff Thomson and Geoff Lawson. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Argentine Cricket Tour, Brazil 1953’. Edited by C.T. Nash. Rio de Janeiro: 1953. 8vo. Green buckram boards, preserving original pictorial wrappers. Includes includes an account of previous Argentine tours in Brazil. [John Arlott]. A.E. Winder bookplate to inside front board. Padwick 5755. Good/very good condition. A scarce tour book. Previously sold as lot 254 at the Christie’s sale of ‘The Guy Curry Cricket Library’ 2006... View full lot details

‘Cricket in Perth 1827-1921’. History of the Perthshire Cricket Club. James Barlas, Perth, 1921. Original souvenir brochure stamped ‘Prize draw No. 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

Scottish Cricket Histories. Four titles including three in original cloth boards. ‘Guide to the Cricket Ground’, George H. Selkirk, London 1867. ‘Drumpellier Cricket Club 1850 to 1906’, John Thomson, Airdrie 1908. Signed bookplate of B.J. Wakley to inside front cover. ‘Annals of Brechin Cricket 1849-1927’, Alfred O’Neill, Brechin 1927. Also one softback, ‘The Bicentenary of Cricket in Scotland 1785- 1985’, C.M. Roberts, Clackmannan 1985. Minor wear to board extremities, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘John Lawrence’s Handbook of Cricket in Ireland’ 1865-1866. First Number (issue). Compiled and edited by J.T.H.[Hurford]. Lawrence, Dublin. Original paper wrappers laid down to boards with replacement spine. Signed bookplate of B.J. Wakley to inside front cover. Padwick 3315. Wear and soiling to original wrappers, internally in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘John Lawrence’s Handbook of Cricket in Ireland’ 1866-1867. Second Number (issue). Compiled and edited by J.T.H. [Hurford]. Lawrence, Dublin. Bound in modern green boards, gilt titles to front and spine, original decorative wrappers retained. Padwick 3315. Minor and staining to original front wrapper, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘John Lawrence’s Handbook of Cricket in Ireland’ 1868-1869. Fourth Number (issue). Compiled and edited by J.T.H. [Hurford]. Lawrence, Dublin. Bound in modern green boards, gilt title label ‘1868’ to spine, original decorative wrappers retained. Padwick 3315. Original wrappers somewhat grubby, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘John Lawrence’s Handbook of Cricket in Ireland’ 1869-1870. Fifth Number (issue). Compiled and edited by J.T.H. [Hurford]. Lawrence, Dublin. Padwick 3315. Bound in modern green boards, gilt titles to front and spine, original decorative wrappers retained. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘John Lawrence’s Handbook of Cricket in Ireland’ 1874-75. Tenth Number (issue). Compiled and edited by J.T.H. [Hurford]. Original tooled green cloth with gilt title to front. Padwick 3315. Some wear to board and spine extremities, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘John Lawrence’s Handbook of Cricket in Ireland’ 1877-78. Thirteenth Number (issue). Compiled and edited by J.T.H. [Hurford]. Original stiffened decorative card covers. Bookplate of Anthony Woodhouse to front endpaper. Padwick 3315. Front and rear covers both detached with old tape, wear to spine. Internally in good condition.... View full lot details

‘John Lawrence’s Handbook of Cricket in Ireland’ 1878-79. Fourteenth Number (issue). Compiled and edited by J.T.H. [Hurford]. Original tooled green cloth with gilt titles to front and later(?) title label to spine. Padwick 3315. Very minor wear to board extremities, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘A Short Account of the Origin of the Kilkenny Cricket Club, and of its Proceedings in the years 1830-1831’. James Butler, Marquess of Ormonde. Printed by Poulter of London, 1832. Published to celebrate Kilkenny’s two victories over Lord Dunlo’s neighbouring team of Ballinasloe, comprising full scores of the matches and concluding with a poem, ‘A Paean of Triumphal Rhymes’. Handsomely rebound in later brown half morocco with marbled boards, gilt title to spine and gilt... View full lot details

‘Nederlandsche Cricket Bond. 1883-1933’. ‘Gedenkboek Uitgegeven Ter Gelegenheid Van Het Vijftigjarig Bestaan Van Den Nederlandschen Cricket Bond. 1883 30th September 1933’. 317pp. Original maroon cloth with gilt titles to front and spine. Illustrated with additional 40pp of photoplates to rear. Souvenir book in Dutch published for the 50th Anniversary. Padwick 4214. Includes three pages slipped in of typed notes of a translation of part of the section on ‘International Cricket’. Minor wear to head... View full lot details

‘Drie Cricket-Spelers [Three Cricket Players]’. F.W. Farrar. Utrecht 1896. Dutch text. Original pale brown cloth covers, gilt titles to front and spine, illustration of two skaters to front. Sale plate of H.A. Cohen collection to inside front cover. Padwick 5993. Minor soiling to boards, spine gilt faded, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The American Cricket Annual for 1890’. First year of publication. Compiled and edited by Jerome Flannery. Published by C.J. Sabiston, New York 1890. Original blue wrappers with gilt title to front. Padwick 4045. Minor wear to wrapper extremities, some water staining to page edges, otherwise in good/very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The American Cricket Annual for 1891’. Second year of publication. Compiled and edited by Jerome Flannery. Published by The Week’s Sport Co., New York 1891. Original decorative paper wrappers. Padwick 4045. Minor wear and small loss to spine extremities, some water staining to page edges, otherwise in good/very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The American Cricket Annual for 1893’. Fourth year of publication. Compiled, edited and published by Jerome Flannery, New York 1893. Bound in later blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine, speckled page edges, original decorative paper wrappers retained. Padwick 4045. Wear to spine edge of front wrapper, both wrappers with tape to internal hinges. Slight breaking to page block, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘The American Cricket Annual for 1894’. Fifth year of publication. Compiled, edited and published by Jerome Flannery, New York 1894. Bound in later blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine, speckled page edges, original decorative paper wrappers retained. Padwick 4045. Ownership stamp of K.A. Auty Library of Ontario to front endpaper. Some wear to spine edge of front wrapper. Front and rear internal hinges with tape reinforcement. Slight breaking to page block, otherwise in... View full lot details

‘The American Cricket Annual and Golf Guide for 1899’. Tenth year of publication. Compiled, edited and published by Jerome Flannery, New York 1899. Bound in later blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine, speckled page edges, lacking original paper wrappers. Padwick 4045. Ownership stamp of K.A. Auty Library of Ontario to front endpaper. Front and rear internal hinges with tape reinforcement. Odd nicks to pages, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘Spalding’s Official Cricket Guide 1909’. Fourth year of publication. Compiled and edited by Jerome Flannery, New York 1909. Bound in later red cloth boards, gilt title to spine, speckled page edges, original decorative paper wrappers retained. Padwick 4047. Ownership stamp of K.A. Auty Library of Ontario to front endpaper. Front and rear internal hinges with tape reinforcement. Some creasing to original front wrapper, pages trimmed a little tightly by the binder, otherwise in good/ very... View full lot details

‘Spalding’s Official Cricket Guide for 1912’. Edited by Frederick F. Kelly, American Sports Publishing Co, New York 1912. Bound in later red cloth boards, gilt title to spine, speckled page edges, original decorative paper wrappers retained. Padwick 4047. Ownership stamp of K.A. Auty Library of Ontario to front endpaper. Pages trimmed a little tightly by the binder, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Cricket at the University of Pennsylvania’. Archibald H. Graham, Jr. Privately printed 1930. Original paper wrappers with some soiling to wrapper extremities and loss to spine. Title page becoming detached. Padwick 4055. Not recorded by Goldman in his bibliography. Rusting to staples, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Cricket Grounds of Germantown and a Plea for the Game. An address delivered by George M. Newhall before The Site and Relic Society of Germantown March 11th 1910’. Published by the Site and Relic Society of Germantown, ‘Historical Addresses No. 7’. A paper presented to the Society covering the history of ‘Cricket in our Community’, ‘The claims and merits of Cricket’ and ‘The grounds where the clubs have been located’. Illustrations include many local... View full lot details

‘The History of South African Cricket. Including the full scores of all important matches since 1876’. Maurice W. Luckin. Johannesburg 1915. Original green cloth. Gilt title to front and spine. Padwick 3600. Slight breaking to front internal hinge, bumping to corners, some fading to spine gilt, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘Sports and Sportsmen. South Africa’. Compiled and Edited by the Cape Times. Atkinson & Partners (S.A.) Limited, Cape Town. Published c.1924. Large leather bound limited edition no. 322 of 500 books produced. Gilt to page edges. Two of the thirteen chapters printed cover cricket. Also rugby, horse racing, association football etc. Rare. Good condition. Sold with ‘Famous Cricketers & Cricket Grounds’. C.W. Alcock. London 1895, large format in original cloth boards, gilt title to front... 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. Contemporary tape reinforcement to spine. Light vertical crease, minor age toning to wrappers, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

South Africa signed tour histories/ biographies 1954-1960. Three hardbacks with dustwrappers, each multi-signed. Titles are ‘Caught by the Springboks’, Jack Cheetham, Cape Town 1954, three signatures of Watkins, Melle and Keith. Old tape repairs to dustwrapper. ‘Sackcloth Without Ashes’, Roy McLean, Cape Town 1958. Signed in ink to the title page by six South African and Australian players, including Burgess, Smith, McLean, Jarman etc. ‘Cricket Overthrown’, Charles Fortune, Cape Town 1960, author’s signature on piece... View full lot details

‘Cricket in Isolation. The politics of race and cricket in South Africa’. Edited by Andre Odendaal. Cape Town 1977. Dustwrapper. Limited edition of 1000 copies, this being number 65, signed by the author. Bookplate of the sports journalist and author, Gordon Ross, to front endpaper. Good condition.... View full lot details

