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

Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1899. Hardback ‘blue book’. Original decorative boards. Gilt titles and to all page edges with gilt Kent emblem to centre. Printed by Cross & Jackman, ‘The Canterbury Press’ 1899. Adhesive marks to rear board, some wear and slight fading to the spine, otherwise in good/very good condition with bright gilt titles. Rare... View full lot details

Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1901 to 1903. Three editions of the hardback ‘blue book’, the first printed by Cross & Jackman, Canterbury and the following two by The Kentish Gazette Office, Ashford. Original decorative boards, gilt to page edges. Gilt titles and Kent emblem in gilt to centre. Some wear to the boards of all three, minor breaking to the internal hinge of the 1903 edition, internally in good/very good condition. Qty 3... View full lot details

Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1904 to 1907. Four editions of the hardback ‘blue book’, printed either by Cross & Jackman, Canterbury or the The Kentish Gazette Office, Ashford. Original decorative boards, gilt to page edges. Gilt titles and Kent emblem in gilt to centre. Some wear to the boards of all four, fading to the spines of the last three, internally in good/very good condition. Qty 4... View full lot details

Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1908 to 1911. Four editions of the hardback ‘blue book’, printed either by Cross & Jackman, Canterbury or the The Kentish Gazette Office, Ashford. Original decorative boards, gilt to page edges. Gilt titles and Kent emblem in gilt to centre. Some wear to the boards of the first two editions, fading to the spines of all four, internally in good/very good condition. Qty 4... View full lot details

Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1912 to 1915. Four editions of the hardback ‘blue book’, printed either by the The Kentish Gazette Office, Ashford or Gibbs & Son, Canterbury. Original decorative boards, gilt to page edges. Gilt titles and Kent emblem in gilt to centre. Some heavier wear to the boards of the 1912 edition, fading to the spines of all four, tear to the end paper of the 1914 edition, internally in good/very good... View full lot details

‘All About Kent Cricket 1914. In Commemoration of the County’s 4th Championship’. 2nd Edition. Published by Blower Brothers of High Street Watford. A scarce Kent publication. Good/very good condition... View full lot details

Frank Woolley. Flicker books. ‘Pull to Leg and Forcing shot, off the Back Foot, to the Off’. Published by Flicker Productions of London circa 1936. ‘Frank Woolley’s Cricket School, Hildenbrough, Kent’. Similar coloured paper piece laid down to rear wrapper otherwise in very good/excellent condition... View full lot details

Frank Woolley. Flicker books. ‘Square Cut and Walking Shot’. Published by Flicker Productions of London circa 1936. ‘Frank Woolley’s Cricket School, Hildenbrough, Kent’. Similar coloured paper piece laid down to rear wrapper, ink signature of the previous owner to rear wrapper, otherwise in very good/excellent condition... 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

Yorkshire C.C.C. Annual 1893. 1st year of issue. 100pp. Edited by J.B. Wostinholm. J. Robertshaw, Sheffield, printer. Original maroon boards with tooled decoration, titles in gilt to front board with white rose emblem to centre, gilt to page edges. Padwick 3051. Period/ contemporary annotation to page 5 and page 19 in red ink, small amount of pencil annotation to page 59. Handstamp of ownership to front end paper otherwise in good/very good condition. The rare... View full lot details

Yorkshire C.C.C. Annual 1894. 2nd year of issue. 136pp plus ‘Notes’ pages as issued. Edited by J.B. Wostinholm. J. Robertshaw, Sheffield, printer. Original olive boards with titles in gilt to front board and white ‘Y.C.C.C.’ emblem to centre, gilt to page edges. Padwick 3051. Very minor wear to head and base of spine, minor marks to boards, some breaking to internal hinges otherwise in good/very good condition. From the collection of Anthony Woodhouse with his... View full lot details

Yorkshire C.C.C. Annual 1895. 3rd year of issue. 134pp plus ‘Notes’ pages as issued. Edited by J.B. Wostinholm. J. Robertshaw, Sheffield, printer. Original blue boards with titles in gilt to front board and gilt ‘Y.C.C.C.’ emblem to centre, gilt to page edges. The book has the handwritten name and address of Bobby Peel, probably in his hand writing, ‘Robert Peel, The Mitre, West Street, Blackpool’ to front end paper. Very minor wear to head and... View full lot details

Yorkshire C.C.C. Annual 1896. 4th annual issue. 136pp plus ‘notes’ pages as issued. Edited by J.B. Wolstinholm. J. Robertshaw, Sheffield, printer. Original maroon boards, gilt titles to front board and spine paper with Yorkshire emblem to centre, gilt to edges. Very good condition. From the collection of Anthony Woodhouse with his bookplate to inside front board dated 1966... 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. Good/very good condition. Rare. From the collection of Anthony Woodhouse with his bookplate to inside front board dated 1987... View full lot details

Yorkshire C.C.C. Annual 1898. 6th annual issue. 146pp plus fourteen ‘notes’ pages as issued. Edited by J.B. Wolstinholm. J. Robertshaw, Sheffield, printer. Original green/ grey boards, titles to front board and spine paper with Yorkshire emblem to centre, gilt to edges. Some minor wear and marks to boards otherwise in good/very good condition. From the collection of Anthony Woodhouse with his bookplate to inside front board... View full lot details

Yorkshire C.C.C. Annual 1899. 7th year of issue. 165pp plus ‘Notes’ pages as issued. Edited by J.B. Wostinholm and H.H. Stones. J. Robertshaw, Sheffield, printer. Original brown boards with titles in gilt to front board and spine and gilt ‘Y.C.C.C.’ emblem to centre, gilt to page edges. Padwick 3051. Minor wear and marks to boards otherwise in good/ very good condition. Rare. From the collection of Anthony Woodhouse with his bookplate to inside front board... View full lot details

Yorkshire C.C.C. Annual 1900. 8th year of issue. 165pp plus ‘Notes’ pages as issued. Edited by J.B. Wostinholm and H.H. Stones. J. Robertshaw, Sheffield, printer. Original brown boards with titles in gilt to front board and spine and gilt ‘Y.C.C.C.’ emblem to centre, gilt to page edges. Padwick 3051. Minor fading to spine otherwise in good/ very good condition. Rare. From the collection of Anthony Woodhouse with his bookplate to inside front board... View full lot details

Yorkshire County Cricket Club Annuals 1901 (ninth year of issue) to 2024. Three boxes comprising a complete run of the annual for the period with all issues present. Original publisher’s cloth with gilt title and emblem to front covers and gilt titles to spines (1983 & 1984 softbacks). Gilt to page edges of issues up to and including 1916. The 1904 issue with ownership name of H.W. ‘Plum’ Warner, tear to p.13/14. 1916 edition issued... View full lot details

‘W. Duthoit’s Yorkshire Cricketers’ Guide for 1878’. Published by W. Duthoit of Leeds. 118pp plus adverts. Original lilac wrappers, preserved in a modern olive cloth case. Photoplate of Ephraim Lockwood opposite the title page. Padwick 2866. Some general wear to wrappers, small loss to lower corner of the front wrapper, otherwise in good condition throughout. A rare publication.... View full lot details

‘Yorkshire Team, 1897’. Rev. H.A. Tate. Cricket Press, London 1897. Sixteen page magazine style book comprising a match by match description of Yorkshire’s season with first-class averages and pen portraits of fourteen members of the team. The front cover has a real sepia photograph of the team. Bound in modern green cloth with gilt title to front, original wrappers retained. Padwick 3046. Some general ageing throughout with some nicks and small loss to page edges,... View full lot details

‘Yorkshire Cricket Album. Photos of the Team. A Book of Records’. Printed by J. Whitham, Sheffield 1902. 16pp booklet comprising twelve pen portraits of Hawke, Jackson, Mitchell, Taylor, Milligan, Brown, Tunnicliffe, Denton, Hirst, Wainwright, Haigh, Rhodes and Hunter. Also lists batting and bowling records, close finishes etc. Bound in green cloth with gilt title to front, original wrappers retained. Padwick 3054. Foxing to original wrappers, otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

