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Triangular Test Tournament 1912. ‘Duke & Son’s Record of Test Match Cricket’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Penshurst 1912. 24pp booklet with original decorative paper wrappers, produced in the lead-up to the Triangular Test Tournament between England, Australia and South Africa, comprising statistics and portraits. Padwick 4333. Ownership name in ink to front wrapper. Minor foxing to wrappers, rusting to staples, otherwise in very good condition. Rare. One of the scarcest of Ashley-Cooper’s guides.... View full lot details

Arthur Mailey. ‘The 1930 Australian Eleven and other Caricatures’. Published by the author 1930. Printed by W.C. Penfold, Sydney. Bound in later green cloth with gilt/ leather title label to front cover, lacking original pictorial wrappers. Padwick 5052-2. Foxing to some pages, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘International Cricket. England v Australia. Review of the Fifty-One Great Test Matches’. Compiled by R.H. Campbell. Edited by ‘Old Cricketer’. Printed and published by Edgerton & Moore, Melbourne 1899. 40pp. Original paper wrappers. Originally from the collection of J.N. Pentelow with his ownership signature in ink to front wrapper, dated 30th April 1899. Padwick 4362. Some wear and age toning to wrappers, old tape repair to spine, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘Cricket & Cricketers Illustrated. “International Cricket”’ by ‘Mid-on’. Published under the auspices of the Melbourne C.C. and the Victorian Cricket Association by J.T. Picken, Melbourne c.1901. 50pp. Original decorative card wrappers with illustration of a batsman by Harry J. Weston to front. Illustrated throughout with team and player portraits, statistics, advertising etc. Ownership signature in ink to title page of Edgar Mayne (South Australia, Victoria & Australia 1906-1926). Padwick 7223-1. Not previously seen by the... View full lot details

‘Conway’s Australian Cricketers’ Annual for 1876-77’. John Conway. F.F. Bailliere, Melbourne 1877, first year of issue. 236pp plus advertising. Handsomely rebound in half calf and marbled boards, gilt title to spine, red speckled page edges. Original stiffened card wrappers retained. Pages checked and complete. Padwick 3363. Very good condition. A scarce annual.... View full lot details

‘Australian Cricketers’ Guide for 1882-83’. Henry F. Boyle and David Scott. Printed by Kemp Bros of Melbourne 1884, 4th year of issue. Rebound in green cloth, gilt title to spine, red speckled page edges, original rear wrapper retained, lacking original front wrapper. 210pp plus adverts, pages checked and complete. Contains accounts of Ivo Bligh’s English team in Australia, the Australians in England and America, Intercolonial matches, club averages etc. pp 146-150 with diagrams of field-placings.... View full lot details

‘Boer Prisoners in Ceylon. Report of A Cricket Match between an XI selected from the Prisoners-of-War at Diyatalawa and the Colombo Colts, played on the ground of the Nondescript Cricket Club, Victoria Park... July 5th & 6th, 1901’. A.W. Andree, Hopetoun Studio, Slave Island, Colombo. Reprinted from ‘The Ceylon Independent’, Independent Press 1901. 18pp with bookplate image of the two teams by Andree. Rebound in full red morocco, gilt title to spine, original wrappers retained.... View full lot details

‘The Cricket Guide’. Mohummud Abdullah Khan. Lucknow, printed at The Royal Printing Press, ‘First [and only] Edition’ 1891. Small 8vo. ii, 28pp. Full-page diagram of fielding positions on p27, original errata slip on folding green paper bound in to rear. ‘Intended for the use of young players, containing a short but comprehensive account of the game, embracing all the important rules and directions nicely arranged in due succession’. Bound in full green morocco, gilt title... View full lot details

‘The Cricket Test. Europeans vs. Ceylonese’ 1921. Compiled by ‘S.T.W.’ (S.T. Wootler. Published by The Ceylon Independent, “Independent” Press 1921. 10pp booklet rebound in later purple cloth, gilt title to front, with original paper wrappers retained. The original front wrapper features an image of ‘Mr. V.F.S. Crawford, (Leicestershire). First appearance, after the war, in Test Cricket’, with subtitle ‘Played on the C.C.C. [Colombo] Ground, March 18th & 19th 1921’. Contents include a page on ‘Ceylon... View full lot details

‘The M.C.C. in Northern India [1926/27]’. C.E. Newham. Lahore 1926. Published on behalf of the Committee. Original colour card wrappers. 48pp plus adverts. Padwick 4786. Breakage to page block with some pages cleanly detached. Light soiling to wrappers, nick to foot of spine, foxing to the odd page, otherwise in good condition. Scarce.... View full lot details

‘The Tour of the West Indian Cricketers, August & September 1886’. Charles Guy Austin Wyatt and Lawrence R. Fyfe. The Argosy Press, Demerara, West Indies 1887. 92pp. Mounted real sepia photograph of the team at the final match of the tour v Staten Island as frontispiece. Original pale blue stiffened card covers with replacement green cloth spine and gilt title to spine. The front board title reads ‘The Tour of the West Indian Cricketers. Their... View full lot details

‘The Revival of Sport in Barbados: A Full Chronicle of the Intercolonial Cricket Tournament, 1920, Barbados vs. Trinidad and Barbados Turf Club Races 16th & 17th February 1920’. Barbados Advocate 1920. 60pp plus advertising pages. Rebound in green half calf with marbled boards, gilt to spine, original pictorial wrappers retained with cover title ‘The Revival of Sport in the West Indies...’. Padwick 3690. The original front and rear wrappers with some loss, front wrapper laid... View full lot details

‘A Resume of Big Cricket in the West Indies and British Guiana since the West Indies tour of 1923 to England’. T. Sydney Birkett. Advocate Co. Ltd., Barbados 1927. 61pp plus advertising. Rebound in red cloth, gilt to spine, original front card wrapper retained, lacking original rear wrapper. Padwick 3670. Small blemish to original front wrapper, faults to the odd pages, otherwise in good condition. A rare title, not previously sold by Knights.... View full lot details

‘The South African Cricketers in England 1904’. Benjamin Wallach. Printed and published by Wallach’s Printing and Publishing Works, Johannesburg c.1905. 62pp with twenty two half-tone plates throughout. Bound in later blue cloth with inset section of original front cover with gilt title to front. Post-tour account of the third visit of a South African team to England, and the ‘first official representative team organised... under the direct control of the South African Cricket Association’, led... View full lot details

‘The Halifax Cricket Tournament: Visit of the American Twelve of Philadelphia, August 1874’. J.B. Lippincott & Co. Philadelphia 1874. Original attractive wrappers, with title on front wrapper within an acanthus leaf cartouche and ‘Presentation Copy’ printed above. This attractively designed pamphlet, ‘published for private circulation only’, reports on a series of matches between America (represented by the visiting Philadephians), Canada and England (represented by 60th Royal Rifles based in Halifax). Ink annotation to p15. Contained... View full lot details

‘My Cricketing Days’. C.G. Macartney. First edition London 1930. Original green cloth with gilt title to spine. Presentation copy with dedication to front endpaper, ‘To Sir James Barrie [J.M. Barrie], As some slight acknowledgement of the kindly interest which he has taken in my cricket & the friendship with which he has honoured me’. Very nicely signed by Macartney and dated 26th July 1930. Macartney was a member of the Australian touring party to England... View full lot details

‘Lancashire Cricket Record 1883’. Rare second year of issue. Printed and published by Fletcher & Speight, Bury 1883. 68pp. Original green paper wrappers. Comprises ‘Full scores of Lancashire County Matches and the Australians during last season [1882]’. Ownership stamp to title page of ‘F.E.S.’. Padwick 2712. Some loss and wear to wrappers with loss to spine, rear wrapper detached, otherwise in good condition for the age.... View full lot details

‘Playing For England! My Test-Cricket Story’. Jack Hobbs. First edition, London 1931. Original red cloth. To the front cover is a caricature in ink of Hobbs by the artist, Norman Edwards, with an additional illustration by Edwards of a cricket bat to the spine. Two adhesive labels are laid to the front cover (one detached), annotated in ink ‘1st Edition 1931. Unique because Famous Cartoonist Norman Edwards has provided a cartoon of Jack Hobbs on... 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. Sanders & G.G.S. Lindsay. Toronto 1887. Very nicely bound in beige quarter leather, marbled boards, raised bands and leather gilt title label to spine, red page edges, lacking original wrappers. Includes the frontispiece photograph of the team (some fading) laid opposite the dedication page. Padwick 5744. Ex Anthony Woodhouse collection. Some breaking to front... View full lot details

‘The 1789 Tour’. John Goulstone. Original stiff card covers. Published privately for the author by International Research Publications 1972. An account of the abortive attempt to send a team of English cricketers to Paris before the French Revolution. Limited edition of only one hundred copies produced, this being number 73. Padwick 4927. Ex libris Ronald D. Knight. Some foxing and creasing to wrappers, otherwise in 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 number 20 and signed by the author. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Lord Hawke’s XI at Unley’. Bernard Whimpress. Privately published 2003. Limited edition no. 51/100, signed by Whimpress. Sold with ‘What they said about Victor Trumper’, Ronald Cardwell, Cherrybrook 2016, no. 46/89, signed by Cardwell. Very good condition. Qty 2.... View full lot details

‘The Lost Art. A History of Under-Arm Bowling’. Gerald Brodribb. Boundary Books, Goostrey 1997. Limited edition of fifty copies produced, this being number 2, signed by the author. Quarter leather with gilt to spine, gilt to top edge, marbled endpapers. Sold with a standard softback edition of the same title. Very good condition. Qty 2.... View full lot details

‘Wheelwrights to Wickets. The Story of the Cricketing Hearnes’. J.W. ‘Jack’ Hearne. Boundary Books, Goostrey 1996. Red quarter leather with gilt title to spine and gilt to top page edges. Limited edition no. 50 of fifty copies produced, signed by Hearne and E.W. Swanton. Very good condition.... 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 copy number 211, each signed by J.E. Wanostrocht (a descendent of Felix), also by Ted Dexter, President of M.C.C., and Hubert Doggart, Chairman of the M.C.C. publishing committee and contributor of a charming foreword. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Echoes from a Golden Age’. Duncan Anderson. Boundary Books, Childrey 2010. Limited edition of 100 copies of which only numbers 11-100 were available for sale, this being number 26, signed by the author. Good dustwrapper. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Cricketers Of My Time’. E.W. Swanton. London 1999. Limited edition quarter leather bound copy with gilt to top edge. Limited edition no. 6 of 100 copies produced by Boundary Books, signed by Swanton. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘At the Heart of English Cricket. The Life and Memories of Geoffrey Howard’. Stephen Chalk. Fairfield Books 2001. Bound in navy half calf and marbled boards. Limited edition number 23 of 100 produced, signed by Howard, Chalke and Scyld Berry who wrote the foreword. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Rise and Fall of Percy Perrin: Derbyshire v Essex 1904’. John Shawcroft. J.W.McKenzie 2000. Special limited edition number 10 of forty one numbered copies, each signed by the author and Jim Hutchinson, the 103-year old Derbyshire cricketer who played first-class cricket with many of those involved in this match. Half green morocco with green cloth boards, top edge gilt, spine with raised bands and gilt titles, in original slipcase. Perrin scored 343no out of... View full lot details

‘The Noble Cricketers: A Poetical And Familiar Epistle’ by John Wolcot. Facsimile reprint of the rare poem published by J. Bew in 1778, with a new introduction and notes by John Goulstone. J.W. McKenzie, Ewell 2010. Limited edition hardback of 100 numbered copies of which this is number 10, signed by Goulstone. Good dustwrapper. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Lord Brackley’s Cricket Tour to West Indies 1905’. Tony Laughton. Boundary Books, Childrey 2020. Limited edition no. 32 of 70 copies produced, signed by Laughton. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Arlott & Ackroyd: A celebration of cricket, wine, poetry and place’. With a commentary by David Rayvern Allen. Published in 2002 by Christopher Saunders, Newnham on Severn. Leather bound limited edition number 18 of 295 books produced, signed by Norman Ackroyd and David Rayvern Allen to limitation label to inside front board. In the pocket at the front of the book is an accompanying signed and numbered etching of a portrait of Arlott by Ackroyd,... View full lot details