‘Return of the Prodigal. South Africa’s Cricketing Comeback’. Colin Bryden. Johannesburg 1992. Hardback with good dustwrapper. Nineteen signatures to the early pages of members of the South African team and officials. Players’ signatures are Cronje, G. Kirsten, Richardson, Rhodes (signed twice), Donald, Martyn, P. Kirsten, Cullinan, de Villiers, Wessels, Matthews, McMillan, Hudson and Symcox. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘South African Cricket Action Signature Book’. Neil Hayward. Cape Town 1995. Colour profiles of South African cricketers. Signed in ink to the rear ‘Natal’ autograph page by twelve members of the Natal team including Sugden, Pryke, Johnson, Benkenstein, Stewart etc. and to his individual profile page by Rudi Steyn. Sold with an original copy of ‘SA Cricket News’ December 1991, ‘Commemorative India Tour Issue’, signed to the front page by twelve South African players including... View full lot details

‘A Century of Philadelphia Cricket ‘. Edited by J.A. Lester, Philadelphia 1951. Original blue cloth with nice gilt title to spine. Presentation copy with lengthy dedication in ink ‘To Harold Edwards, Harvard Cricketer’ signed by one of the contributors to the book, ‘from C. Christopher Morris of Philadelphia. In loving memory of J. Henry Scattergood, Harvard Cricket XI 1897 [and] JHS’s brother Alfred G. Scattergood, Harvard Cricket XI 1899’. The title was ‘Dedicated to the... View full lot details

‘Century at Newlands 1894-1964. A History of the Western Province Cricket Club’. Compiled by S.E.L. West, edited by W.J. Luker. Newlands 1965. Limited De Luxe Edition no. 76. Bound in full blue leather, raised bands and title label to spine, gilt initials ‘D.F.D.’ to front cover. Rubbing to spine, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Sold with a standard edition of the same title with good dustwrapper. Bookplate of the sports journalist and author, Gordon... View full lot details

‘The Story of a Cricket Playbill’. Irving Rosenwater 1968. Printed for private circulation in 1968. Limited edition number 21 of only twenty five numbered copies produced, signed by the author. Rare. Minor age toning to wrappers, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘J.N. Pentelow. A biographical enquiry’. Irving Rosenwater. Privately printed for the author in London, 1969. Limited edition number 13 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. Rare. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Alfred James Gaston. A Study in Enthusiasm’. Irving Rosenwater. Printed for private circulation in 1975. Limited edition number 16 of only fifty numbered copies produced, signed by the author. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Cricket Books. Great Collectors of the Past’. Irving Rosenwater. Privately printed by J.G. Eccles, Inverness, for the author 1976. Nine portraits. Full green leather with gilt to top edge, marbled endpapers. Limited edition number 95 of 200 copies of which 190 were for sale, signed by Rosenwater. Bookplate of the sports journalist and author Gordon Ross to front endpaper. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Arthur Langford. A Memoir’. Irving Rosenwater. Printed for private circulation, Bromley 1977. Tipped in to green cloth, original wrappers retained. Limited edition number 19 of fifty numbered copies produced, signed by the author. Bookplate of the sports journalist and author Gordon Ross to front endpaper. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Walter Arthur Copinger. Scholar and Lover of Suffolk’. Irving Rosenwater. Privately printed and reproduced from The Suffolk Review, Spring 1988. Limited edition no. 2 of twenty five copies produced. Signed by the author. Very 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 8 of only twenty five numbered copies produced, signed by the author. None were available for sale. Very good condition. Rare.... View full lot details

‘Voices from the Past’. Irving Rosenwater. Privately printed 1996. Limited edition number 4 of only twenty numbered copies produced, signed by the author. None were for sale. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘W.G. Grace: A Leviathan Was He’. Irving Rosenwater. Printed for private circulation, London, October 1997. Limited edition number 4 of only twenty copies produced, signed by the author. None were for sale. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Archie Jackson Story. A Biography’. David Frith. Ashurst 1974. Blue leather with gilt titles to front and spine. Limited edition of 1000 copies, this being number 760, signed by the author. Minor bumping to one corner, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Essential Denison’. A boxed set of facsimile editions of the six volumes of Denison’s Cricketers’ Companions 1843-1847 and his sketches of the players, together with hardback book ‘The Essential Denison’ by David Rayvern Allen. Christopher Saunders, Newnham on Severn 2008. Limited edition number 18 of 212 copies produced, signed by Mike Brearley, President of the MCC. The set is housed in a quarter leather book box with green cloth slipcase. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Britcher’s Scores 1790-1805’. A boxed set of the fifteen issues in facsimile, with a commentary by David Rayvern Allen. Christopher Saunders, Newnham on Severn 2003. Published in a limited edition of 212, each set signed by Sir Tim Rice, President of M.C.C., this copy being number 18. Before Britcher, scores were notched on sticks of wood. He was among the first to put them down on paper and between 1790 and 1803 he produced an... View full lot details

Wisden Anthology 1978-2006. Leather bound limited edition no. 97/300, gilt to all page edges. Signed to title page by the editor, Stephen Moss, and former editors of Wisden, Matthew Engel, Tim De Lisle and Graeme Wright. Very good condition. Sold with a selection of bound volumes and loose issues of ‘The Cricketer’ magazine. Bound volumes cover seasons 1922/23, 1923, 1924, 1948 and 1949, incomplete with varying bindings and some faults. Loose issues are Vol. XXI... View full lot details

Red Rose Books. Two limited edition softback titles, each signed by the author. ‘Charlie Hallows. 1,000 Runs in May 1928’, K. Martin Tebay 2008, limited edition no. 29/125. ‘Mine Host at the Mitre. Bobby Peel at Blackpool, 1905’, Gerry Wolstenholme 2009, limited edition no. 93/120. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Limited edition and large format cricket books. Eight titles from the collection of the sports journalist and author, Gordon Ross, earlier titles with his bookplate to the inside. ‘Lord’s and the M.C.C.’, Lord Harris and F.S. Ashley-Cooper, London 1914, bound in quarter leather and blue cloth, gilt title to front and spine, gilt to top page edges. Bumping to corner and minor rubbing to spine, otherwise in good condition. ‘Memorable Cricket Matches’, Sir Geoffrey Tomkinson,... View full lot details

J.W. McKenzie facsimile reprints. Six limited edition hardback titles with good dustwrappers, each with the bookplate of the sports journalist and author, Gordon Ross. Titles are ‘Curiosities of Cricket’ by An Old Cricketer’ facsimilie reprint published by J.W. McKenzie 1978, limited to 150 copies. ‘St. Ivo and the Ashes’, R.D. Beeston, 1978, complimentary copy, limited to 75 copies. ‘Some Recollections of Cricket’, Lord Charles J.F. Russell, 1979 no. 35/100. ‘The Australian Cricketers’ Tour’, P.E. Reynolds,... View full lot details

Signed and/ or limited edition cricket books. Two hardback titles, ‘Early Memories of Frank Woolley’, Martha Wilson Woolley, Ashurst 1976, limited edition no. 780/1000, signed by Frank Woolley. ‘The Life of John Briggs’, Herbert Turner, facsimile reprint by Red Rose Books 2000, no. 104/200. Two softbacks, ‘Life of Richard Linsell, the Essex Cricketer... By A Friend’, facsimile reprint by Christopher Saunders 2014, no. 64/125, signed by David Rayvern Allen who wrote the new introduction. ‘Vic’s... View full lot details

‘My Dear Victorious Stod. A Biography of A.E. Stoddart’. D. Frith. New Malden. Two editions, one being the first edition in blue cloth privately published in 1970 in a limited edition of 400 copies. Laid down to the inside front cover is a typed letter dated 5th November 1970 from and signed by Frith to the sports journalist and author, Gordon Ross, offering the title for review with some background to his research and decision... 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

‘Clifton College Cricket Records. 1863 to 1891’. Edited by E.L. Fox. Bristol 1892. 79pp. Original decorative stiffened card boards with later replacement spine, preserved in modern grey box. Comprises scores and averages for players including K.J. Key, E.F.S. Tylecote, C.E. Horner etc. Padwick 1395. Minor soiling to original boards, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Scarce.... View full lot details

‘Eton Register. Boating & Cricketing for 1861’. Published by Ingalton & Drake, Eton 1861. 38pp. Tipped in to modern maroon cloth, original wrappers preserved. Bookplate of A.E. Winder to inside original front wrapper. Padwick 1416. Scarce. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Scores of the Cricket Matches between Eton & Harrow from the beginning up to date’. Edited by Franklyn Brook. London 1900. 87pp. Original pale blue cloth with decorative front cover. Ownership signature of Francis E. Lacey to front endpaper. Padwick 1438. Some soiling to boards, internally in very good condition.... View full lot details

Harrow School. Two hardback titles. ‘House Matches and Lists of Prizemen of Rev. Dr. Vaughan’s House, 1845-1859; and of Dr. Butler’s.1860-1864’. Printed by Crossley & Clarke, Harrow 1865. Original dark blue cloth, gilt title and emblem to front. Padwick 1474. ‘Harrow School Songs’, edited by John Farmer, Harrow, undated. Includes the songs ‘Willow the King’ and ‘Giants’ with cricket references. Original maroon cloth, gilt title and emblem to front. Padwick 1475. Good condition.... View full lot details

‘Scores of the Cricket Matches between Rugby & Marlborough from the commencement up to date’. E.S. Andrew. London first edition 1904. 61pp. Original decorative maroon cloth covers. Presentation copy signed with dedication in ink to front endpaper to ‘J. Catton from E. Roper July 8th 1914’. Padwick 1497. Some soiling to boards, splitting to spine, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Public schools cricket. Five titles. ‘The Scores of the Cricket Matches played by Rugby School, from the year 1859 to 1864 inclusive’, Rugby 1864, original card boards with scare bookplate of Charles Pratt Green to inside front cover. ‘Marlborough College Cricket Elevens etc. up to Christmas 1880’, Marlborough 1880, original decorative paper wrappers. ‘Winchester College Cricket Matches 1825-1893’, C.E.S. Mason, 2nd edition Winchester 1893. Original navy blue cloth, slight breaking to hinges. ‘Rugby School Cricket... View full lot details