‘The Yorkshire Cricket Chronicle’. No. 11, 27th July 1903. Published by authority of the Yorkshire Committee, printed by J.W. Northend of Sheffield. 16pp booklet comprising articles, images of the players etc. Original decorative paper wrappers. Padwick 1216. Splitting to spine, wear and soiling to wrappers, rusting to staple, vertical fold, otherwise in generally good condition. Rare.... View full lot details

‘The History of Yorkshire County Cricket Club’. Anthony Woodhouse. Christopher Helm, Bromley 1989. Hardback with dustwrapper. Profusely signed to the pages or to pieces/ labels and the odd card, laid down to the endpapers, title pages and throughout by over 120 Yorkshire players. Includes a few earlier signatures dating from the 1920s onwards on pieces laid down including Wilf Barber, Arthur Dolphin, Brian Sellers, Vic Wilson, Ted Lester, Alec Coxon, Ken Taylor, Bob Appleyard, Fred... View full lot details

Nottinghamshire cricket. Six signed and/or limited edition titles relating to Nottinghamshire cricket. ‘Spin Bowling. The young cricketer talks to G. Goonesena’, Gamini Goonesena, London 1959. Signature of Goonesena in ink to Queen’s College, Cambridge headed note paper laid down to front endpaper. Ex libris. ‘”Bowlers’ Harvests”. Lancashire v Nottinghamshire, Aigburth, Liverpool 28, 29 May 1906’, K. Martin Tebay, Red Rose Books 2011, limited edition no. 17/25, signed by the author. ‘Sir Julien Cahn’s Team 1923... View full lot details

Nottinghamshire. ‘Spybey’s Annual Register of Nottinghamshire Cricket Matches. Season 1884’. Eighth Year of Publication. Second edition. Compiled and published by F.G. Spybey, Nottingham 1884. Original printed boards. Padwick 2524. Boards becoming detached, some loss to spine and board extremities, rusting to staples, internally in good condition.... View full lot details

‘A Short History of Nottinghamshire Cricket including the Season of 1887’. E. Browne. Nottingham 1887. Original decorative brown cloth boards. Ex Melbourne Cricket Club. Ownership signature in pencil of E.B.V. Christian. Padwick 2503. Some wear and slight staining toning to boards and spine extremities, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘Nottinghamshire Cricket Scores and Biographies Season 1892’. C.H. Richards. Nottingham 1892. Original stiffened card front cover with replacement rear cover, spine and endpapers. Padwick 2517. Some wear and age toning to front cover, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘Fifty Years of Nottinghamshire Cricket 1838-1887, being Vols. 1 and 2 of Notts Cricket Scores and Biographies’. Compiled by C.H. Richards. Printed by G. Richards of Nottingham 1890. Original red cloth, gilt emblem to front and title to spine. Frontispiece carte de visite style original photograph of the ‘Nottinghamshire County Eleven 1866’. Padwick 2517. Nicks to head and foot of spine with some age toning, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘A Memento of two great Notts. Cricketers, Arthur Shrewsbury and Alfred Shaw’. William F. Grundy. C.H. Richards, Nottingham 1907. Original decorative blue stiffened boards with titles to front board. Signed presentation copy ‘To Dr J.F. Hunter from W.F. Grundy, 16th November 1916’ inscribed in ink to inside front board. Padwick 8034. The book with very minor wear to spine paper otherwise in very good condition. Scarce. Ex Woodhouse collection.... View full lot details

‘The Nottinghamshire County Cricket Annual, being a continuation of “Notts. Scores and Biographies.” Championship Year, 1907’. C.H. Richards. Nottingham 1908. Bound in contemporary black leather and marbled boards. Padwick 2508. Good condition.... View full lot details

‘Body-line?’. Harold Larwood. London 1933. Original green cloth. Signature in pencil of Larwood on piece laid down to title page. Fading to spine, otherwise in good condition. Sold with ‘Alfred Shaw Cricketer. His Career and Reminiscences’, A.W. Pullin (“Old Ebor”), London 1902. Rebound in modern black cloth. Good condition. Qty 2.... View full lot details

‘Nottinghamshire Cricket Championship Souvenir 1929’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Nottingham 1929. Original paper wrappers. Padwick 2501. Minor age toning to wrappers otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Larwood Story’. Harold Larwood & Kevin Perkins. Sydney 1982. Revised paperback edition bound in to blue cloth boards with original paper wrappers retained. Nicely signed to title page by Larwood. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Don Bradman Flicker Book. No.1. ‘On Drive and Off Drive’. Flicker Productions Ltd, London, 1930. Some soiling and wear to wrappers, slight rusting to staple, otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

Don Bradman Flicker Book. No.3. ‘Leg Glance and Pull’. Flicker Productions Ltd, London, 1930. Some soiling and wear to wrappers, slight rusting to staple, otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

‘Cricket. C.V. Grimmett Flicker Book. No. 4, ‘Leg Break Delivery and Leg Break Finger Spin’. Published by Flicker Productions Ltd, London in 1930. Some soiling and wear to wrappers, slight rusting to staple, tear to head of booklet, otherwise in good condition... 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

‘’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

Don Bradman. Two first edition hardback autobiographies by Bradman, both with original dustwrappers. Titles are ‘My Cricketing Life’, London 1938, and ‘Farewell To Cricket’, London 1950. Both titles with later signature of Bradman on piece/ label laid down to title page. Minor faults to dustwrappers, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Don Bradman. Three first edition hardback titles. ‘On Tour with Bradman’, Andy Flanagan, Sydney 1950. Signed to front endpaper with dedication from the author, and to the foreword page by E.W. ‘Slip’ Carr. Original dustwrapper with loss and tape repair. Also two titles by Bradman, ‘Don Bradman’s Book’, London 1938, original black cloth, and ‘The Art of Cricket’, London 1958 with signature on piece laid down to title page. Good condition.... View full lot details

M.A. ‘Monty’ Noble. Three first edition hardback titles by Noble. ‘The Game’s The Thing’, London 1926. Original dustwrapper with some loss and staining. ‘Those “Ashes”. The Australian Tour of 1926’, London 1927, original green cloth. ‘The Fight for the Ashes 1928-29’, London 1929, original blue cloth. Good condition.... View full lot details

‘Shane Warne. My Illustrated Career’. Shane Warne. London 2006. Leather hand bound limited edition number 746 of 1000 copies produced, signed by Warne to the limitation page. In green slipcase, including the six limited edition photographs of Warne reproduced from the book. Excellent condition.... View full lot details

‘Adelaide Oval Test Cricket 1884-1984’. Centenary of Test Cricket at the Adelaide Oval 1884-1984. Bernard Whimpress & Nigel Hart. Adelaide 1984. Deluxe special edition limited to 299 numbered copies to mark Don Bradman’s innings of 299, at the time the highest Test score at the Adelaide Oval. This copy is no. 49. Bound in full leather with leather title labels in gilt to front and spine. Small indent to front board, otherwise in very good... View full lot details

‘The Captains’ Tales. Battle for the Ashes’. David Fulton. Edinburgh 2009. Hardback with good dustwrapper. Signed to the title page by the author, and by the sixteen featured England and Australia captains, each having signed to the first page of their respective chapter. Signatures are Mike Brearley, Kim Hughes, Bob Willis, Greg Chappell, David Gower, Allan Border (signed twice), Mike Gatting, Graham Gooch, Michael Atherton, Mark Taylor, Alec Stewart, Steve Waugh, Nasser Hussain, Michael Vaughan,... View full lot details

Patrick Eagar. Two softback titles by Eagar and Alan Ross, both signed throughout by featured players. Titles are ‘A Summer to Remember, England v Australia 1981’, London 1981 (19 signatures), and ‘Summer of Speed. The Fight for the Ashes in Australia 1982/3’, London 1983, signed by Eagar with over thirty signatures of players. Signatures include Mike Gatting, Geoff Boycott, Peter Willey, Bob Taylor, David Gower, Chris Old, Ian Botham, Paul Allott, Bob Willis, Mike Brearley,... View full lot details

