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Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia

‘Sussex County Cricket Scores from 1855 to 1878’. George Ewbank. Privately printed in India c.1878. ii, 288pp. An extremely rare publication bound in blue cloth with gilt title to front cover, red speckled page edges, replacement endpapers. The contents comprise a comprehensive record of scores for matches played by Sussex for the period. Padwick 2766 (1984 second edition) records this title as being limited to only four copies produced according to A.D. Taylor, two of... View full lot details

‘Sussex Cricket: Past and Present by An Old Sussex Cricketer [Charles Francis Trower]’. Published by Alex Rivington, Lewes 1879. ‘Re-printed with additions from the Sussex Archaeological Collections’. 60pp. Bound in later green quarter leather and marbled boards, gilt title to spine, original pink printed paper wrappers preserved. M.C.C. Library stamp and bookplates of Sussex C.C.C. and A.E. Winder to original inside front wrapper. Padwick 2717. Wear and old tape repairs to original wrappers, some age... View full lot details

‘Sussex County Cricket Club. Its Diamond Jubilee. 1839-1899’. Alfred D. Taylor. Privately printed 1899. Original dark green cloth wrappers with bright gilt title to front. Inscription in ink to inside front cover, ‘Only 100 Copies Printed’, signed by the author, ‘A.D. Taylor’ and dated 6th May 1899. Padwick 2784. Slight breaking to front internal hinge, minor staining to front cover, otherwise a nice copy in good/ very good condition. Scarce.... View full lot details

‘Sussex Cricket Battles’. Alfred D. Taylor. ‘Reprinted from the “Hove Gazette”’, Emery & Son, Hove 1903. The original pink paper wrappers have been laid down to stiffened card with crude tape spine. The inside front board has a window cut in to reveal a dedication handwritten in ink to the original inside front wrapper, ‘To C.I.S Wallace with the Author’s Comps’ and nicely signed ‘Alfred D. Taylor’. A later ink inscription above states ‘C.I.S. Wallace... View full lot details

‘Sussex Cricket in the Olden Time. With Glances at the Present’. A.D. Taylor. Hove 1900. 93pp. Bound in modern green quarter leather and marbled boards, gilt title to spine, original green paper wrappers preserved. Padwick 2715. Wear to original wrappers, internally in very good condition. A scarcer title.... View full lot details

‘Sussex Cricket Records (compiled to May, 1921)’. By ‘Willow Wielder’ (Alfred D. Taylor). Presented by Taylor Brothers, Hove 1921. Bound in later green cloth, gilt title to spine, original paper wrappers preserved. Padwick 2786. Some age toning to original wrappers, otherwise in good/very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Sussex County Cricket 1728-1923’. Compiled by “Leather Hunter” A.J. Gaston. Brighton, third edition 1924. This ‘Autograph edition bound in Art Linen’ is tipped in to original blue cloth covers with gilt title to front, original decorative card wrappers retained. Presentation copy with signed dedication in ink to title page, ‘To my friend John K.C. Edwards Esq... in appreciation of kindness and courtesy, Alfred J. Gaston’. with the official business card of ‘Alfred J. Gaston Publicity... View full lot details

‘Sussex C.C.C. Official Handbook & Guide’. A good run of thirteen handbooks for seasons 1927 (first year of issue) to 1939. Original decorative card wrappers. Padwick 2779. Splitting to the spine of the 1927 issue, some general wear and soiling to wrappers, rusting to staples, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Good Old Sussex by the Sea’. Nicholas Sharp. Privately published 2007. Hardback in green cloth with slipcase. Limited edition no. 1/25, signed by the author. This was the author’s personal copy. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘A Pictorial History of Sussex County Cricket Club’. Edited by Roger Packham, Nicholas Sharp, Phil Barnes and John Filby. Hove 2014. Limited edition of 175 copies, this copy unnumbered. Good dustwrapper. Signed to the Captains/ limitation page by fourteen former Sussex captains. Signatures are Hubert Doggart, Robin Marlar, Ted Dexter, Jim Parks, Mike Griffith, Arnold Long, John Barclay, Ian Gould, Paul Parker, Alan Wells, Peter Moores, Chris Adams, Mike Yardy and Ed Joyce. Very good... View full lot details

‘Cricket Siftings’. By ‘Willow Wielder’ (Alfred D. Taylor). Presented by Taylor Brothers, Hove 1921. 31pp. Original paper wrappers laid down to stiffened card with brown tape spine. Padwick 2716. Some staining to edges of covers and pages, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘Alfred James Gaston. A Study in Enthusiasm’. Irving Rosenwater. Printed for private circulation in 1975. Limited edition number 49 of only fifty numbered copies produced, signed by the author. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Year of the Magical Martlets’. Nicholas Sharp. Privately published 2007. Hardback in green cloth with slipcase. Limited edition no. 1/25, signed by the author. This was the author’s personal copy. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘A Bazaar Bibliography’. Compiled by Guy Curry. Privately published ‘New Year 2001’. Limited edition no. 8 of only 11 copies produced. 8pp card booklet listing known publications of historic brochures issued for cricket club fundraising bazaars, Curry describing items of this nature with their ‘small production runs’ as ‘desirable items [and] amongst the hardest of cricketana to find’. Enclosed with the booklet are typed letters from Curry including one to the collector, Nick Sharp, offering... 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 2019. Two boxes comprising a complete run of the annual for the period with all issues present. From the collection of Anthony Woodhouse, all issues up to and including 2001 with his bookplate. Original publisher’s cloth (some leather bound) with gilt title and emblem to front covers and gilt titles to spines. Gilt to page edges of issues up to and including 1916. 1917... 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 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

‘’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

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

‘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

‘Annals of the Teignbridge Cricket Club 1823-1883’. Compiled by G. Wareing Ormerod. Privately printed by W. Brendon 1888. Original blue cloth covers with gilt title and decoration to covers and spine. Ownership signature of Robert Stratton Holmes, dated ‘Liverpool 13.6.[18]90’ to half title page. Slipped in is a printed letter dated May 1889 from the printer, W. Brendon, offering this title to ‘every Member and Honorary Member of that Club’. Ex Anthony Woodhouse collection. Padwick... View full lot details