Garry Sobers. Six sixes v Glamorgan 1968. Two hardback titles relating to Sobers’ achievement of hitting six sixes in one over off the bowling off Malcolm Nash while playing for Nottinghamshire at Swansea in 1968. ‘Not Only, But Also. My Life In Cricket’, Malcolm Nash, Cardiff 2018. Limited edition hardback number 6 of 36 copies produced, published on the 50th anniversary of Sobers’ achievement, signed by Nash and Sobers. In slipcase. ‘Howzat? The Six Sixes... View full lot details

‘Tours and Tests’. Kenneth Farnes. First edition, London 1940. Reasonable dustwrapper. Sold with two further hardback titles with dustwrappers. ‘Ball of Fire’, Fred Trueman, London 1976, signed by Trueman, and ‘Thommo’, Jeff Thomson & David Frith, 1980, signed by Thomson and Frith. Good condition. Qty 3.... View full lot details

‘Billy Murdoch. Cricketing Colossus’. Richard Cashman & Ric Sissons. Sydney 2019. Limited hardback edition of seventy copies of which 56 were for sale, this being number 38. Signed by David Murdoch and Jan Joyce, great-grandchildren of Billy Murdoch, and both authors. Good dustwrapper. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Victor Trumper and the Golden Age of Australian Cricket. A pictorial record’. Peter Schofield & Peter Lloyd. Privately published in Australia 2020. Limited edition bound in full green leather, gilt titles to front and spine, with reproduction image of Trumper inset to front cover. 110 copies were produced of which 100 were for sale, this being number 61. Signed by the authors, David Frith and Gideon Haigh. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Victor Trumper’s Photograph Album of the 1909 Australian Tour of England’. Facsimile reproduction of the album, bound in black leather and accompanied by introductory booklets housed in a pocket at the front of the album giving details of the photographs. Published in 2005 in a limited edition of 200 copies, this being number 100. Minor wear to front cover, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Don Bradman and the Changing of the Guard. A Pictorial Narrative’. Peter Lloyd and Peter Schofield, 2021. Limited edition no 79 of 117 produced, signed by Lloyd, Schofield, Mike Coward and Bernard Wimpress. In slip case. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The New South Wales Teachers on Tour. Xmas 1912. North Island, New Zealand’. Printed by McMillan & Goddard, Sydney. Rare and early post-tour booklet for the tour to New Zealand 1912. Described in the introduction as the Third Tour to New Zealand undertaken by the New South Wales Teachers having previously visited in 1907 and 1909. 32pp in original wrappers comprising full scores for the eight matches played in Wellington, Napier and Auckland, averages and... View full lot details

Somerset County Cricket Club Year Book 1892[-93]. Compiled by Tom H. Knight (County Scorer). Printed by Alex Hammett, Taunton 1892. Original decorative boards. The year book provides a review of the 1892 season, (the front cover dated ‘1892’) and fixtures etc. for 1893 with the title page dated ‘1893’. Padwick 2558. Foxing, wear and soiling to boards and spine, breaking to page block, otherwise in generally good condition. Rare third year of publication.... View full lot details

Somerset County Cricket Club Year Book 1893-94. Fourth Edition. Compiled by Tom H. Knight (County Scorer). Printed by Alex Hammett, Taunton 1893. Original decorative boards. Minor soiling to boards otherwise in very good condition. Scarce.... View full lot details

Somerset County Cricket Club Year Book 1894-95. Fifth Edition. Compiled by Tom H. Knight (County Scorer). Printed by Alex Hammett, Taunton 1895. Original decorative boards. Ex J.W. Goldman collection. Water damage to front board, some soiling to boards and loss to spine otherwise in good condition. Scarce.... View full lot details

Somerset County Cricket Club Year Book 1895-96. 6th Edition. Compiled by W.T. Webb. Printed by Hammett & Co, Taunton 1896. Original decorative boards. Minor soiling to boards otherwise in very good condition. Scarce.... View full lot details

Somerset County Cricket Club Year Book 1896-97. 7th Edition. Compiled by W.T. Webb. Printed by Hammett & Co, Taunton 1897. Original decorative boards. Light soiling to boards otherwise in good/ very good condition. Scarce.... View full lot details

Somerset County Cricket Club Year Book 1897-98. 8th Edition. Compiled by W.T. Webb. Printed by Hammett & Co, Taunton 1898. Original decorative boards. Water damage and tippex marks to front cover, some soiling, otherwise in good condition. Scarce.... View full lot details

Somerset County Cricket Club Year Book 1898-99. 9th Edition. Compiled by W.T. Webb. Printed by Hammett & Co, Taunton 1899. Original decorative boards. Very good/ excellent condition. Scarce.... View full lot details

Somerset County Cricket Club Year Book 1899-1900. 10th Edition. Compiled by G.S. McAulay. Printed by Hammett & Co, Taunton 1899. Original decorative boards. Minor soiling and wear to boards, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Scarce.... View full lot details

Somerset County Cricket Club Year Book 1900-01. Compiled by G.S. McAulay. Printed by Hammett & Co, Taunton 1900. Original decorative boards. Last page, rear endpaper and board becoming detached. Small ink stain to gutter of several pages. Loss to spine, some breaking to page block, otherwise in generally good condition. Scarce.... View full lot details

Somerset County Cricket Club Year Book 1901-02. Compiled by G.S. McAulay. Printed by Hammett & Co, Taunton 1901. Original decorative boards. Some soiling to boards, otherwise in very good condition. Scarce.... View full lot details

Somerset County Cricket Club Year Book 1902-03. Compiled by G.S. McAulay. Printed by Hammett & Co, Taunton 1902. Original decorative boards. Minor soiling and wrinkling to boards, slight breaking to page block, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Scarce.... View full lot details

Somerset County Cricket Club Year Book 1903-04. Compiled by G.S. McAulay. Printed by Hammett & Co, Taunton 1904. Original decorative boards. Ex Anthony Woodhouse collection. Minor soiling and wear to boards, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Scarce.... View full lot details

Somerset County Cricket Club Year Book 1904-05. Compiled by G.S. McAulay. Printed by E.S. & A. Robinson Ltd, Bristol 1905. Original decorative boards. Breaking to page block, loss to spine, otherwise in good condition. Scarce.... View full lot details

Somerset County Cricket Club Year Book 1905-06. Compiled by G.S. McAulay. Printed by E.S. & A. Robinson Ltd, Bristol 1906. Original decorative boards. Minor soiling to boards, small bump to foot of spine, otherwise in very good condition. Scarce.... View full lot details

Somerset County Cricket Club Year Book 1910-11. Printed by Hammett & Co, Taunton 1911. Original decorative boards. Very minor soiling to boards, otherwise in very good condition. Scarce.... View full lot details

Somerset County Cricket Club Year Book 1911-12. Printed by Hammett & Co, Taunton 1912. Original decorative boards. Ex J.W. Goldman collection. Very good condition. Scarce.... View full lot details

Somerset County Cricket Club Year Book 1912-13. Printed by Hammett & Co, Taunton 1913. Original decorative boards. Ex J.W. Goldman collection. Some wear and soiling to boards, otherwise in good condition. Scarce.... View full lot details

Somerset County Cricket Club Year Book 1913-14. Printed by Hammett & Co, Taunton 1914. Original decorative boards. Soiling and wear to boards, slight breaking to internal hinges, otherwise in good condition. Scarce.... View full lot details

Somerset County Cricket Club Year Book 1920 and 1921. Somerset County Herald, Taunton. Original decorative wrappers. The 1920 issue with light soiling to wrappers, loss to foot of spine, rusting to staples. The 1921 with front wrapper detached and worn, loss to spine and rusting to staples. Both issues internally in good/ very good condition. Qty 2.... View full lot details

Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1887-1888. Hardback ‘blue book’. Original decorative boards. Gilt titles with silver gilt Kent emblem to centre. Printed by J. Burgiss-Brown, Maidstone 1888. Ownership name in ink to front endpaper of ‘A.J. Lancaster, Secretary, Kent County Cricket Club’. Annotations in ink to pp 5-10. Minor wear to board and spine extremities, otherwise in very good condition. Eleventh issue of the ‘blue book’.... View full lot details

Leicestershire County Cricket Club Year Book 1903. Original blue wrappers with titles to front. 26pp. Some rusting to staples, odd minor faults otherwise in good condition. An early year book for the club... View full lot details

Leicestershire County Cricket Club Year Book 1905. Original green wrappers with titles to front. 22pp. Some rusting to staples otherwise in good condition. An early year book for the club... View full lot details

Leicestershire County Cricket Club Year Book 1909. Original grey wrappers with titles to front. 24pp. Some rusting to staples, some wear with small loss to front wrapper corners otherwise in good condition. An early year book for the club... View full lot details

Leicestershire County Cricket Club Year Book 1934. Original wrappers in club colours with titles to front. 110pp. Some rusting to staples, some minor wear and soiling to wrappers otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

Essex County Cricket Club 1948-1958, 1990-2006. Run of twenty eight official Yearbooks/Annuals for the period. Original decorative and pictorial wrappers. Sold with ‘Essex C.C.C. List of Members 1950’, membership cards for 1947-55, 1990-2006, some duplication, club magazines etc. Good condition... View full lot details

‘A Who’s Who of Lancashire County Cricket Club 1865-1990’. Robert Brook and David Goodyear. Breedon Books, Derby 1991. Limited edition of 350 copies, this being number 347. Signed to the title page by eleven Lancashire captains. Signatures are Lister, Cranston, Washbrook, Blackledge, Grieves, Statham, Bond, D. Lloyd, C. Lloyd, Abrahams and Hughes. Additionally signed by the authors to the page facing the Contents page. Includes original correspondence from the Club accompanying the book. Good dustwrapper.... View full lot details

John [& James] Lillywhite’s Cricketers’ Annuals 1871-1900. A good run of the ‘green’ and ‘red’ Lillywhites. Includes eleven issues of ‘John [& James] Lillywhite’s Cricketers’ Companion’ (‘green Lillywhite’) for years 1871-1885. The 1871 in original wrappers, with minor loss to wrapper extremities, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Issues 1873, 1874, 1876 & 1877 bound together in one volume, lacking covers and original wrappers. The 1878 in original wrappers with loss to spine and wear.... View full lot details

Gloucestershire cricket. ‘Scores made in County Matches by the Gloucestershire County Cricket Club’, published by Arrowsmith, Bristol. A compilation of issues of the Annual comprising over 800 pages covering seasons 1870-1914, bound in red cloth with thirteen full page plates, title to spine ‘G.C.C.C. Scores 1870-1914’. Lacking eight matches (four leaves) in 1882, and one of the two plates for 1901. Presentation inscription in ink to front endpaper ‘The Skipper from Ros. In memory of... View full lot details

‘M.C.C. Match List. A summary of 8,642 matches played in the United Kingdom by the Marylebone Cricket Club’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. London 1930. Rebound in red and yellow cloth with original gilt title label laid down to front cover. Very good condition. Sold with four issues of ‘Scores of Matches’ for seasons, 1887-1890, each bound in original red cloth with gilt title and M.C.C. emblem to front. Minor wear to boards, otherwise in good/ very good... 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

Association of Cricket Statisticians publications. Good run of forty ‘Famous Cricketers Series’ booklets comprising numbers 1-39 including 1st and 2nd editions of no. 1, Jack Hobbs, and the 2nd edition of no. 4 Frank Woolley. Other subjects include Ponsford, Merchant, Headley, Larwood, Armstrong, Tarrant, Ranjitsinhji, Hammond, Grace, Duleepsinhji, Statham, Lindwall, Parr, Spofforth, Tyson, Blythe, Weekes, Bradman, Walcott, Hayward, Worrell, Compton etc. Good condition.... View full lot details

