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Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia

‘The English Cricketers’ Trip to Canada and the United States in 1859’. Frederick Lillywhite. First edition, London 1860. Original green cloth boards with title in gilt to front. viii, 68pp plus fold out map and advertisements. Illustrated. Padwick 4893. Wear to spine and covers, odd nicks to page and map edges, slight breaking to page block, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘The 2nd Australian XI’s Tour of Australia, Britain and New Zealand in 1880/81 with Appendices’. Alfred James 1994. Privately published in red boards with gilt titles to spine. Limited edition of 100 copies, this being number 15, signed by the author. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Australians In England. A complete record of the cricket tour of 1882, with the batting and bowling averages of the Australians and the Englishmen who played against them’. C.F. Pardon. Reprinted with additions from ‘Bell’s Life’, London 1882. viii, 192pp plus advertisements. Portrait frontispiece of W.R. Murdoch, captain of the Australians. Original decorative card wrappers with replacement card spine. Contained in a modern green cloth case with gilt title to spine. Padwick 4974. Wear,... View full lot details

‘The [Doings of the] Fourth Australia Cricket Team, their Scores in the Colonies and in England with Portraits and Biographies’. Published at the Office of “Cricket”, London 1884. vi, 140pp. Original decorative stiffened card boards. Comprises biographies and portraits of the tourists and reports and scores of all matches played on the tour. Padwick 4976. Rear board detached, front wrapper and first eight pages becoming detached, lacking spine, internally in good condition. Scarce.... View full lot details

‘Cricket. Shaw and Shrewsbury’s Team in Australia 1884-1885. The Voyage out. Description of Matches, Description of the Players, The Voyage Home, Batting and bowling averages’. Alfred Shaw and Arthur Shrewsbury. Nottingham 1885. 181pp plus adverts. Rebound in olive cloth, gilt title to spine, original rear decorative wrapper retained, lacking original front wrapper and title page. Padwick 4409. Frontispiece photograph of the team detached. Soiling and wear to rear wrapper, small loss to top corner of... View full lot details

‘The Cricketing Record of Major Warton’s Tour. 1888-1889’. Published by Charles Cox, Port Elizabeth 1889. Original publisher’s red stiff cloth boards. 219 pages with fourteen full page lithographic engraved portraits of the players including Warton, the Manager and Charles Aubrey Smith, the Captain. Boards worn, faded and soiled, binding a little shaken, breaking to internal hinges with some page section becoming slightly loose. Padwick 4619. A scarce book from this early first tour of South... View full lot details

‘The Tournament Chronicle’ 1884-1885 [South Africa]. Printed and published by Charles Cox of the Port Elizabeth Advertiser Office. Individual issues one to nine, all published, covering the period Monday 23rd December 1884 to Friday 2nd January 1885 with full description and scores of all the matches in the Christmas Tournament held in Port Elizabeth. Excellent vignette of a cricket scene to each title page of the Chronicle. Bound together in red boards, spine worn with... View full lot details

Australian tours. J.W. McKenzie facsimile reprints. Three hardback titles with dustwrappers. ‘The Australian Cricketers’ Tour through Australia, New Zealand and Great Britain in 1878’ by ‘Argus’ 1878, reprinted 1980, limited edition no. 37/150. Slight wear to dustwrapper. ‘The Third Australian Team in England’ 1882, reprinted 1989. ‘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. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Australian tours. J.W. McKenzie facsimile reprints. Three hardback titles with good dustwrappers. ‘The Doings of the Fourth Australian Cricket Team in England 1884’, 1884, reprinted 1990. ‘The 1899 Australians in England’, Peter Sharpham 1997. ‘The Australians in England 1902’ reprinted 1993. Sold with ‘Trumper’s Team in Queensland 1906’, John Hawkins, Newnham 2012, limited edition softback no. 122/150 signed by the author. Very good condition. Qty 4.... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour of South Africa 1922/23. ‘The M.C.C. Team in South Africa 1922-23 with Special Sketch of South Africa’s International Cricket History by Capt. I.D. Difford’. 4th Edition. Cape Times, Cape Town 1923. 76pp. Bound in green cloth, original green wrappers retained. Illustrated with photographs, scores and statistics etc. Padwick 4632. Minor staining to original front wrapper, otherwise in very good condition. Rare.... View full lot details

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‘The Empire’s Cricketers’ from original drawings. By Alfred Chevallier Tayler with biographical sketches by George William Beldam. The Fine Art Society, London 1905. First edition folio volume with contents page followed by the forty eight original chromolithograph plates in original red cloth binding with gilt titles to front board, each print with the original accompanying printed biography of the featured player. Some ageing and staining to red boards, some discolouration to the spine paper, some... View full lot details

‘The Empire’s Cricketers. Catalogue of an Exhibition of portrait drawings in coloured chalks of The Empire’s Cricketers by A. Chevallier Tayler. Held in the rooms of The Fine Art Society 148, New Bond Street, June & July, 1905. With a new introduction by John Hawkins’. Christopher Saunders Books 2006. Limited edition of 100 copies, each signed and numbered by John Hawkins this being number 19. Excellent condition.... View full lot details

‘Cheltenham Cricket Week. A Review of the Games from 1878 to 1904. Together with a brief outline of other important matches played in the District’. Alfred D. Taylor. Cheltenham 1905. 1st Edition, 60pp. Bound in green quarter leather complete with original decorative paper wrappers. Padwick 1943. Note to title page reads ‘Purchased from the collection of Revd R.S. Holmes. July 1933’. Rare... View full lot details

‘The Cricket Annual and Calendar 1909 and 1910’. Cricket & Sports Publishers Ltd, Cannon Street, London. The only two editions of the Annual published, complete with wrappers bound together in yellow boards. Both Annuals in very good condition. Rarer Annuals... View full lot details

‘The Yorkshire Cricket Chronicle’. No.10. July 23rd, No.12 August 3rd, No.13 August 10th and No.14 August 13th 1903. Published by authority of the Yorkshire Committee, printed by J.W. Northend of Sheffield. Four 16pp booklets comprising articles, images of the players etc. Padwick 1216. Original worn, age toned, discoloured and damaged wrappers to all four editions with loss to edges, No.12 with detached rear wrapper, no.14 with detached front wrapper, the rear wrapper of No.10 almost... View full lot details

Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1883-1884. 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’ 1884. Minor age toning/darkening to board edges and spine, wear with very minor loss to head and base of the spine otherwise in very good condition with titles bright. Rare seventh issue of the ‘blue book’... View full lot details

Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1885-1886. 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’ 1886. Some darkening to the spine otherwise in good/very good condition. Ownership signature of Robert Stratton Holmes, dated ‘Liverpool 9.7.[18]90’ to title page. Rare ninth issue of the ‘blue book’... View full lot details

Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1895-1998. Full run of Kent annuals ‘Blue Books’ from 1895 to 1945 and a full run of Kent yearbooks/annuals from 1947 to 1998. The annuals and yearbooks are all uniformly bound in maroon boards with speckled page edges, the annuals lacking their original blue boards, the yearbooks bound with their original wrappers/covers throughout, some members copies in maroon cloth covers included. The annuals and yearbooks bound into twenty seven books.... View full lot details

‘Worcestershire County Cricket Club Bazaar... Descriptive Catalogue of the Unique Collection of Cricket Trophies, Historic Bats, Balls etc.’ 1903. Original 15pp catalogue in paper wrappers for the exhibition held at the Shirehall, Worcester, 7th- 9th May 1903, ‘Organised by Mr. C.P. [Charles Pratt] Green’. The exhibition featured items from the collections of A.J. Gaston of Brighton, A.W. Shelton of Nottingham, Odd & Son of Croydon, Charles Pratt Green of Malvern, and A. Farrants of Putney.... View full lot details