Somerset County Cricket Club Year Book 1938. Hammett & Co. Taunton 1939. Original decorative boards. Some breaking to front internal hinge, Chip of paper lost to the lower corner of the front board, minor wear to head of spine paper otherwise in good condition. Sold with ‘The Cricket Field’. Rev James Pycroft. London 1873. Sixth edition. Original pictorial boards. Photographic plate of W.G. Grace opposite title page. Breaking to front internal hinges, some wear to... View full lot details

‘History of the Derbyshire County Cricket Club’. Walter J. Piper. Derby 1897. Original decorative boards. Some breaking to internal hinges, Ex collection of F.S. Ashley-Cooper with his signature to top border of the first advertising page and dated May 23rd 1899. In the book is a letter handwritten in ink from the publisher’s Bacon & Hudson of Derby, dated May 20th 1899, stating Dear Sir, We should take it as a favour if you could... 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. ‘Canterbury Cricket Week’ printed to spine. Old tape mark to spine and edge of wrappers, splitting to front wrapper and spine, small tear to title page otherwise in good condition... 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 C.C.C. ‘The Tale of the Kent Eleven’ 1906. A rare small booklet comprising a printed four page poem bound in original decorative colour card wrappers comprising an illustration of two Kent cricketers with County ‘Invicta’ emblem of two prancing horses captioned ‘Kent XI 189- Kent XI 1906’. The poem, by an unknown author writing under the pseudonym ‘Senex’, describes the achievements of the team, led by Captain C.H.B. Marsham and players including Day, Dillon,... 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

‘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

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 plus ‘Notes’ pages as issued. Edited by J.B. Wostinholm. J. Robertshaw, Sheffield, printer. Original olive boards with titles in gilt to front board and white ‘Y.C.C.’ emblem to centre, gilt to page edges. 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 1897. 5th year of issue. 138pp plus ‘Notes’ pages as issued. Edited by J.B. Wostinholm. J. Robertshaw, Sheffield, printer. Original green boards with titles in gilt to front board and spine and gilt ‘Y.C.C.C.’ emblem to centre, gilt to page edges. Bumping to corners, minor wear to board extremities, otherwise in very good condition. Rare.... View full lot details

Yorkshire C.C.C. annual 1898. 6th annual issue. 146pp plus fourteen ‘notes’ pages as issued. Edited by J.B. Wolstinholm. J. Robertshaw, Sheffield, printer. Original green/ grey boards, titles to front board and spine paper with Yorkshire emblem to centre, gilt to edges. Slight browning to title page otherwise in good/very good condition.... View full lot details

Yorkshire C.C.C. Annual 2007-2013. Seven leather bound editions for seasons 2007 (109th edition) to 2013 (115th). Includes limited editions for 2007 no. 57/150, and 2008 no. 61/100, both signed by the Captain, Darren Gough. All with gilt titles to front and spine, white rose emblem to front, gilt to all page edges. Excellent condition.... View full lot details

Yorkshire biographies and histories. Six hardback titles including three first edition autobiographies, each with good dustwrapper and signed by the player, ‘Fast Fury’, Freddie Trueman, London 1961, ‘Close to Cricket’, Brian Close, 1968, and ‘A Yorkshire Diary. Year of Crisis’, David Bairstow, London 1984. Also ‘Recollections and Reminiscences’, Lord Hawke, London 1924. Two volumes of the ‘History of Yorkshire County Cricket’ 1903-1923 by A.W. Pullin, Leeds 1924 (ex J.W. Goldman collection), and 1924-1949 by J.M.... View full lot details

‘Reminiscences of David Hunter- The Genial Yorkshire Stumper’. Scarborough 1909. Small 8vo. Bound in red boards with gilt title to front. Original wrappers retained with photograph of Hunter to front wrapper. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Some Interesting Links of Yorkshire Cricket’. J.W. Overend. Reprinted from the Yorkshire Weekly Post for the author 1918’. 16pp. Original pictorial covers with image of ‘Yorkshire County Wranglers at Cambridge’ (Lockwood, Peate, Ullyett and Emmett). Padwick 2872. Wear and ageing to wrappers, old tape repair to spine. Internally in good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Norfolk Cricket Annual. Season 1894’. Sixth year of publication. Edited by Robin H. Legge. Published by Jarrold & Sons, London and Norwich. Original stiffened decorative card wrappers. Bookplate of Anthony Woodhouse to first advertising page. Padwick 2429. Rusting to staples, staining and some wear to spine, otherwise internally in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Suffolk Cricket Annual 1904’. Edited by Randolph L. Hodgson. Second year of publication. Original paper wrappers. Ex Anthony Woodhouse collection. Padwick 2591. Minor wear to wrappers, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Marylebone Cricket Club. Matches for the Season with full scores and batting averages’. A good run of eleven editions in original red cloth for seasons 1893, 1903-1906, 1908-1911, 1913 and 1944/45. The 1893 in good condition, the majority of the remainder with fading to spines, staining to some board extremities, otherwise in good condition. Sold with three issues of 'M.C.C. List of Members' for 1953/54, 1955/56 and 1957/58. Odd nicks to spines, otherwise in good/... View full lot details

‘Shropshire Cricket Club. Statement of Accounts, List of Members, Matches, Scores &c.’ 1865-70. Published by the Club. Complete run of six issues of the annual for seasons 1865 (first issue) to 1870 (last issue), printed by J.O. Sandford of Shrewsbury, bound together in one volume in modern green cloth, red speckled page edges. Padwick 2543. The title page of the 1866 issue detached with loss to lower half of the page. Light creasing and age... View full lot details

‘Herefordshire Cricket’. Edwyn Anthony. Hereford 1903. Original green and cream cloth. Gilt titles to front and spine, gilts nice and bright. Padwick 2036. Slight breaking to page block, minor soiling to boards, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘Staffordshire Cricket. Records: Reviews: Reminiscences from the earlier years of the Nineteenth Century to 1923’. William Gatus Watson. Stafford 1924. Original brown cloth with gilt title to front. Padwick 2571. Minor wear to board and spine extremities, otherwise in very good condition. Sold with an official Staffordshire C.C.C. Annual Report for 1901. Small loss to top corner, light vertical fold, otherwise in good condition. Qty 2.... View full lot details

Club histories. ‘The Twickenham Cricket Club. The First One Hundred Years 1833-1933’. The Club 1933. Original green cloth, gilt title to front. Padwick 2401. ‘Knowle Cricket Club Centenary Book 1852-1952’, George Baker, the Club 1952. Original illustrated stiffened card wrappers. Padwick 1949. Qty 2. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

County and Club histories. Eight titles, of which seven are original hardbacks in cloth covers. Titles are ‘Middlesex County Cricket Club’, two volumes, ‘1864-1899’, W.J. Ford, London 1900, ex K.A. Auty Library of Ontario collection, and ‘1900-1920’, F.S. Ashley-Cooper, London 1921. ‘A History of the Cambridge University Cricket Club 1820-1901’, W.J. Ford, Edinburgh 1902, soiling and wear to boards. ‘Annals of Lord’s and History of the M.C.C.’, Alfred D. Taylor, Bristol 1903, wear to covers.... View full lot details

‘Champions.... about bloomin’ time’. Graham Hardcastle & Chris Ostick. Max Books, Nantwich 2011. Full maroon leather with titles in gilt to front and spine. Includes a printed sheet tipped in to inside rear cover signed by nineteen players, management and coaching staff of the 2011 Championship winning side. Players’ signatures include Chapple, Anderson, Hogg, Keedy, Mahmood, Procter, Smith etc. Sold with ‘Summer of ‘65’. David Green. Quorn 2015. Leather bound, gilts to front and spine.... View full lot details

‘Forty-Four Years of Ashton Cricket 1857-1900’. D. Cordingley. Ashton-Under-Lyne 1901. Original brown cloth boards with gilt title and Club emblem to front cover, hand annotated title to spine. M.C.C. Library bookplate to inside front cover. Padwick 2182. Minor staining and wear to boards, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Fifty Years History of the Durham County Cricket Club. 1882-1931’. W.R. Bell. Sunderland 1932. Original paper wrappers. Padwick 1890. Light creasing and soiling to wrappers, slight splitting to spine, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Sefton Cricket Club 1862-1925’. J.D. Lynch. Printed by W. Williams, Liverpool 1926. Padwick 2216. Original paper wrappers. Light creasing to front wrapper, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Ormskirk Cricket Club 1835-1935. A few particulars of its Progress and Records’. W. Stretch. Ormskirk 1935. Original paper wrappers. Padwick II 1117. Small loss and minor soiling to wrappers, some rusting to staples, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘A Fifty Years’ Record of the Bowdon Cricket Club [Cheshire]’. F.M. Jackson & E.H. Longson. Altrincham 1906. Original red cloth boards with titles to front and spine. Ex Anthony Woodhouse collection. Padwick 1798. Title faded to spine, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

Leyland Cricket Club. ‘A Record of matches played by Leyland Cricket Club from the year 1877-1897’. Compiled by Thos Kirby. Preston 1898. Original decorative blue cloth boards with gilt titles to front and spine. Padwick 2204. Some bumping to corners, light wear to board and spine extremities, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘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. Some rubbing to spine and cover extremities, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Cricketers of Consett and District Club. An Illustrated Souvenir compiled by a member’. John J. Raw. Published by the Mail & Leader, Newcastle upon Tyne 1907. Original paper wrappers. 83pp plus advertising. This was a presentation copy to C.B. Fry with Fry’s ownership signature in pencil to title page. Bookplates of A.E. Winder and J.D.S. Dale to inside front and rear covers. Age toning to the wrappers with slight splitting to spine, otherwise in... View full lot details

‘Granville (Lee) Cricket Club Scores & Averages’ 1891-1902. A run of twelve issues of annual scores, averages and fixtures issued to members for seasons 1891 to 1902. The 1891 issue is in the form of a four page printed leaflet, the remainder published as booklets with paper wrappers. Padwick 2105-1 records eleven issues for 1892-1902, but not the 1891. Folds and minor annotations to the leaflet. All preserved in a modern red cloth slipcase. Some... View full lot details

Goldsmiths’ Institute Cricket Club. Two rare volumes of club histories. ‘Some Cricket Outings of the Goldsmiths’ Institute Cricket Club in 1892... 1898 by their Hon. Sec’.