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

‘Catalogue of Cricket Literature’. J.W. McKenzie. Ewell 1972. John McKenzie’s first cricket book catalogue. Bound in original blue card wrappers. Annotated ‘ticks’ to listings on pages throughout. Minor soiling to wrapper extremities, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘Cricket Catalogue One Hundred’. J.W. Mckenzie. Ewell 1996. A catalogue of cricket memorabilia with an introduction by David Rayvern Allen. Original pictorial cloth-backed boards. Presentation copy of the limited edition of only 25 numbered copies, this being no. 3, signed by McKenzie. Very good condition.... View full lot details

J.W. Mckenzie. Cricketana Catalogue 134. Ewell 2005. A catalogue of cricket memorabilia with an introduction ‘J.W. Goldman. Life with one of the great collectors by his son Alfred Goldman’, recalling life with his father J.W. Goldman, the well-known cricket book and cricket memorabilia collector. Original pictorial cloth-backed boards, gilt title to spine. Presentation copy inscribed by McKenzie of a limited edition of 25 numbered copies, this being no. 5 signed by Alfred Goldman. Sold with... View full lot details

Cricket auction and dealer’s catalogues 1970s-1980s. A good selection of thirty eight original dealer and auction sale catalogues. Includes three early typed dealer catalogues for John McKenzie of Ewell and two for Wesley Harte of Northern Ireland. Also twenty three Phillips auction catalogues 1978-1988 including the Pelham Warner book collection sale of 1980, a Sotheby’s of Taunton sale in 1985, and others including Christies, Boundary Books, Palmeira etc. Odd duplication. Good condition.... View full lot details

Cricket exhibition and auction catalogues 1935-1967. Four official catalogues, each in original paper wrappers. Three exhibition catalogues are for the ‘Exhibition of Cricket and Sporting Pictures’ at Whitechapel Art Gallery, London 1935. ‘Cricket Pictures from the collection of Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bt.’, City of Manchester Art Gallery 1937. ‘Sussex Cricket Past and Present’, Hove Museum of Art 1957. Also one auction, ‘A catalogue of the extensive collection of Books on Cricket formed by J.W. Goldman... View full lot details

Cotterell & Co., Dale End, Birmingham catalogues early 1930s. Three original catalogues of cricket books (and prints). ‘A List of Cricket Books & Prints offered for sale... No. 6’ 1932, 8pp, 352 items listed, lacking staple, with rust mark, age toning to page edges. Housed in modern green cloth slipcase with leather and gilt title label to front with title ‘Cotterell Cricket Catalogue 1932’. The other two titled ‘A List of Cricket Books offered for... View full lot details

‘E.K. Brown. Cricket Bookseller’. D.T. Smith. Childrey 2011. Limited edition of ninety copies of which this is number 44. Very good condition. Sold with three original copies of E.K. Brown’s cricket book catalogues, one annotated ‘1979’ to front plus duplicate, the other undated, probably mid-1970s, some foxing and age toning. Also an official Cotterell & Co., Dale End, Birmingham catalogue, ‘A List of Cricket Books & Prints offered for sale... No. 6’ 1932, 8pp,... View full lot details

‘Cricket’. W.G. Grace. J.W. Arrowsmith, Bristol and Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. London 1891. Original green cloth, with gilt titles to front board and spine. With inscription to front end paper ‘With the Publisher’s kind regards 11/6/91 (11th June 1891) and nicely signed in ink by W.G. Grace. The book was presented to Mr Ronald L. Elliott, a cricket writer for the Bristol Evening Post, in 1950 as a thank you from Edgar M.... View full lot details

‘The Chronicle of W.G.’, J.R. Webber, Nottingham 1998. Limited subscriber’s edition softback number 121/440. Signed to the limitation page by the author, also Marianne Day, Granddaughter of W.G., and G.F. Grace, Great Nephew of W.G. Published by the A.C.S. to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the birth of W.G. Grace. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘W.G. Grace. A Biography’. W. Methven Brownlee. Iliffe & Son, London, 1st edition 1887. 166pp. Original blue cloth boards, gilt titles to front and spine. Presentation copy from the author with dedication in ink to half title page to Henry Jones Esq., and an accompanying handwritten note overlaid, partially obscuring the original dedication, to ‘My dear Sir, nicely signed ‘W. Methven Brownlee’ and dated 17th July 1889. Padwick 7575. Staining and some wear to boards,... View full lot details

‘W.G. Cricketing Reminiscences and Personal Recollections’. W.G. Grace. London 1899. Pictorial cloth boards. Presentation copy with florid handwritten dedication in ink to half title page, ‘Batting Prize. With “Leather Hunter’s” best wishes, A.J. Gaston, 1921[?]’. Padwick 7583. Appears to be lacking the front endpaper. Breaking to internal hinges, wear to boards, internally in good condition.... 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

‘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

Limited edition brochures, histories etc. My Dear Michael... Cricketing & other extracts from Neville Cardus’s letters to Michael Kennedy, 1959-74’, 2007, no. 4/500, ‘Archie Remembered’, no. 25/424, ‘Johnny Remembered’, no. 6/225 and Cricket Memorabilia Society 19th Century Facsimile Autographs’, booklet limited to 250 copies. Plus ‘Yorkshire C.C.C. American Tour’ brochure 1964, ‘The History of Seaton Carew Cricket Club 1829-1965’. C. Hornby 1965, official order of service for the centenary of the death of... View full lot details

‘Sir Everton Weekes: An Appreciation’. Tony Cozier. Ewell 2017. Limited edition of 125 copies, of which nos. 1-25 are specially bound, this being no. 4, signed by Weekes and Cozier. Minor creasing to dustwrapper, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Innings Complete’. Philip Paine. Vols 1-9, 11, 14, 16 and 17. Published 1999-2011. All numbered limited editions, Vol. 1 of 300 copies, the others limited to 250 copies, various limitation numbers, each signed by Paine. Sold with one further signed title by Paine, ‘Finally a Face. A Memoir of Reginald Wood’ 2007, no. 45/500. Very good condition. Qty 14.... View full lot details

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‘The Graveneys’. Grahame Parker. Richard Walsh Books, Somerset 1995. Bound in green cloth, gilt title to front. Limited edition no. 32/50 signed to photograph plate by Tom and David Graveney and by Parker to title page. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Victor Trumper. A complete record of his performances on the cricket field’. Alfred James 2020. 56pp. Large format, original pictorial card wrappers. Limited edition no. 78/99, signed by James. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Duncan Anderson. Two signed limited edition titles on Nottinghamshire cricket by Anderson. ‘A Bibliography of Nottinghamshire Cricket’, Newnham on Severn 2005. Limited edition softback no. 36/100. ‘Early Books on Nottinghamshire Cricket, privately published 2020, limited edition hardback with very good dustwrapper, no. 21/50. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Samuel Britcher. The Hidden Scorer’. David Rayvern Allen. Original card wrappers. Limited edition no. 29/100. Signed by the author. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Hambledon’s Cricket Glory’. Ronald Knight. Fifteen volumes, nos. 2-10, 11, 13, 14, 18, 26 and 27. Printed between 1975 and 1994. Each copy signed by Knight, a good number with signed letter or note slipped in. Tape reinforcement to spines of Vols. 7, 8 and 9, otherwise in good condition. Sold with ‘Here’s The Hambledon Club! The Story of Hambeldon Cricket Club 1796-2000’, Neil Jenkinson, Winchester 2001, softback signed by the author. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Bardswells: Fact and Fiction with a reprint of ‘Played On’ by Emily Bardswell’. Derek Deadman and Christopher Sheppard. Privately printed in Leicester 1979. Printed paper wrappers with original black taped spine. Limited edition number 29 of 50 copies printed and signed by the two authors. Padwick 7297-1. Sold with an original copy of ‘”Played On.” The Troubles of a County Captain’, Emily Bardswell, London 1898. Bound in original green cloth, gilt title to spine.... View full lot details

‘Wilfred Stanley Bird (1883-1915). A Tribute’. Duncan Anderson. Privately printed 2016. No. 4 in the series ‘Victime de la Guerre’. Limited edition no. 23 of twenty five copies produced and signed by the author with accompanying signed letter. Some wear and loss of print to the wrappers, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘John Briggs. A complete record of his performances in Lancashire County Cricket...’. T. Swindells. Manchester 1902. 24pp booklet with original pictorial green covers. Headed ‘Lancashire Cricketers No.1’. Padwick 7376. Age toning to wrapper edges and pages, slight splitting to spine, rusting to staple, otherwise in good condition. Rare.... View full lot details

Shane Warne. My Illustrated Career’. Shane Warne. London 2006. Leather hand bound limited edition number 884 of 1000 copies produced, signed by Warne to the limitation page. In green slipcase and original card packaging, including the six limited edition photographs of Warne reproduced from the book. Very good/excellent condition... View full lot details

‘The Immortals’. The Book of New Zealand Test Players’. Paul Verdon. Auckland 2006. Limited edition number 326 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

‘Last Over’. E.W. Swanton and David Rayvern Allen. London 1996. Limited edition quarter leather bound copy with gilt to all edges by Boundary Books. Limited edition of 90 copies, this being copy 82. Signed to the limitation page by Swanton and Rayvern Allen and to the Foreword by Tim Rice.. Very good condition... View full lot details

‘A.D. Taylor. The Cricketologist’. Tony Laughton with forward by Hubert Doggart. Boundary Books, Manchester, 2002. Numbered limited edition of 200, of which 50 were a specially bound quarter leather deluxe edition, gilt to page edges, this copy being number 5, signed by Laughton and Doggart. Sold with an unnumbered presentation copy to the late vendor of the standard limited edition, signed to the limitation page by Laughton. Excellent condition. Qty 2.... View full lot details

‘Captain of the Crowd. Albert Craig, Cricket and Football Rhymster 1849-1909’. Tony Laughton. Boundary Books, Oxfordshire, 2008. Hardback with original dust wrapper, signed by the author. Sold with Laugthon’s follow-up title, ‘Bibliography of the works of Albert Craig Cricket & Football Rhymester’ 2016, limited edition softback no. 27/25, unsigned. Very good condition. Qty 2.... View full lot details

David Boorman signed limited edition books. Four titles by Boorman, of which three are hardbacks, all signed by the author. Hardback titles are ‘Cricket in the Forest. J.T. McGaw and Country House Cricket at St. Leonard’s Forest, Horsham, 1924-1931’. Published 2012. Limited edition no. 35/60. ‘Grand Cricket Matches on the Leas. Folkestone Cricket, 1862-1870’ 2013, no. 3/75. ‘Hythe Cricket Week 1894-1939’ 2016, no. 7/60. One softback, ‘A History of Cricket at Knepp Castle and the... View full lot details

‘Kings of Cricket- Anecdotes and Reminiscences from 1858 to 1892’. Richard Daft. Bolton 1893. Black quarter leather with brown cloth, gilt titles and illustration to cover, gilt to top edge. Replacement leather spine and endpapers. Limited large paper subscribers’ edition of 150 copies, signed and numbered by Daft, this being no. 142. Subscriber number 142 was T.F. Rider of Stockwell, London. Some wear to original boards, otherwise in good/very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Alletson’s Innings’. John Arlott. Two copies of the facsimile reprint published by J.W. McKenzie in 1991 as a numbered limited edition of 250 copies. One copy is bound in full black calf, gilt title to front and spine, gilt to top page edges, in slip case. Only ten copies were produced in this format, this being copy no. 2, signed to the limitation page by Arlott. Very good condition. The other copy is the ‘standard’... View full lot details