‘The Story of Three Black Pears, Early Worcestershire Cricket’. Bernard Bridgewater. Worcester 1998. Limited edition no. 150/500. Green cloth with quarter leather. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘”Cricket’s” Year Book’. Cricket Office. London. Two editions for 1897 & 1905. Original pictorial covers, the rare 1897 1st edition with image of Ranjitsinhji to front, the 1905 with Plum Warner. Padwick 1058. The 1895 with small loss to wrapper corners and edge, front wrapper becoming detached. The 1895 with tape repair to front wrapper edge, rusting to staples, otherwise in good condition. Sold with ‘M.C.C. Members 1871’ booklet in red cloth, gilt title to... View full lot details

Somerset County Cricket Club annuals 1940-2017. Box comprising a good run of Year Books / Handbooks/ Almanacks for the period. Original decorative boards and wrappers. Issues are for seasons 1940-1946 (combined war-time edition), 1947, 1948/49 to 1965/66, 1967, 1967/68, 1979 to 2005, 2005/06, 2008/09, 2009/10, 2010, 2014 & 2017. Lacking the 1951/52 edition, with duplicate editions of the 1953/54, 1959/60, 1979 and 1980 editions. The edition for 1940-1946 was the Somerset’s Secretary’s copy and is... View full lot details

Playfair Cricket Annuals 1948-2023. A good run of the Annual including earlier issues for 1948 (first year of issue), 1956 and 1957 (larger format) and a complete run from 1963-2012. Minor faults to odd earlier copy, generally good condition. Qty 53.... View full lot details

‘The Surrey Eleven in 1895. A Descriptive Record of the Matches Played in that Season’. James L. McCance. Merritt & Hatcher, London 1896. 60pp. ‘For Review’ label to first page. Padwick 2687. Original front pictorial paper wrapper, lacking rear wrapper. Loss to spine, tape to front wrapper and spine, otherwise in good condition. Rare.... View full lot details

‘A Summary of Surrey Cricket 1844-99’. Anthony Benitez De Lugo (Marquis de Santa Susana). Privately printed, Madrid 1900. Rarer title bound in half maroon leather with marbled boards, gilt title to spine, original paper wrappers preserved. 80pp. Padwick 2680. Some creasing and wear to original wrappers, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘Surrey at the Wicket. A complete record of all the matches played by the County Eleven since the formation of the club...’. Compiled and published by Anthony Benitez de Lugo. Madrid 1888. Original red cloth boards, red page edges. iii + 159pp. Padwick 2679. Splitting and small loss to head of spine, slight breaking to page block, outer page edges becoming a little brittle, otherwise in good condition. Scarce.... View full lot details

‘A. Benitez de Lugo’. D.T. Smith. Corsham 2011. Red card wrappers with title to front. Limited edition no. ‘A2’ of only 22 copies produced. Signed to the title page by the author. Very good condition.... View full lot details

The Epic of the Oval’. E.B.V. Christian, privately printed 1930. 36pp. Original brown card wrappers, contained in pale green cloth clamshell case, gilt title to spine. Padwick 1022. Slight foxing to pages, minor wear to wrapper extremities, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Surry [sic] Triumphant: or The Kentish-Mens Defeat. A new ballad being a parody on Chevy-Chace’. John Duncombe. Printed for J. Johnson, London 1773. First edition. 24pp. Rebound in plain grey/ buff stiffened card boards with leather and gilt title label to front cover. Woodcut vignette to title page. The match, instigated by the Earl of Tankerville, took place at Bishopsbourne Paddock, the seat of Sir Horatio Mann, on 24 July 1773, for £2000. Page A2... View full lot details

W.G. Grace. Three early titles in original paper wrappers. ‘Scores and Mode of Dismissal of “W.G.” in First-Class Cricket. With summary of results 1865-1895’. Compiled by Rev H.A. Tate. First edition, London 1896. Some soiling to wrappers. ‘The History of a Hundred Centuries’. W.G. Grace, edited by W. Yardley. London first edition 1895. Wear and soiling to wrappers. ‘W.G. Grace. Cricketer. A record of his performances in first-class matches’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. London 1916. Some loss... View full lot details

‘W.G. Grace The Great Cricketer. A Statistical Record of His Performances in Minor Cricket’. G. Neville Weston. Privately printed 1973. Original stiffened white card wrappers with title printed to front. Limited edition of 50 copies printed, this being no. 8, signed by the author. Light foxing to wrappers and frontispiece photograph page, small damage to head of spine, otherwise in good/very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Batting, Bowling, Fielding’. W.G. Grace. J.W. Arrowsmith, Bristol 1892. Original full red calf covers with gilt title to front, gilt to page edges. 3-95pp. Reprinted from Grace’s book of 1891. Dedication in ink to second front endpaper to ‘Thomas Padwick Esq. from W. Methven Brownlee’. Padwick 434. Slight breaking to page block, some wear to board and spine extremities, scrape to rear cover, otherwise in good condition. A nice association copy.... View full lot details

W.G. Grace. Five titles by or about Grace, hardbacks unless stated. ‘The Memorial Biography of Dr W. G. Grace’, Lord Hawke, Lord Harris and Sir Home Gordon, London 1919. Original decorative cloth boards. Signature of [Lord] Hawke in ink on piece laid down to title page. Large bookplate of H.A.L. Cohen to inside front cover. Padwick 7586. Minor soiling to boards and rubbing to board edges, otherwise good. ‘W.G. Grace 1848-1915. To mark the Fiftieth... View full lot details

‘The Cricketers Portrait Gallery. 34 Portraits of Noted Players’. Printed by Tempest, Leeds 1896. 16pp. Landscape booklet in original pictorial paper wrappers featuring W.G. Grace and W.L. Murdoch to the front, comprising reproductions of engravings and photographs of notable cricketers of the period, with Surrey players, Abel and Wood, featured on the title page, Read and Key on the final page. Others include Ranjitsinhji, Lilley, MacGregor, Australians Trott, Giffen, Graham, Gregory, also Lord Hawke, Jackson,... View full lot details

‘Arthur Haygarth Reconsidered’. Irving Rosenwater. Newnham, Gloucestershire 1997. Limited edition number 46 of one hundred numbered copies produced, of which ninety were for sale, signed by the author. Ownership name to title page. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Sir Donald Bradman- Ninety Not Out. A Brief Tribute in Words and Figures’. Irving Rosenwater. Newnham 1998. Limited edition number 23 of ninety numbered copies produced of which eighty copies, numbers 11-90, were for sale, signed by the author. Ownership name to title page. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Renton’s Ruse. An Australian Cricket Story’. By John Patrick. With prefatory note by Irving Rosenwater. London 1999. Printed for private circulation. Limited edition number 19 of thirty numbered copies produced, signed by Rosenwater. Ownership name to inside front cover. Minor soiling to rear wrapper, otherwise 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 40 of sixty numbered copies produced and signed by the author of which nos. 11-60 were for sale. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Roy Webber. Statistician’. Irving Rosenwater. Printed for private circulation, Newnham 2001. Limited edition number 34 of one hundred numbered copies produced, of which ninety were for sale, signed by the author. Excellent condition.... View full lot details

‘The Celebrated Goldman Sale: being a facsimile of the original catalogue of the extensive collection of books on cricket formed by J.W. Goldman Esq 1966’. Irving Rosenwater. London 2002. Limited edition of 100 copies produced, of which nos. 16-100 were published in blue card covers, this being no. 54, signed by the author. Small mark to front cover, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Padwick “Bibliography”- Its Genesis’. Irving Rosenwater. Printed for private circulation, Newnham on Severn 2002. Limited edition of 75 numbered copies of which 65 were available for sale, this being number 50, signed by the author. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘When F.R. Woolley Scored a Century for Lancashire’. Irving Rosenwater. Printed for private circulation, London 2003. Limited edition of fifty numbered copies produced, this being number 6, signed by the author. Excellent condition.... View full lot details

‘H.T. Waghorn- A Singular Portrait’. Irving Rosenwater. Newnham 2005. Limited edition number 35 of 125 numbered copies produced, of which 115 were for sale, signed by Rosenwater. Excellent condition.... View full lot details