H. Joanes. Printed for private circulation only, London 1898. Handwritten dedication in ink to title page, ‘To W.H. Mauley with best wishes from the author. Tour Captain’s copy. October 1898’. ‘Cricket Tours of the Goldsmiths’ Institute Cricket Club Second Series. Being a record of matches played in 1899... 1904’. Privately... View full lot details

Club histories. Five titles including ‘The Rugby Cricket Club: its rise and progress from 1844 to 1894. Including an account of foreign matches played on the ground...’, David Buchanan, published by the “Rugby Advertiser” 1894, original card wrappers, signed bookplate of B.J. Wakley to inside front cover. ‘Carlton Cricket Club Retrospect 1904’, R.H. Christie, Edinburgh 1904, original blue paper wrappers with wear to edges, replacement cloth spine. ‘History of Cricket in Kendal from 1836... View full lot details

Incogniti C.C. 1861-1884. Two volumes of scores and averages. ‘Scores of the “Incogniti” Cricket Club 1861 to 1870’. Compiled by A.W.L. Hemming. James Wakeham, London 1871. Comprises lists of fixtures, match scores and batting averages by season. Original purple cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Age toning and some staining to covers with fading to gilt, breaking to internal hinges, title page almost detached, otherwise in generally good condition. ‘Incogniti Scores and Averages 1871 to... View full lot details

‘Rules of the Veteran’s Cricket Club’. Four page printed card brochure with decorative cover and title, to inside pages ‘Rules...’ of the club and to back cover a printed scorecard (uncompleted) for the ‘Grand Cricket Match. Hittites vs. Hivites’ played on the Toronto Cricket Club Grounds on the 17th July 1896. Some creasing to corners, small split to fold, otherwise in good condition. Rare.... View full lot details

‘Shipwright’s I Zingari Bouquet’. ‘The Universities Toilet Club & Hat Co.’ 1905. Printed by H. Silverlock, London. Small 64pp calendar/ diary for 1905 in original paper wrappers with decorative front cover in I Zingari colours of black, red and gold, ‘Shipwright’s I Zingari Perfume’ colour advertisement to rear, colour coats of arms for Oxford and Cambridge Universities to inside covers. Contents include lists of dates for important events, university cricket matches, boat races, first... View full lot details

I Zingari C.C. 1862-1977. Four original handbooks for seasons 1862, 1869, 1961 in decorative stiffened card wrappers with Club emblem and motto to boards, and 1977 in softback. Each issue comprises lists of members, rules etc. The 1862 issue with soiling to wrappers, front cover becoming detached, the others in good condition.... View full lot details

Carlton Cricket Club, Edinburgh, Scotland. Two titles, ‘Abstracts and Chronicles’ 1924 (with bookplate of A.E. Winder) and ‘Outings and Innings at Inns, Linns and Castles’ 1934. Both titles bound in similar blue cloth with gilt title and club emblem to fronts. From the collection of the sports journalist and author, Gordon Ross. Some fading to the covers and spine of ‘Abstracts’, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... 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

James Lillywhite’s Cricketers Annual 1872-1900. Complete full run of the ‘Red Lillywhite’ Annual edited by Charles W. Alcock. Original red/orange boards. All photographic plates present from the 1876 edition as issued. Four editions with breaking internal hinges, some with repairs to internal hinges. The 1875 edition with ink annotation to front and rear boards. The remainder with some soiling and wear to boards, odd ownership name in ink to front covers, otherwise a nice run... View full lot details

‘Frederick Lillywhite’s [and M.C.C.] Cricket Scores And Biographies Of Celebrated Cricketers. Volumes I and II (two copies), both published 1862, in original blue/ grey cloth, Vols. V (1876), XIII (1880) and XIV (1895) in original red cloth bindings. Vol. V with spine paper detached. Wear to boards of the other volumes, otherwise in good condition. Sold with ‘A History of the Cambridge University Cricket Club 1820-1901’, W.J. Ford, Edinburgh 1902, in original pale blue cloth.... View full lot details

‘Index to all First-Class Matches in “Scores and Biographies”, Vols. I-XIV 1746-1878’. Compiled by J.B. Payne, Harrogate, 1903. Limited to one hundred copies. 36pp. Original stiffened card covers with olive green cloth spine. M.C.C. compliments slip/ receipt slipped in. Padwick 805. Minor soiling to boards, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Cricket Player’s Pocket Companion containing plans for laying out the Grounds, Forming Clubs...’. Published by Mayhew & Baker, Boston 1860, appears to be third edition. 34pp with a frontispiece engraving of ‘The Cricket Field’. The booklet, in original cloth wrappers and pictorial gilt to front. Padwick 386-1. Some light fading, minor creasing and staining to wrappers, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Rare.... View full lot details

‘The Boys’ Realm Cricket Book 1909. Being the Only Cricket Handbook for Junior Players’. Amalgamated Press, London 1909. 40pp. Comprises ‘Special Articles’ by Robert Abel, M.A. Noble, Albert Trott, A.C. Maclaren, Tom Hearne etc. Original decorative paper wrappers. Padwick 408. Some wear and age toning to wrappers with splitting to spine, rusting to staples, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Cricket and Athletic Gazette. A Magazine devoted to the interests of Cricket, Rowing, Swimming, Pedestrianism, Polo, Bicycling, Football, Racquet and Athletic Sports Generally’. Issue No. 1 (only issue), Feltham & Co., London May 1875. Bound in full morocco, gilt title to spine, original paper wrappers retained. Padwick 1184. Good/ very good condition. Rare, not previously seen by the auctioneer.... View full lot details

‘The All England Cricket & Football Journal and Athletic Review’ 1879. Volume III (final volume). Published by Martin Hurst of Sheffield. Bound volume of the Journal containing all five issues, nos. 25-29, May 1879 to September & October 1879, each with original wrappers featuring a real photograph portrait of a player or team to the front wrapper. The issues bound together as one volume in brown cloth with gilt title to front. Padwick 1178. Minor... View full lot details

‘The Sportfolio. Portraits and biographies of heroes and heroines of sport and pastime’. George Newnes, London 1896. Originally published in parts. Many illustrations. Bound in publisher’s decorative cloth with colour illustrations and gilt, with a title-page and index at the front. Comprises full-page pictures of sportsmen of the day, with short pen pictures. The cricketers are W.G. Grace, F.S. Jackson, Richardson, A.E. Stoddart, G. Macgregor, Ward, Abel, Gunn, C.B. Fry, A.C. Maclaren, J.L. Brown, G.A.... View full lot details

The Cambridge University General Almanack & Register 1858-1863. Run of six issues of the Almanack. Published annually by Henry Wallis and E. Johnson, Cambridge. Printed by J. Webb of Cambridge. Bound together as one volume in dark green cloth, gilt title to spine, red speckled page edges, original front paper wrappers retained, lacking rear wrappers. Each of the almanacks contain the ‘register of all University Cricket Matches and averages for the preceding year’, and sections... View full lot details

‘The Cricket Quarterly. A Journal devoted to the Noble Game of Cricket’ 1963-1966. The first four volumes from 25th January 1963 (1st issue) to 25th November 1966, each bound complete in black cloth with contents and index pages for each volume, lacking original wrappers. Some staining to spines otherwise in good condition. Sold with three oversize hardback titles, ‘British Sports and Sportsmen’. Compiled and edited by ‘The Sportsman’, London 1917. Volume 1. Cricket & Football.... View full lot details

‘The Athletic News Cricket Annual’. Complete and full run of issues for 1892 (first year of issue in book form) to 1955 (final issue). Bound together as fourteen volumes in modern matching dark blue leather with gilt titles to fronts and spines, original front and rear wrappers retained. Padwick 1034 and 1117. Bookplate of the collector Alan Davies to inside front cover of each volume. Faults to the original wrappers of early editions, otherwise in... View full lot details

‘The Cricketer Quarterly Facts and Figures’. Summer 1973 (first issue) to Spring 1985. Edited by Gordon Ross. Complete run of the issues published when edited by Ross, uniformly bound in red cloth in twelve volumes, gilt titles to spines, original wrappers retained. Each volume with the bookplate of Gordon Ross to inside front cover. ‘Gordon Ross personal copy’ annotated in ink to front endpaper of all volumes with the exception of Vol. 12. Sold with... View full lot details

J.W. McKenzie cricket catalogues. A collection of cricket book catalogues published by John McKenzie. Includes catalogue no. 19, in three parts bound together as one in full green leather with original wrappers retained. Three further bound volumes, one comprising catalogue nos. 15, 23, 26, 28, 30 & 32, another with nos. 35, 37-39, 42 & 43, and the third with nos. 46, 48-52. All three volumes bound in matching full green leather, original wrappers retained.... View full lot details

‘Roy Webber. Statistician’. Irving Rosenwater. Newnham, Gloucestershire, December 2001. Limited edition number 56 of one hundred numbered copies produced, of which ninety were for sale, signed by the author. From the collection of Gordon Ross, sports journalist and author. Excellent condition. Sold with ‘Webber’s Cricket Year Book 1946-1947’, privately published by Webber, Hunstanton 1947, limited edition no. 5/100, signed by Webber. Also a further four original hardbacks, all with good dustwrappers (one exception), each presented... View full lot details