‘Twenty Years of Gloucestershire County Cricket Club 1870-1889’. Scores made in county matches by the Gloucestershire County Cricket Club. Bristol, Arrowsmith 1889. Original maroon leather covers with gilt title and County emblem to front. This was W.G. Grace’s personal copy with his ownership signature in ink to the inside front cover and dated 1889. Ink annotation to the second endpaper, ‘With the publisher’s kind regards, 18/11/[18]89’. Further annotations in pencil to rear endpapers in Grace’s... 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

‘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

‘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

‘J.T. Tyldesley in First Class Cricket’. H.E. Holmes. Bury & Manchester 1912. Rebound in modern blue cloth, original paper wrappers retained. Signed bookplate of Judge B.J. Wakley to original inside front wrapper. Padwick 8168. Good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Life of John Briggs’. Herbert Turner. Manchester 1902. Illustrated by ‘RIP’. 44pp plus adverts. Bound in modern green cloth, original paper wrappers preserved. Padwick 7377. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘A Biographical Sketch of Arthur Shrewsbury, the famous Notts. Cricketer. With full details of his chief performances in England & Australia’. Compiled and published by S.W. Hitchin, Nottingham 1890. 42pp plus adverts. Rebound in stiffened card boards with original printed front and rear wrappers laid down. Contained in modern blue cloth clamshell case. Padwick 8046. Bookplate of Judge B.J. Wakley to inside front cover. Some soiling to original wrappers, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘Batting and Bowling. With Hints on Fielding and Wicket-Keeping’. R. Gordon Barlow. London 1882. 31pp plus adverts. Original decorative paper wrappers. Padwick 402. Front wrapper becoming detached, splitting and small loss to spine, internally in good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Surrey Champion. A Complete Record of Mr. Walter William Read’s Performances for Surrey and in Representative Matches 1873-1894’. Anthony Benitez de Lugo. 98pp. Published in Madrid 1895 for private circulation limited to 100 copies. Nicely bound in maroon quarter leather, raised bands to spine with gilt titles, gilt to all page edges, marbled endpapers. Lacking original wrappers, otherwise appears complete. Presentation copy with dedication in ink to ‘W.W. Thomson’, nicely signed by the author,... View full lot details

Association of Cricket Statisticians publications. Good run of thirty five ‘Famous Cricketers Series’ booklets comprising numbers 1 (Jack Hobbs 2nd edition), 5, 8, 10, 19, 22-24, 29, 33, 35-37, 40, 42, 43, 48, 52, 54, 59, 65, 67, 71, 73, 76, 78, 79, 84, 87, 88, 90, 91, 96 and 100. Other subjects include Headley, Armstrong, Spofforth, Weekes, Walcott, Worrell, Sobers, Giffen, McCabe, Hutton, Bligh, Ramadhin, Jessop, Grimmett etc. Also four ‘Lives in Cricket’ series... View full lot details

Association of Cricket Statisticians publications. Good run of forty nine ‘Famous Cricketers Series’ booklets comprising numbers 40 to 91, lacking numbers 55, 77 and 89. Subjects include Harvey, Sobers, Bedser, Verity, Wisden, Giffen, Simpson, Kenyon, Geary, McCabe, Woodfull, Hall, Jones, Lillywhite, Hutton, Rhodes, Bligh, Miller, Cowdrey, Ramadhin, Haygarth, Hadlee, Wynyard, Botham, Jessop, H.W. Taylor, Laker etc. Odd very minor faults otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Guide to Cricketers containing full directions for playing the Noble and Manly Game of Cricket...’ 1849. Collected and edited by Frederick Lillywhite. Printed by W.H. Crockford. 1st & 2nd Editions. 8vo. Facsimile reprint of the rare first and second editions, bound together in brown half leather with marbled boards. Very good condition... View full lot details

‘The Guide to Cricketers containing full directions for playing the noble and manly game of Cricket....’ London 1850. 3rd Edition. 8vo. Collected and edited by Frederick Lillywhite. Published by W.&T. Piper of London. Printed by W.H. Crockford. Bound in brown half leather with marbled boards, lacking original wrappers and advertising pages, with title in gilt to spine. 66pp. Bookplate to front end paper. Odd minor faults otherwise in good condition. Rare... View full lot details

‘The Guide to Cricketers containing full directions for playing the noble and manly game of Cricket....’ London 1851. 4th Edition. 8vo. Collected and edited by Frederick Lillywhite. Published by W.&T. Piper of London. Printed by W.H. Crockford. Bound in brown half leather with marbled boards with original wrappers and advertising pages, with title in gilt to spine. 84pp. Bookplate to front end paper. Some soiling, age toning and wear to wrappers, small bottom right hand... View full lot details

‘The Guide to Cricketers containing full directions for playing the noble and manly game of Cricket....’ London 1852. 5th Edition. 8vo. Collected and edited by Frederick Lillywhite. Published by W.&T. Piper of London. Printed by W.H. Crockford. Bound in brown half leather with marbled boards with original wrappers and advertising pages, with title in gilt to spine. 104pp. Bookplate to front end paper. Minor age toning to wrappers otherwise in good/very good condition. Rare... View full lot details

‘The Guide to Cricketers containing full directions for playing the noble and manly game of Cricket....’ London 1853. 6th Edition. 8vo. Collected and edited by Frederick Lillywhite. Published by W.&T. Piper of London. Printed by W.H. Crockford. Bound in red quarter leather with green boards, lacking original wrappers, with title in gilt to spine. The first twenty two pages printed, the remainder of the book is written in manuscript apparently by the collector Thomas Padwick... View full lot details

‘The Guide to Cricketers containing full directions for playing the noble and manly game of Cricket....’ London 1854. 7th Edition. 8vo. Collected and edited by Frederick Lillywhite. Piper, Spence & Stephenson, London. Printed by W.H. Crockford. Bound in brown half leather with marbled boards with original wrappers and advertising pages, with title in gilt to spine. 104pp. Bookplate to front end paper. Some soiling, age toning ad wear to wrappers otherwise in good condition. Rare... View full lot details