‘Harold Gimblett’s Hundred’. John Arlott. Richard Walsh Books, Taunton 1991. Limited edition number 53/123, nicely signed in ink by Arlott to limitation page. Card covers with red cord tie. G/VG... View full lot details

‘My Cricket Collection and Cricket Literature’. G. Neville Weston. 3rd edition 1974. Limited edition number 19 of only 50 copies produced, signed by the author. Some age toning to boards, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Hal Cohen. Memoir of a Great Collector’. Michael Down. Privately printed 1994. Published in a limited edition of twenty numbered copies, this is an unnumbered presentation copy from and signed by the author. Minor soiling to wrappers, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

Martin Wilson. Two limited edition titles by Wilson, both published by Christopher Saunders, Newnham on Severn and signed by the author. ‘Dawn’s Early Light. Cricket in America before 1820’, 2008, no. 48/160, and ‘First Cricket In...’, 2009, no. 44/150. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘E.W.S. (1907-2000). The Last Interview’. David Rayvern Allen 2000. Limited edition of ninety three copies, this being number 55, signed by Rayvern Allen. Excellent condition.... View full lot details

‘A Guide to Edmund Routledge’s Handbook of Cricket’. Roger Hancock 2007. Limited edition no. 24/50, signed by the author. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Trevor Bailey’. Tony Lewis. Richard Walsh Books, Somerset 1998. Original red cloth covers. Limited edition no. 35/50. Signed to title page by Bailey and Lewis. Excellent condition.... View full lot details

‘Bibliography of the Cricket Works of the late F.S. Ashley-Cooper’. George Neville Weston. Privately printed. Kidderminster 1933. 19pp interleaved with blanks. Original pale blue cloth wrappers. Limited edition no. 81 of 100 copies produced, signed by the author. Padwick 42. Some soiling to wrappers, otherwise in good condition. Rare.... View full lot details

‘Sam Cook’. Alan Gibson. Privately published by Richard Walsh Books 1992. Limited edition no. 21/50. Bound in original brown cloth and signed to the title page by both Cook and the author. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘A Handbook for William Lambert’s Cricketer’s Guide’. Roger Hancock. Brighton 2006. Limited edition no. 12/50. Slipped in are two Addendum slips, each with the same limitation number, both signed by Hancock and dated March and June 2007. Also a signed separate letterhead ‘With compliments’. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Substitutes’. David Roylance. 1973. 13pp. White card wrappers. The history of, and the Laws relating to, substitutes in cricket. This is no. 56 of a limited edition of 75 copies, each signed, numbered and dated by the author. 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

‘Peeps into the Past...The Long’ Un’ (Harry Smith-Turberville). Evans & Co, Warwick 1917. Original colourful decorative covers bound in red boards with gilt titles to spine. ‘Author’s Compliments’ label attached to front wrapper, some slight soiling to wrappers otherwise in good/very good condition... View full lot details

‘A Peep into the Past...A Cricket Souvenir’ (W.R. Weir). W.R. Wright. F.H. Ayers. London 1902. Original decorative covers. Minor wear to the head of the spine otherwise in good/very good condition... View full lot details

‘Cricket Pamphlets. Four pamphlets bound together being, Cricket: an heroic Poem, James Love (Dance). Edited by Ashley-Cooper 1922, ‘The Rev John Mitford on Cricket with a biographical note by Ashley-Cooper’ 1921, ‘How to Play Clarke’, N. Felix. Nicholas Wanostrocht. Edited by Ashley-Cooper 1922 and ‘A Cricket Son’. N. Felix. Nicholas Wanostrocht. 1923. All published by C.H. Richards of Nottingham. Bound in purple cloth preserving original wrappers for all four pamphlets. Very good condition... View full lot details

Australia. ‘Cricket Records’. R.H. Campbell. Melbourne 1928. Original purple cloth, gilt title to front. Very nicely signed in ink to the title page by Campbell. Padwick 3333. Covers detached with some spotting and fading. Rusting to staples, otherwise internally in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Cricket. D.R. Jardine. First edition London 1936. Original green cloth, gilt title to spine. Signed presentation copy ‘To Walter Brearley [Lancashire & England 1902-1912] who has done more than anyone else for young cricketers. D.R. Jardine 1936’. Padwick 514. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Walter Brearley. Lancashire & England 1902-1912. Eight original hardback titles all from the collection of Walter Brearley. Each title, presented to Brearley in the period 1927-1933, is inscribed with dedication from an admirer with initials ‘W.A.H.’. Titles are ‘King’s of Cricket’, Richard Daft, Bristol 1893, ‘The Book of Cricket’, P.F. Warner, London 1922, ‘My Reminiscences’, S.M.J. Woods, London 1925, ‘The Game’s the Thing’, M.A. Noble, London 1926, ‘The Summer Game’ and ‘A Cricketer’s Book’, Neville... View full lot details

‘Cricketers’ Carnival’. Learie Constantine. London 1948. Original hardback with dustwrapper. Presentation copy with handwritten dedication in ink to front endpaper ‘To Percy Chapman. Recalling many happy encounters at Lord’s & the Oval, Old Trafford & Scarborough’. Nicely signed ‘Learie Constantine, Lord’s 1949’. Padwick 7449. Some wear and soiling to the dustwrapper, the book in good condition.... View full lot details

Don Bradman. Three hardback biographies by or about Bradman, one signed. Titles by Bradman are ‘Don Bradman’s Book’, London 1938, signed by Bradman to the title page, and ‘Farewell to Cricket’, London 1950. Also ‘Bradman and the Summer that Changed Cricket’, Christopher Hilton, London 2009, good dustwrapper. Good condition.... View full lot details

Norman Gale. Two hardback titles. ‘Close of Play’, Rugby 1936, with dustwrapper. Signed presentation copy with dedication in ink to half title page, ‘Inscribed for Henry Ling by his old friend Norman Gale’. Ownership signature to inside front cover of J. Bonnyman Jones ‘Collector of Cricketana’. Padwick 6458. Very good condition. Sold with ‘Cricket Songs’, London 1894 in original decorative cloth. Padwick 6568. Some wear and soiling to spine and boards, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Australia. ‘The Fifty Best Australian Cricket Books of All Time’, Ronald Cardwell, Cherrybrook, N.S.W. 2006. Limited edition no. 29/50, signed by Cardwell and Roger Page. Sold with two limited edition booklets by Bernard Whimpress, ‘Giffen’s Match’ 2004, no. 45/100, and ‘Clem Hill’s 365 at Adelaide’ 2012, no. 50/100, both signed by the author. Also ‘William Philpott. Pioneer Victorian First Class Cricketer’, Anne Jackson, Malvern, Victoria 2011, signed by the author. Qty 4. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Cricket Rhymes by “Century”’. Published by the Cricket Press, London 1899. Comprises twenty four poems on cricket, including some dedicated to individual cricketers, namely W.G. Grace, MacLaren, Stoddart, Ranjitsinhji, and Wainwright, each with accompanying woodcut portrait of the player. Also to the Australians 1897-98 and the Professionals’ strike. Original stiffened grey cloth boards. Padwick 6434. Slight breaking to page block, light wear to board extremities, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘Guide to the Cricket Ground’, George H. Selkirk, London 1867, original cloth, gilt title to front. Ownership signatures of A.J. Gaston to title page, A.D. Taylor to dedication page, and bookplates of Gaston and E.D.R. Eagar to inside front cover and endpaper. Wear to boards, internally good. ‘Crickety Cricket’, Douglas Moffatt, 2nd edition London 1898, presentation copy ‘To Lord Harris from the Author’. Soiling, wear and breaking to front internal hinge. Sold with a tatty... View full lot details

‘A.C. Maclaren (Captain, All England 1909) on Cricket’. A. Treherne & Co., London, first edition 1909. Original paper wrappers. Padwick 453. Small tape repair to front wrapper, small stain to lower corners and spine, otherwise overall in good condition.... View full lot details