‘The Cricket Quarterly. A Journal devoted to the Noble Game of Cricket’ Volumes I-VIII 1963-1970. Edited by Rowland Bowen. Complete run of the journal comprising all thirty two issues bound together as four volumes in matching pale blue cloth, title labels to spines, with title, contents and index pages bound in. Padwick 1195. Slight fading to spines, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Kricket Karicatures from the Evening News by Rip. Season 1896’. Roland Pretty Hill. Published by The Evening News Ltd. 1896. W.G. Grace image to front wrapper. 16pp of caricatures with subjects including ‘”W.G.” Batting’, ‘”W.G.” Fielding’, ‘Johnny on the Job’, ‘Australians at Play’, ‘Ten Little Trotts’, ‘Ranji’ etc. The centre pages depict the England and Australian teams in silhouette with players’ names annotated in pencil, and a later page of ‘The Surrey Eleven’ similarly annotated.... View full lot details

James Lillywhite’s Cricketers’ Annual 1898 and 1900. Two issues of the annual in original limp red cloth wrappers. Both complete with photo plates as issued. Some wear to wrappers, slight breaking to internal hinges, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Cardus and Constantine. Two signed books. ‘The Playfair Cardus’ Dickens Press 1963, nicely signed by Cardus in ink. Sold with ‘Cricketers’ Cricket’ Learie Constantine, signed in ink ‘Every good wish, Learie Constantine’. 1949. Good condition... 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

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 softbacks. Four first edition softback titles. ‘Grimmett on Getting Wickets’, C.V. Grimmett, London 1930, pictorial paper wrappers with wear. ‘Big Cricket’, Patsy Hendren, London 1934. Two by Cecil Parkin, ‘Cricket Reminiscences. Parkin on Cricket’, London 1923 (frontispiece detached, wear to wrappers), and ‘Cricket Triumphs and Troubles’, Manchester 1936. Odd faults, overall in good condition.... View full lot details

‘Close of Play’. Leslie Ames. First edition, London 1953. Hardback with original pen and ink caricature of Ames in wicket-keeping action laid down to front endpaper, signed in ink by Ames. Very good condition with good original dustwrapper. Sold with a booklet of ‘Collected Articles’ by Ames 1960, and two benefit booklets, one for Doug Wright 1950, signed to the front by Wright, the other for Godfrey Evans 1953. Good condition. Qty 4.... View full lot details

‘The Bradman Albums’. Queen Anne Press, London 1987. First edition, Volumes I & II. Cloth covers, gilt titles to fronts and spines. Slip case. Signature of Don Bradman on label taped down to title page of Volume I. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Times On The Ashes’. Richard Whitehead. Stroud 2015. Hardback signed to the title page by Mike Gatting, Jonathan Agnew and Mike Brearley. Sold with ‘Masterstrokes. Cricket’s Timeless Batting Lessons’, Allen Synge & Derek Anns, London 1987. Signatures of Roger Knight (Secretary of M.C.C.), Cyril Walters and Graeme Hick, each signed to card laid down. Good dustwrapper. Qty 2. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Ashes Victory. The official story of the greatest ever Test series in the team’s own words’. The England Cricket Team. London 2005. Hardback with good dustwrapper. Signed in ink to the verso of the front endpaper by the twelve members of the England team. Signatures are Vaughan (Captain), Trescothick, Strauss, Harmison, G. Jones, Bell, Collingwood, Pietersen, Flintoff, Hoggard, Giles and S. Jones. Also signed to the half title page by the coach, Duncan Fletcher. Very... View full lot details

‘It’s Been a Piece of Cake’. Brian Johnston. London 1989. Hardback with good dustwrapper. Signed to the title page by Johnston and to pages by fifty seven players featured. Signatures include Len Hutton, Denis Compton, Alec Bedser, Arthur Morris, Ray Lindwall, Keith Miller, Neil Harvey, Trevor Bailey, Clyde Walcott, Everton Weekes, Wes Hall, Tom Graveney, Peter May, Brian Statham, Richie Benaud, Fred Trueman, Sunil Gavaskar, Colin Cowdrey, Garry Sobers, Ted Dexter, Bob Barber, Graeme Pollock,... View full lot details

‘Cricket Wonderful Cricket’. John Duncan. London 2011. Hardback with good dustwrapper. Signed by the author and sixteen of the featured celebrities. Signatures include John Alderton, Rory Bremner, Lorraine Chase, Alan Davies, John Major, Barry Norman, Michael Parkinson, Nicholas Parsons, Tim Rice, Chris Tarrant, Graham Taylor, Bill Wyman etc. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Signed cricket books. A selection of thirteen signed hardback titles (one softback) from the collection of Gordon Ross, six with his bookplate. Good dustwrappers. Titles and signatures are ‘Wickets, Tries and Goals’, John Arlott, Wilfred Wooller & Maurice Edelston 1949, signed to the bookplate by Arlott. Two titles by Ian Peebles, ‘Talking of Cricket’ 1953 and ‘Spinner’s Yarn’ 1977. ‘Richie Benaud’s Way of Cricket’ 1961. Two by Trevor Bailey, ‘Sir Gary’ 1976 and ‘The Greatest... View full lot details

Signed presentation cricket books 1950s-1980s. A selection of nineteen original hardbacks with dustwrappers (one exception) from the collection of the sports journalist and author, Gordon Ross. All titles have the bookplate of Ross and are signed by the author, three by Ross, the remainder are presentation copies from the author to Ross. Titles by Ross are ‘The Testing Years’ 1958, ‘A History of Cricket’ 1972, and ‘A History of West Indian Cricket’ 1976. Presentation copies... View full lot details

Signed cricket biographies and histories 1906-1981. Nine original hardbacks from the collection of the sports journalist and author, Gordon Ross, the majority with dustwrappers. Each title signed by the author or otherwise. Two by Pelham Warner, ‘The M.C.C. in South Africa’ 1906 signed and dated 18th May 1957 and ‘The Book of Cricket’ 1947. ‘For England and Yorkshire’, Herbert Sutcliffe 1935. ‘100 Years of Trent Bridge’, E.V. Lucas 1938, signed by H.A. Brown, Club Secretary,... View full lot details

Jack Hobbs. Three hardback titles by Hobbs, each either signed by Hobbs or with his signature laid down. Titles are ‘My Life Story’ London 1935, signed to bookplate photograph. Also ‘My Cricket Memories’, London 1926, and ‘Playing for England! My Test-Cricket Story’ London 1931, both signed in ink on piece laid down to title page. All three from the collection of the sports journalist and author, Gordon Ross. Some faults, minor wear, foxing to pages... View full lot details

Harold Larwood. Two hardback titles by Larwood, both with his signature in ink laid down to the title page. ‘Body-Line?’, London 1933, original green cloth, and ‘The Larwood Story’, Harold Larwood, London 1965, dustwrapper with old tape repairs. Sold with ‘Harold Larwood. Nottinghamshire & England’, Raymond L. Smith 2006, softback with handwritten and signed dedication from the author. All three from the collection of the sports journalist and author, Gordon Ross. Odd faults to... View full lot details

‘Alletson’s Innings’. John Arlott. First edition London 1957. Original green cloth, gilt title to front and spine. Limited edition of 200 produced, this copy is stamped ‘Out of Series’ and not signed by Arlott. Bookplate of the sports journalist and author, Gordon Ross, to inside front cover. Padwick 7277. Slight fading to spine, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

Signed biographies and histories 1960s onwards. Box comprising ten hardback titles with dustwrappers, each signed by the author (unless stated). Titles are ‘Spin Me A Spinner’, Richie Benaud 1963. ‘The Ashes 1972’, John Arlott 1972. ‘The Cricketing Family Edrich’, Ralph Barker 1976, signed by John Edrich. ‘A Spell from Laker’, Jim Laker 1979. Three signed by Geoffrey Boycott, ‘Opening Up’ 1980, ‘In the Fast Lane. West Indies Tour 1981’, and ‘Boycott. The Autobiography’ 1987. ‘Cricket’s... View full lot details

Cricket histories 1899 onwards. Box comprising a good selection of histories and some biographies. Earlier titles include ‘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, the front and rear covers faded to brown. Internally in good/ very good condition. ‘The Book of Cricket. A New Gallery of Famous Players’, C.B. Fry, London 1899, original... View full lot details

‘Great Batsmen. Their Methods at a Glance’. G.W. Beldham and C.B. Fry. London 1907 reissue. Rebound in modern green cloth with gilt title to spine. Panel of the original front cover gilt illustration of a batsman laid down to the front board. Gilt to top page edges. Padwick 687. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Famous Cricketers and Cricket Grounds’. C.W. Alcock. Published by Hudson & Kearns of London 1895. Bound in contemporary green cloth boards with gilt/ leather title label to spine, red speckled page edges. Title page and index bound in preceded by, unusually, a page nicely signed in black ink by eight notable cricketers with the handwritten title ‘We have enjoyed the perusal of this book’. Signatures are George Geary, Ernest Tyldesley, Patsy Hendren, Harold Larwood, Fred... View full lot details

‘One-Day Cricket’. Jim Laker. London 1977. Original hardback with very good dustwrapper. Signed to the title page ‘Best wishes, Jim Laker’. Padwick 3065-1. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Public School Matches and those we meet there. Ups and Downs of a Public School by a Wykehamist’ Frederick Gale. George Routledge & Sons. London 1867. Original boards. 153pp plus adverts. Wear to boards, spine and extremities.... 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 good/ very good condition... View full lot details

Public school cricket. Four hardback titles in original cloth. ‘Memories of Eton and Etonians’, Alfred Lubbock, London 1899, ex K.A. Auty Library of Ontario collection. ‘Records of Cheltenham College Matches against Public Schools 1856-1900’. A.A. Hunter. Cheltenham 1901. Some fading to the titles, breaking to the front internal hinge. ‘Repton Cricket (1865-1905)’, Alfred Cochrane, Repton 1908. ‘Sixty Year of Uppingham Cricket’, William Seeds Patterson, London 1909. Odd minor faults, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Cheltenham College. ‘Records of the Cheltenham College Cricket, Boating, Rifle & Racquet Matches against Public Schools 1856-1883’, first edition, London 1884 rebound in modern red/ black cloth, and second edition titled ‘Records of Cheltenham College Matches Against Public Schools, 1856-1900’, Cheltenham 1901 in original red cloth with titles to front board and spine paper. Bookplate of A.E. Winder to inside front cover. The second edition with staining and wear to boards, internally in good condition.... View full lot details