Australia tour to England 1909. ‘Cricket Sketches’. R. Scott, Manchester 1909. 16pp booklet. Original paper wrappers with portrait of Warren Bardsley to front cover, biographies and photographs of the touring party, tour fixtures, humorous articles. Tipped in to modern blue cloth, gilt title to spine. Padwick 6846. Minor soiling to original wrappers, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Ashes Captains’. Gerry Cotter. Marlborough 1989. Hardback with good dustwrapper. Signed to the inside front cover and endpapers by twenty two England captains, Dexter, Smith, Graveney, Illingworth, Denness, Edrich, Greig, Brearley, Botham, Willis, Gower, Gatting, Gooch, Atherton, Lamb, Stewart, Hussain, Vaughan, Flintoff, Strauss, Cook and Root, and to the rear by eleven Australian captains, Morris, Harvey, I. & G. Chappell, Border, Taylor, Waugh, Gilchrist, Ponting, Smith and Paine. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Beyond a Boundary’. C.L.R. James. First edition, London 1963. Original hardback with good dustwrapper. Signed to the front endpaper in ink with dedication to the vendor, ‘For Michael Stone with warm regards, C.L.R. James’, and dated 5th February 1969. Padwick 7757. Odd nicks to the dustwrapper, some foxing to page edges, otherwise in very good condition. A rarely seen signed copy of this seminal work.... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour to Australia 1924/25. ‘A Voyage with the Mails Between Brisbane- London... A memento by an amateur photographer’. London Stereoscopic Company, London, fourth edition c.1920. A large format souvenir book with decorative blue cloth, comprising photographs and descriptions of ports of call on the journey on the Orient Line ‘S.S. Ormonde’. Includes a collection of twenty eight signatures in ink on two facing pages, including on the ‘Autographs’ page, each within printed borders, of... View full lot details

‘My Cricket Memories’. Jack Hobbs. London 1924. Original green cloth. Nicely signed in black ink to the front endpaper by Hobbs. Some fading to spine and covers, slight breaking to rear internal hinge, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘How to Become a Test Cricketer’. R.C. ‘Crusoe’ Robertson-Glasgow. London 1962. Original green cloth, gilt title to spine, very good original dustwrapper. Presentation copy with dedication in ink ‘For John Arlott.. a light and airy fragment!’, nicely signed by Robertson-Glasgow, dated 1963. Padwick 6899. Minor foxing to page edges, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Crusoe On Cricket. The Cricket Writings of R.C. Robertson-Glasgow’. Introduction by Alan Ross. London 1966. Original hardback with dustwrapper. Handwritten dedication in ink to the front endpaper from Dennis Silk (Cambridge University & Somerset 1952-1960) ‘To S.S. [Siegfried Sassoon], 80 not out, and much the greatest blessing Cricket has brought me, from Dennis’, dated 8th November 1966, with a further dedication below ‘And glad to see it again nearly thirty years on!’ nicely signed ‘Dennis... View full lot details

‘46 Not Out’. R.C. ‘Crusoe’ Robertson-Glasgow’. 4th impression, London 1949. Original hardback with dustwrapper, which is signed in ink to the front ‘A.P.F. Chapman’. Handwritten signed dedication to front endpaper to ‘Percy [Chapman] with love and many happy returns of the 3rd September 1949 (“49 not out”) from “Frightfully” = Crusoe = R.C. Robertson-Glasgow’, additionally signed in ink to the half title page by Robertson-Glasgow. Padwick 8007. Some foxing to endpapers and page edges, wear... View full lot details

‘Glancing Back’. R.C. ‘Crusoe’ Robertson-Glasgow’. Six page handwritten manuscript in ink of an article written by Robertson-Glasgow for the Hampshire C.C.C. handbook, undated. Nicely signed by the author to the first page, with his initials ‘R.C.R-G’ to the final page. Bound in blue cloth, gilt title to front. Content includes vivid and humorous memories of Hampshire characters including Tennyson, Mead, Livsey, Brown, Bowell etc. Previously sold by Christies in the 2005 sale of E.D.R. Eagar... View full lot details

‘The Book of Games or a History of Juvenile Sports practised at a considerable academy near London’. Published for Richard Phillips by J. Gillett, London 1812. Includes a chapter on cricket pp 102-108 with frontispiece cricket engraving. Bound in early stiffened card boards, leather spine with gilt title to spine. Padwick 7115. Breaking to internal hinges, wear to boards and spine, tear to p65/66, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘Hutton and Washbrook’. A.A. Thomson. First edition, London 1963. Original hardback with good dustwrapper, which is signed in ink to the front by both Hutton and Washbrook. Additionally signed by the author to the front endpaper, dated ‘Nov 1966’. Nick to the dustwrapper, otherwise in very good condition. Padwick 7740. Sold with an accompanying small notebook in which Thomson has recorded in pencil interviews with the subjects, primarily Washbrook, whose comments were used verbatim in... View full lot details

‘An Essay on Cricket, School Cricket Hints, Cricketer’s Progress, Reverie on Cricket, Cricket Practice and Club Management and The New Cricketer’s Guide: a Complete Manual of the Game of Cricket’. Published by Chas. Ward, Cricket Implement Merchant, Heckmondwike, Yorkshire, c.1884. The two titles amalgamated into one printed volume by the publisher. Rebound in later green cloth with gilt title to spine, assumed lacking original wrappers. Padwick 427 & 376. Bookplate of A.E. Winder to inside... View full lot details

Public Schools cricket 1843-1892. Seven titles relating to public school cricket at Eton, Harrow, Rugby, Clifton College, Uppingham etc. Titles include ‘The Scores of the Cricket Matches Played at Rugby School from the year 1831 [to 1845]’, printed by J.S. Crossley, Rugby c.1845, original paper wrappers with wear and staining. ‘John Lillywhite’s Public School Matches. A correct account of all the matches of which scores are in existence, played between the schools of Eton, Harrow,... View full lot details

Boys’ cricket. Four early hardback titles of which three are in original cloth covers with elaborate pictorial and/or tooled gilt decoration to covers and spines. Titles are ‘The Boy’s Own Book: a Complete Encyclopaedia of Sports and Pastimes, London 1868. ‘The Book of Manly Games for Boys’, Captain Crawley, London 1870, gilt to page edges. ‘The Summer Playground’, Charles Spencer Hayward, London 1902, gilt to page edges, foxing to pages. Also ‘Twenty Five Cricket Stories’,... View full lot details

‘Routledge’s Every Boy’s Annual’. Edited by Edmund Routledge. First edition, London 1863. Original full red leather, marbled page edges, with elaborate colour frontispiece and title page, one dedicated to H.R.H. Albert Edward, Prince of Wales. Amongst the listed contributors is Rev. James Pycroft who wrote four articles titled ‘Hints on Cricket by the author of “The Cricket Field”. Padwick 1144. Some scuffing to board extremities, otherwise in good condition. Sold with ‘Reminiscences of Half a... View full lot details

‘Rural Sports: or Amusements for Infant Minds’. Fourth edition ‘with improvements’, published by J.T. Ward And Co’s Juvenile Library, London 1807. Small book with original decorative paper wrappers. Illustrated with ‘Eleven Beautiful Engravings’, the title page features a woodcut image of two players with curved bats. The book describes rural life in the village of Crosby near Liverpool. Preserved in a modern leather and marbled board clamshell case. Padwick 7135-1. Some soiling and wear to... View full lot details

19th Century juvenile sports. Six early titles all with cricket references. ‘Sports of Youth; or The Good Child’s Remembrancer’ c.1830. 36pp of hand-coloured images of sports throughout the year with cricket on p7. Original paper wrappers, tipped in to modern blue cloth. ‘The Boy’s Book of Sports and Games’ by ‘Uncle Charles’, London 1859. Original cloth boards, gilt to front and spine. Some soiling and fading to covers. Cricket pp 28-51. ‘The Youth’s Instructer [sic]... 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. Sold with ‘Scores of the Cricket Matches between Eton & Harrow from the beginning up to date’. Edited by... 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