‘Cricket Poems’. George Francis Wilson. London 1905. Original decorative cloth covers. Padwick 6544. Bookplate of Harry Alfred [Hal] Cohen to inside front cover. Some staining and rubbing to boards, slight age toning to page edges, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Of Period and Place’. John Arlott. First edition, London 1944. Good dustwrapper. Arlott’s collection of poetry and first published title. Sold with two further titles by Arlott, ‘Australian Test Journal’, London 1956, original red cloth, and ‘Hampshire County Cricket’, with H.S. Altham, E.D.R. Eagar and Roy Webber, original green cloth, both signed by Arlott. Good/ very good condition. Qty 3.... 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 title to spine, gilt to all page edges. Signed by John Arlott. Limited edition no. 166/200. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Cricket and Cricketers’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. The Office of The American Cricketer, Philadelphia 1907. Rebound in early quarter green leather and cloth, marbled endpapers, raised bands and gilt title to spine. Lacking original wrappers. 102pp. Covers the history and development of cricket, written for American readers. Presentation copy with dedication in green ink to front endpaper, ‘To John Arlott with best wishes, L.E.S. Gutteridge’. Bookplate of A.E. Winder to inside front cover. Padwick 59. Some wear... View full lot details

‘Alfred Lyttelton. His Home-Training and Earlier Life’. Edward Lyttelton. First edition 1916. 62pp. Original blue cloth with nice bright gilt title to front. Signed and inscribed presentation copy ‘To John Murray from E. Lyttelton’ dated ‘Jan. 1917’. The book was a tribute to his younger brother, Alfred, who died in 1913. Padwick 7828. Minor wear and slight splitting to spine, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Scarce.... View full lot details

‘Foreword to “G.L. Jessop” by Commander C.B. Fry’. Original four page typescript of a foreword for a book, with annotations and corrections in Fry’s own hand. Annotation in ink to final page states ‘The pencil corrections throughout are by C.B. Fry himself. The original was completely written by himself...’. Previously sold in the Robin Marlar Auction held at Hove, 11th April 2015. Bound in modern maroon cloth, gilt title to spine. Bookplate of A.E. Winder... View full lot details

‘The Complete Cricketer’. Albert E. Knight, London, first edition 1906. Original maroon cloth, gilt titles to front and spine. Presentation copy with handwritten dedication in ink to inside front cover to ‘Frank [?] with Albert Knight’s Compliments’. Padwick 446. Nicks to head of spine, wear and age toning to boards, otherwise in generally good condition.... View full lot details

‘Cricket Form at a Glance 1878-1902 and the Australians in England’ and ‘1901-1923’. Sir Home Gordon. London 1902 and 1924. The two volumes similarly bound in red cloth, titles in black to fronts and spines. Both volumes have been nicely signed in ink ‘Yours sincerely, Home Gordon’. The 1924 volume also has a typed letter on the publisher’s letterhead, nicely signed by Gordon, dated 10th June 1924. Padwick 110 & 111. Some wear and staining... View full lot details

‘Hambledon: The Men and the Myths’. John Goulstone. Roger Heavens Cambridge 2001. Special Edition in quarter blue calf and cloth, gilt title to spine, in slipcase. Only twenty five numbered copies produced, this being number six, signed by the author. Tipped in opposite the limitation page is a 16pp booklet titled ‘The Publisher Regrets’. Not authorised by Goulstone, this comprises a list of incorrect captions, errata, and an extended index, the original considered ‘unsatisfactory for... View full lot details

‘Our Walter’s Big ‘It [Against Tykes]’. C.S. Marriott 1956. Original typescript of a lengthy poem comprising c.120 lines of verse on two pages of foolscap paper. The poem describes a mythical match in which ‘Walter Seddon’ hit a ball out of the Old Trafford ground, ‘It come down welly ten minutes after/ On tramlines at Irlams ‘o th’ Height’ some five miles from the ground! Tipped in is a small hand drawn map showing... View full lot details

‘Some Cricket Principles’. H.S. Altham. Privately printed c.1920. 4pp bound in green cloth, gilt title to spine. Comprises notes and tips on batting, bowling and fielding. Signed in ink to the first page by Altham. This is thought to be the copy owned by John Arlott sold to A.E. Winder in 1979. Winder’s bookplate to inside front cover. A scarce title, only one other copy is recorded, held in the M.C.C. Library at Lord’s. Padwick... View full lot details

‘Odd Men In. A Gallery of Cricket Eccentrics’. A.A. Thomson. First edition, Museum Press, London 1958. Original green cloth boards with good pictorial dustwrapper. Presentation copy with handwritten dedication in ink to front endpaper, ‘To Colin Cowdrey with best wishes for Australia 1958-59’, signed by Thomson and dated 10th July 1958. Padwick 7254. Some age toning to pages, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Life, Scores and Mode of Dismissal of “W.G.” in first-class cricket, 1865 to 1896. With summary of results’. Compiled by Rev. H.A. Tate. Cricket Press, London, second edition 1896. 148pp. Bound in modern blue cloth, gilt title to spine, original pictorial paper wrappers retained. An errata slip is tipped in to the introductory page, to which the author has handwritten in ink a dedication to ‘A.J. Gaston Esq., from Rev. H.A. Tate, St. Bede’s, Jarrow-on-Tyne,... 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

‘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

‘Parsi Cricket with hints on bowling, batting...’. M.E. Pavri. Bombay 1901. Original decorative pictorial boards. Presentation copy inscribed with dedication to front end paper ‘To E.W. Ballantine, with the best compliments of M.E. Pavri, 1917’. Padwick 462. Some wear to boards and spine paper otherwise in good condition. Rare to see a signed copy of this book... View full lot details

‘East v West. Cricket and Cricketers in India’. W.D. Begg. Ajmer (India) 1929. [xiv], 312pp. Printed by K. Mittra at The Indian Press Ltd., Allahabad for the author. Large original attractive colour pictorial boards. Frontispiece dedication leaf and three other full-page photoplates. Illustrated throughout with images of players and teams. Contains a comprehensive history of cricket in India and a report on the M.C.C. team in India 1926/27, interspersed by many pages of advertising. Colourful... View full lot details

Southern Tasmanian Cricket Association. Eighteenth Annual Circular for Season 1884-85 to twenty-fifth Annual Circular for Season 1890-91’ Hobart Town. Printed at the ‘Mercury’ Steam Press Office. Eight Annual Circulars for the period given. All with original various coloured pictorial wrappers. Some wear, slight loss, discolouration to wrappers, minor faults otherwise in good overall condition. Qty 8... View full lot details

‘The Australian Cricket Team of 1893’. Henry V.L. Stanton of ‘The Sportsman’. First edition, ‘Sport & Play’, Birmingham 1893. 18pp. Pre-tour booklet comprising biographies with portraits of Messrs. J.M. Blackham, H.C. Bannerman, G. Giffen and C.T.B. Turner. Original decorative paper wrappers. Padwick 4980. A little fragile, wear to spine, nicks and small loss to wrapper edges, browning to page edges otherwise in good condition. Rare.... View full lot details

‘New Zealand Cricketers’ Annual 1895’. Edited by ‘Trundler’ Thames (William Henry Newton). Abel, Dykes & Co. Auckland 1895. Original paper wrappers. Rare first edition of the publication which lasted until 1898 (four years). Contains an account of the tour by Fiji to New Zealand, Stoddart’s team in Australia etc. Frontispiece image of the Fiji team. Minor loss to spine, a little fragile otherwise a good copy in original wrappers... View full lot details

‘The Immortals’. The Book of New Zealand Test Players’. Paul Verdon. Auckland 2006. Limited edition number 397 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

Cricket Almanack of New Zealand 1952-2022. A run of the annual for seasons 1952 (fifth year of issue), 1953, 1955, 1957-1963, 1969-1973, 1976-1979, 1988, 1990, 1993, 1994, 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2011. All issues in soft covers. Some wear and small old tape repair to the spine of the 1957, minor wear to other earlier editions, overall in good/ very good condition. Qty 27.... View full lot details