Rugby School. ‘The Scores of the Cricket Matches played by Rugby School, from the year 1859 to 1864 inclusive’, Rugby 1864. Original card wrappers with early replacement spine. Padwick 1528. ‘Rugby School Cricket Scores (Foreign and Bigside Matches) 1831-1893’, A.G. Guillemard, Rugby 1894. Original brown cloth. Bookplate of A.E. Winder to inside front cover. Padwick 1521. Breaking to front internal hinge. ‘Scores of the Cricket Matches between Rugby & Marlborough from the commencement up to... View full lot details

‘Charterhouse Records 1850-1890’. ‘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. Padwick 1382. Some rubbing to covers, otherwise in good condition.... 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

‘Les Jeux Des Jeunes Garcons, representes par Vingt-Quatre Estampes Accompagnes De L’Explication Detaillee des Regles, D’Anecdotes Historiques...’. ‘Quatrieme [fourth] edition, published in Paris at ‘Chez Nepveu, Libraire, Passage des Panoramas, No. 26’, c.1820. 114pp, illustrated throughout, complete with twenty four full page engravings from original drawings by Xavier Leprince of boys playing games of the period, with accompanying text in French describing the history and rules of the games with anecdotes and poems. Chapter XXIV,... View full lot details

‘Book of Games & Sports’. Published by T. Nelson, London 1856. 17pp comprising descriptions of eighteen children’s games and sports, each illustrated with engraved images hand coloured in watercolour. p8 is dedicated to cricket. Others featured include archery, marbles, football, leap-frog, kites, skipping etc. Padwick 7116. Bookplate of A.E. Winder to inside front cover. Original decorative boards with some wear and soiling, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Pierce Egan’s Book of Sports, and Mirror of Life’. London first edition 1832. Dedicated to George Osbaldestone, Esq. Rebound by ‘Tout’ in half morocco with marbled boards, raised bands and gilt title to spine, marbled endpapers, gilt to top page edges. Original decorative paper wrappers retained. Good cricket content pp 337-352, with references to Hambledon cricket and John Small. Padwick 1992. Original front wrapper becoming detached, minor wear to board extremities, otherwise in very good... View full lot details

‘Hoyle’s Games Improved, being practical treatises on the following fashionable games viz whist, quadrille, piquet, chess, back-gammon, draughts, cricket, tennis, quinze, hazard, lansquenet and billiards’. Revised and corrected by Charles Jones Esq. A new edition enlarged’. London 1786. 306pp. Contains a chapter on the Laws of Cricket pp 239-243. Rebound in full leather, original leather covers laid down. Padwick 153 (this edition not listed). Odd minor faults, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Rare... View full lot details

‘Games and Sports; being an appendix to “Manly Exercises” and “Exercises for Ladies”’. Donald Walker. Joseph Thomas, ‘New Edition’, London 1840. Contains a section on cricket, pp 135-149, on how to play the game, the ground, the players, a diagram illustrating the fielding positions, details of the fielders’ roles, the laws of the game as amended in 1835 etc. A line drawing shows a game in progress. Bound in original leather with decorative tooled boards,... View full lot details

Sporting handbooks published by Routledge, Warne and Routledge of London 1860s. Five instructional sporting handbooks by Edmund Routledge, George Forrest and others, bound together in one volume. Titles are ‘The Handbook of Cricket’, London 1864 edition, ‘Rowing and Sailing’ 1863, ‘Croquet’ 1864, ‘Gymnastics’ 1864, and ‘Manly Exercises’ 1864. Bound in full maroon leather, title and raised bands to spine, marbled endpapers and page edges. Signed bookplate of B.J. Wakley to the inside front cover, the... View full lot details

‘Captain Crawley’s Handbooks of Out-door Games’. ‘Cricket as now played by Frederick D’Arros Planche and Base-ball and Rounders by Captain Crawley’. First edition London 1877. Ownership signature in ink of A.D. Taylor to p2. Rebound in red cloth, original colour pictorial wrappers retained. Padwick 466. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Cricket, Gymnastics, Football’. Three titles published by George Bell & Sons, London, handsomely bound together as one volume in full red morocco, school emblem in gilt to front, raised bands and title to spine, marbled endpapers and page edges. Titles are ‘Cricket’, E. Lyttelton, ‘New’ (third) edition, London 1894, ‘Gymnastics, A.F. Jenkin, London 1896, and ‘Football. The Association Game’, C.W. Alcock, London 1895. Good/ very good condition. Sold with ‘Cricket Facts and Figures’, J. Birch,... View full lot details

‘Nyren’s Cricketer’s Guide; containing full directions for playing this elegant and manly game’. John Nyren. T.P. Caldwell, second edition ‘corrected and improved’, Edinburgh 1840. xviii, 101pp. Frontispiece engraving of Lord’s Cricket Ground in cameo. Original green card wrappers with gilt title/ emblem to front, gilt to page edges. Padwick 390. Breaking to front internal hinge, minor soiling to wrappers and dulling to gilt, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘What Came of Wearing The Free Foresters’ Ribbon’. Mrs Charles Bedford. Printed by Lomax at ‘The Johnson’s Head’, Lichfield c.1894. 17pp. Original decorative wrappers with red and green diagonal stripes to front, tipped in to modern green cloth with gilt title to spine. Bookplates to inside front of original wrapper for E.D.R. Eagar and the sale plate of H.A. Cohen. Padwick 1259. The exact date of publication was unknown to Padwick, however laid down to... View full lot details

‘Lewis Baboon Turned Honest, And John Bull Politician being the fourth part of Law is a Bottomless Pit’. John Arbuthnot. Published by John Morphew, London 1712. Cricket reference on page 18. Arbuthnot’s five part ‘History of John Bull’ sees Bull symbolising England, and Lewis Baboon for France, in which Bull tries to get ‘the better of his cholerick temper’ and ‘pursue his own interest through all impediments that were thrown in his way; he began... View full lot details

‘The Diary of Henry Teonge, Chaplain on board his Majesty’s Ships Assistance, Bristol, and Royal Oak: Anno 1675-1679. Now published from the original MS’. Henry Teonge. Printed for Charles Knight, first edition London 1825. Bound in grey boards with green cloth spine, title label to spine. Hand made paper, edges untrimmed. Includes an original fold-out of a sample page from the manuscript to front of book. This was the first publication of a manuscript kept... View full lot details

‘Glig-Gamena Angel-Deod. Or The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England: Including the rural and domestic recreations, May-games, mummeries, pageants, processions, and pompous spectacles, from the earliest period to the present time’. Joseph Strutt. Printed by T. Bensley for J. White, first ‘large paper’ edition, London 1801. Illustrated by engravings selected from ancient paintings in sepia. Rebound in quarter leather with raised bands and gilt title to spine, marbled boards. Strutt covered everything to... View full lot details

‘Views of Chislehurst’. Published by Rock & Co., London 1871. 12pp 8vo book comprising twelve topographical engravings, one to each page, of scenes of churches, parks, houses etc. in and around Chislehurst, Kent. Includes one cricket scene titled below, ‘Cricket Ground, Chislehurst, Kent’, dated 29th July 1871. Bookplate of A.E. Winder to inside front cover. Padwick lists a similar title as no. 2092-3. Bound in original pale lilac cloth with tooled decoration and gilt title... View full lot details

Cricket literature. Three hardback titles. ‘The Saturday Match’, Hugh de Selincourt, London 1937. Dedication in ink to front endpaper to John Arlott, ‘With all of me somehow to say thank you, Hugh de Selincourt, July 1941’. Dustwrapper with some faults. ‘A Village Match and After’, M.D. Lyon, London 1929, signed to ‘C.H. Travis’ by Lyon, March 1930. ‘The Test Match Surprise’, Jack Hobbs, London 1926. Dustwrapper with tears and some loss. Odd faults, otherwise in... View full lot details

Cricket literature. Five early hardback titles. ‘Pigskin and Willow’, Byron Webber, London 1883. ‘Peter Steele, the Cricketer’, Horace G. Hutchinson, Bristol 1895. ‘The Triple Alliance. Its trials and triumphs’, Harold Avery, London 1899. ‘Tales of the Stumps’, Horace Bleackley, illustrated by ‘Rip’, London 1901. ‘Willow the King’, J.C. Snaith, London 1933, with postcard slipped in signed by Snaith to A.W. Shelton. Odd minor faults, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Live Doll or Ellen’s New Gift by the authoress of the “Three Birthdays”, “Baby Tales”, etc.’. Harriett A. MacKeever. Darton & Clark, London c.1840. 50pp. Bound in modern olive cloth boards, gilt title to spine, original decorative paper wrappers retained. Part instructional guide for girls comprising seven hand coloured plates, each with a cricket scene to lower portion. Ownership name ‘Mary Elizabeth Reece, January 1st 1841’ to title page. Bookplate of A.E. Winder to... View full lot details

Alfred Henry John Cochrane. Derbyshire & Oxford University 1884-1888. Three hardback titles by Cochrane including two collections of verse, ‘The Kestrel’s Nest and other verses’, London 1894, and ‘Collected Verses’, London 1903. Also ‘Told in the Pavilion (Stories of Cricket and Other Matters)’, Bristol 1896. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Cricket Bouquet. Comedy and Character in the Counties’. A.A. Thomson. London 1961. Original hardback with excellent dustwrapper, photoplate of Jack Hobbs. Presentation copy with signed dedication in ink to front endpaper, ‘To Sir Jack Hobbs with the author’s kindest wishes, A.A. Thomson March 1961. Includes a single page handwritten letter in ink from Thomson to Hobbs offering the title for his collection, nicely signed by Thomson. Padwick 1750. A good association copy in very good... View full lot details