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

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

‘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

‘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

Indian cricket histories. Four original hardback titles. ‘Indian Cricketers’, S.K. Roy, Calcutta, third edition 1946. ‘Presenting Indian Cricket’, Berry Sarbadhikary, Calcutta 1946. ‘India vs. England 1971’, Sunder Rajan, Bombay 1971. ‘From Porbander to Wadekar’, N.S. Ramaswami, New Delhi 1975. Also seven softbacks including ‘12 Years of Ranji Trophy’, S.K. Gurunathan, Madras 1946. ‘The Story of the Tests Vol. I India v England 1932-1959’, S.K. Gurunathan, Madras c.1961. ‘By God’s Decree’, Kapil Dev, Sydney 1985 etc.... View full lot details

Indian cricket histories and biographies 1945 onwards. Seventeen hardback and softback titles. Includes three with signatures laid down. ‘40 Years of Test Cricket including 41st Year India- England 1932-1973’, Saradindu Sanyal, New Delhi 1974, signature of B.S. Chandrashekhar on piece laid down to photo plate. ‘How to Play Cricket’, Vinoo Mankad, Calcutta 1976. ‘Runs ‘n Ruins’, Sunil Gavaskar, Calcutta 1984. Other earlier titles include ‘Indian Cricket Uncovered’, Berry Sarbadhikary, Calcutta 1945. ‘India- England Cricket Visits... View full lot details

Indian cricket biographies and histories 1976 onwards. Eight titles, each signed by the author/ subject. ‘C.K. Nayudu, The Shahenshah of Indian Cricket’. Vasant Raiji. Bombay 1989. Limited ‘Deluxe edition’, no. 47/100, signed by the author. Original red cloth. ‘Sunny Days’, Sunil Gavaskar, Calcutta 1976, dustwrapper. ‘Patrons, Players and the Crowd’, Richard Cashman, New Delhi 1980. ‘India’s Tour of Australia 1985-86’, S. Pervez Qaiser, Delhi 1985. ‘Dramatic Moments in Ranji Trophy’, L.N. Mathur, Udaipur 1987. ‘Cricket... View full lot details

Indian cricket biographies 1973 onwards. Fifteen hardback and softback titles, the majority biographies with some histories, each with signature of the subject/ author laid down. Subjects/ signatures include Sunil Gavaskar (4), Aakash Chopra (2), B.S. Chandrashekhar, Ajit Wadekar, Bishen Bedi, Scyld Berry, Sachin Tendulkar, Mihir Bose, Kapil Dev, and Dilip Doshi. Also ‘The Indian Masters’, Bill Ricquier, Stroud 2005, signed to pages by Farokh Engineer and M. Azharuddin, also Nawab of Pataudi on piece laid... View full lot details

Indian cricket histories and biographies 1946 onwards. Box comprising a good selection of mainly modern hardback and softback titles. Includes three titles with signatures, ‘CCI & The Brabourne Stadium 1937-1987’, Vasant Raiji & Anandji Dossa, Bombay 1987, hardback with good dustwrapper, signed to the title page by both authors. ‘Sentimental Journey’, Yousuf Rezaur Rahman’, New York 2002, softback signed by Rahman with dedication to Tom Graveney, crease to cover. ‘The World of Kapil Dev’, Kapil... View full lot details

Cricket books. Good selection of cricket books including histories, biographies, ‘Ashes’ and general cricket books. Includes ‘The Art of Nicholas Felix’. Gerald Brodribb. London 1985. Limited edition 24/220, signed by the author, ‘75 Years of West Indies Cricket 1928-2003’ Goble and Sandiford 2004, signed and inscribed by the author and also by Clive Lloyd and one other, ‘The Glory Days’. 25 Great West Indian Cricketers’. King and Laurie 2004, signed by Sir Everton Weekes and... 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

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

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

New Zealand cricket histories. Eight hardback titles, the majority with good dustwrappers. Includes three with signatures. ‘The All Blacks at Cricket 1860-1958’, S. Canynge Caple, Worcester 1958, signed in ink to title page with dedication by the author. ‘Great Days in New Zealand Cricket’, R.T. Brittenden, London 1958, signed by the author to the title page with signature of Bert Sutcliffe on photo cutting to following page. ‘Big Names in New Zealand Cricket’, R.T. Brittenden,... View full lot details

John Arlott. Six titles by Arlott, including four with signatures. ‘Gone to the Cricket’, London 1948, signature of Arlott on piece laid down to title page, good dustwrapper. ‘How to Watch Cricket 1949’, London 1949, signed to half title page with dedication by Arlott, original pictorial paper wrappers with some splitting to spine. ‘Gone with the Cricketers’, London 1950, signed to the title page, green cloth. ‘Attention’, London 1959, booklet with original pictorial wrappers, signature... View full lot details

South West County cricket histories 1952 onwards. A good selection of eleven mainly modern hardback titles, all (with one exception) with signatures either to pages, or on pieces/ collectors’ cards laid down. Counties featured are Somerset (4 titles), Worcestershire (3), Gloucestershire (2), Hampshire (1), and Glamorgan (1). Signatures include Palmer, Hilton, Rose, Kerslake, Cartwright, Kitchen, Tremlett, Burrough, Buse, Caddick, Lathwell, Mallender, Marks, Critchley-Salmonson, Moseley (Somerset), Bird, Booth, Brain, Chesterton, Devereux, B. & D. Fiddian-Green, D’Oliveira,... View full lot details

South East county and Lord’s cricket histories 1920 onwards. Nine hardback titles covering Middlesex, Lord’s, Sussex, Kent and Essex. Includes three earlier hardback titles, ‘Lord’s and the M.C.C.’, Lord Harris & F.S. Ashley Cooper, London 1920, and two volumes of Middlesex C.C.C. histories, Vol. II covering 1900-1920, F.S. Ashley-Cooper, London 1921, and Vol. III 1921-1947, N. Haig, London 1949 with Haig’s signature on piece laid down to title page, plus ‘Middlesex’, E.M. Wellings, London 1972,... View full lot details

General cricket histories. Seven titles, the majority hardbacks with dustwrappers. ‘The Story of Warwickshire Cricket’, Leslie Duckworth, London 1974, with twenty eight signatures of players on pieces laid down to rear pages including R.E.S. Wyatt, B.E. Fletcher, R.H. Jones, J.A. Jameson, K.A. Taylor, T.L. Pritchard, C.W.C. Grove, R.T. Spooner, H.E. Dollery, W.A. Hill, L.T.A. Bates, J.S. Ord etc., also the signature in pink of Barbara Cartland to a limited edition commemorative cover laid down to... View full lot details

Yorkshire and Lancashire county cricket histories 1955-1990. Five hardback titles (four with dustwrappers). ‘Lancashire County Cricket 1864-1953’, A.W. Ledbrooke, London 1955, signed to the title page by Winston Place, Ken Cranston and Roy Tattersall. ‘Yorkshire Cricketers 1839-1939’, Peter Thomas, Manchester 1973. ‘From the Stretford End, the Official History of Lancashire C.C.C.’, Brian Bearshaw, London 1990, signature of Ken Cranston on piece laid to page. Two titles from ‘A History of County Cricket’ series, ‘Yorkshire’, Mike... View full lot details

Cambridge University 1865-1892. Three titles. ‘The Cambridge University General Almanack & Register for the Year 1865’. Published by Henry Wallis and E. Johnson, Cambridge. Printed by J. Webb of Cambridge. Original paper wrappers containing the laws and ‘register of all University Cricket Matches and averages for the preceding year’ from pages 205 to 236. Other sections on rowing, results, crews etc. Padwick 1624. Minor wear to spine, light creasing to front wrapper, otherwise in good/... View full lot details

General cricket books. Eight hardbacks (one softback) including ‘A Handbook of Cricket’. Edmund Routledge, two copies, one assumed to be first edition of 1862 in original pictorial yellow boards, replacement spine, and an 1867 edition in original blue/ red pictorial boards with later spine, both with varying degrees of wear and soiling. ‘Once A Week. An Illustrated Miscellany of Literature, Art, Science & Popular Information’, Vol. VIII, December 1862 to June 1863, bound in quarter... View full lot details