‘The Lord of Lord’s. The Life and Times of Lord Frederick Beauclerk’. Mike Thompson. Newnham on Severn 2017. Original maroon cloth in pictorial slip case. Limited edition of 63 copies, this being number 30, signed by The 14th Duke of St. Albans and the author. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘A Pictorial History of Sussex County Cricket Club’. Edited by Roger Packham, Nicholas Sharp, Phil Barnes and Jon Filby. Hove 2014. Limited edition of 175 copies, this copy being no. 4. Bound in blue cloth with very good dustwrapper, housed in a lidded box. 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,... View full lot details

‘Cricketers and the Law’. J.W. Goldman. Published privately, September 1958. Limited edition of 350 copies printed of which 300 were for sale, this being no. 127, signed to the limitation page by Goldman. Padwick 7210. Dustwrapper with minor nick, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Sold with ‘Caught in Court’, John Scott, London 1989, signed to the title page by the author with an official order of Service of Thanksgiving for Scott, East Grinstead, 20th... View full lot details

‘David Rayvern Allen. A Man of Many Parts’. Michael Down. Eulogy by Richard Stilgoe. Childrey 2002. Limited to 125 copies produced of which 25 were issued in a special Deluxe binding in black cloth and marbled boards, this being copy no. 4. Signed to the limitation page by the author and additionally by Tim Rice and Richard Stilgoe. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘England v. Australia. The Record of a Memorable Tour [1911-12]’. P.F. Warner. Mills & Boon 1912. Large paper limited edition of only 50 copies produced, this being no. 40, nicely signed by the author. Original cream cloth, titles in gilt to front and spine, gilt to top edge, other page edges untrimmed. Padwick 4442. Slight breaking to internal hinges, some soiling to spine and board edges, otherwise in very good condition. Rare.... View full lot details

‘500 Notable Cricket Quotations’. Compiled by Irving Rosenwater 1995. Limited deluxe edition of ninety five copies produced in green cloth and marbled boards, of which seventy five were for sale, this being no. 7. Signed by the author who has added in his own hand one of the quotations from the book. Slip case. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Cricket-Field’. James Pycroft. Edited by F.S. Ashley-Cooper. London 1922. Original brown and cream leather covers, gilt titles to front and spine, gilt to top page edges. Limited Subscribers’ edition no. 41/100, nicely signed in ink to the limitation page by Ashley-Cooper. Ownership/ subscriber’s name to the limitation page and to the head of the Introduction page. Wear to head and foot of spine, boards a little soiled, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Cricketers Of My Time’. E.W. ‘Jim’ Swanton. London 1999. Two hardback copies, one a limited edition bound in quarter leather with gilt to top edge, no. 90 of 100 copies produced by Boundary Books, signed by Swanton. The other is a standard hardback issue with good dustwrapper, being a presentation copy to ‘Christopher [Martin-Jenkins] in admiration and affection. May you long continue to keep cricket sane’, signed ‘Jim, Sandwich, October 1999’. Sold with ‘Arabs in... View full lot details

Sussex signed limited edition booklets. Nine booklets published by the Sussex Cricket Museum and Education Trust, each signed (unless stated) by the author and/ or subject, contributor(s). All similarly bound in original blue card wrappers. Titles are ‘A.J. Gaston’ facsimile reprints of three Benefit leaflets’, Roger Packham & Nicholas Sharp 2011, no. 1/50 ‘proof copy’, unsigned. ‘A Celebration Lunch for Robin Marlar & Jim Parks’, Packham & Sharp 2011, no. 113/150, unsigned. ‘Ted Dexter. A... View full lot details

Sussex signed limited edition booklets. Nine booklets all, with one exception, published by the Sussex Cricket Museum and Education Trust, each signed (unless stated) by the author and/ or subject, contributor(s). All similarly bound in original blue card wrappers. Titles are ‘Sussex- Seven times the Bridesmaid’, Nicholas Sharp, Purley 2003, copy no. 1 of 50 produced. ‘A.J. Gaston’ facsimile reprints of three Benefit leaflets’, Roger Packham & Nicholas Sharp 2011, no. 1/50, unsigned. ‘The Diversity... View full lot details

‘Index to all First-Class Matches in “Scores and Biographies”, Vols. I-XIV 1746-1878’. Compiled by J.B. Payne, Harrogate, 1903. Limited to one hundred copies. 36pp. Original stiffened card covers with olive green cloth spine. Padwick 805. Front board detached, some soiling to boards, bumping to lower corner, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘A Guide to Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. Tony Laughton, Newnham 2013. Limited edition of fifty copies bound in green cloth, gilt titles to front and spine, this being number 25, signed in ink by Laughton to limitation label to inside front cover. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Wisden Book of Cricket Memorabilia’. Marcus Williams & Gordon Phillips. Oxford 1990. Blue and black quarter leather limited edition of 100 copies, numbered and signed by the authors Phillips and Williams, this being no. 4. In slip case. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Ewbank Enquiry’. David Rayvern Allen. Farnham 2012. Quarter leather limited edition number IX of 85 books produced of which 75 were for sale, signed by Rayvern Allen, in slip case. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Peter May. A Biography’. Alan Hill. London 1996. Foreword by Denis Compton. Limited edition bound in full leather, gilt title to spine, in slip case. Limited to 126 copies of which nos. 1-25 were bound in full leather, this being no. 17, signed by Virginia May, Colin Cowdrey and the author. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Webber’s Cricket Year Book’ 1946/47 & 1947/48. R. Webber. Privately published in Hunstanton 1947 & 1948 (first and second year of issue). Limited edition of 100 and 250 numbered copies, the 1946/47 signed by the author, the 1947/48 with printed signature, these being numbers 14 and 104 respectively. Original green cloth boards, gilt titles to spines. The 1946/47 edition is a presentation copy signed by the author to ‘Sir Pelham Warner’. Padwick 1127. Good/ very... View full lot details

‘Cricket Tickets. Lord’s Ground Tickets 1993-2018’. Jules Akel. Christopher Saunders Publishing Limited, 2019. Two hardback copies, one is the limited edition no. 44 of 50 produced, signed by Jules Akel, Colin Maynard and Paul Rennie, with specimen tickets housed in pockets at the rear. Bound in green cloth and housed in slipcase. The other is a standard hardback in dustwrapper. Very good condition. Qty 2.... View full lot details

‘The David Frith Archive. A detailed catalogue of the cricket library and memorabilia collection of David Frith’. D. Frith. Childrey 2009. Limited edition of only seventy five copies, signed and numbered by the author, this being number 26. Bound in red cloth. Rare, sold out edition. Very good condition.... View full lot details

John Goulstone. Four signed titles of which three are hardbacks with good dustwrapper. Titles are ‘Hambledon. The Men and the Myths’, Cambridgeshire 2001, signed by Goulstone. ‘The Noble Cricketers: a poetical and familiar epistle’, John Wolcot, facsimile reprint by J.W. McKenzie, Ewell 2010, limited edition of 100 copies of which this is a ‘Review Copy’ signed by Goulstone who wrote the new introduction. ‘On the Level. Cricket and Society in 18th-Century Brighton’, Hove 2019, limited... View full lot details

Martin Wilson. Four softback titles by Wilson, all signed by the author. Three are limited editions, ‘A Bibliography of Northamptonshire Cricket’, London 2003, no. 23/75. ‘An Index to Waghorn’, London 2005, no. 79/150. ‘First Cricket In...’, Newnham on Severn 2009, no. 19/150. Also ‘Lillywhite. The First Modern Bowler’, Newnham on Severn 2011, presentation copy with accompanying signed letter slipped in from the author to the late vendor. Very good condition.... View full lot details

David Frith. Six hardback titles by Frith, each signed by the author. Includes two limited editions, ‘My Dear Victorious Stod [A.E. Stoddart]’ 1970, no. 15/400. ‘The Archie Jackson Story’, Ashurst 1974, no. 788/1000. Other signed copies are ‘The Fast Men’, Wokingham 1975. ‘The Ashes ‘77’, London 1977. ‘By His Own Hand’, London 1991. ‘Caught England, Bowled Australia’, London 1997. All titles with dustwrappers. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

John Snow. Four titles by Snow each signed by the author including two limited editions. Titles are ‘Contrasts. Poems by John Snow’, London 1971, hardback with dustwrapper, limited edition no. 11/100. ‘Moments and Thoughts. Poems by John Snow’, London 1973, two copies, one a limited edition hardback with dustwrapper, limited edition no. 4/50, the other a softback, both copies signed by Snow. Also ‘Cricket. How to become a Champion’, London 1975, hardback with dustwrapper, signed... View full lot details

Cricketing artists. Three hardback collections of art. ‘A Cricketer’s View’, Martin Speight, London 1995. Two copies, one a limited edition no. 11/100 bound in black quarter leather, the other a ‘standard’ hardback with good dustwrapper, both signed by Speight. Also ‘The Art of Jack Russell. A personal journey through Eighteen Counties’, Jack Russell 2013, signed by Russell. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Red Rose Books. Nine titles published in Lancashire. Includes four signed limited edition titles by Gerry Wolstenholme. Two are limited edition facsimile hardback reprints, both signed by Wolstenholme who wrote the new introductions, ‘The Tour of the “Gentlemen of Philadelphia” in Great Britain in 1884’ 2002, no. 54/200, and ‘Cricket Across the Sea... by Two of the Vagrants’ 2003, no. 143/150. Also two signed softback titles, ‘The West Indian Tour of England 1906’ 1992, no.... View full lot details

Sussex signed County and Club histories and biographies. Nine titles of which seven are signed by the author (unless stated), some with accompanying letter slipped in from the author to the late vendor. Signed hardback titles, all with good dustwrappers, are ‘Maurice Tate’, Gerald Brodribb, London 1976. ‘The Family Fortune. A Saga of Sussex Cricket’, Alan Hill, Shoreham 1978. ‘From the Sea End’, Christopher Lee, London 1989. ‘Sussex Cricket Postcards (1901 to 1947), Bob Jones... View full lot details

Sussex cricket (and rugby) histories. Nine titles of which five hardbacks are signed by the author. ‘Pre-Victorian Sussex Cricket’, H.F. & A.P. Squire, Henfield 1951, signed by H.F. Squire with accompanying letter to John Arlott. Rebound in green cloth, original wrappers retained. Bookplate of A.E. Winder. Sold with another unsigned copy in original wrappers. ‘Sussex Cricket’, John Marshall, London 1959. ‘A Sussex Cricket Odyssey’, Laetitia Stapleton, Havant 1979, signed by the author with accompanying letters... View full lot details

Australian cricket. Six titles on cricket in Australia. All titles limited edition softbacks (one hardback), each signed by the author(s). Titles are ‘Warwick Armstrong’, Radcliffe Grace, Camberwell, Victoria 1975, no. 270/350. ‘Vic’s Boys. Australia in South Africa 1935-36’. Brian Bassano and Rick Smith, Tasmania 1993, no. 125/300. ‘W.G. Down Under. Grace in Australia 1873-74 and 1891-92’, Rick Smith and Ron Williams, Tasmania 1994, no. 15/300. W.G. Grace at Kadina. Champion Cricketer or Scoundrel?’, Bernard Whimpress,... View full lot details

Sussex booklets and brochures. A selection of Sussex related booklets and brochures including some signed limited editions. Includes an earlier small 8pp booklet, ‘Reminiscences of Eastbourne Cricket’, published by the Club, The Saffrons, Eastbourne 1950. Also four signed limited edition titles, ‘Sussex in First-Class Cricket in 1975’, N.F.S. Epps, Hove 1977, no. 28/100 and ‘Sussex v Australians summary notes and scores’ compiled by N.F. Epps 2009, both signed by Epps. ‘Sussex Cricket Cameos, Nicholas Sharp... View full lot details