‘Sport for All Ages and Limited Purses’. Sketches by W. Ralston. Published by David Bryce & Son., Glasgow c.1899. 32pp. Humorous sporting scenes illustrating the ‘probable cost’ of each sport, including cricket reference on p10 with likely cost to the wicket-keeper of two black eyes. Seven illustrations and front wrapper in colour. Tipped in to modern blue cloth, gilt title to spine, original wrappers retained. Padwick 7029-1. Very good condition.... 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

‘Eight Poems from Clifford Bax’. Privately printed for Bax as a 12pp Christmas card 1928. Comprises twelve poems, the final poem ‘A Dead Cricketer’ was republished the following year retitled ‘Corsham Cricket’ in Lakenham’s book commemorating Fred Hulbert, a Corsham cricket stalwart who died in 1928. This copy is addressed to the title page in ink by Bax to ‘Muriel and Maitland Radford’ and, at the foot of the page ‘And from Vera Bax too,... View full lot details

‘Cricket Rhymes by “Century”’. Published by the Cricket Press, London 1899. Comprises twenty four poems on cricket, including some dedicated to individual cricketers, namely W.G. Grace, MacLaren, Stoddart, Ranjitsinhji, and Wainwright, each with accompanying woodcut portrait of the player. Also to the Australians 1897-98 and the Professionals’ strike. Original stiffened grey cloth boards with later taped spine. Ownership signature in ink of C.I.S. Wallace to inside front cover. Padwick 6434. Breaking to internal hinges, otherwise... View full lot details

Gerald Brodribb. Two booklets by Brodribb. ‘The Bay and other new poems’, published by The Mountjoy Press 1953, limited edition no. 6 of thirty copies produced. Not listed in Padwick. ‘Some Memorable Bowling’, The Cricket Book Society, Hunstanton, No. 1 (Second Series), April 1947. Signed to the title page by Brodribb. Padwick 751. Both titles in original paper wrappers. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Songs of the Cricket Field and Other Verses’. Francis Colgate Benson. Published for the author by The James Clark Press, Philadelphia 1932. The book, with an interesting provenance, is inscribed in ink to the second front endpaper ‘To my good friend Fred Mallinson Christmas 1932 with all good wishes from Colgate Benson’ and, below, ‘Given to Jim Hole 1951 [by] Fanny Mallinson for Fred’. Opposite is the bookplate of W.J. Hole. Ink annotation to the... View full lot details

‘Cricket. An Heroic Poem Illustrated with the Critical Observations of Scriblerus Maximus... by James Love, Comedian’. James Dance. Printed for the Author, London 1770. Fourth edition. iv, 30pp. Dedicated ‘To the Members of the Cricket Club, at Richmond, in Surrey’. The first separately published poem on cricket. James Dance (1722-1774) assumed the name of Love as a compliment to his wife. The mock heroic couplets describe the match between Kent and England played on the... View full lot details

‘Cricket, and How To Play It’. Robert Abel (Member of the Surrey Eleven). Dean & Son of Fleet Street. (Dean’s Champion Handbooks) 1895. 62pp. Original decorative maroon limp cloth wrappers. Ownership stamp of K.A. Auty Library of Ontario to verso of frontispiece. Padwick 482. Some mottling and light creasing to front wrapper. Frontispiece and title pages detached, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Cricket instructional and historical books. Four hardback titles. ‘The Cricket-Field’, James Pycroft, Longman, 4th edition London 1862. Wear and loss to spine, front cover partially detached. ‘Cricketers in Council’ by Thomsonby [H.P. Thomas & J.H. Ponsonby], Bell & Daldy, 1st edition London 1871. ‘The Young Cricketer’s Tutor’, John Nyren, two later editions, one published by David Nutt, London 1893, the other by Gay and Bird (Sportsmans Classics), London 1902. General wear, overall in good condition.... View full lot details

‘Great Batsmen Their Methods at a Glance’ and ‘Great Bowlers and Fielders Their Methods at a Glance’. George W. Beldam and Charles B. Fry. First editions, London 1905 and 1906. Each volume in original green cloth with gilt illustrations to fronts and gilt titles to spines, gilt to top edges, presented together in modern green cloth slipcase. Both volumes with replacement endpapers, minor wear to board extremities, odd nicks to spines, otherwise in good/ very... View full lot details

‘Cricket’. R.G. Steel and R.H. Lyttelton. ‘The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes’, Longmans & Co., London. Four editions of the book, published 1888 (appears to be 1st edition), 1889 (3rd edition), 1890 (4th edition) and 1893 (5th edition ‘thoroughly revised’). All four bound in matching original brown cloth with pictorial covers and titles to front and spine. Padwick 473. Nicks to head and foot of spines, light foxing to page edges, otherwise all four... View full lot details

‘The English Game of Cricket: Comprising a Digest of its Origin, Character, History and Progress...’. Charles Box. ‘The Field’ Office, London 1877. Original decorative green cloth with titles in gilt to front and spine, with gilt illustration to front, all page edges gilt. Bookplate of the sports journalist and author, Gordon Ross, to front endpaper. Padwick 799. Breaking to internal hinges, title page becoming detached. Some wear and rubbing to board and spine extremities, otherwise... View full lot details

‘Cricket’. Badminton Library. A.G. Steel & Hon. R.H. Lyttleton. London 1888. Large Paper edition. Limited edition number 72 of 250 copies printed. Original three quarter blue leather binding, gilt emblem to front cover and titles to spine, top edge gilt. Bookplate of the sports journalist and author, Gordon Ross, to front endpaper. Wear to board extremities and spine, internally in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Cricket and How to Play It with Rules of the Marylebone Club’. John Wisden. The Graphotyping Company/Simpkin, Marshall & Co., London. New and revised edition 1873. 63pp. Tipped in to modern blue cloth, gilt title to spine, original colour decorative wrappers retained. Illustrated including frontispiece engraving of a cricket match. Padwick 482. Some soiling to original wrappers, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Cricket histories 1900-2000. A good selection of fourteen assorted hardback cricket books. Pre-war titles include ‘Bat v Ball. The Book of Individual Cricket Records, &c. 1864-1900’. J.H. Lester. Nottingham 1900. Bound in maroon cloth, original pictorial wrappers preserved. ‘Cricket’, G.E. Jessop, London 1903. ‘Cricket’, H.G. Hutchinson, London 1903. ‘Great Batsmen. Their Methods at a Glance’, Beldam & Fry, London 1905. ‘The Complete Cricketer’, A.E. Knight, London 1906. ‘The Problems of Cricket’, Major Philip Trevor, London... View full lot details

Cricket large format books, scorecards and tour guides. Three titles including two volumes of ‘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, contained in modern green slipcase. Signed bookplates of Bob Appleyard to inside front covers of both volumes. Some wear and staining to covers, otherwise in good condition. ‘Famous Cricketers and Cricket Grounds’,... View full lot details

Cricket biographies 1950s onwards. Box comprising a good selection of thirty original hardback biographies, the majority with good dustwrappers. Subjects/ authors include Bill Bowes, Roy Gilchrist, Eric Hollies, Keith Miller, Frank Worrell, Garry Sobers, Roy Marshall, Roy McLean, Norman O’Neill, Conrad Hunte, Bobby Simpson, Bill Lawry, Frank Tyson, Jack Cheetham, E.R.T. Holmes, Godfrey Evans etc. Sold with a selection of twenty six cricket histories etc., mainly hardbacks. All titles from the collection of Gordon Ross,... View full lot details

Cricket tours 1950s & 1960s. A good selection of first-hand accounts of tours from the 1950s and 1960s with some other tour histories, mainly covering home and away tours against Australia, West Indies and South Africa. Authors include A.E.R. Gilligan, Bruce Harris, Sydney Barnes, John Arlott, Ray Lindwall, Alan Ross, J.D. McGlew, E.W. Swanton, Alec Bedser, Charles Fortune, E.M. Wellings, Ken Mackay, Keith Miller, Rex Alston etc. All originally from the collection of Gordon Ross... View full lot details

Early cricket histories and biographies 1866-1922. Five hardback titles from the collection of the sports journalist and author, Gordon Ross, the majority with his bookplate to the inside front cover. Titles are ‘Jerks in from Short-Leg’ by Quid (R.A. Fitzgerald), London 1866. ‘Wickets in the West or The Twelve in America’, R.A. Fitzgerald, London 1873. ‘Kings of Cricket’, Richard Daft, Bristol 1893. ‘Seventy-One Not Out. The Reminiscences of William Caffyn’, edited by “Mid-On” (R.P. Daft),... View full lot details

Cricket histories and biographies 1866-1939. Fourteen first edition hardback titles (one exception) from the collection of the sports journalist and author, Gordon Ross, all with his bookplate to the inside. Titles are ‘Jerks in from Short-Leg’ by Quid (R.A. Fitzgerald), London 1866. ‘Cricket’, W.G. Grace, Bristol 1891. ‘The Hon. F.S. Jackson’, Percy Cross Standing, London 1906. ‘The Hambledon Men’, E.V. Lucas, London 1907. ‘Forty Seasons of First-Class Cricket’, R.G. Barlow, second edition, Manchester 1908. ‘Chats... View full lot details

Cricket biographies/ histories. Three titles, each with the ink signature of the author/ subject laid down to the title page. Titles are ‘Walter Hammond’, Ronald Mason, London 1962. Good dustwrapper. Signature of Hammond on piece laid down. ‘Farewell to Cricket’. Don Bradman, London 1950. Dustwrapper with old tape repairs. Signature of Bradman on label laid down. ‘Kissing the Rod. The Story of the Tests of 1934’, P.G.H. Fender, London 1934. Original green cloth. Signature of... View full lot details

Early cricket books. Six hardback titles. ‘Cricket Notes, with a letter containing Practical Hints, by William Clark’, William Bolland, London 1851, bound in red cloth. ‘The Cricket-Field’, James Pycroft, fourth edition, London 1862, maroon quarter leather, replacement spine, original cloth and spine paper laid down. ‘Echoes from Cricket Old Fields’. Frederick Gale. First edition. Simpkin, Marshall & Co, London 1871. Bound in maroon quarter leather, gilt title to spine, original decorative card covers retained.... View full lot details