Instructional cricket 1868-1905. Seven hardback titles of which five are in original decorative/ pictorial cloth covers. Titles are ‘Pastimes and Players’, Robert MacGregor, London 1881. ‘The Manual of Cricket’, F.H. Ayres 1895. ‘Cricket’, T.C. Collings, London 1900. ‘Present-day Cricket for Youths’, W.P. Strickland, London 1902. ‘Cricket’, Fred C. Holland, London 1904. Also ‘The Theory and Practice of Cricket’, Charles Box, London 1868, wear to boards, and ‘Swerve of the Flight of the Ball’, P.A. Vaile,... View full lot details

England cricket players’ autobiographies. A good selection of thirty six modern hardback autobiographies, all with good dustwrappers, of which fifteen are signed by the subject. Individually signed titles are Mike Atherton, Steve James, Kevin Pietersen, James Anderson, Graham Gooch, Dominc Cork, Alec Stewart, Matthew Hoggard, Monty Panesar, Phil Tufnell, Jonathan Trott, Andrew Strauss, Marcus Trescothick, and Basil D’Oliveira. Also ‘Crossing the Boundary’, Kevin Pietersen 2006, multi-signed by Pietersen, Alastair Cook, Vikram Solanki, Ravi Bopara and... View full lot details

Overseas cricket players’ autobiographies. A selection of sixteen modern hardback autobiographies and biographies, all with good dustwrappers, of which ten are signed by the subject. Individually signed titles are Ian Healy, Darren Lehmann, Richie Benaud (two different), Bob Woolmer, Courtney Walsh, Richard Hadlee, Jeremy Coney, and Clive Lloyd. Also ‘Sundial in the Shade. The Story of Barry Richards’, Andrew Murtagh 2015, signed by the author and Richards. Other unsigned subjects include Shane Warne, Chris Pringle,... 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

‘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

‘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

‘The Immortals’. The Book of New Zealand Test Players’. Paul Verdon. Auckland 2006. Limited edition number 274 of 665 copies, signed by the author and by ‘every living former and present Test player able to complete the exercise’. One hundred and seventy signatures to dedicated decade pages. Signatures include W. Hadlee, Kerr, Tindall, Rabone, Reid, Snedden, Alabaster, Blair, Dempster, MacGibbon, Meale, Cameron, Congdon, D. Hadlee, Howarth, Pollard, G. Turner, Vivian, L. Cairns, Chatfield, Edgar, R.... View full lot details

‘Great Cricketers. The Age of Grace & Trumper’. Compiled by George Beldam, Jnr. Boundary Books, Cheshire 2000. Limited edition of 548, this being an unnumbered ‘Review Copy’, signed by Cornelia Beldam. Short listed for the Cricket Society Book of the Year in 2000. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Play Resumed with Cardus’. Neville Cardus. London 1979. Original imitation leather. Limited edition of 100 numbered copies, this being number 41. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Cardus in the Covers’. Neville Cardus. London 1978. Original imitation leather, brown page edges, in slip case. Limited edition of 100 numbered copies, this being number 35. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘A Fourth Innings with Cardus’. Neville Cardus. London 1981. Original imitation leather, red top page edges, in slip case. Specially bound limited edition of 100 numbered copies, this being number 80. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Arabs in Aspic 1935-1993’. E.W. Swanton. Boundary Books, Goostrey 1993. Quarter bound leather, gilt to top page edges, in slip case. Limited edition of only fifty copies produced, this being no. 33, signed by Swanton and Tony Lewis. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Last Over’. E.W. Swanton and David Rayvern Allen. Richard Cohen Books, London, 1996. Limited edition quarter leather bound copy with gilt to all edges by Boundary Books. Limited edition of 90 copies, this being copy 18. Signed to the limitation page by Swanton and Rayvern Allen. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Cricketers Of My Time’. E.W. Swanton. London 1999. Limited edition quarter leather bound copy with gilt to top edge. Limited edition no. 38 of 100 copies produced by Boundary Books, signed by Swanton. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Basingstoke Boy’. John Arlott. London 1990. Numbered limited ‘Collector’s Edition’ bound in full leather by Boundary Books with marbled endpapers, gilt to all page edges. Signed by John Arlott. Limited edition no. 193/200. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Gooch’s Golden Summer’. Bill Frindall. Boundary Books, Holmes Chapel 1991. Quarter leather, gilt to top page edges. Limited edition no. 147 of 333 copies published. Signed to the limitation page by Gooch, Frindall and Trevor Bailey who wrote the appreciation, and additionally by Gooch with dedication ‘To Derek’ to the inside front endpaper. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘For Essex & England. Graham Gooch’s Century of Centuries’. Graham Gooch & Michael Down 1993. Quarter leather, marbled endpapers, gilt to all page edges, in slip case. Limited edition of 333 copies produced, the first 100 dedicated to a particular century by Gooch, this being number 2, ‘Essex v Kent, May 1975’ (Gooch scored 100). Signed to limitation page by Gooch. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘A Tale of Two Captains’. Bill Frindall. Boundary Books, Cheshire, 1992. Green quarter leather, marbled endpapers, gilt to top page edges, slip case. Limited edition of 350 copies of which this is number 13. Signed to title page by Frindall, Graham Gooch, Ted Dexter and Viv Richards. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Bill Edrich. A Biography’. Alan Hill. London 1994. Foreword by Denis Compton. Bound in full leather, gilt to top edge, in slipcase. Limited edition of 150 copies available for sale, this being number 70, signed to the limitation page by the author and Compton. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘David Gower. The Autobiography’. David Gower & Martin Johnson. Boundary Books, Goostrey 1992. Bound in green quarter leather, gilt to top page edges, in slipcase. Limited edition of 100 copies, this being no. 55, signed to the limitation page by Gower, and additionally by Tim Rice who wrote the appreciation. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Geoffrey Boycott. The Autobiography’. London 1987. Signed leather bound luxury edition limited to 151 copies to commemorate the number of Boycott’s first class centuries. This copy is number 134, dedicated to his innings of 101 for Yorkshire against Kent at Sheffield, 1983. Limitation label to inside front cover signed by Boycott. Yorkshire rose in gilt to front cover, England crown and three lions emblem to rear cover, gilt titles to spine and gilt to all... View full lot details

‘Botham. My Autobiography’. Ian Botham, Boundary Books 1994. Bound in full brown leather, marbled endpapers, gilt to all page edges. Limited edition of 102 signed and numbered copies to commemorate the number of Test matches played by Botham. This copy is number 33, dedicated to the Test match played against West Indies at Bridgetown, 13th- 18th March 1981 (West Indies won by 298 runs), signed by Botham. In slipcase. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Trevor Bailey’. Tony Lewis. Richard Walsh Books, Somerset 1998. Original red cloth covers. Limited edition no. 22/50. Signed to title page by Bailey and Lewis. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘J.J?’. Alan Gibson. Richard Walsh Books, Taunton 1992. Original navy cloth boards, gilt title to front. Limited edition of 50 copies, this being number 14, signed to the title page by the author, Gibson, and by the subject, Jack Davey. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Denis Compton’. Frank Keating. Richard Walsh Books, Taunton 1996. Original navy cloth boards, gilt title to front. Limited edition of 50 copies, this being number 13, signed to the title page by Keating. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Long Innings. The autobiography of Sir Pelham Warner’. P.F. Warner. London 1951. Original blue cloth, gilt title to spine. Limited edition no. 152/260, signed in ink to the limitation page by Warner. Padwick 8203. Some fading to spine, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘A History of Derbyshire County Cricket Club 1870-1970’. John Shawcroft. Derby 1970. Original green morocco with gilt titles to front and spine. First limited edition of 250 copies, this being number 91. Foreword by the Duke of Devonshire, signed in ink by the Duke below his frontispiece photograph, dated 1989 (he originally signed the first fifty copies). Seventeen signatures of players on pieces laid down to photo plates and page. Signatures are B.H. Richardson, J.M.... View full lot details