Sussex cricket histories. Four titles of which three are signed limited editions. Titles are ‘Cricket at Hastings. The Story of a Ground’, Gerald Brodribb, Hastings 1989, limited edition hardback no. 46/100. Signed by Brodribb and Jim Parks. Good dustwrapper. ‘A.D. Taylor The Cricketologist’, Tony Laughton, Boundary Books 2002. Limited edition of 200 produced, this softback copy unnumbered. Signed by Laughton. ‘On the Level. Cricket and Society in 18th-Century Brighton’, John Goulstone, Hove 2019. Limited edition... View full lot details

J.W. McKenzie facsimile reprints. Four hardback titles with dustwrappers. Three are limited edition facsimile reprints, each signed by McKenzie. ‘Curiosities of Cricket from the Earliest Records to the Present Time by An Old Cricketer’, A.L. Ford 1897, reprinted 1978, limited to 150 copies. ‘Some Recollections of Cricket’, Lord Charles J.F. Russell’ 1879, reprinted 1979, no. 47/100. ‘Rules and Instructions for Playing at the Game of Cricket’, T. Boxall 1801, reprinted 1981, no. 57/150. Sold with... View full lot details

‘M.C.C. in South Africa 1938-39’. Brian Bassano. John McKenzie, Ewell 1997. Limited edition of 250 copies produced and signed by the author and Len Wilkinson, of which nos. 1-25, additionally signed by N. Gordon, R.E. Grievson and W.W. Wade, were specially bound in full green morocco, raised bands to spine, gilt titles and gilts to all page edges, in slip case. This is copy no. 10. Slipped in is a signed letter from John McKenzie... View full lot details

Cricket histories and reference books. Box comprising a mixed selection of twenty one titles, some signed and the odd limited edition. ‘Between the Wickets’, Eric Parker, London 1926, signed in ink to the front endpaper by Parker, 17th April 1942, with ownership signature of John Arlott (signed ‘Leslie T.J. Arlott’). Original dustwrapper with faults. ‘Memorable Cricket Matches’, Geoffrey Tomkinson, Kidderminster 1958, no. 232/500 signed by the author. ‘First-Class Cricketers from Christ College, Brecon’, D.T. and... 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. 71 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. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Eton v Harrow at Lords’. Sir Home Gordon. London 1926. Eton limited edition of 325 copies (315 for sale), this being number 314. Original decorative covers. Gilt to top edges. Original dustwrapper, rarely seen. Padwick 1443. Tears and ageing to dustwrapper, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... 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

‘The Captain’s Year’. Alan Wells. Haywards Heath, Sussex 1994. Hardback with good dustwrapper. Limited edition no. 26/50, signed by Wells. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Cricket Books. Good selection of books and pamphlets including ‘A.D. Taylor. The Cricketologist’. Tony Laughton un-numbered limited edition of 200 copies, ‘Haygarth at Harrow (1839-1842)’. Compiled by Roger Heavens. Louth 2018. Limited edition no. 86/100. Signed by Heavens, ‘A Tour but for the War’. Guy Curry. Limited edition 68/111, signed by the author, all presentation copies to the late vendor. Sold with other books signed by their authors, authors include Stephen Chalke, G. Derek West,... View full lot details

Devon and South West cricket books. ‘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. Sold with ‘Northwood Cricket Club. A Series of short stories. Frank Miell 1959, ‘Devon Dumplings Cricket Club Jubilee Book, 1902-1952’, Malcolm Elwin 1952 (2 copies), ‘Bailey’s Magazine 1872’ with seven page article on Teignbridge Cricket Club, Torquay Cricket... View full lot details

Signed cricket books. ‘Len Hutton. The Biography’. Gerald Howat 1988, signed by Hutton, ‘Ricky Ponting’s World Cup Diary. Ponting & Murgatroyd 2003, signed by Ponting, ‘Hitting Across The Line’ Viv Richards. London 1991, signed by Richards and The Ashes Retained’, Mike Brearley, London 1979, signed by Brearley. Good condition. Qty 4... View full lot details

Don Bradman Flicker Book. No.1 ‘On Drive and Off Drive’ and No.2 ‘Square Cut and Late Cut’. Sold with C.V. Grimmett Flicker Book. No. 5, ‘Googly Delivery and Off Break Finger Spin’. All published by Flicker Productions Ltd, London in 1930. Some soiling, staining and wear to paper covers and spine and rusting to staples otherwise in good condition. Sold with a further rarely seen flicker book and believed to be of the ‘Nawab of... View full lot details

‘Annals of Cricket’. W.W. Read. Sampson Low, London 1896. Original quarter vellum over dark green boards, gilt title to spine. Contents on handmade paper, untrimmed edges. Top edge gilt. Limited edition number 70 in the deluxe edition of 250 copies, nicely signed in ink to the limitation page by Read. Padwick 911. Ex School presentation copy with label to inside front board. Some age toning , good condition. Rare... View full lot details

‘The Principles of Scientific Batting or Plain Rules, founded on the practice of the first Professionals and Amateurs, for the noble game of cricket: by a Gentleman: A new edition, containing the laws of cricket, as altered and revised by the Marylebone Cricket Club, June 2nd 1845’ James Pycroft. H. Slatter, Oxford & London, Whittaker and J.H. Dark, Lord’s Cricket Ground. Third edition 1845. Original brown cloth with paper title label on front cover. In... View full lot details

‘The Cricketers’ Guide, or A Concise Treatise on the Noble Game of Cricket, as practised by the most eminent players...’. William Lambert. Fifth edition ‘with considerable additions and corrections’. Sussex Press, Lewes: printed and sold by J. Baxter; by Mozley, Derby; and in London, by Langley and Co. c.1819[?]. 62pp booklet with folding copperplate engraved frontispiece plate. The book appears to have a replacement spine, some breaking to the front internal hinge, folds, ageing and... 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. Some wear to boards and spine extremities, some breaking to front internal hinge, ink inscription to front end paper, minor foxing to end papers otherwise in good condition. Rare.... View full lot details

‘Cricket’. C.L.R. James, edited by Anna Grimshaw. London 1986. Original hardback with very good dustwrapper. Signed by James in later years, ‘Padwick II 3273. Sold with ‘C.L.R. James. A Life Beyond the Boundaries’. John L. Williams. 2022. Original dustwrapper. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Sachin Tendulkar. ‘Masterful’. Peter Murray & Ashish Shukla. Adelaide 2002. Signed in ink to front endpaper by Tendulkar, but sadly upside down to the book. Sold with booklet ‘Sachin. Tribute to a Legend. Published by ‘The Hindu’ 2012. 132pp. VG... View full lot details

‘An Australian Summer. The Recovery of the Ashes 1985’ Patrick Eagar 1985. Signed to title page by Eagar, to the back end pages by twenty seven of the England players including Botham, Broad, Small, Tavare, Hemmings, Malcolm, Fraser, Cook, Gooch, Lamb, Russell etc and to picture pages, some full page, by Rhodes, Gatting, M. Hughes, Pringle, Broad, Barnett, Gower, Boon, Fraser, Botham, Healy, M. Taylor, Border, Waugh, Marsh, Lawson, Hohns, Atherton, etc. Odd duplication. Seventy... View full lot details

‘Tour of Tours. Border’s victorious Australians of 1989’ Patrick Eagar 1989. Signed to title page by Eagar, to the back end pages by fifteen of the England players including Botham, Ellison, Such, Gower, Gatting, Willey, Robinson, Cowans, Gooch etc, Gower has signed twice and to picture pages, some full page, by Fowler, Cowans, Allott. McDermott, Thomson, Lawson, Downton, Gower, Boon, Foster, Matthews, Botham, Bird, Ellison, Gooch Taylor etc. Odd duplication. Forty five signatures in total.... View full lot details

‘Summer of Swing’ Khadim Hussain Baloch 1992. Signed to title page, team and picture pages by thirty England and Pakistan players including the author. Signatures include Intikhab Alam, Mustaq Ahmad, Inzamam, Sohail, Wasim Akram, Ramiz Raja, Rashid Latif, Aaqib Jafed, Waqar Younis, Botham, Hick, Munton, Stewart, Lamb, Gooch etc. Odd duplication. Good condition... View full lot details

‘In the Fast Lane. West Indies Tour 1981’. Geoffrey Boycott 1981. Signed by Boycott to title page and by eleven of the England and five of the West Indies players on the end paper images of the two teams, odd signature to the internal page. Signatures include Gower, Gatting, Dilley, Emburey, Willey, Downton, Gooch, Miller, Botham, Old, Roberts, Lloyd, Garner, Greenidge etc. Dustwrapper. Good condition... View full lot details

‘Who’s Who in International Cricket’. Edited by David Emery. London 1984. Signed to internal pages by over sixty five Test players. Signatures include Amiss, Border, Botham, Bracewell, G. Chappell, Coney, Crowe, Croft, Doshi, Dujon, Garner, Gavaskar, Gower, Greenidge, Hogg, Holding, Inverarity, Kapil Dev, Majid Khan, Procter, Radley, Ranatunge, Randall, Richards, Sarfraz, Shastri, Thomson, Vengsarkar, Wettimuny, Shivial Yadav, Younis Ahmed, Zaheer Abbas etc. Good condition... View full lot details

‘The Lord’s Taverners Fifty Greatest’. Heinemann-Quixote, 1983. Dustwrapper. The book profusely signed throughout. Signed to the colour book plates by forty one of the fifty cricketers featured. Signatures include Fred Trueman, Sunil Gavaskar, Godfrey Evans, Mike Procter, Viv Richards, Ray Lindwall, Lance Gibbs, Keith Miller, Everton Weekes, Clyde Walcott, Richard Hadlee, Derek Underwood, Andy Roberts, Len Hutton, Ian Botham, Graeme Pollock, Wes Hall, Ian Chappell, Greg Chappell, Denis Lillee, Peter May, Alan Knott, Kapil Dev,... View full lot details

‘Cricket Characters 2. The Cricketer Caricatures of John Ireland’. 2000. Signed to ‘Introduction’ caricature by Jonathan Agnew. The book signed to individual caricature pages by thirty nine of the forty players featured. Signatures are Mike Atherton, David Boon, Graeme Hick, Nasser Hussain, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Allan Lamb, Brian Lara, Jonty Rhodes, Arjuna Ranatunga, Sachin Tendulkar, Steve & Mark Waugh. Chris Cairns, Lance Klusener, Shaun Pollock, Dermot Reeve, Wasim Akram, Jack Russell, Ian Healy, Alec Stewart, Paul Adams,... View full lot details

Cricket Books. Small selection including ‘The Don’. Roland Perry. London 1996, nicely signed by Bradman to title page, ‘Treasures of Lord’s’. Tim Rice. London 1989, signed by Rice to title page, ‘Sketches of a Season’. Christopher Martin-Jenkins and Jack Russell 1989, signed by both contributors, ‘The Art of Jack Russell’ Jack Russell 2103, signed by Russell to title page. Also ‘The Bradman Albums’ Don Bradman. London 1988. Volumes 1 & 2 in slipcase and The... View full lot details

Lancashire C.C.C. A selection of ten limited edition and/ or signed booklets, pamphlets and books, all softbacks unless stated. Includes three signed by K. Martin Tebay, ‘Tyldesley, the Lancashire Wizard’ 2012, no. 11/50, ‘Grand Cricket Match’ 2013, no. 19/50, also ‘Charlie Hallows 2008, hardback in slipcase, no. 9/125. Three by Malcolm Lorimer, ‘Johnny [Briggs] Remembered’, no. 187/225, ‘Archie [MacLaren] Remembered’, no 341/424 (unsigned), and ‘Glory Lightly Worn, a tribute to Brian Statham’ 2001, signed. Others... View full lot details

‘The Crowe Style. Martin & Jeff’s World of Cricket’. Dave & Audrey Crowe. Auckland, New Zealand 1987. Original hardback with very good dustwrapper. Signed to the title page by the two Crowe brothers, and the authors, their parents. Very good condition.... View full lot details