‘Den Kjobenhavn Boldspilklub. Haandbog i Cricket og Langbold’. Copenhagen C.C. Lose’s Forlag. 1866. 50pp. Small Danish cricket handbook with wood-engraved illustrations, original pictorial wrapper boards. First edition. Very rare... View full lot details

‘Cricket’. W. Mulier. Haarlem 1897. ‘Geillustreed door den schrijver [Illustrated by the author]’. Original hardback in blue cloth with colour pictorial illustration of a player/ umpire in striped blazer giving the batsman his guard, title in gilt to spine. xii, 247pp. Illustrated. Written in Dutch, the title comprises a history of the game’s growth and development, and is the first known historical and instructional book in Dutch. Padwick 457. Minor wear to board extremities, otherwise... View full lot details

‘The Cricketer’s Companion; containing the scores of all the grand and principal matches of cricket, played at Lord’s and other grounds in the Season 1843’. William Denison. Published by W. Clement Junior, The Strand 1844 ‘and sold by R. Dark, Eton, J.D. Mills, Surrey, H. Slatter, Oxford, W.H. Mason, Brighton.....’. 62pp. Second edition with the “Laws of Cricket as altered June 3rd, 1844”. Lower corner and some minor loss to the green front cloth... View full lot details

‘The Cricketer’s Companion; containing the scores of the principal matches of cricket, played at Lord’s and other grounds in the Season 1844’. William Denison. Published by Sherwood and Co of London 1845 ‘and sold by W. Clement Jun., R. Dark, Eton: Mary Clapshaw, Canterbury: F. Pilch, Brighton: Box, Oxford: H. Slatter.....’. 116pp. Bound in half leather with original paper wrappers to front and rear, gilt titles ‘Denison’s Cricketers’ Companion 1845’ to spine. Second edition, 2nd... View full lot details

‘The Cricketer’s Companion; containing the scores of the principal matches of cricket, played at Lord’s and other grounds in the Season 1846’. William Denison. Published by Simpkin, Marshall & Co., London 1847. 16mo. 108pp plus advertising. Original paper wrappers with title ‘Denison’s Cricketer’s Companion 1847’ to front, card tape reinforcement to spine Minor wear and age toning to original wrappers otherwise a good copy of a rare book. Housed in modern half leather book box... View full lot details

‘Sketches of the Players’. William Denison. London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co., Rudolph Ackermann, R. Dark [and others], 1846. 76pp. Padwick 876. Bound in green boards with gilt titles to front board. There is an inscription to the title page from Alfred Gaston to E. Holmes ‘To my Esteemed friend E. Holmes Esq in deep appreciation of many years of kindness and courtesy the past 2 years. Alfred G. Gaston, 10a Hoollingbury Park Avenue, Brighton. August... View full lot details

‘Clark’s Cricketer’s Handbook’. Five bound volumes of photocopied pages from the original 1st, 2nd, 10th (two different) and 14th editions of this rare handbook originally first published c.1845 by W.M. Clark (Padwick 378). Each volume nicely and uniformly bound in brown cloth with leather title label to fronts and gilt to spines. Ideal for reference. Ex Roger Hancock collection. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Lambert’s Cricketer’s Guide or Instructions and Rules, for playing the Noble Game of Cricket...’. William Lambert. Fourteen bound volumes of photocopied pages from the original 1st, 2nd (two different), 3rd (two), 4th, 5th (two), 7th- 10th, 12th and 20th editions of this handbook originally first published 1816 (Padwick 383). Each volume nicely and uniformly bound in blue cloth with leather title label to fronts and gilt to spines. Ideal for reference. Ex Roger Hancock collection.... View full lot details

‘Cricket and How to Play It with the Rules of the Marylebone Club’. John Wisden. Darton & Hodge, Holborn Hill, London. First edition 1866[?]. 62pp. Rebound in green half leather, gilt to spine, lacking original wrappers. Illustrated including frontispiece engraving of a cricket match. Padwick 482. Some foxing to page edges, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Sold with ‘Cricket’, W.L. Murdoch, 2nd edition London 1894. Cream cloth with colour image of W.G. Grace to... View full lot details

Cricket miscellany 1871-2024. Eight titles, hardbacks unless stated. ‘Cricketers in Council’ by Thomsonby, London 1871, blue cloth with gilt emblem to front. ‘The History of Kennington... with chapters on Cricket Past and Present’, H.H. Montgomery, London 1889, original red cloth. ‘Canterbury Cricket Week 1842-1891’, F. Milton Small, Canterbury 1891, decorative paper wrappers. Two by A.W. Pullin (“Old Ebor”), ‘Talks With Old Yorkshire Cricketers’, Leeds 1898, pictorial stiffened boards, and ‘Talks With Old English Cricketers, Edinburgh... View full lot details

‘The Champion Cricketers’ Guide and Companion containing a plan of the cricket field, showing where you are to stand &c’. Published by R. March, London c.1865. Padwick 414 refers to a 32pp booklet and ‘several issues’ of which this 19pp edition plus the plan illustration is one. Tipped in to green cloth with original paper wrappers retained. Bookplates to inside front cover including A.E. Winder. D.R. Allen’s publication ‘With the Bookplate of A.E. Winder’ records... View full lot details

‘The Cricketer’s Hand-book containing The Origin of the Game, Remarks on Recent Alterations...’. New Edition. Robert Tyas, London 1841. Bound in later red cloth, gilt title to spine, original maroon cloth wrappers retained with gilt title and figure of a batsman to front, gilt to all edges. Frontispiece engraving of Lord’s Cricket Ground. Bookplate of J.W. Goldman to inside original front wrapper, and of E.D.R. Eagar to inside later cover. Padwick 377. A very good... View full lot details

‘Cricket’s Year Book’. Cricket Office, London. 1897-1911. Complete full run of the twelve issues for years 1897 to 1911 bound together as one volume in maroon cloth and marbled board, gilt title to spine, red speckled page edges. All original decorative paper wrappers preserved. Pages checked, complete. Padwick 1058. Bookplate of J.W. Goldman to inside front cover. Foxing to front wrapper of the 1901, old tape repair to torn rear wrapper of the 1904, breaking... View full lot details

‘Old English Cricket. A collection of evidences concerning the game prior to the days of Hambledon’. H. P-T (Percy Francis Thomas). 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

‘Scores and Analyses 1864-1881. A Collection’. Compiled by J.B. Payne Published in 1904 by the author. Printed by John Hodgson, Harrogate. Contains the full scores of 60 matches not found in Wisden. Limited to only 100 copies. Green cloth boards with gilt titles to front and spine. Presentation copy inscribed in ink to front end paper ‘Presented by the compiler to A.J. Gaston esq. 9th June 1904’. A.J. Gaston business card laid down to front... View full lot details

‘The Catalogue of Cricket Literature’. Alfred D. Taylor. Merritt & Hatcher, London, first edition 1906. [v], 115pp interleaved. Rebound in modern green half leather and marbled boards, raised bands and gilt title to spine, original paper wrappers retained. The first comprehensive bibliography of cricket to be published, comprising detailed notes and estimated values of many titles. First published in serial form in ‘Cricket, A Weekly Record of the Game’ in 1906 with supplements in 1907,... View full lot details

‘Ireland’s Gardens [Brighton] and its Cricket Associations’. Alfred D. Taylor. Privately printed 1899. Bound in blue cloth boards with original black limp cloth covers preserved. This was one of fifty uncorrected proof copies produced, ‘Not Printed’ to title page with handwritten annotation ‘Uncorrected Proof Copy No. 36’. Comprises a history of Ireland’s Gardens, being ‘the centre of attraction, the venue for recreation, and a fashionable resort in the early days of Brighton’s history’. Padwick 892.... View full lot details

‘Lillywhite’s Illustrated Hand-Book of Cricket’. Edited by ‘A Cantab [F. W. Lillywhite]’. Ackermann & Co., Strand, London, and W.H. Mason, Repository of Arts, Brighton 1844. Printed by Thomas Harrild (Late B. Clarke), Printer, Silver St., Falcon Sq. Bound in original green tooled cloth with nice bright gilt title to front. Includes single page engravings of Lillywhite, Fuller Pilch, Thomas Box, and James Cobbett, and fold-out engravings of Roger Kynaston, George Leopold Langdon, Charles George Taylor,... View full lot details