‘80 Not Out. An Interview broadcast on the B.C.C. between Cliff Morgan and E.W. Swanton OBE recording his eightieth birthday on 12th February 1987’. Printed by Edward Burrett at The Penmiel Press, Surrey. Limited edition of 110 copies, of which 100 copies were for sale, this being number 25, signed by Burrett to the rear limitation page. Additional signature of Swanton on piece laid down to title page. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Wilfred Rhodes. The Triumphal Arch’. Patrick Ferriday. Brighton 2021. Original maroon cloth. Limited edition of 95 numbered copies of which this is no. 55. Signed to the limitation page by Wilfred Rhodes’ grand-daughter, Margaret Garton, and the interviewer, David Frith. A compact disc of the interview is contained to the rear of the book. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘British Sports and Sportsmen’. Compiled and edited by ‘The Sportsman’. London 1917. Volume 1. ‘Cricket and Football’. Limited edition no. 224/1000 bound in original green and olive cloth, gilt titles to front and spine, gilt to top page edges, marbled endpapers. Contains a series of large photogravure portraits of famous cricketers and footballers with biographical details including Grace, Hawke, Harris, Ranji etc. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Lost Art. A History of Under-Arm Bowling’. Gerald Brodribb. Boundary Books, Goostrey 1997. Limited edition of fifty copies produced, this being number 20, signed by the author. Quarter leather with gilt to spine, gilt to top edge, marbled endpapers. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Wheelwrights to Wickets. The Story of the Cricketing Hearnes’. J.W. ‘Jack’ Hearne. Boundary Books, Goostrey 1996. Red quarter leather with gilt title to spine and gilt to top page edges. Limited edition no. 33/50, signed by Hearne and E.W. Swanton. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Cricket at the Castle. One Hundred years of cricket at Arundel 1895-1995’. Sir Michael Marshall. Boundary Books, Goostrey 1995. Deluxe Limited Edition of only 100 copies, this being number 85, bound in red quarter leather, marbled endpapers, gilt to all page edges. Signed by Sir Colin Cowdrey, Hubert Doggart and an impressive array of former captains of the Duke and Duchess’ teams, Mike Denness, Ted Dexter, Paul Parker, Rev. David Sheppard, Tony Lewis, Roger... View full lot details

‘Old English Cricket. Six pamphlets by H.P.-T.’. Percy Francis Thomas. Stoke 1995. Facsimile hardback reprint by Willows Publishing of the 1929 edition. Limited edition number 264/300. In unopened condition with white band attached as issued. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘A Century of Cornhill Tests’. Ken Lawrence. Photographs by Patrick Eagar. London 1995. Signed to the title page by Lawrence and Eagar. Also signed to all nine portraits of the featured England captains by the artist David Stallard. Signatures are Mike Brearley, Ian Botham, Bob Willis, David Gower, Mike Gatting, John Emburey, Chris Cowdrey, Graham Gooch and Michael Atherton. Hardback with very good dustwrapper. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Lords of Cricket. Players, Personalities and Legends’. Jocelyn Galsworthy and Judy Vigors. Shrewsbury 2005. Signed to the title page by Galsworthy. Also signed to the portrait pages by twenty six of the featured players. Signatures are Ian Botham, David Gower, Clive Lloyd, Greg Chappell, Viv Richards, Allan Donald, Richard Hadlee, Robin Smith, Mike Gatting, Mark Taylor, John Barclay, Rachael Heyhoe Flint, Dickie Bird, Andrew Strauss, Michael Vaughan, Ricky Ponting, Andy Flower, Adam Gilchrist, Darren Lehmann,... View full lot details

‘100 Great West Indian Test Cricketers from Challenor to Richards’. Bridgette Lawrence & Reg Scarlett. London 1988. Hardback. Signed throughout by over fifty players including to the half title page by Tony Cozier, to player profile pages by Steve Camacho, Colin Croft, Wayne Daniel, Jeff Dujon, Mike Findlay, Maurice Foster, Joel Garner, Lance Gibbs, Tony Gray, Gordon Greenidge, Charlie Griffith (signed twice), Wes Hall, Des Haynes, Jackie Hendriks, Vanburn Holder, Michael Holding, Alvin Kallicharran, Collis... View full lot details

‘The Return of the Ashes’. Mike Brearley and Dudley Doust. London 1978. Hardback with very good dustwrapper. Signed to the title page by Brearley and to inside pages by England players Derek Randall, Bob Willis, Chris Old, Geoff Miller, Mike Hendrick, Alan Knott, John Lever, Geoff Boycott, Dennis Amiss, Ian Botham, Derek Underwood, and Australians Greg Chappell, Jeff Thomson, Kerry O’Keefe, Ray Bright and Max Walker. Some signatures duplicated. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘England Test Cricketers. The complete record from 1877’. Bill Frindall. London 1989. Hardback with good dustwrapper. Signed in ink to the inside covers, endpapers, and throughout to the player biographies by two hundred and twenty featured players from the 1940s onwards, mainly modern, all signed to pages, none laid down. Signatures include David Allen, Bob Appleyard, Trevor Bailey, Bob Barber, Alec Bedser, Jack Birkenshaw, Donald Carr, Brian Close, Bob Cottam, Mike Denness, Ted Dexter, Keith... View full lot details

‘Messrs Bat and Ball’. Norman Gale. Rugby 1930. First edition limited to only 250 copies. Original green cloth with pictorial gilt title to front and spine. To the half title page is an eight line poem, handwritten in ink by Gale, titled ‘Tit for Tat’, nicely signed by Gale. Padwick 6457. Small loss and age toning to dustwrapper, the book in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Imperial Cricket’. P.F. Warner. London 1912. Large ‘Limited Edition de Luxe’ issue of 100 copies, this being no. 92. Original full vellum covers, all edges gilt. Beautifully signed in ink by Warner to title page, ‘Pelham F. Warner’. Minor soiling to boards, slight rubbing to gilts at foot of spine, small nicks to lower edge of front endpaper and first few pages up to and including the frontispiece, otherwise a fine copy in very... View full lot details

‘Alletson’s Innings’. John Arlott. London 1957. Original hardback with good dustwrapper. Signature of Arlott on label laid down to title page. Sold with a facsimile reprint published by J.W. McKenzie, Ewell 1991, limited edition no. 147/250, signed by Arlott. Good/ very good condition. Qty 2.... 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

‘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

‘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

‘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

‘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

‘The Leeds Springfield Cricket Club Annual 1903’. Printed by Chorley and Pickersgill, The Electric Press, Leeds. 28pp booklet in original paper wrappers comprising list of officers, club history, scorecards, averages and printed photograph of the 1903 team to rear. Ex Anthony Woodhouse collection. Padwick 2962. Wear to wrappers with tape repairs to spine and edges. Vertical fold, otherwise in generally good condition.... View full lot details

‘Sheffield Telegraph Cricket Guide and Annual 1905’. Second year of publication. Edited by “Looker On” (James Hayton Stainton). Published and printed by Sir W.C. Leng, Sheffield. 192pp annual in original decorative paper wrappers. Ex Anthony Woodhouse collection. Padwick 1101. Wear and soiling to wrappers with small tape repairs, some ink annotations to pages, otherwise in generally good condition.... View full lot details

Cricket, and how to play it, with the rules of the Marylebone Club By Robert Abel (Member of the Surrey Eleven)’. Dean & Son of Fleet Street. (Dean’s Champion Handbooks) 1894. New and revised edition. 56pp. Bound in green cloth with gilt title to spine, original rear paper wrapper retained, lacking front wrapper. Padwick 400. Some wear to rear wrapper, age toning to pages, staining to rear cloth board, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Ballantyne Press Cricket Club Chronicle’. Written and compiled by J.G. Pentland and R.G. Kenrick. Printed and published at The Ballantyne Press, London 1910. Complete run of the sixteen weekly issues published, bound together in one volume in original publisher’s maroon cloth, gilt title to front and spine. Issues are for the ‘New Series’ Vol. 1 No. 1 (7th May 1910) to No. 16 (20th August 1910), with fifteen supplementary plates, illustrated throughout with woodcut... View full lot details