John Arlott. Four hardback titles by Arlott with good dustwrappers (one exception). Includes three cricket titles, each signed by Arlott. ‘Hampshire County Cricket’ by H.S. Altham, Arlott, E.D.R. Eagar and Roy Webber, London 1958, lacking dustwrapper. ‘Cricket On Trial. John Arlott’s Cricket Journal- 3’, London 1960. ‘My Favourite Cricket Stories’, London 1974. Also one unsigned title by Arlott on wine, ‘Krug House of Champagne’, London 1976. Good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Complete Who’s Who of Test Cricketers’. Christopher Martin-Jenkins. London 1980. Hardback with dustwrapper. Signed to the front endpaper by the author, and to the pages by 39 England Test players, 33 Australians, one West Indies and one South Africa. Signatures include Appleyard, Bailey, Bowes, Carr, Dexter, Doggart, Flavell, Gover, Richardson, Rumsey, Sandham, Sheppard, Simpson, Statham, Swetman, Voce, Washbrook, Yardley (England), Badcock, Brown, Chipperfield, Darling, Fingleton, Hendry, Johnston, Langley, Lindwall, Morris, O’Reilly, Ponsford, Tallon, Toshack,... View full lot details

Cricket biographies and histories. Selection in a small box including ten limited editions, each signed by the author. Signed titles are ‘William Brockwell: His Triumph and Tragedy’, J.D. Coldham 1970, no. 83/100. ‘Cricket’s Great Characters’, Gordon Ross 1977, no. 117/300. ‘Well, Well, Wells!’, B.D. ‘Bomber’ Wells 1981, no. 288/500 signed by Wells. ‘George Lohmann. The beau ideal’, Ric Sissons, Leichhardt 1991, no. 193/500, signed by Sissons. ‘Essays on Arthur Haygarth’, Roger Heavens 2000, no. 185/208.... View full lot details

Signed cricket biographies and histories. Box comprising a selection of biographies with Sussex interest, the majority hardbacks and signed by the author/ subject. Includes three titles by or about Jim Parks (senior and junior), ‘Time To Hit Out’, Jim Parks 1967, ‘Young Jim’, Derek Watts 2005, both signed by Parks junior, and ‘James H. Parks and his 1937 World Record’, Norman Epps 2017, limited edition softback no. 5/100 signed by Epps and Parks junior. Four... View full lot details

Miscellaneous cricket books. Ten softback titles (one hardback) of which eight are signed by the author. Includes four limited editions. ‘Tragic White Roses [Drake and Booth]’, Mick Pope, Mexborough 1995, no. 95/450, also signed by Derek Hodgson and one other. ‘London County Cricket Club First-Class Records’, William A. Powell, Sleaford 1998, no. 27/250. ‘From Meadowland to Multinational. A Review of Cricket’s Social History’, Eric Midwinter, London 2000, no. 49/250. ‘An Eighteenth Century German View of... View full lot details

Vivian Richards. Two hardback biographies of Richards. ‘Viv Richards’ by Richards and David Foot, Kingswood 1979. ‘Viv Richards’, David Foot, London 1987. Both titles signed by Richards and Foot. Sold with an official folding scorecard, Somerset v Warwickshire, Taunton, 1st- 4th June 1985, in which Richards scored 322 in Somerset’s first innings, his highest first-class score. Signed to the front by Richards. Good condition. Qty 3.... View full lot details

Large format cricket titles. Box comprising fourteen modern titles, the majority signed by the author with the odd limited edition. Signed hardbacks include ‘The Golden Age of Cricket 1890-1914’, David Frith 1978. ‘The Story of Cricket’, Robin Marlar 1979 (broken front hinge). ‘The Cricketers of Vanity Fair’, Russell March 1982. ‘Sussex Cricket Postcards (1901 to 1947), Bob Jones and Nicholas Sharp 1994, signed by both. ‘Caught England, Bowled Australia’, David Frith 1997. ‘Of Didcot and... View full lot details

Signed presentation cricket books. Six titles, hardback unless stated, each with dedication signed by the author to a notable name in cricket. Includes three dedicated to R.C. ‘Crusoe’ Robertson-Glasgow, ‘Australia v. The Counties (1878-1938), Rex Pogson, Birmingham c.1938. Presentation softback copy with additional handwritten note slipped in, both dated 26th May 1948, ‘England v New Zealand 1902-1949’, S. Canynge Caple, Falmouth 1949, softback, and ‘Bat, Ball, Wicket And All’, G.D. Martineau, London 1950, reasonable dustwrapper.... View full lot details

West Indies cricket biographies. Thirteen hardback titles, each signed by the subject (or author). Earlier titles are ‘Cricket and I’, Learie Constantine, London 1933. Signed by Constantine with a small signed photograph of Constantine slipped in. Cuttings laid down to front endpaper, some wear to board extremities. ‘Cricket Crackers’, Learie Constantine, London 1950, poor dustwrapper. ‘Island Cricketers’, Clyde Walcott, London 1958, good dustwrapper. ‘Blasting for Runs’, Rohan Kanhai, Calcutta 1969, reasonable dustwrapper. ‘Playing to Win’,... View full lot details

Signed histories, biographies and general cricket interest. Box comprising thirty one titles, all with the exception of two signed by the author, some with dedication to the late vendor. Earlier hardback titles with dustwrapper (unless stated) include ‘The Games Goes On’, Denzil Batchelor, London 1947. ‘Between Wickets’, Ray Robinson, London 1949. ‘Game of a Lifetime’, Denzil Batchelor, London 1953 with letter from Batchelor to the late vendor slipped in. ‘The Surrey Story’, Gordon Ross, London... View full lot details

Signed cricket histories and biographies. Box comprising thirty one titles, all with the exception of one signed by the author, some with dedication and/ or letter slipped in to the late vendor. Earlier hardback titles with dustwrapper include ‘The Match I Remember’, Denzil Batchelor, London 1950. ‘Batsman’s Paradise’, Ronald Mason, London 1955. ‘The Glad Season’, Ray Robinson, London 1955, signature on piece laid down. ‘The Valiant Stumper’, G.D. Martineau, London 1957 (signed ‘G.D.M.’). ‘Jack Hobbs’,... View full lot details

Australia and the Ashes. Box comprising thirty two signed cricket histories and biographies, the majority hardbacks, all signed by the author/ subject. Earlier hardback titles with dustwrapper (unless stated) include ‘Getting Wickets’, C.V. Grimmett, London 1930, no dustwrapper. ‘Farewell to Cricket’, Don Bradman, London 1950. ‘On Tour With Bradman’, Andy Flanagan, Sydney 1950. ‘Bumper’, Keith Miller, London 1953. ‘Four Chukkas to Australia’, Jack Fingleton, London 1960. ‘Cricket is a Game’, Colin McCool, London 1961, loose-mounted... View full lot details

Signed cricket biographies and autobiographies. Box comprising twenty five hardback titles with generally good dustwrappers, all signed by the author/ subject. Earlier hardback titles include ‘Cricketing Days’, Bill Edrich, London 1950. ‘Our Cricket Story’, Alec & Eric Bedser, London 1951. ‘Bowling’, Alec Bedser, London 1952. ‘Close of Play’, Leslie Ames, London 1953. ‘Just My Story’, Len Hutton, London 1956. ‘For Surrey and England’, Tony Lock, London 1957. ‘Masters of Cricket from Trumper to May’, Jack... View full lot details

Signed cricket biographies and autobiographies. Box comprising twenty eight hardback (two softback) biographies and the odd cricket history, with generally good dustwrappers unless stated, all signed by the author/ subject. Earlier hardback titles include ‘Cricket Heritage’, Bill Edrich, London 1948. ‘End Of An Innings’, Denis Compton, London 1958. ‘How I Became A Cricketer’, Alan Oakman, London 1960, no dustwrapper. ‘Runs in the Sun’, Jim Parks, London 1961. ‘Largely Cricket’, Colin Milburn, London 1968, signed photograph... View full lot details

Signed cricket biographies and autobiographies 1920s-1970s. Box comprising twenty eight hardback (three softback) biographies and the odd cricket history, the hardbacks all with original dustwrappers in mixed condition. All titles signed by the author/ subject, some with letters slipped in to the late vendor. Earlier titles include ‘Fifty Years’ Cricket Reminiscences of a Non-Player’, W.E. Howard, Manchester 1928 (softback). ‘My Cricketing Reminiscences’, Maurice Tate, London 1934. ‘Big Cricket’, Patsy Hendren, London 1934. ‘An ABC of... View full lot details

John Arlott. Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1983. 120th edition. Original limp cloth covers. Signed to the title page by John Arlott from whose library this came. Sold with ‘Arlott on Cricket. His Writings on the Game’, edited by David Rayvern Allen, London 1984. Hardback with very good dustwrapper, which features Arlott in his library, with this copy of Wisden on the table in front of him. Good condition. Qty 2.... View full lot details

John Arlott. Seven titles by Arlott, the majority hardbacks with good dustwrappers. ‘How To Watch Cricket’, London 1949 softback edition. Handwritten and signed dedication to half title page to ‘Hugh Pickles, as if he needed telling, with best wishes, John Arlott’. Breaking to front internal hinge. No dustwrapper. ‘Landmarks’ edited by G. Rostrevor Hamilton and Arlott 1943, his first published book. ‘Of Period and Place’ 1944 (no dustwrapper). ‘Concerning Cricket’ 1950. ‘Days at the Cricket’... View full lot details

Basil D’Oliveira and Worcestershire C.C.C. Two hardback autobiographies with dustwrappers. ‘The D’Oliveira Affair’, Basil D’Oliveira, London 1969. Slipped in is a poignant single page handwritten letter from D’Oliveira to Ron Yeomans, dated 11th August 1966, in which D’Oliveira states he will be unable to attend a Cricket Society event ‘As it is now certain that I’ll be going to South Africa’, signed ‘Basil D’Oliveira’. Minor worm damage to dustwrapper. ‘Time to Declare’, Basil D’Oliveira London... View full lot details

Cricket books. Four titles, two signed. ‘It’s Knott Cricket’, Alan Knott, London 1985. Hardback with very good dustwrapper. Signed by Knott with a signed J/V Cricket Series Set 2 mono postcard of Knott. ‘The Lord’s Taverners Sticky Wicket Book’, specially bound edition in cream cloth, gilt titles to front and spine, for the 1880-1990 Centenary Test Dinner held at Grosvenor House, 27th August 1980. Signed to the inside front cover by Harry Secombe. ‘Cricket’, W.G.... View full lot details

‘The Secret History of the Coningham Case. Copiously Illustrated with Facsimiles of Documents etc.’ by ‘Zero’. Printed by Finn Brothers, Sydney 1901. xvii, 360pp. Original pictorial stiffened card covers. A true-crime book detailing the scandalous divorce and defamation trial involving the Australian Test cricketer, Arthur Coningham (New South Wales, Queensland & Australia 1892-1899). No cricket content, but of biographical interest, illustrated with photographic facsimiles of the documents in the case and many others not produced... View full lot details

Boys’ cricket fiction. Four hardback titles, each signed or dedicated by the author. Titles are ‘Tales of the Stumps’, Horace Bleakley, London 1901, breaking to internal hinges. ‘In Carrington’s Duty-Week’, John Gambrill Nicholson, London 1910, wear to boards. ‘That Test Match’, Sir Home Gordon, London 1921, with signed handwritten letter from Gordon laid down to front endpaper, minor staining to boards. ‘The Exquisite Burden’, A.A. Thomson, London 1963, dustwrapper with some wear. Odd faults as... View full lot details