‘The Guide to Cricketers containing full directions for playing the noble and manly game of Cricket....’ London 1855. 8th Edition. 8vo. Collected and edited by Frederick Lillywhite. Piper, Spence & Stephenson, London. Printed by W.H. Crockford. Bound in brown half leather with marbled boards with front original wrapper only and advertising pages, with title in gilt to spine. 112pp. Bookplate to front end paper. Generally good/very good condition. Rare... View full lot details

‘The Guide to Cricketers containing full directions for playing the noble and manly game of Cricket....’ London 1856. 9th Edition. 8vo. Collected and edited by Frederick Lillywhite. Published by Lillywhite and Wisden, Leicester Square, London. Printed by W.H. Crockford. Bound in brown half leather with marbled boards, lacking wrappers and advertising pages, with title in gilt to spine. 104pp. Includes article and engraved plate of W. Lillywhite. Bookplate to front end paper. Name handwritten to... View full lot details

‘The Guide to Cricketers containing full directions for playing the noble and manly game of Cricket....' London 1857. 10th Edition. 8vo. Collected and edited by Frederick Lillywhite. Piper, Spence & Stephenson, London. Printed by W.H. Crockford. Bound in brown half leather with marbled boards with front wrapper only, lacking rear wrappers and rear advertising pages, with title in gilt to spine. 92pp. Includes engraved plate of W. Lillywhite. Bookplate to front end paper. Inscription to... View full lot details

‘The Guide to Cricketers containing full directions for playing the noble and manly game of Cricket....’ London 1858. 11th Edition. 8vo. Collected and edited by Frederick Lillywhite. Published by Lillywhite and Wisden, Leicester Square, London. Printed by W.H. Crockford. Bound in brown half leather with marbled boards, lacking wrappers and some advertising pages, with title in gilt to spine. 110pp. Generally good/very good condition. Rare... View full lot details

‘The Guide to Cricketers containing full directions for playing the noble and manly game of Cricket....’ London 1859. 12th Edition. 8vo. Collected and edited by Frederick Lillywhite. Published by Lillywhite and Wisden, Leicester Square, London. Printed by W.H. Crockford. Bound in brown half leather with marbled boards with original wrappers, with title in gilt to spine. 120pp. Some wear with loss to the edge of the front wrapper otherwise in good condition. Rare... View full lot details

‘The Guide to Cricketers containing full directions for playing the noble and manly game of Cricket....’ London 1860. 13th Edition. 8vo. Collected and edited by Frederick Lillywhite. Published by Lillywhite and Wisden, Leicester Square, London. Printed by W.H. Crockford. Bound in brown half leather with marbled boards with original wrappers, with title in gilt to spine. 120pp. heavy wear, soiling and loss to the front wrapper, wear, soiling and darkening to the rear wrapper, wear... View full lot details

‘The Guide to Cricketers containing full directions for playing the noble and manly game of Cricket.... with an appendix for the Spring edition’. London 1861. 14th Edition. 8vo. Collected and edited by Frederick Lillywhite. Published by Lillywhite and Wisden, Leicester Square, London. Printed by W.H. Crockford. Bound in brown half leather with marbled boards, lacking original wrappers, with title in gilt to spine. 124pp. Some age toning and minor soiling otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

‘The Guide to Cricketers containing full directions for playing the noble and manly game of Cricket.... Autumn edition’. London 1861. 14th Edition. 8vo. Collected and edited by Frederick Lillywhite. Published by Lillywhite and Wisden, Leicester Square, London. Printed by W.H. Crockford. Bound in brown half leather with marbled boards, lacking original wrappers, with title in gilt to spine. 110pp. Name stamped to title page, odd minor faults otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

‘The Guide to Cricketers containing full directions for playing the noble and manly game of Cricket.... Spring edition’. London 1862. 16th Edition. 8vo. Collected and edited by Frederick Lillywhite. Published by Lillywhite and Wisden, Leicester Square, London. Printed by W.H. Crockford. Bound in brown half leather with marbled boards with original front wrapper only, with title in gilt to spine. 132pp. Some wear and loss to edges of the front wrapper, name ‘Geo. H. King?’... View full lot details

‘The Guide to Cricketers containing full directions for playing the noble and manly game of Cricket.... Winter edition’. London 1862. 16th Edition. 8vo. Collected and edited by Frederick Lillywhite. Published by Lillywhite and Wisden, Leicester Square, London. Printed by W.H. Crockford. Bound in brown half leather with marbled boards with original front wrapper only, with title in gilt to spine. 104pp. Lacking adverts to rear. Some wear and loss to the front wrapper otherwise in... View full lot details

‘The Guide to Cricketers containing full directions for playing the noble and manly game of Cricket.... Spring edition’. London 1863. 18th Edition. 8vo. Collected and edited by Frederick Lillywhite. Published by Lillywhite and Wisden, Leicester Square, London. Printed by W.H. Crockford. Bound in brown half leather with marbled boards with original wrappers, with title in gilt to spine. 152pp. Good+ condition... View full lot details

‘The Guide to Cricketers containing full directions for playing the noble and manly game of Cricket.... Winter edition’. London 1863. 17th Edition. 8vo. Collected and edited by Frederick Lillywhite. Published by Lillywhite and Wisden, Leicester Square, London. Printed by W.H. Crockford. Bound in brown half leather with marbled boards lacking original front wrapper, with title in gilt to spine. 128pp. Lacking adverts to rear. Some soiling to last page otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

‘The Guide to Cricketers containing full directions for playing the noble and manly game of Cricket....’. London 1864. 19th Edition. 8vo. Collected and edited by Frederick Lillywhite. Published by Lillywhite and Wisden, Leicester Square, London. Printed by W.H. Crockford. Bound in brown half leather with marbled boards lacking original front wrapper, with title in gilt to spine. 104pp. Minor wear and some soiling to wrappers otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