A Correct Account of all the Cricket Matches which have been played by the Marylebone Club, and all other Principal Matches, from the year 1786 to 1822 inclusive...’. Henry Bentley. Printed by T. Traveller, 43 Park Street, New Road, London 1823. Bound in green half calf leather and cloth, raised bands, gilt title and decoration to spine, gilt to top page edges, marbled endpapers. Bookplates of J.W. Goldman to inside front cover and E.D.R. Eagar... View full lot details

‘Poems on Several Occasions’, James Love, Comedian (James Dance). Printed by R. Fleming. Third edition, Edinburgh 1754. xvi, 115pp. Pages 1-22 comprise a poem titled ‘Cricket, An Heroic Poem’, considered to be one of the earliest description of a cricket match. Rebound in half calf with marbled boards, raised bands and gilt title label to spine. Bookplate of A.E. Winder to inside front cover. Padwick 6445. Expert repair to title page. Light staining and wear... View full lot details

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

Cricket poetry and prose. Four hardbacks including two Arrowsmith of Bristol titles in brown cloth, ‘At the Sign of The Wicket’, Edmund B.V. Christian, Bristol 1894, and ‘Cricket Stories: Wise and Otherwise’, C.W. Alcock, Bristol 1901. Sold with ‘The Cricket Match. A Poem in two cantos’, Copthall Chambers, London 1859, rebound in green quarter leather, and ‘Cricket Love & Humour. Tales Told of Balls Bowled’, Walter A. Briscoe, London 1921, ex libris Gerald Brodribb, pictorial... View full lot details

‘The Rural Game of Cricket’. University of Reading Museum of English Rural Life 1957. Nine page typescript of the ‘Catalogue of the Temporary Exhibition, August to October 1957’ with introduction written by Diana Rait Kerr, curator of the M.C.C. Collection. The catalogue lists items loaned by the M.C.C., Hal Cohen, E.R. Wilson, Gunn & Moore etc. Rebound in green cloth, gilt title to spine, probably for John Arlott who sold it to A.E. Winder in... View full lot details

‘The Adventures of a Cricket Ball with the Laws and Practice of Cricket’ by ‘An Old Boy’. London and Tunbridge Wells 1860. Original pictorial green stiffened board covers, later cloth spine with title annotated to spine. vi, 66pp plus advertisements. Illustrated. Comprises an account of ‘Harry’, his romance on the cricket field culminating in marriage, followed by the technique and rules of the game. Ownership signature of C.I.S. Wallace dated 1950 to inside front cover.... View full lot details

‘The Cricket-Bat; and How to Use It: a treatise on the game of Cricket...’. By ‘An Old Cricketer’. Baily Brothers, London 1861. iv, 96pp plus advertisements. Original green morocco covers with gilt illustration to front and tooled decoration, gilt title to spine. Padwick 398. Slight breaking to internal hinges and page block. Fading to spine gilts, some wear to board extremities, internally in good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Cricket-Bat; and How to Use It’. By ‘An Old Cricketer’. Houlston and Wright, second edition, London 1865 ‘Hand Books of Field and River Sports’. viii, 96pp. Original decorative cloth covers with printed title to spine. Sale plate of H.A.L. Cohen to inside front cover. Padwick 398. Breaking to front internal hinges, crease to one internal page. Minor soiling to boards, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

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

‘Percy Cruikshank’s Comic Almanack 1869’. Percy Cruikshank. Read, Brooks & Co., London 1868. 61pp. Bound in modern cloth boards, gilt title to spine, original colour pictorial wrappers retained. p30 features a 20 line poem ‘The Cricket Club. Black-Balling a Member’ with facing full page colour illustration. Illustrated in colour and mono throughout. Padwick 6848-1. Some wear to original wrappers, some age toning, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘Bona-venture and the Flashing Blade’. Gary [sic] Sobers. London 1967. Original hardback with good dustwrapper. Signed to the title page by Sobers in March 1998. Padwick 6345. Good/ very good condition. Slipped in is an original mono press photograph of Sobers in bowling action for the World XI against Australia, dated 31st December 1971. Signed in black ink to the photograph by Sobers. Central Press Photos, London, 6.5”x4.75”. Very good condition. Qty 2.... View full lot details

‘Baxter’s Second Innings. Specially Reported for the- School Eleven’. Henry Drummond. Hodder and Stoughton, London 1892. 58pp. Bound in distinctive and unusual original crushed velour covers in the form of cricket pads. Minor wear and soiling to covers, otherwise in very good condition. Padwick 6942. Sold with one of numerous later editions of the same title in conventional original decorative paper wrappers, issued as ‘The Christmas Gift-Book of The Boys’ Brigade. Christmas, 1899’. Some soiling... View full lot details

Felix on the Bat: Being a scientific inquiry into the use of the cricket bat: together with the history and use of the catapulta. Also, The Laws of Cricket as revised by the Marylebone Club’. Nicholas Wanostrocht. First edition. London 1845. Forty pages plus addenda and advertising pages to rear, with ten lithograph plates (seven hand-coloured, three mono). Original decorative green cloth covers with gilt titles and cricket scene image to front, page edges gilt.... 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

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. Third edition. London 1855. x, 74pp, with seven colour lithograph plates. Original decorative green cloth covers with gilt titles and cricket scene image to front, page edges gilt. Bookplate of J.W. Goldman to inside front cover. Padwick 397.... View full lot details

‘A Brush with Cricket’. Richie Ryall 1991. Limited edition of 850 copies signed by the author, this being number 713. This book was produced for Richie Ryalls Benefit Year 1991/92. Blue cloth boards with dustwrapper. This edition has been signed by the artist to the limitation page, by six Western Province players to the opposite page including Mike Voss, Meyrick Pringle, Faiek Davids, Ken Jackson etc. The foreword is signed by Ali Bacher and all... View full lot details

Cricket biographies. Three hardback titles. ‘The Graces (E.M., W.G. & G.F.)’, A.G. Powell and S. Canynge Caple, London 1948, limited edition no. 905/1000. ‘Well, Well, Wells!’. B.D. ‘Bomber’ Wells. Nottingham 1981. Limited edition 113/500 signed by Wells. Good dust wrapper. ‘Cricket’s Great Characters’, Gordon Ross 1977, limited edition of 300, this copy unnumbered. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

J.W. McKenzie facsimile reprints. Three limited edition hardback titles with good dustwrappers. ‘Shaw and Shrewsbury’s Team in Australia 1884-5’ 1885, reprinted 1985, no. 160/200. ‘The Cricketing Record. Major Wharton’s Tour 1888-9’, Charles Cox 1889, reprinted 1987, no. 112/200. ‘With the M.C.C. in Australia 1907-1908’, Major Philip Trevor 1908, reprinted 1999. Very good condition.... View full lot details

J.W. McKenzie facsimile reprints. Two hardback titles with good dustwrappers. ‘Some Recollections of Cricket’, Lord Charles J.F. Russell 1879, reprinted 1979, limited edition no. 61/100. ‘Curiosities of Cricket... by An Old Cricketer’ 1897, reprinted 1978, limited to 150 copies. Sold with ‘The Art of Nicholas Felix’, Gerald Brodribb 1985, limited edition no. 31/220 signed by the author. Very good condition. Qty 3.... View full lot details

J.W. McKenzie facsimile reprints. Three hardback titles with good dustwrappers. ‘The Grand Matches of Cricket Played in England from 1771 to 1791’, W. Epps 1799, reprinted 1989. ‘Recollections of Lord’s and the Marylebone Cricket Club’, William H. Slatter 1914, reprinted 1989. ‘The Dawn of Cricket’, H.T. Waghorn 1906, reprinted 2005. Sold with ‘The Rise and Fall of Percy Perrin. Derbyshire v Essex 1904’, John Shawcroft 2000. Very good condition. Qty 4.... View full lot details