Boys’ cricket fiction. ‘The Last Lap. A School Story’. Walter Rhoades. Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press 1923. Original pictorial cloth. Signed presentation copy with handwritten dedication in ink to front endpaper ‘To J.B. [Jack] Hobbs, As a small return for the many delightful hours his superb batting has given to a fellow member and humble admirer, Walter Rhoades, Dec. 1923’. Padwick 6330-3. Some wear and soiling to boards, slight breaking to internal hinges, otherwise in... View full lot details

Hugh de Selincourt. Two hardback titles by de Selincourt with dustwrappers. ‘The Game of the Season’, London 1931. Presentation copy with signed dedication in ink to half title page, ‘To L. [John] Arlott’ dated June 1941. Padwick 6108. Fairly good dustwrapper. Sold with ‘Over! Some Personal Remarks on the Game of Cricket’, London 1932. Padwick 499. Loss and tape repair to dustwrapper. Good condition.... View full lot details

‘Cricket Country’. Edmund Blunden. First edition London 1944. Original hardback with good dustwrapper. Ownership signature in blue ink to the front endpaper of ‘J.E. Morpurgo, Italy, Oct. [19]44’. To the inside front cover is a single page handwritten letter from Blunden to ‘Dear Morpurgo’, dated 19th April 1945. Blunden opens ‘If I had struck a ball from Verity to the boundary it would have been my autobiography- or even if I had been caught and... View full lot details

‘Cricket Country’. Edmund Blunden. First edition London 1944. Original hardback in original cloth, lacking dustwrapper. Ownership name of ‘E.S. Jones’ to front endpaper with small handwritten note lightly laid down, dated 16th June 1944, in which Blunden thanks Jones for ‘pointing out my mistake in giving Tate as the bowler when Bradman made 254 & was so well caught by Chapman’, nicely signed ‘E. Blunden’. Padwick 6657. Sold with a modern hardback biography with good... View full lot details

‘Happy Days. Recollections of an Unrepentant Victorian’. James Thorpe. London 1933. Original brown cloth. Presentation copy with signed dedication in ink to front endpaper ‘For J Goldman with best wishes, J.H. Thorpe, 9th November 1938’, and bookplate of J.W. Goldman to inside front cover. Padwick 8139. Breaking to front internal hinge, some soiling to boards, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

School and Club histories. Four hardback titles, each signed by the author. Titles are ‘Sixty Years of Uppingham Cricket’, William Seeds Patterson, London 1909. Inscribed in ink to the front endpaper ‘Devised, written & issued at the sign of ‘The Gables, Fulwood[?] Park, by the struggling author William S. Patterson, June 1909’. ‘Records of the Harlequins Cricket Club 1852-1926’, Alfred Cochrane, London 1930, signed to the endpaper ‘A.C.’. ‘A History of the Hampstead Cricket Club’,... View full lot details

Neville Cardus. Five original hardback titles, all written or contributed to by Cardus and signed. Each with reasonable dustwrapper. Titles are ‘Cricket’, London 1930. ‘Days in the Sun’, London 1934. ‘Autobiography’, London 1947. ‘Cricket All The Year’, London 1952. ‘All on a Summer’s Day’, Margaret Hughes with a foreword by Cardus, London 1953, signed by both. Good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Cricketer’s Autograph Birthday Book’. T. Broadbent Trowsdale (Cover-Point). London 1906. Decorative green cloth covers with portrait of W.G. Grace to front, gilt titles and top page edges. Comprises approx. forty signatures in ink of Test cricketers and some others, signed in ink to their respective birth date on the right hand pages (one exception). The signatures, apparently collected in the 1950s, include Fred Trueman, Jim Laker, Brian Close, Norman Yardley, Alan Oakman, Ted Dexter,... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour to Australia 1920/21. ‘A Voyage with the Mails Between Brisbane- London... A memento by an amateur photographer’. London Stereoscopic Company, London, third edition c.1920. A large format souvenir book with decorative blue cloth covers, comprising photographs and descriptions of ports of call on the journey on the Orient Line ‘R.M.S. Osterley’. Includes a collection of twenty four signatures in ink on two facing pages, each within printed borders, including on the ‘Autographs’ page... View full lot details

‘With the 15th Australian XI- A complete record of the team’s tour throughout Great Britain and South Africa’. Sydney Smith Jr (Manager). Sydney 1922. Original pictorial boards and cloth spine. Signed presentation copy with handwritten dedication in ink from the author to ‘Master Eddie Shackleton, In happy remembrance of an enjoyable afternoon spent in Eastbourne in the summer of 1921 and with kindest regards from the author’, signed ‘Sydney Smith Jr, 3/9/23’. One folding plate... View full lot details

‘An Australian Cricketer on Tour’. Frank Laver. London 1905. Original publishers green cloth with bright gilts to front cover and spine. Light foxing to early pages and page edges, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Cricket Across the Seas- Being an account of the Tour of Lord Hawke’s team in New Zealand and Australia’. P.F. Warner. Longmans, London 1903. Original red cloth with title in gilt to front corner and spine. Signed to title page by Warner with annotation, ‘The Oval. Surrey v Middlesex. August 12 1939. Keep a straight bat and a modest mind’. Padwick 4426. Good condition. Sold with an original cabinet card photograph of Warner standing full... View full lot details

‘The Walkers of Southgate: A Famous Brotherhood of Cricketers’. W.A. Bettesworth. London 1900. Handsomely rebound in full green leather, raised bands and gilt title to spine, gilt to all page edges and marbled endpapers. The gilt illustration of a batsman from the original front cover has been laid down to the inside front cover. The binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe of London. Padwick 8187. Slight fading to spine, minor foxing to pages, otherwise in very... View full lot details

Hambledon, Hampshire and tour histories 1900-1907. Three original hardback titles including a nicely bound edition of ‘The Hambledon Men’, E.V. Lucas, London 1907, bound in full leather, raised bands to spine, gilt illustration to front and gilt title to spine. Also ‘Cricket In Many Climes’. P.F. Warner. London 1900. Original decorative boards. Ex libris with some wear to boards. ‘Cricket in North Hants. Records and Reminiscences’. Lt-Colonel J. May V.D., Basingstoke 1906. Original cloth boards... View full lot details

‘With the M.C.C. to New Zealand’. P.R. May. London 1907. Original green cloth boards with title to front. Padwick 3746. Wear and staining to boards and spine. Splitting to spine and slight breaking to internal hinges. Internally in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Jack Hobbs. Three hardback titles each signed by Hobbs. Titles are ‘Playing for England! My Test- Cricket Story’, London 1931. ‘My Life Story’, London 1935. ‘Jack Hobbs. Gentleman and Player’, Pat Landsberg with a chapter ‘Then and Now’ by Hobbs, London 1953. Signed presentation copy with a single page handwritten letter slipped in from the late vendor to Hobbs requesting he sign this copy. Hobbs has annotated the letter ‘With pleasure, J.B.H.’ Reasonable dustwrapper. Good... 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

‘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

‘Minutes of the First Meeting of the West Indies Cricket Board of Control’ 1927. 8pp booklet of the minutes from the meeting held at the Union Club, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, 17th & 18th June 1927. Rebound in modern red cloth, title label to front. The original pages with loss and wear with expert repairs to all pages. Rare, does not appear to be listed in Padwick and not previously sold by Knights.... View full lot details

‘The West Indies Board of Control for International Cricket Matches. Constitution, By-laws and Rules’ 1928. Small 15pp booklet tipped in to green cloth boards with gilt title to front, original green card wrappers preserved. Padwick 5405. Bookplate of A.E. Winder to inside original front wrapper. Very good condition.... View full lot details

West Indies. ‘The Barbados Cricketers’ Annual for 1911-12. Eighteenth year of publication’. Edited and compiled by J. Wynfred Gibbons. Printed at the Globe Office, Barbados 1912. Rebound in later red cloth, gilt title to spine, original paper wrappers retained. Padwick 3677. Wear to original wrappers, age toning and some staining to pages, wear to page corners, otherwise generally good condition. A rare Annual.... View full lot details

‘Two Cricket Songs’. Norman Gale. Printed for the author by Albert Frost & Sons, Rugby in 1926. Eight page book in original green wrappers with lyrics to two songs ‘Urgent’ and ‘A Strike’. The first song ‘Urgent!’ is about the first Test of 1926 at Trent Bridge when rain (Jupiter Pluvius) allowed only 50 minutes of play in the match, with mentions of the captains Collins and Carr and of Tate. ‘A Strike’ is a... View full lot details

‘At the Sign of the Wicket’. Edmund B.V. Christian. J.W. Arrowsmith, Bristol 1894. ‘Arrowsmith’s Bristol Library Vol. LIX’. Bound in original brown cloth, title in black to front and in gilt to spine. Padwick 6672. Slipped in is a single page handwritten ‘Good news’ letter from the publisher to Christian informing that he has ‘induced Messrs Smith & Son to take 500 copies of “At the Sign of the Wicket” for their bookstalls’, signed by... View full lot details

‘Our Cricket Match’. Norman Bennet. Cambridge ‘First Edition’ 1893. Rebound in maroon cloth, gilt title to spine, original pictorial card covers preserved. 16pp. Bookplate of J.W. Goldman to inside front original wrapper with annotation in pencil to facing endpaper, ‘From A.J. Gaston August 3rd 1893’. Minor age toning to original wrappers, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Cricket Poems’. George Francis Wilson. London 1905. Original decorative green cloth covers. Presentation copy to ‘W. Jorden’ with handwritten and signed dedication from the author, dated 16th May 1917. Handmade paper with untrimmed edges. Minor soiling and wear to boards, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Oracle of Rural Life; an Almanack for Sportsmen and Country Gentlemen 1840, being leap year’ and ‘The Sporting Oracle and Almanack of Rural Life for 1841’. Published by Baily of London, 1840 & 1841. Contents of the 1840 volume include ‘The Laws of Cricket’ on pp 87-89. The two volumes, both nicely illustrated, are rebound together in maroon half leather with raised bands and gilts to spine and top edge. Both volumes appear to... View full lot details

‘The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England... Rural and Domestic Recreations.... from the earliest period to the present time’. Joseph Strutt. Originally published in 1801, this is ‘A new edition, much enlarged and corrected by J. Charles Cox’, published by Methuen, London 1903. Bound in dark green cloth, gilt leather title label to spine, gilt to top page edges. Cricket appears on pages 100-104, as part of a chapter on ball games, which... 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

‘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

‘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

‘South African Sports. Cricket, Football, Athletics... An official handbook’. G.A. Parker. London ‘1897 Edition’. Nicely bound in green quarter leather, raised bands and gilt title to spine, gilt to top page edges, marbled endpapers. Lacking original wrappers. The cricket section covers pp 9-56. Ex K.A. Auty Library of Cricket, Ontario. Padwick 3603. Some scuffing to board extremities, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Fifty Leaders of British Sport’. Ernest C. Elliott. John Lane, London 1904. A series of portraits with biographical details of famous sportsmen including cricketers C.B. Fry, Lord Hawke, A.C. Maclaren, Ranjitsinhji, P.F. Warner, J. Daniell, and Robert Montagu Poore (Europeans, Bombay, Hampshire & England 1892-1914) whose bookplate is laid to the inside front cover. Original red cloth covers with red fox head gilt decoration to front cover, sporting emblems to spine, gilt to top page... 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. 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

‘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

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

‘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

‘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

‘Lansdown Cricket Club. Matches, 1825 to 1851’. Printed and published for the Club by R.E. Peach, Bath 1852. iv, 120pp. Small landscape format book of Club scores rebound in later half calf and marbled boards, gilt title to spine. Original front cloth wrapper with gilt title bound in to rear, lacking original rear wrapper. Gilt to top page edges. Padwick 2551. Very good condition. Rare, not previously sold by Knights.... View full lot details