‘The Guide to Cricketers containing full directions for playing the noble and manly game of Cricket....’. London 1865. 20th Edition. 8vo. Compiled and edited by Frederick Lillywhite. Published by W. Kent & Fred. Lillywhite, London. Printed by W.H. Crockford. Bound in brown half leather with marbled boards with original wrappers, with title in gilt to spine. 124pp. Slight soiling and wear to wrappers, some wear to rear wrapper edges otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

‘The Guide to Cricketers containing full directions for playing the noble and manly game of Cricket....’. London 1865. 21st (Autumn) Edition. 8vo. Compiled and edited by Frederick Lillywhite. Published by W. Kent & Fred. Lillywhite, London. Printed by W.H. Crockford. Bound in brown half leather with marbled boards with original wrappers, with title in gilt to spine. 168pp, lacking last two rear advertising pages. Rear wrapper detached, some wear to rear wrapper edges otherwise in... View full lot details

‘The Guide to Cricketers containing full directions for playing the noble and manly game of Cricket....’. London 1866. 22nd (Spring) Edition. 8vo. Compiled and edited by Frederick Lillywhite. Published by W. Kent & Fred. Lillywhite, London. Printed by W.H. Crockford. Bound in brown half leather with marbled boards with original wrappers, with title in gilt to spine. 182pp. Loss to rear wrapper, some wear and soiling to wrappers otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

‘The Guide to Cricketers containing full directions for playing the noble and manly game of Cricket....’. London 1866. 22nd (Autumn) Edition. 8vo. Compiled and edited by Frederick Lillywhite. Published by W. Kent & Fred. Lillywhite, London. Printed by W.H. Crockford. Bound in brown half leather with marbled boards with original front wrapper only, with title in gilt to spine. 168pp, lacking some rear advertising pages. Wear and soiling to front wrapper otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

‘[Frederick] Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores & Biographies of Celebrated Cricketers’. Arthur Haygarth. First four volumes, each uniformly bound in maroon quarter leather, gilt titles to spines. Vol. I (1746 to 1826) London 1862, Vol. II (1827-1840) London 1862, Vol. III (1841-1848) London 1863, and Vol. IV (1849-1854) London 1863. All four ex Cheltenham College Library. Padwick 805. Minor wear to boards otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Lillywhite’s [and M.C.C.] Cricket Scores & Biographies of Celebrated Cricketers’. Arthur Haygarth. Ten volumes in mixed bindings including some duplication. Vol. I (1746 to 1826) London 1862, three copies. Vol. II (1827-1840) London 1862. Vol. III (1841-1848) London 1863, two copies (one in modern binding). Vol. XI (1869-1870) London 1878. Vol. XIII (1874-1876) London 1880, two copies, one with ownership name of S. Canynge Caple. Vol. XIV (1877-1878) London 1895. Wear to boards, overall in... View full lot details

‘The Cricket Quarterly’ edited by Rowland Bowen. A complete run of loose original issues of the journal in original card wrappers from Vol. 1 no. 1, January 1963 (first issue) to Vol. 8 no. 4, Winter 1970/71 (final issue) with duplicates. Volumes 1 to 6 with additional introduction pages, Volumes 1 to 8 with indexes, some duplication. Padwick 1195. Some wear and age toning, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

James Lillywhite’s Cricketers’ Annual 1881-1900. Complete full run of the ‘Red Lillywhite’ Annual for the period, edited by Charles W. Alcock. Issues for 1885, 1886, 1890, 1891, 1896, 1897 and 1899 lacking photographic plates. The 1881 lacking final page, 1898 lacking rear wrapper. The 1899 rebound in quarter leather original wrappers preserved, with restoration to brittle and age toned pages. All issues with faults and varying degrees of wear with breaking to hinges or... View full lot details

‘F.S. Ashley-Cooper. The Herodotus of Cricket’. Irving Rosenwater 1964. Printed for private circulation in 1964. Original wrappers, tied with light blue cord. Limited edition number 7 of only twenty five numbered copies produced, signed by the author. Foxing and staining to wrappers and some pages, otherwise in good condition. Rare.... View full lot details

‘Sir Donald Bradman- Ninety Not Out. A Brief Tribute in Words and Figures’. Irving Rosenwater. Newnham 1998. Limited edition number 16 of ninety numbered copies produced of which eighty copies, numbers 11-90, were for sale, signed by the author. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Donald George Bradman. August 27th 1908 to February 25th 2001’. Irving Rosenwater. Printed for private circulation in London, March 2001. Limited edition number 13 of only thirty numbered copies produced, signed by the author. Excellent condition. Rare.... View full lot details

‘Herbert Sutcliffe and the Yorkshire Captaincy’. Irving Rosenwater. London 2003. Limited edition number 34 of seventy five numbered copies of which numbers 7-75 were for sale. Signed by the author. Excellent condition.... View full lot details

‘An Unjust Slur on Bobby Peel’. Irving Rosenwater. London 1997. Printed for private circulation in London, February 1997. Limited edition number 13 of only twenty numbered copies produced, signed by Rosenwater. Good condition. Rare... View full lot details

‘How M’Dougal Topped the Score’. By Thos E. Spencer. With some introductory notes by Irving Rosenwater. London 1997. Printed for private circulation in London, February 1997. Limited edition number 28 of only fifty numbered copies produced, signed by Rosenwater. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Thomas Verity, Architect of Lord’s Pavilion’. Irving Rosenwater. Newnham-on-Severn 1998. Limited edition copy 21 of seventy five copies produced, signed by Rosenwater. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Cricket Rhymes of H.C. Coghlan’. Irving Rosenwater. Newnham-on-Severn 2004. Limited edition number 25 of only 60 copies produced, signed by Rosenwater. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Leo Harrison. An Appreciation’. John Arlott. Boscombe Printing Co. 1957. Privately printed. 10 pages. Limited edition of seventy copies of which this is no. 50, signed by the author Arlott to the limitation page and by Harrison to the title page. Rare. Good/very good condition... View full lot details