Cricket various. A selection of books and other ephemera. Includes two signed limited edition titles published by Red Rose Books, Lancashire, ‘Johnny Briggs. Ashes century, Ashes hat-trick’, K. Martin Tebay 2006, no. 180/200, and ‘Mine Host at The Mitre. ‘Bobbie Peel at Blackpool, 1905’, Gerry Wolstenholme 2009, no. 81/120, both signed by the author. Other titles include ‘Famous Cricket Clubs’, H.E. Powell-Jones, London 1929. ‘Facts & Figures of Somerset County Cricket Club from 1891-1946’ booklet... View full lot details

‘The Edward Mills Grace Collection 2015’. Leather bound limited edition catalogue for the E.M. Grace sale held by Knights on the 4th July 2015. The catalogue is bound in green leather with Grace’s signature in gilt to lower front board, similar to his specially bound Wisdens, and are signed to limitation page by Edward Michael Grace, his great grandson, Edward Matthew Grace, his great, great grandson and auctioneer Tim Knight. They were sold as a... View full lot details

Gooch’s Golden Summer’. Bill Frindall. Boundary Books, Holmes Chapel 1991. Quarter leather. Limited edition no. 277 of 333 copies published. Signed by Gooch, Frindall and Trevor Bailey who wrote the appreciation. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘A Tale of Two Captains’. Bill Frindall. Boundary Books, Cheshire, 1992. Green quarter leather, marbled endpapers, gilt title to spine, gilt to top page edges, green cloth slip case. Limited edition of 350 copies of which this is number 5. Signed to limitation page by Frindall, Graham Gooch, Ted Dexter and Viv Richards. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Wisden Cricketers of the Year’. Simon Wilde. London 2013. Green leatherbound limited edition in slipcase, this being number 15 of 150 copies produced. Gilt titles to front cover and spine, gilt to page edges. Signed in ink by the ten listed players of the year, David Gower, Mike Brearley, Brian Close, Derek Underwood, Bob Willis, Ted Dexter, Dennis Amiss, Graham Gooch, Claire Taylor and Andrew Strauss. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Double Century. The Story of M.C.C. and Cricket’. A.R. Lewis. London, 1987. Bound in red leather, gilt to all page edges, in red cloth slipcase. Limited edition no. 85/100. Signed by Tony Lewis and Colin Cowdrey to limitation label laid down to inside front cover. Gilts to front and spine faded otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘A Sporting History. The Priory Collection’. David Norrie in Association with the Priory Collection. Privately published 2012. Large format highly illustrated book detailing the comprehensive sporting collection compiled by Nigel Wray. Signed by Wray to the title page. Dustwrapper. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Wisden Book of Test Captains. A Complete Record’. Ted Corbett & Joanne King. London 1991. Hardback with good dustwrapper. Signed in ink throughout to pages by over one hundred Test captains. Signatures include Carr, Dexter, M.J.K. Smith, Close, Graveney, Illingworth, Lewis, Denness, Edrich, Greig, Brearley, Boycott, Botham, Fletcher, Willis, Gower, Gatting (England), Harvey, Ian and Greg Chappell, Hughes, Border, Taylor, Waugh (Australia), Bacher, Kirsten, Pollock, Smith (South Africa), Nunes, Lloyd, Kallicharran, Murray, Greenidge, Richardson,... View full lot details

‘The Commonwealth Book of Cricket No. 3’. Edited by Jim Parks. London 1965. Hardback with dustwrapper. Twenty eight signatures to front endpaper and to pages of England, West Indies and New Zealand Test and County players. Signatures include Gifford, Parks, Graveney, Dexter, Close, M.J.K. Smith, Snow, Arnold, Harman, Pocock, Fletcher, M. Griffith, Thomson, Lenham (England), C. Griffith, Hall, Sobers, Ramadhin (West Indies), Reid (New Zealand) etc. Some duplication of signatures. Odd faults to dustwrapper. Good... View full lot details

‘The Fight for the Ashes 2001’. Jonathan Rice. London 2001. Hardback with good dustwrapper. Over forty signatures to endpapers and to pages of members of the England and Australia teams. Signatures include Hussain, Afzaal, Stewart, White, Tudor, Trescothick, Butcher, Ramprakash, Atherton, Thorpe, Caddick, Gough (England), S. Waugh, Gilchrist, Gillespie, Ponting, Martyn, Lee, Langer, McGrath, Hayden, Slater, Warne, Katich (Australia) etc. Odd duplication of signatures. Very good condition.... View full lot details

M.C.C. 1787-1937’ reprinted from ‘The Times’ M.C.C. Number May 25th 1937. The Times Publishing Company. London 1937. Original decorative boards. The facsimile autograph sheets of the England and Australian team who played at Lord’s in 1938 are laid down to the inside front board and the first end paper, the next two pages have the actual ink signatures of cricketers, officials of the M.C.C., writers etc and it is tempting to assume that the signatures... View full lot details

‘Cricket- the Silver Lining’. Cyril Washbrook. Sportsguide Publications, London 1950. Original dustwrapper with some wear. Signature in ink of Washbrook on piece laid down to title page. The facing page has been signed in ink by three officers of the Lancashire County and Manchester C.C. Signatures are Leonard Green (President, captain of Lancashire C.C.C. 1926-1928), J. Bowling Holmes (Chairman, Lancashire 2nd XI 1922-1928), and Geoffrey Howard (Secretary, Middlesex 1930, three matches). The inside front cover... View full lot details

‘Cricket Grounds then and now’. William A. Powell 1994. The book has been signed in black pen, mainly to the applicable county ground pages by over 200 players, the odd signature on paper piece and laid down. Signatures include Cork, Malcolm, Willey, Hendrick, Bolus, Barnett, H. Gibbs, S. Campbell, Harmison, D. Jones, Maynard, Croft, Jones, Nash, Such, Gooch, M. Waugh, Hussain, J. Rhodes, C. Broad, Russell, Thorpe, Ramprakash, Butcher, Clarke, S. Katich, Crawley, G. Jones,... View full lot details

‘Ashes to Ashes’. Andrew Flintoff. London 2009. Original hardback with very good dustwrapper. Nicely signed in black pen to the front endpaper by fourteen members of the England team who won the 2009 Ashes series. Signatures are Strauss (Captain), Flower (Coach), Cook, Bopara, Pietersen, Prior, Collingwood, Broad, Swann, Anderson, Onions, Bell, Trott and Panesar. Lacking two listed signatures of Flintoff and Harmison. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Signed cricket biographies and histories. Forty nine titles in two boxes, the majority hardbacks with the odd softback. Sixteen titles are signed by the author/ subject. Titles and signatures include ‘Cricket in the Blood’, Dudley Nourse, London 1949. ‘On Tour with Bradman’, Andy Flanagan, Sydney 1950, signed by Flanagan and Len Hutton to whom the copy was presented. ‘Parson’s Pitch’, David Sheppard, London 1964 (signature on label laid down). ‘The Trevor Goddard Story’, Trevor Goddard,... View full lot details

‘Barclays World of Cricket. The Game from A to Z’. E.W. ‘Jim’ Swanton. New edition, London 1980. Handsomely bound in full green leather, raised bands and gilts to spine. Presentation copy with handwritten dedication to ‘Hugh M-M. Whose idea and subsequent dedication made such an invaluable contribution to our book’. Signed by Swanton and dated June 1981. Minor rubbing to spine and slight splitting to front hinge, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Sold with... View full lot details

Cricket books. Large box of cricket books including biographies, histories, annuals etc. Good selection including ‘A Cricketer’s Yarns’ R. Daft 1926, ‘The Game of Cricket’ Lonsdale Library (1930) with tatty dustwrapper, ‘History of Cricket’. Eric Parker with good dustwrapper, Play fair Cricket Annual 1948 (1st) to 1952, 1954, 1955 and 1957, biographies include Hammond, Lindwall, Hutton, Illingworth, Bradman etc. Qty 55. Good condition... View full lot details