‘Charterhouse Records 1850-1890’. ‘A Complete Record of Scores With Bowling Analyses of all Cricket Matches and full particulars of all Football Matches and Rifle Contests between Charterhouse and Other Public Schools from 1850 to 1890’. B. Ellis. Printed by Wright & Co., London 1891. Original decorative blue cloth covers. 103pp, comprising 54pp of cricket content. Padwick 1382. Ownership name of ‘M.J. Nash 1895’ in ink to front cover. Bookplates of J.W. Goldman and A.E. Winder... View full lot details

‘Nederlandsche Cricket Bond. 1883-1933’. ‘Gedenkboek Uitgegeven Ter Gelegenheid Van Het Vijftigjarig Bestaan Van Den Nederlandschen Cricket Bond. 1883 30th September 1933’. Original maroon cloth with gilt titles to front and spine. 317pp illustrated with additional 40pp of photoplates to rear. Souvenir book in Dutch published for the 50th Anniversary. Padwick 4214. Minor wear to head and foot of spine, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘A Portfolio of Cricket Prints. A Nineteenth Century Miscellany’. Introduction and Notes by Irving Rosenwater. Holland Press, Neville Spearman, London 1962. Original pictorial wrappers. Presentation copy with handwritten dedication in ink to title page ‘To Jim Coldham, connoisseur and friend with my warmest regards’ signed by Irving Rosenwater and dated 20th January 1972. Padwick 6994. Odd faults to wrapper extremities, otherwise in good/very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket. A Collection of 1000 New Cricket Notices from 1697 to 1800’. G.B. Buckley. Birmingham 1935. Padwick 801. Worn dustwrapper. Slipped in is the original and rarely seen four page supplement of ‘Abbreviations’ of newspaper titles referred to in the main text. The supplement is not recorded by Padwick. Sold with ‘Fresh Light on Pre-Victorian Cricket. A Collection of New Cricket Notices from 1709 to 1837’. G.B. Buckley. Birmingham 1937.... View full lot details

Kent cricket histories and biographies. Box comprising sixteen titles, the majority relating to Kent cricket, a good number signed with the odd limited edition. Earlier hardback titles include ‘History of Kent County Cricket’. Edited by Lord Harris. London 1907. Original decorative blue cloth in lovely condition. ‘The Canterbury Cricket Week. Its Origin, Career, and Jubilee 1842- 1891’, E. Milton Small, Canterbury, third issue 1892, bound in worn quarter leather and marbled boards. Signed hardbacks, the... View full lot details

A.W. Pullin ‘Old Ebor’. Two titles relating to Pullin. ‘Against the Clock. A Public School Story’, Gunby Hadath, London 1924. Original red cloth boards. Presentation copy to Pullin with handwritten dedication in ink to front endpaper ‘To A.W. Pullin’ and additional single page letter to ‘Dear Old Ebor’ lightly overlaid, both signed by Hadath and dated 4th October 1924. Padwick 6236. Some fading to spine, slight breaking to front internal hinge, bookplate becoming detached, otherwise... View full lot details

Signed cricket titles 1905-1948. Seven titles, all hardbacks unless stated, each signed by the author. Titles are ‘Oxford and Cambridge Scores and Biographies’, J.D. Betham, London 1905, signed letter slipped in. ‘Chats on the Cricket Field’, W.A. Bettesworth, London 1910. ‘Test Cricket in England and Australia 1877-1921’, E.E. Bean, Melbourne 1924, original decorative paper wrappers, front wrapper detached. ‘Cricket Up-to-date’, E.H.D. Sewell, London 1931, with good dustwrapper. ‘The Cricketers’ Who’s Who’, S. Canynge Caple, London... View full lot details

C.B. Fry. A selection of three printed articles by Fry relating to the build up to the 1920[?] tour to Australia, possibly extracts from ‘C.B. Fry’s Magazine of Sports and Outdoor Life’. Nicely bound together in red quarter leather, with ornate gilt decoration and title to spine, marbled boards, endpapers and page edges. Minor wear to board extremities, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Death’s Doings; consisting of numerous original compositions, in prose and verse, the friendly contributions of various writers; principally intended as illustrations of thirty copper-plates, designed and etched by R. Dagley, author of “Select Gems from the Antique” &c. Second edition with considerable additions’. London 1827, published in two volumes. Both volumes are exquisitely rebound in modern full brown morocco, raised bands to spines and decorative leaves stamped at the ends of the bands. Gilt titles... View full lot details

‘Sussex Cricket’. A.E.R. Gilligan, London 1933. Original green cloth with coloured stripes of blue, red and white to top corner. Signed in ink to the half-title page by Gilligan, and to the facing endpaper by twelve Sussex players. Signatures are A.E. Relf, T.E.R. Cook, M. Tate, J. Vine, J.H. Parks, W.L. Cornford, R.S.G. Scott, E.H. Bowley, James Langridge, H.W. Parks, G.A. Stannard and A.R. Wensley. Spine paper split at rear edge with fading, internally in... View full lot details

‘A Memento of two great Notts. Cricketers, Arthur Shrewsbury and Alfred Shaw’. William F. Grundy. C.H. Richards, Nottingham 1907. Original decorative blue stiffened boards with titles to front board. Signed presentation copy ‘To His Honour Judge Willis K.C. with W.F. Grundy’s compliments, 23rd August 1910’ inscribed in ink to inside front board. Padwick 8034. Staining to boards and pages with some wear to boards, otherwise in good condition. Scarce.... View full lot details

‘Reminiscences of the Grange Cricket Club, Edinburgh, with selected matches 1832-1862’. W. Moncrieff. David Douglas, Edinburgh 1891. Original red/ brown cloth, gilt titles to front and spine, gilt to top page edges. The frontispiece is a real photograph of the club ground with a posed match. Signed presentation copy with ink annotation to front endpaper ‘S.M. Moncrieff from the Author, W. Moncrieff 1891’. Padwick 3280. Wear and discolouration to boards, silvering to frontispiece photograph, otherwise... View full lot details

‘The Noble Game of Cricket. Illustrated and described from Pictures, Drawings and Prints in the Collection of Sir Jeremiah Colman at Gatton Park, Surrey. With an introduction by Clifford Bax’. Published for the collector by B.T. Batsford, London. 1941. 105 plates, some coloured and mounted. Original green buckram with gilt lettering and decoration, top edge gilt. Reasonable original dustwrapper with some tape repairs to underside edges of the dustwrapper. Published in an edition of 150... View full lot details

‘The English Game of Cricket: Comprising a Digest of its Origin, Character, History and Progress...’. Charles Box. London 1877. Original decorative green cloth with titles in gilt to front and spine, gilt illustration to front, all page edges gilt. Signed presentation copy with handwritten dedication in ink to title page ‘G.H. Blackwell Esq. from C. Box (for a Auld Lang Syne), 13th May 1877’. Wear to board and spine extremities, breaking to internal hinges, internally... View full lot details

‘Cricket’. Frederic Wood. Warne’s Bijou Books series, London first edition 1866. Original very small format book in original maroon decorative cloth with tooled gilt illustration of a batsman and title to front cover. Gilt to page edges. Colour frontispiece illustration of a cricket match. Padwick 485. Breaking to page block, some staining to wrappers, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘Beeton’s Cricket Book by Frederick Wood with “A Match I was In” by the author of “The Cricket Field” [J. Pycroft]’. S.O Beeton, London, first edition 1866. Original orange decorative cloth wrappers. 86pp with illustrated diagrams. Ex M.C.C. collection. Padwick 484. Some soiling to wrappers, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

South Africa. ‘Sport and Pastime in the Transvaal including biographical sketches of Transvaal sportsmen’. Edited by E.J.L. Platnauer. Geo. Wunderlich, Johannesburg 1908. Illustrated with eight plates. Original green tooled cloth with gilt title to front cover. One chapter on cricket pp 13-61, including a brief history of cricket in South Africa, accounts of the M.C.C. team visit in 1905/06, and the South African tour to England 1907. Other sports covered include rugby, football, tennis and... 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

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

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

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 wrappers. Minor wear to covers, otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

Sketches of the Players’. William Denison. London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co., Rudolph Ackermann, R. Dark [and others], 1846. 76pp plus advertising pages. Padwick 876. Bound in half leather boards with gilt titles to spine, lacking original wrappers otherwise in good condition. Signature of H.W. Warner (collector) to the top of the title page. Rare... View full lot details

‘The Australians in England. A Complete Record of the Cricket Tour of 1884’. Charles F. Pardon. London 1884. An account of the 1884 Australian tour of England with full scores. viii, 184pp. Frontispiece engraving of Murdoch. Bound in early half leather and marbled boards, gilt title to spine, lacking original wrappers. Signed bookplate of B.J. Wakley to inside front cover. Padwick 4977. Rubbing and wear to spine and boards, slight breaking to front internal hinge,... View full lot details

‘The Australians in England 1902’. J.W. McKenzie. Ewell 1993. Comprising facsimile reprints of ‘The Eleventh Australian Tour 1902. Particulars of the Team’ and ‘The Kangaroo in England. A Review of the Tour of the Eleventh Australian XI 1902’. The two titles published as one volume ‘With a new foreword by Sir Donald Bradman’, bound in red leather, gilt titles to front and spine, gilt to top page edges. Red cloth slipcase. Limited edition no. 4... View full lot details

‘Batting and Bowling. With Hints on Fielding and Wicket-Keeping’. R. Gorton Barlow and Richard Pilling. London 1882. 31pp. Two versions/ editions, both with original decorative paper wrappers, bound together as one volume in blue cloth. One in pink wrappers with illustration of Barlow to front, the other in yellow wrappers with an alternative design to the front with no illustration. Otherwise the two ‘versions’ appear identical, both comprising nine illustrations of player technique and fielding... View full lot details

‘Cricket More or Less’. Lord Dartmouth 1926. A book of poetry by Lord Dartmouth (also styled Viscount Lambeth), contained in decorative colour wrappers featuring an illustration of Father Christmas in M.C.C. blazer, Ashes urn under his arm, with a British lion and Australian kangaroo to either side. Titled ‘Christmas 1926’ with four line poem on The Ashes below, annotated in ink ‘From the author’. The contents comprise 55pp of poems covering subjects including cricket, politics,... View full lot details

‘The Richmond Heiress or a Woman Once in the Right. A Comedy’. Thomas D’Urfey. London, ‘Printed for Samuel Briscoe, over-against Will’s Coffee-House in Covent Garden’. 1693. A very early and rare 70pp original script for the play ‘Acted at the Theatre Royal, by Their Majesties Servants’, containing a very early reference to cricket in ‘Shinken’s Song to the Harp’. ‘Hur was the prettiest Fellows, trum, &c/ At Bandy once at Cricket, trum, &c...’. Nicely bound... View full lot details

Kent and Sussex Benefits 1950-1960. Four original official Kent and one Sussex Benefit brochures for Arthur Fagg 1950, Godfrey Evans 1953, Doug Wright 1957, Arthur Phebey 1960 (all Kent), and George Cox 1951 (Sussex). Odd minor faults otherwise in good condition. Qty 5.... View full lot details

Yorkshire Benefits and Testimonials 1947-1961. Five original Benefit brochures including two souvenir brochures for Bill Bowes 1947 and Len Hutton 1950, both published by the Yorkshire Evening News, and another for Hutton, published by the ‘Hull District’ of Yorkshire C.C.C. Also official benefit booklets for Vic Wilson 1958, and Brian Close 1961. Tape repair to spine of the Wilson booklet, general light wear and soiling, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji. Cambridge University, Sussex, London County & England 1893-1920. ‘Ranji Centenary Year 1872-1971/ 10th Anniversary of the Rajkot Sports Association. Rajkot Souvenir’. Brochure published by the Rajkot Sports Association, Rajkot 1970. 100pp. Original pictorial colour wrappers. Padwick 3912-1. Some wear to spine otherwise in good condition. Sold with ‘Ranji Centenary Celebrations 1972’. Official folding scorecard produced by the Indian Oil Corporation for Board President’s XI v Ranjit XI played at Jamnagar 10th- 12th... View full lot details