Leyland Cricket Club. ‘A Record of matches played in 1898 by the Leyland Cricket Club’. Compiled by Thos. Kirby for John Stanning. Printed by C.W. Whitehead, Preston 1899. Bound in original blue cloth covers, gilt titles to front and spine. Comprises match scorecards for ‘The Three Teams going through the Season undefeated’. Padwick 2205. Some wear to covers, internally in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Cricket Matches, played by The Incapables 1872-1887’. Privately published and printed by A. Gotelee, Odiham 1888. 80pp of scores and summaries of matches by season and averages for the period. Bound in green cloth, gilt title to spine, red speckled page edges. To the inside front cover is a Sussex C.C.C. label with ownership signature in ink of Alfred J. Gaston, dated August 1923, with additional signature, possibly of C.J. Britton, and the bookplate of... View full lot details

‘Deanery C.C. Jubilee 1871-1921. History of the Deanery Cricket Club from its birth in the Deanery Grounds to the Present Day’. Edited by F.J. Montgomery. Printed by The Queenery Printing Works, Southampton 1921. Original maroon cloth covers, gilt title to front. Padwick 2015. Rubbing and some wear to covers, slight splitting to front internal hinge, otherwise in good condition.... 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. Also ‘Cricket Tours of the Goldsmiths’ Institute Cricket Club Second Series. Being a record of matches played in 1899... 1904’. Six annual parts and a further ‘Short Sketch of the History of the Goldsmith’s Institute’ illustrated with two real photographs... View full lot details

‘A History of Royal Engineers Cricket 1862-1924’. R.S. Rait Kerr. Chatham 1925. Original green cloth boards with gilt title to front and spine. 96pp. Padwick 1692. Fading to gilts. Some wear and fading to cover and spine, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘Wilts County Cricket Club Report’ 1909. Printed by C.H. Woodward, Devizes. 28pp booklet in original paper wrappers comprising statement of account, results, averages list of members for season 1909, list of offices and fixtures for 1910. Padwick 2842 records Annual Reports from 1930. Wear, soiling, nicks to wrappers and the odd page with tape repair to spine, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Club histories. ‘Forty-Four Years of Ashton Cricket 1857-1900’. D. Cordingley. Ashton-Under-Lyne 1901. Original maroon cloth boards with gilt title to front cover. Some staining and wear to boards, otherwise in good condition. ‘The Twickenham Cricket Club. The First One Hundred Years 1833-1933’. Walker & Co. Ltd, Twickenham 1933. Original green stiffened card boards. Minor staining to covers, otherwise in good/ very good condition. I Zingari C.C. original handbook for season 1862 in decorative stiffened card... View full lot details

‘Historical Sketch of the Perth Cricket Club (The Premier Club of Scotland) from its origin in 1826-27 till 1879’. William Sievwright. Perth 1880. Original olive cloth, gilt title to spine. Frontispiece photograph of the Perthshire Eleven 1876. Padwick 3287. Scuff to front cover, minor rubbing to board extremities, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Carlton Cricket Club. Jubilee History 1864-1914’. T.F. Cooke. Melbourne 1914. Comprising illustrations, complete averages and annual report 1913-14. Bound in original stiffened decorative wrappers with replacement spine. Padwick 3559. Ownership name in ink to front cover. Wear and soiling to covers, internally in good condition.... View full lot details

‘An Address and Songs dedicated to the Members of the City Charltonian Cricket Club 1857’. Charles Jolly. Published by the Club 1857. Assumed to be the first edition. Printed by H.M. Pollett, London. 26pp comprising an address given in verse ‘at the termination of the Season 1856’ and a collection of ‘Songs Written for the Club’. Original blue cloth with ‘C.C.C.C.’ flags in gilt to front, gilt title to spine and page edges. Bookplate of... View full lot details

Durham C.C.C. 1913. Official ‘Thirty-Second Annual Report’ booklet for season 1913. Original paper wrappers. Comprises list of officers, match scorecards, averages, statistics etc. Rusting to staples, minor soiling to wrappers with light crease, otherwise in good/ very 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 blue cloth boards, gilt title to front board (faded), lacking wrappers. Padwick 4045. Good condition.... 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. Rebound in later blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine, speckled page edges, lacking original paper wrappers. Also lacking the golf section of pages 73-86. Padwick 4045. Ownership stamp of K.A. Auty Library of Ontario to front endpaper. Front and rear internal hinges with tape reinforcement. Introduction page partially detached, tear to... 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

‘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 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 of the wrappers which... 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 Cricketers’ Annual 1895. Edited by ‘Trundler’ Thames (William Henry Newton). Abel, Dykes & Co. Auckland 1895. Rebound with replacement boards incorporating the original front cover, green leather spine and endpapers. Gilt titles to front and spine, lacking original paper wrappers. Red speckled page edges. Rare first edition of the publication which lasted until 1898 (four years). Contains an account of the tour by Fiji to New Zealand, Stoddart’s team in Australia etc. Ink... 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

‘Noteworthy Events of 1905’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Published for private circulation by Merritt & Hatcher, London 1906. Sixth year of issue in the series of ‘Feats, Facts and Figures’ (see below) of which only thirty copies were produced, this being copy number 16. 36pp. Presentation copy to ‘Jas. Catton Esq.’ signed and dated by F.S. Ashley-Cooper, 1906. Rebound in blue cloth and marbled boards with gilt title to spine, original beige wrappers retained. Padwick 921. Very... View full lot details

‘The Cricketer’s Guide with the Laws of Cricket’. Printed by J.H. Greaves, Sheffield 1852. Tiny little 16pp booklet describing the game of cricket and laws of the game. The booklet measures approx. 2”x2.75” and is contained in a modern blue cloth case. Rare, does not appear to be listed in Padwick and not previously seen by the auctioneer. Some soiling to outer pages, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

John (+ James) Lillywhite’s Cricketers’ Companion 1865-1885. Complete run of the annual handsomely bound together in six volumes in quarter green leather with gilt titles to spines and raised bands, all issues with original green wrappers retained. Gilt to top page edges of all but one of the issues. The first volume comprises the issues for 1865-1868. The second volume with issues for 1869-1872, small loss to the front wrapper of the 1870 and rear... 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

‘Cricket. An Heroic Poem. Illustrated. With the critical observations of Scriblerus Maximus’. James Love [Dance]. Published by W. Bickerton 1744. First edition. 25pp. Woodcut title vignette. Bound in full brown suede leather with gilt title to front cover, raised bands to spine, marbled endpapers. Preserved in brown cloth slipcase with leather title label in gilt to front, gilt title to spine, ribbon tie. The very rare first edition of the first separately published poem on... View full lot details

‘Stoolball and How to Play It’. W.W. Grantham. Published by W.B. Tattersall. Second edition, London 1931. Illustrated, with scores of some matches played at Lord’s. Forty copies of this edition, this copy being number 11, were specially bound in quarter leather in 1948 ‘as a small tribute to [Grantham’s] memory’. Ownership signature in pencil to front endpaper of F.C. Murray, dated 1965. Not listed in Padwick. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Manual of Cricket’. F.H. Ayres. London 1895. Original pictorial cloth boards. Bookplates of J.W. Goldman and A.E. Winder to inside front cover and first facing page. Ownership name in ink to front cover and title page of H.R. Johnson, dated 1902. Padwick 401. Breaking to front internal hinge, otherwise a nice copy in good condition.... View full lot details

‘Our Cricketers Past & Present’. Published by A.D. Jones 1896. Complete set of the seven scarce booklets issued, comprising Parts I-VI featuring English County players, and the ‘Special Australian Number’, Part VII, featuring the Australian’s of 1896. Each issue with twenty four black and white photographs of individual players and teams, each bound in original decorative paper wrappers with the exception of Part V with replacement modern plain card wrappers. All preserved together in a... View full lot details