‘V.H.D. Cannings. An Appreciation’. John Arlott. Boscombe Printing Co. 1958. Privately printed. 8 pages. Limited edition of fifty copies produced for Cannings’ Benefit Fund 1959, of which this is no. 25, signed by the author Arlott. Signed bookplate of B.J. Wakley to inside front cover. Good/very good condition. Rare.... View full lot details

‘J.R. Gray. A Biographical Note’. John Arlott. Boscombe Printing Co. 1960. Privately printed. 12 pages. Limited edition of fifty copies produced for Gray’s Benefit Fund, of which this is no. 12, signed by the author Arlott to the limitation page and additionally to facing page by Gray. Signed bookplate of B.J. Wakley to inside front cover. Very good condition. Rare.... View full lot details

‘Arthur Holt. An Appreciation’. John Arlott. Boscombe Printing Co. 1963. Privately printed. 8 pages. Limited edition of fifty copies produced for the Hampshire C.C.C. Centenary Fund, of which this is no. 49, signed by the author Arlott to the limitation/ title page, and to the inside front cover by Holt. Ex Anthony Woodhouse collection. Very good condition. Rare.... View full lot details

‘Henry Horton. A Biographical Note’. John Arlott. Boscombe Printing Co. Ltd 1964. Privately printed. 12 pages. Limited edition of fifty copies produced for Henry Horton’s Benefit Fund of which this is no. 18, signed by the author Arlott. Very good condition. Rare.... View full lot details

‘Peter Sainsbury. An Appreciation’. John Arlott. Boscombe Printing Co. Ltd 1965. Privately printed. 10 pages. Limited edition of fifty copies produced for Peter Sainsbury’s Benefit Fund of which this is no. 31, signed by the author Arlott to the limitation page and to the facing page by Sainsbury. Sold with a folding leaflet, ‘Still Going Strong’ produced for Sainsbury’s Testimonial year 1974, signed by Sainsbury. Very good condition. Rare.... View full lot details

‘David White’. John Arlott. Boscombe Printing Co Ltd 1969. Privately printed. 8 pages. Limited edition of only twenty five copies produced for David White’s Benefit Fund of which this is no. 22, signed by the author Arlott and White to the title/ limitation page. Some foxing to title page, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Master. An Appreciation’. John Arlott. Boscombe Printing Co. 1963. Privately printed 8pp offprint from Arlott’s ‘Book of Cricketers’, bound in green cloth, gilt title to front. Limited edition of only twenty copies produced, of which this is number 12, signed by the author Arlott. Padwick 7691-1. Very rare. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Jubilee Book of Cricket’. K.S. Ranjitsinhji. Edinburgh 1897. Limited edition of 350 copies signed by Ranjitsinhji, this being number 345. Hand made paper, other edges untrimmed. Rebound in full black leather (?) with new end papers. Padwick 467. Some browning to pages otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

‘The Biography of Colonel His Highness Shri Sir Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji, Maharaja Jam Sahib of Nawangar’. Roland Wild. London 1934. Portrait frontispiece. Original decorative vellum, gilt titles to front with colour emblem and decoration and to spine, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Printed on hand made paper. Limited edition of 230 numbered copies, this being number 229 and signed by the author. Minor soiling to boards, otherwise in very good condition. Rare.... View full lot details

‘All About Umpiring. Decisions and Interpretations of Cricket Rules’. P.N. Polishwalla. Bombay, India 1918. Original paper wrappers. 82pp. Illustrated. Padwick 275. Library stamps and annotations to front wrapper. Soiling to wrappers and odd page, some loss and splitting to spine, rusting to staples, otherwise in good condition. A rare title not previously seen by the auctioneer.... View full lot details

‘In a Different Realm. Story of Quadruple & Triple Centuries 1876-2025’. Dr. Nauman Niaz. Boundary Books, Childrey 2025. Full maroon leather with slipcase, gilt to page edges. Limited edition no. 36 of fifty copies produced, signed by the author. Minor wear to slipcase, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

Indian, Australian and other overseas cricket histories. Box comprising a selection of overseas cricket histories and annuals. Includes four signed hardback titles, ‘C.C.I. & The Brabourne Stadium 1937-1987’, Vasant Raiji & Anandji Dossa, Bombay 1987, signed by the authors. Two limited edition hardback histories of Australian cricket compiled by Ray Webster, ‘First-Class Cricket in Australia’ Vol. 1 (1850/51- 1941/42) 1991, no. 598/1500, and Vol. 2 (1945/46- 1976/77) 1997, no. 937/1000, both signed by Webster. ‘Australian... View full lot details

‘Presenting Indian Cricket’. B. Sarbadhikary. Calcutta. First edition 1946. Original dustwrapper unusually stamped to the front dustwrapper, ‘Complete with Autographs’, and with printed signatures of all the Indian players in purple ink to the autograph pages. Padwick 3838. Minor soiling to dustwrapper, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Jerks in from Short Leg’. Quid (R.A. Fitzgerald). London 1866. Original blue boards with cricketer illustration in gilt to centre. Presentation copy from the author with dedication in ink to the inside of the front board to ‘Harry W. Peters, Riverside, from the author R.A. Fitzgerald’. Some wear to board, corner and spine extremities otherwise in good condition. Rarely seen in this signed form. Padwick 6855... View full lot details

Reverend Vernon Peter Fanshawe Archer Royle. Oxford University, Lancashire & England 1875-1891. ‘Cricket of Today & Yesterday’. Percy Cross Standing. London 1902. Volumes I & II. Beautifully signed in ink by Royle to front end paper of Volume I. There is a portrait of Royle on page 8 of Volume I. A rare signature of an early cricketer. Odd faults, good condition... 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

‘A “Bawl” for American Cricket, dedicated to American Youth’. Jones Wister. Philadelphia 1893, privately published. Illustrated. Rebound in grey cloth, gilt title to front, lacking original pictorial paper wrappers. Bookplate of the ‘John Parke Hood Library, Philadelphia Cricket Club, Wissahickon’ to inside front cover. Ownership name of ‘Edw. S. Buckley’ to front end paper, dated ‘Sep. 1893’. Padwick 483. Slight breaking to page block, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Sixty Years of Canadian Cricket’. John E. Hall and R.O. McCulloch. Toronto 1895. Publisher’s brown cloth with decorative gilts to front, gilt title to front and spine. Presentation copy with dedication in ink to front endpaper to ‘Geo Brown Esq., with compliments of John E. Hall’, dated ‘Toronto, Canada Feb 14/[18]99’. Bookplate of J.W. Goldman to inside front cover. Padwick 4111. Frontispiece photograph page cleanly detached. Minor wear to front cover, nicks to head and... View full lot details