Cricket and sporting books. Selection of twenty one books including ‘Annals of Cricket’. W.W. Read. Sampson Low, London 1896. Original quarter vellum over dark green boards, gilt title to spine. Contents on hand-made paper, rough edges. Top edge gilt. This is the limited edition version lacking its limited edition page and signature, ‘World of Cricket. Fifty Years of Cricket. England v Australia, Colony v Colony 1856-1895, Records etc of the Cricket Field’. F.J. Ironside 1895.... View full lot details

Cricket tours, histories and biographies 1890s onwards. Three boxes comprising over eighty titles including some early first edition hardback biographies and histories, some signed, plus later yearbooks, annuals etc. Includes three titles signed by Garry Sobers, ‘Sir Gary[sic]’, Trevor Bailey, London 1976. ‘Sobers. The Changing Face of Cricket’, Garfield Sobers, London 1996. ‘Six of the Best. Cricket’s most famous over’, Grahame Lloyd, Cardiff 2008, signed by Sobers and Lloyd. Others signed by the author include... View full lot details

‘Frederick Lillywhite’s [& M.C.C.] Cricket Scores And Biographies Of Celebrated Cricketers’. Complete run of twenty hardback reprints of the original volumes covering the period 1746-1854. Published by Roger Heavens. Comprises Volumes I-XV, continuing with ‘Arthur Haygarth’s Cricket Scores and Biographies’, Vols. XVI-XX. Cambridge 1996-2016. Limited editions, Vols. I-XVII each of 500 numbered copies, Vols. XVIII-XX limited to 175 and signed by Heavens, various limitation numbers. Vols. XV-XX with dustwrappers. Each volume with accompanying index with... View full lot details

Association of Cricket Statisticians publications. Good run of thirty five ‘Famous Cricketers Series’ booklets comprising numbers 2, 3, 15-25, 28-44, 46-63, 76 and 82-98. Subjects include Ponsford, Merchant, Weekes, Hill, Bradman, Walcott, Worrell, Compton, Sobers, Grace, Parr, Spofforth, Giffen, Woodfull, Crawford, Jessop, Taylor, Jackson, Valentine, Perrin, Goddard etc. Includes one duplicate of no. 40, Harvey. Minor rubbing to some wrappers, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Qty 67.... View full lot details

‘British Sports and Sportsmen Past and Present’. Compiled and edited by ‘The Sportsman’. London 1908. Volumes 1 & 2. Original green and beige cloth boards. Gilt titles to fronts and spines, gilt to top page edges. Comprises a series of large portraits with biographical details of famous sportsmen including cricketers, Parr, Briggs, Daft, Emmett, Hawke, Jupp etc. Volume 1 with some breaking to internal hinges. Minor wear to boards, otherwise internally in good/ very good... View full lot details

‘The Cricket Quarterly. A Journal devoted to the Noble Game of Cricket’ 1963-1970. Edited by Rowland Bowen. Eastbourne & Mullion, Cornwall. Complete run of the journal uniformly bound in eight volumes with all title pages, forewords and indices, each in blue cloth boards with gilt titles to spines, lacking original card wrappers. Padwick 1195. Slipped in is a photocopied page of ‘Late Addenda and Errata’ issued as a supplement to Vol. 8, No. 4. Some... 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

‘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. Both volumes in original green cloth with gilt illustrations to fronts and gilt titles to spines, gilt to top edges. Padwick 687 & 721. ‘Great Batsmen’ with age toning to spine, breaking to page block. Both titles with nicks to spines, some wear to extremities and wrinkling... View full lot details

‘Beyond a Boundary’. C.L.R. James. First edition, London 1963. Original hardback in cloth boards, gilt to spine, lacking dustwrapper. Odd pencil annotations. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Laws of Cricket’. Cricket Press Series. Three editions, each in original paper wrappers. Issues are 1912 ‘1st year of publication’, 1924, and ‘Revised to date 1937. 66th year of publication’. The 1924 front wrapper detached with some wear and loss, lacking rear wrapper. Padwick 195. Sold with two further similar Cricket Press Series booklets, ‘The Laws of Rugby Football. 68th Year of Publication’, and ‘Rules of Hockey. 63rd Year of Publication’. Rusting to staples,... View full lot details

London City cricket clubs. Two club histories, ‘Coutts’ Cricket Club 1860-1960’ compiled by Malcolm Dawkins, published by the Club 1960, limited to 100 copies. Illustrated with real photographs laid to pages. Blue cloth, gilt title to front. Bookplate of A.E. Winder to inside front cover. Padwick 1323. ‘A happy memory of Cricket. 100 years of cricket at Lloyd’s Register [1882-1982]’, Denis Kidd, Crawley 1982. Original decorative card wrappers. Minor wear to covers, otherwise in good... View full lot details

‘Marylebone Cricket Club Valuation for Insurance. Draft Copy’. Christie, Manson & Woods, October 2004. 107pp followed by an additional five pages of ‘Comments on the Draft Valuation... of the books in the M.C.C. Library’. Listings include references to Epps’ ‘Collection of the Grand Matches’ valued at £12,000 and £14,000, Britcher’s ‘A Complete List’ at £80,000 etc. Bound in cloth boards in M.C.C. colours of red and yellow with gilt emblem to front. Only three copies... View full lot details

‘The Life of the Hon. Robert Grimston’. Frederick Gale. Longmans, Green & Co., London 1885. xii, 322pp. Bound in original blue cloth, gilt title ‘Memoir of the Hon. Robert Grimston’ to spine. Laid down frontispiece photograph of Grimston. Annotation in ink to half title page in Gale’s own hand ‘Bequeathed to F.N. Richardson’. Tipped in is a four page letter (front page detached) from Gale, dated 7th October 1884, apparently to Henry Richardson, acknowledging his... View full lot details

‘Catalogue of Cricket Books and Pictures’. Rev. Robert Stratton Holmes. A unique catalogue, handwritten in ink, of the extensive collection of books and pictures acquired by Holmes from the 1880s until his death in 1933. The catalogue comprises two small notebooks bound together in one volume in cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Laid down to the front cover is a title label handwritten in ink by George Neville Weston who was given the book... View full lot details

‘The Book of Sports, Athletic Exercises, and Amusements’. William Martin. First edition, Darton and Clark, London 1840. iv, 238pp. Illustrated with eighteen wood-engraved plates. Rebound in quarter calf with marbled boards, raised bands and gilt title label to spine. Lacking original wrappers. pp 83-104 on the practice and laws of cricket. Padwick 7129. Some engravings faded. Foxing to some pages, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘Sports and Pastimes’. Verses by Robert Overton. ‘Designed in England. Printed in Germany’ c.1900. Comprises title page followed six single-sided pages printed on card comprising humorous poems covering rowing, hunting, football, coaching, fishing, driving, bathing, racing, cricket and tennis, with attractive colour illustrations throughout. Three small holes to page edges where previously bound, the title has been tipped in to modern blue cloth, gilt title to spine, with original colour pictorial stiffened covers retained. Not... View full lot details

‘Famous Cricket Teams Photos...’. R. Scott & Co., Manchester 1899-1905. Six booklets out of seven known to have been produced, each of 16pp, comprising mono printed photographs of teams and some with additional individual players. Three issues are numbered to the original decorative paper wrappers (with varying titles), some of which feature an individual player to the front. Issues appear to be No. 1 1899 ‘Photos of the Principal County Cricket Teams and the Australians’,... View full lot details

‘Famous Cricketers’. R. Scott & Co., Manchester c.1905-1905. Three issues, the first published c.1903, 24pp with white pictorial wrappers with image of C.B. Fry to front, inside pages with individual portraits including Jackson, Jessop, Maclaren, Braund, Quaife, Hirst, Wood, Mason, Trumper etc. with additional text and statistics. Another c.1905 (dated 1906 to spine), 16pp in slightly smaller format, green pictorial wrappers with George Hirst to front and ornately decorated portrait pages to inside pages. The... View full lot details