‘Norge and Others’. Charles Edward Hammond and C.R.A. Hammond. Ely 1921. Original stiffened card wrappers. Illustrated. The book of poetry predominantly covers Nordic and winter sports, pp 59-63 describing football with references to notable cricketers including D.Q. and A. Steele, Ivo Bligh, Edward and Alfred Lyttelton, the Studd brothers etc., also a photoplate of C. Plumpton Wilson (Cambridge University 1880-1881). Presentation copy with dedication signed in ink from ‘L.G. Hammond’. Not listed in Padwick. Breaking... View full lot details

‘Cricket Recollections’. Herbert Curteis. Hailsham 1918. Original decorative paper wrappers, tipped in to modern pale blue cloth, gilt title to spine, original wrappers preserved. A history of the Curteis family and their cricketing experiences, including Herbert Mascall Curteis (Oxford University & Sussex 1841-1860), and Herbert Jun., the author, who played one match for Sussex in 1873. Signed in ink to the front wrapper ‘From John Curteis 1938’, and to the inside front wrapper by the... 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

‘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

‘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

‘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

‘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

‘The Arena Incorporating University and Public School Life, and Amateur Sport’ 1912-1913. Periodical published monthly by Iliffe & Sons, London. Bound in beige cloth in three volumes, with title page and index to front of each volume, original front wrappers retained. Comprises articles on sports and other activities at universities, colleges and schools, including good coverage of cricket, rugby, football and other sports. Complete run of nineteen issues from Volume I no. 1, March 1912,... View full lot details

‘Cricket and How to Play It’. Robert Abel ‘Member of the Surrey Eleven’. Published by Dean & Son, new and revised edition, London 1894. Original decorative stiffened paper wrappers. Ownership name in ink to first advertising page of Robert Stratton Holmes. Padwick 400. Some splitting and small loss to spine. Neat tape repairs to internal hinges. Small loss to rear wrappers corners, minor soiling, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘Cricketana by the author of “The Cricket Field”’. Rev. James Pycroft. London 1865. Original pictorial red boards. Illustrated with bookplates of E. Grace, Lillywhite, Lockyer, Stephenson, Caffyn, Hayward and Carpenter. Fading to spine, wear to board and spine extremities, breaking to page block, otherwise in good condition. Sold with ‘Extracts from the London Society of 1863-1964’ which provided the original material for ‘Cricketana’, this selection comprising articles from August to November 1862 (Parts I-IV) corresponding... View full lot details

Cricket Book Society. Three titles including two volumes issued of the ‘Cricket Omnibus’ for 1946 in original blue cloth and 1947 in original green cloth. Each being a compilation of papers published by the Society with contributors including S.H. Butler, Gerald Brodribb, William Kent, Roy Webber and others. Padwick 982. Good condition. Also the ‘Cricket Annual 1948’ (only year of issue), original paper wrappers. Padwick 1042. Some splitting and small loss to spine, otherwise in... View full lot details

‘County Cricket Championship [1873-1894] with an Appendix on the Selection of An England Eleven’. By “Rover” (Alfred Gibson). Title page states published in London 1895 (first edition). Bound in later grey boards, gilt title to spine, original decorative paper wrappers preserved. ‘1896’ printed to top of front wrapper. Ownership name in ink to dedication page of F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Odd pencil annotations to pages, possibly in Ashley-Cooper’s hand. Padwick 904. Expert repairs to edges of some... View full lot details

‘Historic Bats. Biographical catalogue of the unique collection, 149 in number, formed by Mr. Charles Pratt Green of Malvern’. J.N. Pentelow. London 1931. Original printed wrappers, tipped in to later green cloth, gilt title to spine. Padwick 359. Sold with ‘Cultivation of the Cricket Bat Willow’, Forestry Commission Bulletin No. 17, first edition, London 1936. Original printed wrappers, tipped in to later green cloth, gilt title to spine. Padwick 353. Very good condition. Qty 2.... View full lot details

‘Summer of Suspense’. Patrick Eagar and Alan Ross. Haywards Heath 1986. Hardback with good dustwrapper. Covering the Test series in England against India and New Zealand. Signed by Eagar to the title page, with over fifty signatures of players to pages, rear endpaper and inside back cover. Signatures include Gooch, Pringle, Gower, Emburey, Lever, Athey, Foster, Moxon, Small, Botham (England), Vengsarkar, Kapil Dev, Gavaskar (India), Hadlee, Smith, Bracewell, Coney (New Zealand) etc. Some duplication of... View full lot details

‘If The Cap Fits’. Colin Bateman 1983. Original hardback with good dustwrapper. Profusely signed to inside covers, endpapers and pages throughout by over 280 England Test cricketers. Earlier signatures include Appleyard, Barber, Bolus, Carr, Doggart, Gifford, Graveney, Higgs, Insole, Lewis, Mortimore, Moss, Murray, Oakman, Padgett, Parfitt, Parks, Pullar, Rumsey, Sharpe, Simpson, Swetman etc., and several England captains including Dexter, M.J.K. Smith, Denness, Illingworth, Fletcher, Greig, Close, Brearley, Willis, Botham, Gatting, Gooch, Gower, Emburey, Atherton, Stewart,... View full lot details

P.F. ‘Plum’ Warner. Two first edition hardback titles by Warner. ‘Cricket in Many Climes’, London 1900. Original decorative green cloth covers. Mono postcard of Warner by Bolland laid down to front endpaper, signed in black ink by Warner. ‘How We Recovered The Ashes’, London 1904, original cloth covers with some wear. Both titles with signature in ink of Warner on piece laid down to title page. Odd faults, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

J.B. ‘Jack’ Hobbs. Two first edition hardback titles by Hobbs, both with original dustwrappers. ‘The Fight For The Ashes 1932-33’, London 1933, signed in ink to the title page by Hobbs. ‘The Fight For The Ashes in 1934’, London 1934, signature in ink of Hobbs on piece laid down to title page. Some faults to the dustwrappers, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

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‘Days at the Cricket. John Arlott. London 1951. Original hardback with good dustwrapper. Signed in ink to the front endpaper by David Sheppard, to the half title page by Len Hutton and Reg Simpson, and to the title page by Norman Yardley and Cyril Washbrook, with a further twenty signatures on labels laid down to front and rear inside covers, endpapers etc. including F.R. Brown, Doug Insole, Hubert Doggart, Bob Berry, Doug Wright, Tom Dollery,... View full lot details

‘Alfred Mynn and the Cricketers of His Time’. Patrick Morrah. London 1963. Original green cloth, gilt title to spine, good original dustwrapper. Signed in ink to the verso of the title page by Godfrey Evans. Slipped in is a two page handwritten letter from Morrah to J.D. Coldham, editor of the ‘Cricket Society Journal’, promising an article on Donald Bradfield (author of the ‘History of Landsown C.C.). The article subsequently appeared in the Autumn 1972... View full lot details

‘Great Batsmen Their Methods at a Glance’ and ‘Great Bowlers and Fielders Their Methods at a Glance’. George W. Beldam and Charles B. Fry. London 1905 and 1906. The two volumes in original green cloth with gilt illustrations to fronts and gilt titles to spines, gilt to top edges. ‘Great Batsmen’ with nick to head of spine and wear to extremities, other odd minor faults, otherwise in good condition. Qty 2.... View full lot details

‘The Jubilee Book of Cricket’. K.S. Ranjitsinhji. First edition, Edinburgh 1897. Top pages edges gilt, other edges untrimmed. Original cloth covers, gilt title to spine. Breaking to front internal hinge, some foxing and soiling to boards, scuff to spine, otherwise in good condition. Sold with ‘The Book of Cricket. A Gallery of Famous Players’, C.B. Fry, London 1899. Bound in maroon cloth, title label to spine, red speckled page edges, title and index pages bound... View full lot details

‘W.G. Grace. Cricketer. A record of his performances in first-class matches’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. London 1916. Original paper wrappers, which appear to have been laid to stiffened boards with black tape to spine. Wear and age toning to covers, old tape reinforcement to front edge. Otherwise in generally good condition. Sold with ‘W.G. Grace 1848-1915’. A.N.B. Sugden. Booklet published in 1965 to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Grace’s death. Typed invitation from Sugden to attend the... View full lot details