‘Cricket across the Sea; or, the Wanderings and Matches of the Gentlemen of Canada 1887 by two of the Vagrants’. D.W. Saunders & G.G.S. Lindsay. Toronto 1887. An account of the Canadian tour to England 1887. Bound in quarter leather, with the frontispiece photograph of the team (faded). This is a presentation copy with handwritten dedication in ink ‘To Sir Spencer Ponsonby Fane: with kind recollection of the trip to Windsor and with the compliments... View full lot details

‘The Crisis in Cricket and the “Leg Before Rule”’. Robert Henry Lyttelton. London 1928. Original card wrappers. Presentation copy with dedication in ink to the front endpaper ‘To ‘E.J. [‘Tiger’] Smith from the Author’, nicely signed by Lyttelton and dated 20th August 1929. Padwick 237. Some age toning to wrappers and wear to spine, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘From Commons to Lord’s. A Chronology of Cricket 1700-1799’. Volume I (1700-1750) 2009, Volume II (1751-1770) 2011, Volume III (1771-1780) 2016 and rarer Volume IV (1781-1790) 2021. Ian Maun,. Volume I is limited edition no. 107/220, Volume II is limited edition no. 100/220, Volume III no. 100/125 and Volume IV no 100/125. The first edition signed to the limitation page by Maun and President of the M.C.C., Derek Underwood. The second volume signed to the... View full lot details

Playfair Cricket Annuals 1948-2023. A good complete run of the Annual for 1948 (first year of issue) to 1962 (larger format) and 1963-2023, plus odd duplicate. Faults to odd copy, generally good condition. Qty 78.... View full lot details

‘The Book of Cricket. A New Gallery of Famous Players’. C.B. Fry. Editor. London 1899. Nine individual weekly issues for Parts I-9 including ‘The Australian Team Number’ Part VI. Original pictorial wrappers. Illustrated. Some age toning to some wrappers otherwise in good/very good condition. Sold with bound copy of ‘Famous Cricketers and Cricket Grounds’. C.W. Alcock, 1895. Gilt to all page edges. Plus ‘Ayres Cricket Companion 1931’ and ‘The Cricket Field or The History and... 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

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

Neville Cardus. Box comprising thirty one titles by or about Cardus. Earlier first edition hardback titles by Cardus with original dustwrappers include ‘English Cricket’ 1945, ‘Cricket all the Year’ 1952, ‘Close of Play’ 1956. Four hardback reprints by Hart-Davis, London, with dustwrappers, ‘Good Days’ 1948, ‘Days in the Sun’ 1948, ‘Australian Summer’ 1949, ‘The Summer Game’ 1949. Six modern softback limited edition and/ or signed titles published by the Neville Cardus Archive and Lancashire C.C.C.... View full lot details

Cricket annuals and books. ‘James Lillywhite’s Cricketers Annual’ for 1876, 1878, 1889 & 1890, all in original red limp cloth covers. Wear to the 1876 with covers becoming detached, odd faults to the 1878, ownership name to front covers of the 1889 and 1890, otherwise in good condition. ‘John Lillywhite’s Cricketers’ Companion’ for 1877, original green paper wrappers with faults to wrappers. ‘Cricket Illustrated. G.W. Beldham. Gowan’s Practical Picture Books No. 3’ 1908. Soiling and... View full lot details

West Indies histories and statistical books. Box comprising a good selection of thirty seven softbacks and hardbacks relating to West Indies cricket. Includes two first edition hardbacks with good dustwrappers, ‘West Indian Cricket’, Christopher Nicole, London 1957, ‘England v The West Indies 1895-1957’, S. Canynge Caple, London 1957. A good selection of modern softbacks published in the West Indies, not previously seen by the auctioneer, including two by Peter Adrien in St. Kitts, ‘Moments in... View full lot details

West Indies cricketers’ biographies. Box comprising a good selection of twenty eight hardback and softback biographies. Includes a number of rarer softback titles including ‘Immortal Headley G’, George B. Wallace, Kingston, Jamaica 1948. ‘Francis “Mindoo” Phillip. A portrait from memory’, Stanley French 1979. ‘The Firing Line’, Eaton Swaby, London 1995. ‘The Three Ws of West Indian Cricket’, Keith Sandiford & Arjun Tan, 2001. ‘Mastering the Craft’, Everton Weekes, Barbados 2007. ‘Joe Solomon and the Spirit... View full lot details

Brunell Jones, West Indian cricket writer. Selection of three books by Jones in original paper wrappers, published in Trinidad. ‘Kangaroo Invasion’ 1973, ‘Gone with the Indians Again!’ 1976, and ‘Cricket (?) XI’ 1976. Sold with a good selection of West Indies tour histories, mainly hardbacks with good dustwrappers covering West Indies in Australia 1951/52, 1960/61, in England 1950, 1963, 1973, in India 1983, England in West Indies 1953/54, 1959/60, 1967/68 etc. Authors include Alex Bannister,... View full lot details

Bodyline. ‘The Australian Cricketer. Autumn Annual covering the whole tour of Jardine’s Eleven in Australia in 1932-33. The Most Sensational Tour in Cricket History’. Edited by H. Drysdale Bett. Sydney & Melbourne 1933. iv+168pp. Comprises six issues of ‘The Australian Cricketer Vol. 4, issue nos. 1 to 6 (December 1932- May 1933) bound together in decorative paper wrappers lacking the four page supplement to front. Original front wrappers of each issue retained, featuring images of... View full lot details