Cricket anthologies. Eight hard back titles, of which two are signed. All with good dustwrapper unless stated. Signed titles are ‘The English Game’, Gerald Brodribb, London 1948, signed by Brodribb. ‘Nicely Nurdled, Sir!’, Christopher Lee, London 1988, signed ‘With best wishes, John Major’. Others are ‘Between the Wickets’, Eric Parker, London 1926, tears to dustwrapper. ‘Bat and Ball. A new book of cricket’, Thomas Moult, London 1935, tear and toning to dustwrapper. ‘In Praise of... View full lot details

‘Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket. A Collection of 1000 New Cricket Notices from 1697 to 1800’. G.B. Buckley. Birmingham 1935. Padwick 801. Sold with ‘Fresh Light on Pre-Victorian Cricket. A Collection of New Cricket Notices from 1709 to 1837’. G.B. Buckley. Birmingham 1937. Padwick 870. Both titles bound in matching green and cream cloth boards, gilt title to spines. Signed bookplate of B.J. Wakley to inside front covers of both. Minor soiling to boards,... View full lot details

‘The Cricketer’s Autograph Birthday Book’. T. Broadbent Trowsdale (‘Cover-Point’). London 1906. Original green pictorial cloth with gilt titles to front and spine, gilt to top page edges. Minor wear to board extremities, breaking to front internal hinge. Sold with ‘Jerks in from Short-Leg’, R.A. Fitzgerald (Quid). London 1866. Original blue cloth boards, gilt illustration to front and title to spine. Replacement endpapers. Staining and wear to boards. ‘Great Batsmen. Their Methods at a Glance’. G.W.... View full lot details

‘My Cricketing Life’. P.F. Warner. London 1921. Limited edition of 200 copies, this being no. 60, nicely signed in ink by the author. Original decorative cream cloth boards with gilt titles and emblem, gilt to top edge. Padwick 8202. Some soiling to boards, foxing to pages, slight breaking to front internal hinge, otherwise in generally good condition.... View full lot details

‘W.G. Grace. A Biography’. W. Methven Brownlee. 6th edition, Iliffe & Son, London 1890. 166pp. Original decorative paper wrappers. Presentation copy with dedication in ink to half title page to Charles Green, nicely signed by the author. Padwick 7575. The wrappers with old tape repairs to spine and edges, and protective cellophane applied. Internally in good condition.... View full lot details

‘Cricket’. W.G. Grace. Bristol 1891. ‘Crown Quarto Edition de Luxe’ edition bound in black half leather, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Original black boards with gilt lettering. Replacement spine and endpapers, the original spine paper laid down. Limited de luxe edition of 652 numbered copies, signed by the author, Grace, this being no. 428. Bookplate of the sports journalist and author, Gordon Ross, to front endpaper. Some rubbing to board extremities, otherwise a nice... View full lot details

‘The Fight for the Ashes in 1926’, P.F. Warner, London 1926. Original blue cloth, gilt title to spine and tooled Ashes urn decoration to front. This is a presentation copy from Warner with long dedication in ink to the half title page, ‘To A.P.F. Chapman, The Pith[?] of the cricket world, in appreciation of his splendid batting, fielding & captaincy, & with every good wish from his friend and admirer’, signed and dated ‘P.F. Warner... View full lot details

‘Cricketers and The Law’. J.W. Goldman. Privately published 1958. Black cloth with gilt title and illustration to front and spine. Limited to 350 copies, this is an unnumbered ‘presentation’ copy to Egham C.C., nicely signed by Goldman. Bookplate of the sports journalist and author, Gordon Ross, to front endpaper. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Bibliography of Cricket’. J.W. Goldman. Privately printed by the author 1937. Original black cloth with gilt title illustration to front, and title in gilt to spine. Limited edition of 125 numbered copies, this being no. 95, nicely signed in ink by Goldman. Bookplate of the sports journalist and author, Gordon Ross, to front endpaper. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

W.G. Grace. Two titles. ‘The History of a Hundred Centuries’. W.G. Grace. Edited by W. Yardley. London 1895. Rebound in black quarter leather and red cloth, original pictorial paper wrappers retained. Ownership name to original front wrapper, small loss to rear wrapper, otherwise in good condition. ‘W.G. Grace- A Biography’. W. Methven Brownlee. London 1887. Original blue cloth, gilt title to front and spine. Breaking to front internal hinge, general wear, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Triangular Tests 1876-1912’. H.V. Dorey. London 1912. Bound in pale green boards, original decorative wrappers retained. Padwick 5011. Some wear and loss to original wrappers and early pages. Age toning throughout, otherwise in good condition. Scarce.... 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 Cecil Aldin Book’. Compiled by Cecil Aldin. Eyre & Spottiswoode, London 1932. An anthology of essays, illustrated throughout including eight colour plates, with contributions from Jack Hobbs on ‘How to get into the Eleven’, and others including Aldin and P.G. Wodehouse. Signed in pencil to the reverse of the half-title page by Aldin. Bound in original beige cloth, title label to front, and a fragment of the original title label to spine present. Some... View full lot details

‘Young Troublesome; or Master Jacky’s Holidays’. Designed and etched by John Leech. London 1850. Comprises twelve pages of humorous hand coloured illustrations printed on one side of each leaf in landscape format. Page four depicts children playing a game of cricket ‘in the drawing room’, a large ornate jug in glass case being shattered by the ball. Bound in modern brown cloth, gilt title to spine, original decorative stiffened card wrappers preserved. Padwick 6985. Wear... View full lot details

‘The Percy Anecdotes’. Thomas Byerley and Joseph Clinton Robertson. Printed for Thomas Boys, London 1821. A collection of ‘Anecdotes of Pastime’ covering unusual activities including ‘Elephant Catching’, ‘Stag Hunting in Hungary’, ‘Clerical Dancing’ etc. with a section on cricket pp114-5, suggesting the game originated in Persia. Original pictorial paper wrappers. Contained in modern maroon slipcase. Padwick 6815-2 refers to an undated reprint, this copy is the original edition. Wear and loss to spine, rear wrapper... View full lot details

‘Carmina Familiae [Family Songs]’. Privately published at 11 Southwick Crescent, Hyde Park, London 1898. 36pp. Contents page lists twenty poems contributed by six members of the same (unknown) family with their initial only given. p21 features ‘The Song of the Demon Bowler’ comprising thirteen stanzas each of six lines about a bowler and the physical harm he causes his opponents. Inscription in ink to front endpaper, ‘To Mr & Mrs Richards from the Authors Nov... View full lot details

‘The Wiccamical Chaplet. A Selection of Original Poetry’. George Huddesford. Printed for Leigh, Sotheby and Son by T. Burton, London 1804. 225pp including pp131-3, ‘Cricket-Song for the Hambledon-Club, Hants, 1767’ with pencil annotation ‘by Rev. M. Cotton, Master of Hyde Abbey School, Winchester’. Rebound in later green cloth and calf, gilt title to spine, lacking original wrappers. Padwick 6390. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Athlete’s Garland. A Collection of Verse of Sport and Pastime’. Compiled by Wallace Rice. A.C. McClurg & Co., Chicago 1905. 245pp. Includes fifteen poems on cricket by Rudyard Kipling, E.V. Lucas, E.C. Lefroy, Norman Gale, Andrew Lang, W.S. Gilbert etc. Original maroon cloth boards, gilt illustration and title to front, gilt to spine and top page edges. Not recorded in Padwick. Some rubbing to board and spine extremities, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Poetry of Sport’. Badminton Library. Edited by Hedley Peek. London 1896. Large Paper edition. Limited edition number 130 of 250 copies printed. Includes poetry on various sports including hunting, shooting, cricket, fishing etc. Three quarter dark blue leather with ochre cloth boards, gilt emblem to front and title to spine, top edge gilt. Bookplate of Alfred Money Wigram MP for Romford to inside front cover. Rubbing to spine, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket’. G.B. Buckley. Birmingham 1935. 261pp. Original hardback with good dustwrapper. Bookplate to inside front cover of Len Hutton, and ownership signature in ink to front endpaper of the collector H.W. ‘Plum’ Warner. Padwick 801. Slipped in is the original and rarely seen four page supplement of ‘Abbreviations’ of newspaper titles referred to in the main text. The supplement is not recorded by Padwick. Some light fading to the dustwrapper... View full lot details

‘Cricket Notes... with a letter containing Practical Hints’. William Bolland and William Clark. Trelawny Saunders, London 1851. 155pp. Comprises historical essays, reminiscences and commentary. Presentation copy with dedication in ink to inside front cover to ‘Mr John Halley. Presented to him by the Author 1851’. Slipped in is a brown paper cutting with handwritten annotation in ink in a different (unknown) hand, ‘Gaston writes in my copy of Taylor that Thackeray’s “Newcome’s character Fred Bayham”... View full lot details

‘Cricket in the Sun’. Learie Constantine. London 1946. First edition. 131pp. Original black cloth. Dustwrapper with wear to edges, otherwise good. Dedication in ink to half title page, ‘To John Arlott from Learie Constantine. For so much good he has been to Sport. May 1946’. Loosely inserted is a proof copy, stamped ‘Corrected’, of Arlott’s review of the book for the Times Literary Supplement of 23rd May 1946, also newspaper cuttings with obituaries, including ‘Two... View full lot details

‘The Dawn of Cricket’. Compiled by H.T. Waghorn, edited by Lord Harris. Published by the Marylebone Cricket Club. London 1906. 204pp. Original red cloth covers, gilt title to spine. Bookplate of Nottinghamshire C.C.C. to inside front cover, and printed presentation label from A.W. Shelton, November 1931, laid down to front endpaper. Padwick 40. Loosely inserted are photocopies of an 8pp handwritten list of amendments and a 4pp letter from G.B. Buckley to C.J. Britton of... 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 brown cloth. Bookplate of the sports journalist and author, Gordon Ross, to inside front cover. Padwick 870. Very good condition.... View full lot details