Fairfield Books. Eleven titles published by Fairfield Books, Bath. All hardbacks with good dustwrappers (one softback), some signed by the author. Includes four hardbacks and one softback by Stephen Chalke. ‘No Coward Soul. The remarkable story of Bob Appleyard’, 2003, signed by Chalke, ‘Runs in the Memory’ 1998, ‘At the Heart of English Cricket’ 2001, ‘Tom Cartwright. The Flame Still Burns’ 2007, and ‘The Way It Was’ 2009 softback. Four hardbacks by John Barclay, ‘The... View full lot details

Signed biographies and autobiographies. Box comprising twenty mainly hardback titles, each signed by the subject/ author. Titles include ‘My Dear Victorious Stod [A.E. Stoddart]’, David Frith 1970, limited edition no. 145/400 signed by Frith. Some soiling and nicks to dustwrapper. ‘If the Cap Fits’, Colin Bateman 1993, seventeen signatures to front endpapers including Alec Stewart, Ian Botham, Andrew Strauss, James Anderson, Andrew Flintoff etc. Three limited edition softback titles from the ‘Innings Complete’ series by... View full lot details

‘The Roy Ullyett Annual. Daily Express Sports Cartoons’ 1961-1969. Seven copies of the annual issued for years 1961 6th issue (with Ashes coverage), 1964 9th issue (Ashes), 1965 10th issue (New Zealand & South Africa), 1966 11th issue (World Cup), 1967 12th issue (India & Pakistan), 1968 13th issue (Ashes), and 1969 14th issue (New Zealand & West Indies). Minor wear to covers, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Immortals’. The Book of New Zealand Test Players’. Paul Verdon. Auckland 2006. Limited edition number 379 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

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

‘Lord’s 1787-1945’. Sir Pelham Warner. London 1946. Quarter leather limited edition of 160 copies produced, this being number 41, Signed in ink by Warner. Gilt to top edge. In slip case. Some wear to leather spine binding otherwise in good/very good condition... View full lot details

‘Long Innings. The autobiography of Sir Pelham Warner’. P.F. Warner. London 1951. Quarter leather limited edition of 260 copies produced, limited edition no. 38, signed in ink to the limitation page by Warner. In slip case. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘My Cricketing Life’. P.F. Warner. London 1921. Limited edition of 200 copies, this being no. 73, nicely signed in ink by the author. Original decorative cream cloth boards with gilt titles and emblem, gilt to top edge. Rarely seen original dustwrapper. Some nicks to the dustwrapper otherwise in 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

‘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

‘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

‘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

‘The Don Meets the Babe. The 1932 Australian Cricket Tour of North America’. Ric Sissons with a foreword by Sir Donald Bradman. J.W.McKenzie, Ewell 1995. Limited edition of 250 numbered copies. Numbers 1-25, this being copy number 5, were specially bound in full leather, gilt title to front and spine, gilt to all page edges, contained in slipcase, and signed to the limitation page by Sir Donald Bradman, his wife Jessie and the author, Ric... View full lot details

‘The Compleat Cricketer. A short sketch of H.S. Altham’. E.W. Swanton. Bournemouth 1960. Limited edition of twenty five copies, this being number 18, signed by Altham and Swanton. Bound in maroon cloth, gilt title to front cover. Padwick 7284. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Messrs Bat and Ball’. Norman Gale. Rugby 1930. First edition limited to only 250 copies. Signed in ink to the half title page, ‘signed by Norman Gale’. Padwick 6457. Original dustwrapper with nicks. The book in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Sir Home Gordon, Bart- An Affectionate Retrospect’. Irving Rosenwater. Printed for private circulation, Newnham 2000. Limited edition number 21 of sixty numbered copies produced and signed by the author of which nos. 11-60 were for sale. Slight fading to spine, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Summer Game. A Cricketer’s Journal’. Neville Cardus. London 1929. Limited edition large paper edition of 120 numbered copies, signed by the author, this being no. 89. Printed on handmade paper, edges untrimmed. Original dustwrapper with some soiling and wear with old tape repairs to inside edges. Padwick 6664. The book in 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 number 173 of 200 produced, signed by Arlott. Minor light fading to boards otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Trumper across the Tasman. The 1914 Australian Tour of New Zealand’. Peter Schofield & Ric Sissons. Boundary Books, Childrey 2025. Full maroon leather with slipcase. Limited edition no. 85 of 110 copies produced of which 100 were for sale. Signed to the limitation page by both authors and Gideon Haigh who wrote the foreword. Slight bumping to slipcase, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Imperial Cricket’. P.F. Warner. London 1912. Original full red morocco, gilt titles to front cover and spine. All pages edges gilt. Limited subscribers edition of 900 copies, this being number 27. Padwick 83. Broken front and rear internal hinges, wear to boards and spine extremities otherwise in very good condition... View full lot details

‘Shane Warne. My Illustrated Career’. Shane Warne. London 2006. Leather hand bound limited edition number 840 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. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘My Dear Victorious Stod. A Biography of A.E. Stoddart’. David Frith. New Malden, privately printed 1970. Signed limited edition number 125/400. Original dustwrapper with some soiling and nicks. Good condition.... View full lot details

‘Farewell to Cricket’. Don Bradman. Theodore Brun Ltd. London 1950. Limited de luxe edition of 500 copies, produced in green morocco binding with gilt, this being number 421. Gilt to top page edges. Slipped in is an early ink signature of Bradman on piece laid down to clipped page. Very good condition. Rare.... View full lot details

‘The Ceylon Cricket Annual 1899’. A.M. & J. Ferguson. Colombo 1900. 108pp. Two half tone plates, one, a portrait of A.L. Gibson, ‘our leading batsman’. Red board covers with printed label ‘The Ceylon Cricket Annual 1899’ to front. Ink signature to first end paper. Faded and bleached boards otherwise in good condition. A very rare book not sold previously by the auctioneer... View full lot details

‘Laws of Cricket’ Charles E. Crombie. London 1907. Large, complete first edition folio book containing twelve colour humourous illustrations with captions of the laws of the game, produced for Perrier Limited of London, with Perrier advertisements throughout and to rear page. Original hardback pictorial boards. The internal page block has become disbound from the boards, some age toning to boards otherwise in good condition. Ink presentation inscription to front end paper dated 1907... 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 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

‘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

‘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 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

‘Old English Cricket. A collection of evidences concerning the game prior to the days of Hambledon’. H. P-T (Thomas Percy Francis). A complete set of six original booklets/ pamphlets issued between 1922 and 1929, published by C.H. Richards of Nottingham. The titles, which contain much original research into the origins and early days of cricket, are ‘Cricket’s Cradle’ (published 1923), ‘Early Cricket’ (1923), ‘Old-Time Cricket’ (1924), ‘Cricket’s Prime’ (1925), ‘More Old Cricket’ (1927), and ‘Cricket... View full lot details

‘Cricket Comicalities and other Trifles Written and Collected by A. Craig Cricket Rhymester’. All England Athletic Publishing Co, 29 Paternoster Square, First edition 1899. Original decorative red paper wrappers. Padwick 6843. Minor fading to spine, rusting to staples, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Rare.... View full lot details

‘Cricket and Football. Rhymes, Sketches, Anecdotes, etc of Albert Craig’. Compiled by Robert Abel and H.V. Dorey. London 1910. Original decorative paper wrappers. iii.90pp. Appears complete as listed in Padwick 6442. Wear to wrappers with small losses to spine, some age toning, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Australians In England 1896’. London & Manchester ‘Athletic News’ Office 1896. Printed by E. Hulton & Co., Manchester. 64pp. Complete. Original decorative paper wrappers. Includes articles on ‘A few jottings on the tour’ by J.J.B., and ‘An Australian opinion of the tour’ by George Bull. Contained in a modern brown cloth slipcase with gilt title to spine. Signed bookplate of Judge B.J. Wakley to original inside front wrapper. Padwick 4982. Some soiling to wrappers,... View full lot details

‘Bodyline’. Australia v England 1932/33. ‘The Sporting Globe Cricket Book 1932/33’. Compiled by E.H.M. Baillie (‘Bail’). With M.C.C. itinerary, Ashes records, pictures of the Australian and England teams including Jardine, Woodfull, Bradman, Oldfield, Ponsford, Grimmett, Larwood, Voce, Allen etc, averages, M.C.C. records against the Australian states, Australian season 1931/32 results and averages, player profiles etc. to inside pages. Some wear and soiling to wrappers, rusting to staples, otherwise in good condition. Scarce.... 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

Bodyline. ‘In Quest of the Ashes’. D.R. Jardine. London 1933. Nicely signed by Jardine in ink to front endpaper with dedication. Original dustwrapper with wear. Padwick 4477. Some soiling to cloth covers, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘A Cricket Pro’s Lot’. Fred Root. London 1937. Original beige cloth covers. Nicely signed in ink to the frontispiece photograph ‘Fred Root’, dated July 1939. Some nicks and staining to dustwrapper, otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

‘Cricket’. W.G. Grace. Bristol 1891. Original green cloth, with gilt titles to front and spine. Nicely signed in ink by Grace to the front endpaper. Padwick 433. Slight breaking to internal hinges, otherwise a nice copy in good condition.... View full lot details

‘Wm. Whittam’s Modern Cricket and Other Sports’ 1883-1886. Four issues for years 1883 (first year) to 1886 (fourth) edited by G.T. Groves and published in Sheffield by William Whittam (1883-1885) and Groves & Son (1886). Each issue in original stiffened board wrappers in different colours. Padwick 1129. Some wear and loss to spines, soiling to boards, otherwise in good condition. Qty 4.... View full lot details

‘Beyond A Boundary’. C.L.R. James. London 1963. Rare original first edition hardback with excellent original dustwrapper. Slipped in is an original two page extract from the New Society, 6th June 1936, of an article by C.L.R. James, ‘Cricket in West Indian Culture’, and a lengthy review of this title by V.S. Naipaul. Rare. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Felix on the Bat: Being a scientific inquiry into the use of the cricket bat: together with the history and use of the catapulta. Also, The Laws of Cricket as revised by the Marylebone Club’. Nicholas Wanostrocht. Second edition. London 1850. viii, 58pp plus advertising page to rear, with ten lithograph plates (seven hand-coloured, three mono). Pages checked and complete. Original decorative green cloth covers with gilt titles and cricket scene image to front, page... View full lot details

‘How to make 1000 runs in May!’. Humorous 12pp advertising leaflet published 1933 featuring cartoons and descriptions of Gradidge cricket equipment and instructions on the care of Gradidge bats. Blind embossed bookplate ‘Library of Michael Beer’ to first page. Rusting to staples otherwise in good/ very good condition. Sold with a matching envelope with the typed address of the Kent collector, H.W. ‘Plum’ Warner, postmarked 5th April 1933. Old tape repairs and foxing to the... View full lot details

‘Morning Leader. The Star & Leader Cricket Manual’ 1897. Third year of issue. Edited by Alfred Gibson. 24pp with fixture lists for season 1897, laws, averages for 1896, etc. Original decorative colour wrappers. Padwick 1114. Small circular label applied to front cover, minor soiling, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

John Wisden’s Cricketers’ Note Book 1908. Edited by F.S. Ashley-Cooper. London 1908. 204pp. Small book in original red cloth wrappers containing a diary, laws of cricket and miscellaneous records. Padwick 1084. Very good condition. Rare.... View full lot details

W.G. Grace. Two titles, ‘The History of a Hundred Centuries’. W.G. Grace. London first edition 1895. Edited by W. Yardley. Rebound in green cloth, gilt title to front, original paper wrappers retained. Good condition. ‘W.G. Cricket Reminiscences & Personal Recollections’, W.G. Grace, London 1899, original decorative cloth boards worn and detached. Sold with ‘Cricket Who’s Who. The Cricket Blue Book 1910’, V.H. Dorey, London 1910, original stiffened decorative card boards with some soiling, otherwise in... View full lot details

‘Woolley- The Pride of Kent’. Ian Peebles. London 1969. Signed by the author and Frank Woolley (dated 1969) to the title page. Original dustwrapper with some wear to spine, otherwise in very good condition.... 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